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Decided to finish it tonight before I crashed. Changed around the subtool I didn’t like and rendered out a couple up close and personal shots to show the texture pretty clearly, and this concludes the demo of how I work with Spotlight to quickly texture very complex meshes. :lol:
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I want to try my hand at using Spotlight to texture a character now, after all this …non character stuff. But first, I need a character!
So I spent today working on one, this is where I’m at so far. No pants yet because I’m still deciding on a skirt or “breeches” for the look. I’m leaning towards knee length breeches so that I can model some boots and have the boots at least be visible. More to come, just the genesis really, although it took much of the day.
I messed around alot though experimenting with random stuff but didn’t get any good results worth showing, although I’m close to coming up with a good way to do chainmail pieces using mesh insert. Still haven’t got it sorted yet though.
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Not too much progress but I didn’t have alot of time to focus today. The boot took most of the time I had to model. I began sculpting it from an extraction, but ended up just doing a basemesh for the boot in max based on her foot/lower leg. Gave me a cleaner mesh to start with.
Changed around the shirt, gave her breeches, some bows etc…some work on the hair and whatnot. Probably ready to start subdividing and sculpting tomorrow.
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Some WIP shots of work on her tunic/leather armor/bandolier bags. The bandolier strap is just a placeholder to help with scaling the bags.
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Some work on accessories. A coiled rope, which I may do a small tutorial on as maybe some people might like to see how it was done. A small rope pulley thing, for rappelling, grappling or other fun stuff and the beginnings of a wheellock pistol, which is turning out really fun to model. I also modeled a complete set of some thieves tools, but I need to redo the modeling to bring them up a bit to match some of the other stuff here, they’ll be useful to use as reference for the next attempt at modeling them at least.
what - no comments here on the girl? what a shame.
you are doing excellent work here. very nice designs with a lot of character.
one thing that bugs me a bit about the girl is that her arms are so extremely straight like sticks. I know it makes sense due to the sleeves, but still. what makes it so obvious for me in contrast are the wonderfully curvy shaped legs ( not to mention her butt).
regardless - lovely stuff 
Hey thanks Julian_K! Hopefully the arms take on some more shape as she progresses I’ll keep my eye on that, thanks for commenting, always appreciated 
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Some more work on the gun. I’m looking forward to using Xpose when I’m done, so many subtools, should look pretty cool Xploded in Xpose 
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nice work ex. ill say one thing its been a tough crowd for comments lately. i try to leavem when i can but in any case i like your gun so far. i did want to comment on one little thing with it. i would kinda wath out on changing the style of the celtic notting too much. it kinda fools with the really nice flow youve got . just talking the contrasting between the handle and the stock on the side. i would suggest going witha softer more elegant not. good zbrushing tho and cheers! 
Hey thanks Loki, I see what you mean for sure about the knot pattern. I’ll try to change it around next time I get to it to a more…cohesive pattern. Thanks for that 
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*edit zbrush central is being weird and messing up my post I’ll wait a bit and repost this[zbrush_skin1.jpg[/ATT]%3C/font%3E"]
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Ok let’s try this again
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Not going for photorealistic, but for a stylized version for my model. Worked on the skin shader, from scratch based on the quad shader, did her skin texture, left it very plain since most of the skin will be hidden. But went ahead and painted it all anyway, since who doesn’t like texturing skin right.
Most of the work was on her face, which will get some more attention later once it’s posed and I need to find an expression that fits. When I get to that late stage.
No idea why zbrushcentral isn’t displaying this post right, maybe it will fix itself, who knows~!
I like it and find it interesting. It has a painted look to it
I really like this painterly effect. Are you using some sort of SSS shader for the skin ?
Thanks Betamax and Velvetdragon, much obliged
Velvetdragon, In the skin shader I made I did indeed put an SSS shader in S2. Then of course I had to adjust the BPR settings to get it to look right. I’ve since tweaked both the mat and the settings to get it to look a little better.
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Ok, trying to post my text without it being all bold yellow and hyperlinked. Here goes:
Changed up the hair from sculpted to …this way. I explained how I did it in this post before zbrushcentral ate it and made the text all weird, so if you have any questions about how it was done fire away.
Also, reworked the skin mat and texture to get more in line with the other textures on her subtools. The first one was saved for another day, this one is more cohesive, with the rest of the mats and textures.
She kinda looks like Vala from Stargate SG-1
Probably! Vala is one of my favorite characters from that (my favorite) show. :lol: Probably subconciously leaned that way while sculpting since I’m thinking of a sort of rogue/mischievous troublemaker type of character.
