Emma Frost / White Queen

[dabookerman]

Excellent model mate!
How long did it take you to do roughly?

[Hazardous]

dabookerman: thanks man! I cant be certain really - a few hours each night over the past 3 weeks then the last 2 days full steam ahead haha!

[amorales]

Looks AWESOME!

any particular engine you'll be porting her into?

[Hazardous]

amorales: thanks man! The presentation shot is a realtime screengrab from marmoset engine without any touchups in photohop. but thats all i have planned for her :)

[dabookerman]

dabookerman: thanks man! I cant be certain really - a few hours each night over the past 3 weeks then the last 2 days full steam ahead haha!

That's very useful. Thanks a lot :)

[Zenderquai]

Absolutely Stunning work! - Very beautiful model, and amazing tecnique.

The one thing that Stood out, as something possibly worth consideration, is that such a Tiny amount of the shader needs to use transparency..

Would it not be worth separating the Hair, Visor, and Laces onto their own separate model, and just have the material/shader, for those few triangles/verts have an opacity map?
Every pixel on your model's shader has to be checked for Opacity, and it appears that over 90% of your model is fully opaque.

With the Visor being half-opaque,and the hair's opacity needing nice anti-aliasing, it would have to be an greyscale alpha, rather than black/white.. meaning it would also have to be rendered with Alpha-Blend, instead of Alpha test.

.. More than 90% of the model could be rendered without any need to use an opacity map, it seems a bit of a waste to have to make the game's renderer check every pixel for transparency..


Again, I have absolutely no critique of the technique, or artistry.. She's a beautiful model - and I do realise it's hyper-critical; the gain wouldn't be a huge amount - but as piece of in-game artwork, every saving helps! :)




Nick.

[Hazardous]

phunky_nick: Ahhhh man where are guys like you when I need them!! Thats exactly the kind of stuff I want to hear about!! :applause:

For this case in paticular the challenge only allowed us 1 x 2048 x 2048 to use - we couldnt break that 2048 into multiple smaller maps or anything - so I totally agree with you man.

That would definately be a much smarter thing to do! I'd really appreciate your feedback on all of my projects lol!!

[Zenderquai]

heh! - .. that's a very flattering reception -

I was so nervous, posting that message, because you're obviously a very accomplished character artist - the information seemed so insignificant.


I'm not a character artist, myself, unfortunately - I'm an environment artist, but I worked on a fairly major PS3 launch title, and the attention to technical detail helps so much, when putting next-gen (current-gen?) artwork together.

The little savings definitely add up..

methods or art-production including combining/welding meshes by shader, all the UVs shared as often as possible, as few draw-calls as possible.. .. being aware of how many frag-cycles a certain layer in your material compromises its efficiency, how many vertex-normals you're allowed per frame..

if you wanna talk about your other projects, I'd be down with that, definitely :) -
not sure how much new info I'd be able to provide!!


I'm glad it was useful anyhow! :) -

keep up the crackin' work!



Nick.

[Hazardous]

phunky_nick: Not at all man! Its great, im glad to have you take some of your time to give me a hand haha! I'll be sure to pm you when im working on my next character for some pointers and advice - always looking for some good critiques!

[ocarian]

Cool work Hazardous

Clean model, good Sculting, good texture, as usual :D

Keep up guy :thumbsup:

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