@kizikay Nice use of Marvelous! For the stretching question. As long as there is enough loops around the bending areas you wont get too much stretching. It will also matter how the pose/rig is done. If done carefully you wont get too much stretching and you wont have to change the UVs per pose. If you think about it, characters in animation are only retopo’d an UVd once, then they are rigged/posed in a way to avoid texture stretching. Just make sure there is enough loops around the knees and when doing rigging/posing later have the UV checker on or the actual cloth texture on so you can evaluate it while you pose.
Week 1: RebusFarm WIP / Homework Submissions
chacho122
#32
Alejandro Alvarez / Week 01 WIP (References):
I’m going to make a bust of pegasus, this is the references, concept by Azure Kim
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RqZ4E
janefancy
#33
Hello everyone, great works!
It’s my first trying to create a full character model. I used a concept art of KDA Ahri by Riot games. Work is in progress and I still need to do a lot of details, retopo and UVs.
Thank you for watching
RichardRosa
#34
All I’ve managed to do this entire time is to sculpt a base mesh and retopologize it.
Someday I hope I can work as fast as some of you.
Viilratha
#35
So I’ve been busy with work this week so I haven’t been able to get a ton of work done. I didn’t have a base mesh so I’ve been building it in Blender… while learning how to use the software. Not ideal I admit but it’s gotten me back into modelling which has been amazing. Here’s a few photo’s of what I’ve gotten done today.!
I’m working on modelling a dwarf based on one of my first D&D characters. I will be adding another post with my inspiration and reference images when I get them off of my laptop.
chocoleigh
#36
Great work everyone!!
I used my own concept art (which obv needs more detail) to create the 3D character. It took me time to sculpt then retopologize. The tutorial/workflow actually is much more efficient than how i would normally create characters. Thanks Omar!
arieltw
#37
Hey Thanks! I used the preset model in Zbrush, now bringing it back into Maya for retopo.
Your progress is coming along nice, look forward to yours too!
TamMebonia
#38
Just like many others, I’m lamenting my lack of speed, but decided to submit a couple WIP images anyway.
P.S. The hair is only a placeholder object, to get the headgear right later.
sebulba
#39
hi everyone, thank you omar-h for this course and this contest.
I share with you my wip of Week 1, i decided to work with my own concept it will be a ogre//ork creature… for the next step i’m going to fix his clothes and accesories…and after i’m going to sculpt his hair and accentuate his primitive side.
Thank you and hope you like…Don’t hesitate to advise me or other.
Hi everyone, i share with you the advanced of projet, my 2D concept for the direction of this project, and i modeled cloth and accessories, and unfold UV’s.
I intend to add feathers and a necklace, if i have a time. But I’m ready for the next step “WEEK 2 TEXTURING”
Hope you like
tonyruiz
#40
Hi people!!! First of all, Thanks to Omar for this course!
I’m making a 3D version of Lara Croft, based on the concept art by Cameron Mark (https://www.instagram.com/cameronmarkart/)
I’m still fighting with her guns, I’m pretty new doing hard surface and I’m trying to do my best with them 
And yep, her hands are still waiting for the guns to be posed correctly 
You all guys are doing a great job! Keep working!!!
MainBrain
#41
Hi Guys, Thanks for this opportunity to let us participate in this.
So, I chose this Character made by Guille Rancel.
https://www.behance.net/guillermoperezrancel
I’m not used to Starting from scratch in Zbrush, I use it more for surfacing, So I started in Maya, with blocking, and my next step is going to Zbrush to Fix Proportions And the pose. I’m a little behind, but I will catch up this week 
Edit:
Hi, This is an update. I spend most of the time fixing proportions to try to match the Concept. I ended doing a lot of retopology, and because I’m not used to it, it took a lot of time, but This was the perfect excuse to practice retopology. and was really fun to do it, especially the head.
I had to cheat a lot of the placement and proportion to match the concept in the camera, if you see it from the front you can see the objects has weird positions xD. Also, I divided the Uv’s Into 3 Main Materials. Bones, Metals, Clothes, and because the terrain is going to be in Xgen I just put it in there just for the sake of getting a clean Uvs Sheet. That’s why it looks bigger the Texel density for the Terrain.
Now I have to start painting, I’m really behind, but this texture and look dev it’s the workflow I’m most uesd to it, so it would be faster to do it.
Last thing, I will see if I have the time to make the Owl.
Hope you like it Guys.
gleneseh
#42
Hi everyone, looks like we’ve already got a good variety of characters in the mix for this course – nice start to all thus far. I’m excited to see how everyone’s work progresses throughout the next few weeks/videos.
I’ve decided to work on my own concept combining portions of Mary Shelley’s novel & the classic Universal Pictures film of “Frankenstein” while making the Doctor’s Monstrous Creation. There’s huge interesting discrepancies between the two – particularly in terms of the creature, the timeline, how the creature started out/adapted to his environment, plus his capacity to learn from his experiences & understand the world which he’s been placed in.
So for this, I’m combining physical aspects from the two with an interest towards exploring the humanity & child-like aspects with a very strong man-made creature/character, as well as, the resulting appearance of living for two years in the wild just after he was “born”.
There’s still plenty more which I need to add to work with his story line, but at least the main components are starting to take place! Tons of work yet to do…colors are there right now to make sure that my layering of everything is making sense together.
Here’s some progress of the main bust portion & some shots of what his body sculpt looks like. Knowing me, I’ll continuously work til the end to fix & adjust his body, detail his scars, add his other environmental/human incident wounds & such…same goes for all of the other smaller bits & pieces which are still to come…that’ll end up being a gradual progression of retopology/UVs & such, but, oh well, I knew there was no way I’d be “done” with sculpting by now
Once I had my concept in mind, got my base mesh worked out, I then mocked in the eventual pose that he’ll be in to see if my general proportions would strike the right mood once I progressed the character – he’ll be waterside, taking inspiration from one of his most famous film scenes (but, mixed with the other side of the story from the novel). Since I’m playing around with “Who’s the Monster?” & “Who created Who?”, I decided to plot down some key descriptions & character thoughts from the Dr. & His Creation along with that.
And then, for anyone who’s made it to the end of this post, here’s some of the reference images that I’m also drawing inspiration from. Be forewarned, don’t enlarge the image if you get squeamish – a bunch of those small images are old medical paintings & such!
Thanks for looking!
modratchata
#43
Hi! I’ve added more details in this character with Zbrush and doing some UVs.
I’ll be doing more optimization before Week 2 begins.
TamMebonia
#44
Tamar Mebonia / Week 1
Some progress on my Mzeqala (that’s my character’s name fyi). Once again, the “hair” is only there for me to know what I’m doing. I wish I’d managed to rig and pose her too, but sadly no time (yet). With the next upload, I guess.
leo-varas
#46
Finally finished all the blocking out, most sculpting and the uv mapping. the amount of uv mapping i had to do was unreal, but i managed it after all, despite it not being mathematically even among all the islands, i think i did a decent job! there are still a few details missing but this is the bulk of my character! please do not hesitate to give me feedback on any aspect of my character!
czaru
#47
Krystian Przybylski Week1
Hello Everyone. Decided to go with my own concept. It’s just a base, still need to make some decisions about his wear I wasn’t have much time this week but for sure will catch up soon. So many great charracters here well done guys!
jppaiva
#48
Hi everyone! I decided to do Revy from Black Lagoon.
This is the base mesh for the character. Still fixing some kinks in the topology and haven’t got to sculpting yet!
kizikay
#49
Nice job!
One thing I noticed, your stitches are very inconsistent on your leather parts (very detailed small stitches on top vs large blurry stitches on skirt). It is also ideal to have some indents under the stitching, like it is usually done with leather in real life.
Do you have any specific concept you are working of?
P.S. amount of UVs is very impressive
leo-varas
#50
oh wow! didn’t even consider consistency on the sizes of the stiches! Thanks for the heads up! i’ll go back to sculpting them today! I’m not entirely sure what you mean by the indents, but i’ll go back to gathering refs. and my only concept was a drawing i had laying around of a character on a fancy dress/outfit that ressembled a bird.