EPVII Luke Skywalker

[Tempust85]

Been a while:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now has a normal map (highpoly max mesh with the diffuse applied for the detail, then baked). Adjusted various things, rendered with 25% self illumination.

[dark_apprentice]

@@DT85 

[Nozyspy]

Looking very good! Though i think the underneath of his chin should go up straight after the tip of his beard, rather than sloping gently to his neck as it is now, since at the moment it looks as though that is actually the size of his chin. And that would be one hell of a big chin!

 

Also, i realize his hair hasn't been textured yet, but in that pic it looks like he has been attacked by a grey blob!

[Tempust85]

Lol, it looks better than a bald Luke. I'll have a look at the chin again, thanks.

[Nozyspy]

Haha, Jedi are never bald! The force flows through their hair as well! Unless you are Mace Windu, who is too much of a badass for hair.

[Tempust85]

"Get these motherf&cking hairs off my motherf&cking scalp!"

[Nozyspy]

"Get these motherf&cking hairs off my motherf&cking scalp!"

 

That is literally the best quote that was never said!

[Tempust85]

Experimenting:

 

 

 

 

 

[Archangel35757]

I would suggest reshaping his chin and jaw to match his original face... and then model the beard as a separate mesh.

[Tempust85]

I had done that except for the seperate mesh part. I also have a clone of the younger face to keep for reference. His beard is quite full sized, I feel I have it near spot-on.

[Jolly]

I agree with @@Archangel35757 It looks a bit weird when its all one mesh. 

[Tempust85]

It would achieve the same result for more work & I'm not having a dozen mesh parts for reskinning etc (aka Haps Anakin) so no, I won't be doing it. I've put alpha planes all over the beard for a fluffy look and I personally think it looks better now.

[Archangel35757]

So if you hid all of the Alpha planes would his chin and jaw look like a clean shaven old Mark Hamill? Or did you pull the chin mesh down to help give the appearance of a beard?

[Tempust85]

As you can see in the previous screens I've posted, I've shaped the head mesh to give shape to the beard. It won't look pretty in JKA to do what you're thinking and I'm not entirely sure the beard alphas will even look nice.

 

Anyways, update:

 

 

 

 

 

[Jolly]

That looks much better. Keep up the good work !! 

[Psyk0Sith]

Warp those planes every which way possible, don't reuse the same flat plane over and over. That way you maximize texture space and break symmetry.

[Archangel35757]

It seems that you've made 2D planes that would be sort of perpendicular to the face mesh edges??? ...you should make overlapping planes similar to how the hair is done on this character:

 

https://shop.3dtotal.com/swordmaster-3ds-max-download-only.html

 

only group them tighter and curve them a bit more.  Or similar to these:

 

http://www.3dhit.co.uk/?showtopic=16919

 

 

Keep up the great work!

[Tempust85]

I painted them onto the face using Max's object paint, then refined. There's 2 different hair textures (same sheet) on the beard. I've been warping them, but I guess it could use a bit more. I notice now that the front especially looks very repetitive, need to fix that...

[Tempust85]

Bit less symmetrical, added some "fluff" to the hair:

 

 

 

 

 

[Kualan]

This is coming along really well.

[Grab]

face 10/10

hair 3/10

[Langerd]

face 10/10

hair 3/10

Why 3 ? I think they look nice D:

[Tempust85]

Lol, didn't ask for a grade.

[Tempust85]

Update. Old hair kinda sucked (as was pointed out by Grab's point score lol) so did some more painting and added some alpha:

 

 

That dark bit where the hair mesh and the plane mesh meet is unavoidable as it's shadowing on the mesh.

[AshuraDX]

That dark bit where the hair mesh and the plane mesh meet is unavoidable as it's shadowing on the mesh.

wrong.

apply a edit normals modifier and tweak the normals in that area, that will atleast decrease how noticeable it is - can't say it will vanish entirely