FEMALE ELF WARRIOR - wip

[Mackan]

thats a good start!
the textures seem a bit lowres.. maybe increase that some?

and get some nice eye-textures.. you'd be amazed of how alive characters get when the eyes look right :)

[Dogzer]

ok, say I want a 2000x2000 head texture :) how do I get a screen of my unwraped face on 3dsmax 5, so I can paint over it?
cuz right now Im presing Print Screen button

oh but this head will be used for a video Im making with a friend and there will be no close ups to its face :P.

[davebloke]

Best tool I found for Max (also a free one) is Texporter download here: http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/

The help file included tells you how to use it and you end up with a bitmap (whatever size you want) of the wireframe unwaped so you can paint over it with skin etc...

This is a shot fom there website:
http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/Texporter/britney.jpg

Keep us posted on your progress.
--
Davebloke

[Dogzer]

here

[davebloke]

The eyes are much better. :thumbsup: What method are you using for modeling? patch? poly? edit mesh? nurbs? etc

[Dogzer]

uhm.. I create the mesh with splines with no curves, make the faces one by one, and then apply meshsmooth

[davebloke]

Im a polly boy myself... a great video tutorial on www.3dbuzz.com (again free) on modeling a head and body, worth a look.

Keep us updated with progress and the final video.

[Dogzer]

mmh.. I cant post any more pics.. that sux

[cerialKiller]

No offense, but she does not look really female right now. Judging from the way her face is cut I'd say this is a quite slender guy.

Even though she's an efl you might want to make her head a bit more rounded and feminine.

[Dogzer]

lol thx! I'll do that :)

[Dogzer]

is this better? imagine she has hair and eyebrows... maybe eyelashes

[Dogzer]

making the armour.. my computer is dying...

[davebloke]

Woah! Sweet body.... :applause:

Nice to see it coming along so fast... My only comments are that the head looks a little too tall (stretched) and the hands a little bit too large.

[Dogzer]

thx dave! closer look the her body, look at the clothing

[davebloke]

kinky

[Dogzer]

Im just showing off now

[davebloke]

Yes you are...
Starting from the bottom up....

The boots are way to thick, they were thiner a while back. How would she close her legs when walking? :) And the tops of the boots are a too square.

The creasing around the hips is cool :p Maybe some sort of zip or seam would add interest too

The top is looking good, I see you made the breasts less defined, looks better, hows about making the shoulder bits more defined/sharper?

The arms look great and the hands too, The thumb is way too large (over half the thicknes of her writs!) though.

The head is hard to see at this distance but looks in proportion.

:applause: :thumbsup:

[davebloke]

oh, and more light :eek:

[Dogzer]

k, look at this and tell me what should I do next

[davebloke]

I don't know the image you have in your head that your working to, so I can't tell you what to do next, however... The following 4 things look odd:

1: The top of the boots are too square, they would look better rounder I think. (see attached pic)

2: Her neck is grey, looks like a texture error. (see attached pic)

3: The Texture on the torso/gloves is a little flat, adding a bit of tone would make the creases and fingers stand out more.

4: The feet are letting the body down, maybe find a photo of some boots on the internet that look like what you want yours to look like and have a go at copying them...

:bounce: Anyone else got any comments?:bounce:

[dominicqwek]

i feel the head is too long. love the details you added like the creases and the boots. :buttrock:

[Dogzer]

hair

[davebloke]

The image quality is way too low to have a good look. It looks like the hair is a bit flat (could be lighting) some shadows would help this.. The shine on the metal is so strong and the bump so deep that it looks a bit like tin-foil. The ears are sticking out a bit too much now. The face is still a little too long.

I do like the pattern on the metal tho :) Check out
This thread (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=61486&perpage=15&pagenumber=5) about half way down, he shows how he made his metal texture. That spec map makes all the difference.

[Lordrych]

Hey man you are going through this way too fast you need to slow down and pay attention to some detail.

Rych

[Dogzer]

well its going to be a 30 second video with no closeups.. destined to a bunch of kids who are going to press space to skip it... so it doesnt matter..

check this orc out, also for the video

[Dogzer]

couldnt resist posting another pic of the orc.. check out how's going!

[Dogzer]

DAmn.. it looks like crap.. Im going to start over.. I must get this right >-<!!!

so here we go: 1st the head

[Dogzer]

give me advice please

[Dogzer]

I have no idea if this is in proportions or not

[davebloke]

Work from a photo.

Take a look at the head tutorial on www.3dbuzz.com its a simple to follow video and its FREE.. so no excuse.

[Dogzer]

hmm.. I cant find any head video tutorial.. all I could find were html tutorials

[Dogzer]

well, here's the face. Feel free to point any detail you feel it needs to be changed. thank you.

[Kalasfixaren]

well, the modeling itself is very nice!

But the head lacks of correct proportions, goto www.fineart.sk and download yourself some pics of weird peoples' heads and use them as reference while modeling :)

[zachgrachan]

i think this new head blows the old one away, but the back of the jaw seems a bit flat. usually you see a lot of bone structure in an elf's face, but here the cheeks look more human.

love the orc head too

[Dogzer]

thanks! but I dont want to post a pic every little change I make., even though it looks much better now, so please give me more ideas before I post again.:)
:scream:

[Rei Ayanami]

Elfs are tall and skinny runts (like me then). Define as much of the bone structure on the face as possible. Even though the eyes are not sunken in, try making the top of the socket a littler more heavy.

[Dogzer]

thx for your replies!

[Dogzer]

the back of the elf

[Dogzer]

check the boots out

[Dogzer]

Im having a really hard time making the armor

[Dogzer]

armor

[Dogzer]

skin texture

[Dogzer]

close view... it has somethings that need to be fixed

[cerialKiller]

She looks much better than your first version.

[Dogzer]

thx!

I have a question, I copied the texporter plugin to my max5 plugin folder, and I go to utilities and there is no texporter anywhere, can anyone relate to that?

[davebloke]

In utilities, click more.

[Dogzer]

yes I clicked more, as the help file said, but there isnt texporter anywhere..

[davebloke]

hmmmmmmmm, My "Texporter3.dlu" is in my 3dsmax5/plugins folder...

The only 2 things i can think of are:
1/ you have put it in the 'stdplugins' not 'plugins' folder
2/ you downloaded the wrong version for your version of max. (the site has version 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

They have a forum here: http://www.cuneytozdas.com/forum/
you might be able to get an answer on there, sorry I can't help more.

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