Character project over! I am glad to see the end of this project. It's been hard and full of issues but I am quite happy with how this has all gone. Its been a big learning process in a good way, so lets look at whats been going on.
This is the Jackal with PBR textures. As you can see he doesnt quite pop anymore! Which makes me abit sad. But I like how the texture has gone, especially in the cracks of the mask. Also the kind of silky matieral hes dressed in has a good looking microtexture. So I am happy with how the PBR has gone but I think I prefer it just as albedo. Fits my inner ideas more. The PBR took a long time to work out as several issues showed up. It's always issues you can fix with one button press that hurt the most.
Looking back at this project what would I have done better? Well I did waste a whole week with a concept that got scrapped. That would be preferable not to do. If i didn't waste a week maybe I could of rigged the character and started off on my second of the duo. I also probably would have liked to do more concept for these guys, maybe a nice paintover thats showy. But really I think I've done the best I could of done with my time constraints and work issues.
Now its time for christmas break! I can fix some of this perhaps, or maybe focus more on personal projects I've wanted to do for a long time? I dont know yet but I do have to make sure to do atleast something creative!
This is my character with just his Albedo on. This is how I prefer my character personally, I have created hand painted PBR textures for him but I really just prefer the simple painterly look of him like this. I wanted to create him for a MOBA or MMORPG like game, and the most important thing for that is clarity. I do think this character has clarity!
His silhouette is strong and colours pop. I'm really happy with how his texture went. The blood is perhaps my favourite, or maybe the cracks in the mask. It was important to me that his design wasnt all cluttered.
The main issue, which is really damn obvious is that he hasnt been rigged. As you can see the character was designed to be hunched and disfigured with an almost monkey like pose. Now I have absolutely no idea if the model will still work strongly if rigged or even work at all. But I think it will. Theres a high chance of me rigging him over the christmas holidays to turn him into a portfolio piece and practice rigging in general.
Looking back at this project what would I have done better? Well I did waste a whole week with a concept that got scrapped. That would be preferable not to do. If i didn't waste a week maybe I could of rigged the character and started off on my second of the duo. I also probably would have liked to do more concept for these guys, maybe a nice paintover thats showy. But really I think I've done the best I could of done with my time constraints and work issues.
Now its time for christmas break! I can fix some of this perhaps, or maybe focus more on personal projects I've wanted to do for a long time? I dont know yet but I do have to make sure to do atleast something creative!
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