Vala the Valkerie

[El Scorcho]

Hi this is a model a I've been working on recently, I'm starting the texture on the low poly. I'd appreciate any suggestions for color combos or patterns etc. That I can put on her to spice her up

Low

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaLowProgress1.jpg

High

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaProgress6.jpg

On a side note I'm recently unemployed so I'd really appreciate any job leads, especially around dallas, tx

[TryForce]

This is just kickass, i remember it on cgchat, im in love with it!

Gj! For color combo's i would use yellow and red on this one probably with slighty small parts in brown.

If not maybe use metalic Red + white, my favorite.

[makoa]

superb work! great design and EXCELLENT modeling, both high and low-poly. my color theory kinda sucks so i hesitate to suggest color combos.

for the hi-poly, how'd you get such clean details? i'd love to see a wireframe. thanks for posting!

[Amethyst]

Can't wait to see it finished. Very interesting work.

[Twindragon]

The wing like structure on the back, is there going to be some sorta transparent glowing wings coming out of there? Currently I think the wing pieces take away from the flowing curves of the model and are too angular. Unless you are planning on bringing in curvy sorta wing areas.

As for colors maybe add some gold in there. and instead of blue in the glowing areas try red like Tryforce said..maybe try to break the colors up too like in the ab area and legs to add contrast.

[poopinmymouth]

Really nice so far, very professional. I can't wait to see the textures.

http://www.mr-chompers.com/images/poop.gif (http://www.poopinmymouth.com)

[vied]

if you dont tell where's low n high, I cannot know it :eek:
they are the same in my eye :s
amazing work !

[El Scorcho]

Thanks guys, I did some quick color experiments, I'd really appreciate any feedback or possibly some color drawovers.

makoa: Do you want to see the wires for the high or low? As for the details their just a bunch of floaties.

Twindragon: You read my mind, there will be jets emitting from them. Their outline will vaguely resemble wings.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/Colors.jpg

[Steel Style]

My favorite is the 5, gray and blue .

[Ramseus]

I thought the low was the high, nary a sharp angle in sight.

I think I like the fourth one the most, I like how the lower areas are darker in that one, plus my opinion is always biased towards blues and cool colours.

[Gavin]

I like #3 and #6...this looks hot, by the way :)

Gav

[Frozan]

i really like 1 and 6. are u going to be making the low poly or just sticking with the highpoly one?

[ThatDon]

Ace work! Not feeling 1 and 2 but the rest could all work.

[TryForce]

1 or 6, looking good, thought maybe use some more depth-colors, the grayish colors look cool but maybe try to push deepcolors out.

[Pezzz]

#2 Plz. Nice model.

[Japhir]

I like them all except #2 :D lol ;)

@Frozan: this actually IS his highpoly... i needed to figure it out too :D just waaaay to cool :D

[ShadyD]

Woah, if you feel bored, try a white-purple-gold sprinkles theme :).
Great job so far!
Did you sculpt this in mudbox or zbrush?
How did you get the cuts in so clean? :O

[Kalango]

very very nice :)
The brown-silver outfit is the best :), love valkyries, valkyrie profile rox :)
Questions: Big Long Hair?

[Inpw]

#2. I'm prefer warm colors.
BTW: Very nice work!

[Beartastic]

She's looking really awesome. I can't wait to see the texturing.

I prefer 5 because it's got great contrast and it's different. The red and gold looks too much like Iron Man imho, though that's not too bad a thing :)

[_tdc_]

Looking awesome. I say the bottom left corner is the most interesting.

-tchiu

[East]

Really, really impressive and clean work :)

Though, since most of us here are into doing 3D modeling ourselves, I probably don't speak for me and me alone when I hereby request some wireshots :)

[onelung]

Hey Hector, Looking badass man! I like #2 since it has more variation. Nice modeling, looking forward to the textures. Are you gonna go weathered, or new?

[obi-one]

the model is looking sweet. And for the textures, I would say #2 is my fav, but #5 is cool too.

[mwgrafx]

I love this model. Great execution.

[El Scorcho]

onelung: Not sure yet, what do think?

East: No problem here's the wires, plus the tech info. Currently 10465 tris will be about 11k when done. 2048 textures for the body and 1024 for the head which includes some parts of her helmet.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaLowWires.jpg

ShadyD: I sculpetd her head and body in Mudbox and everything else in max using smoothing groups and floaties

Kalango: Dunno might give it a try.

Frozan: Actually those colored variats are the low poly and so is this one.

Thanks for all the compliments and suggestions. I used all the feedback I got, some ref I found and my own personal tastes to come up with this color sceme. What do you guys think?

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaLowProgress2.jpg

[MM]

this is a very technically high quality work you have here. i think the colors could use even more variation but the illuminating parts should be either blue or orange, not both. the inside suit could be lot darker so that it creates a contrast with the hard surface parts. i think the legs could be a tad bit longer. the hands could be a bit bigger also.

[HntrLuc]

This is some really awesome work man! Glad to see you're finishing it.
Can't wait to see it complete :)

[Yung]

Woah this is a very nice work! I am looking forward to seeing the complete work! Her articulation seems kinda limited with those armors. No more crits except what's mentioned.

[BuroKun]

@El Scorcho - Hey man, I remember this awhile ago on CGChat. Nice to see you finishing it up here. looking very nice, keep it up.

[vied]

ShadyD: I sculpetd her head and body in Mudbox and everything else in max using smoothing groups and floaties

what is floaties El Scorcho?
and u'r using smoothing groups with turbosmooth on her or not? :paper:

[El Scorcho]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

vied: I'm not using turbosmooth I'm just using smoothing groups. Floaties are pieces of geometry that float just above the main mesh. They create the illusion that that shape is cut in to the main geometry.

Some texturing progress and a pathetic atempt at lighting, been spending most of my free time trying to learn how to swim. Which is pretty hard if you wait until your adult to do so.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaLowProgress3.jpg

[zabuza2k]

wow el great texturing i like it

[Gavin]

Looking cool man. As a guy who also can't swim...good luck on that too!

[onelung]

well bud, i suppose you could always do 2 version, one before battle, and one after, with some rad cuts and destruction going on.

As of now it's looking good, though i see you falling back into the color's your comfortable with, which to me makes it blend in with your beautiful DW2 piece, and not stand out so much.

I like the dark patterned material you have going on underneath the armor.

I also agree about the tiny hands/ long forarms.

last thing i can think of is the glows are a bit overwhelming. They're placed throughout, but are so bright that the character gets a tad lost, and the glows become more powerful. Maybe toning them down a tad, or letting them be gradients, from soft to bright?

Any who, just a bunch of rambling, looking good, can't wait to see her finished.

[Japhir]

that's looking great! i love the texture of the material that goes under the armour and the lighty bits :D she does have a rather scary look on her face though, maybe either widen the iris or lower the upper eye lid 'cause this is pretty creepy. overall great work man!
keep it up!

[El Scorcho]

zabuza2k: Thanks

Gavin: Thanks man I'm glad I'm not the only 20 something that can't swim

onelung: Thanks for the feedback, your totaly right. I've been so busy trying to listen to everybody's feedback on this forum and Cgtalk, that I forgot about that. So I made this color variant, still needs plenty of work. Oh and I increased the size of her hands 5%.

Japhir: I hope I fixed it with a gloss map i made.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaLowProgress3b.jpg

[Marcus Dublin]

I don't have much to add as far as suggestions go that hasn't already been said, but I thought I'd chime in to say that this girl rocks the house! She's officially landed in My inspiration folder. Nice going El Scorcho, keep up the awesome work!:thumb:

[Slythis]

phenominal work friend

[Ramseus]

Why isn't this thread highlighted yet?! :thumb:

[BuroKun]

he he, I can't swim, we should start a clue. oh, and nice work =P

[MM]

She's officially landed in My inspiration folder. Nice going El Scorcho, keep up the awesome work!:thumb:

same here. only small suggestion is may be a little more color variation on the specular map.

[Steel Style]

Nice works I like both version, uh I have a stupid question what will u do with this one ? (Just modelled to havin fun, portfolio, game ?)
Lool Like 3D lovers can't swim (I don't know when to start, a little bit shame)

[butt_sahib]

Hye el scor :D

This is looking very nice :)
I quickly flipped in between the three versions and i definately love the latest rendition of the colour scheme :)

Lets get a pose already! @_@

[Ged]

as they say on polycount: this thread is full of awesome!

[miezis]

yup, last color variation is super special awesome! nothing to crit really! :)

[Tweaker]

El Scorcho smashing piece bro and I love the detail model, as we can see the lowpoly works out excellent as well.

[asstornado]

HECk!

nice job. Very kick ass.

If i had one crit it would be to change the flow of design going across her outer butt cheek. Right now it's flattening out her butt. Make it curve along with it and it should cradle the a@$ alot better.

[ThatDon]

My only crit :)

[Miguelito]

Nice work. I'd like to see the texture layout as all those straight lines look so nice and sharp :). THX

And ThatDon is right ;)

[_tdc_]

Looking great! Only crit is damn her face is a bit...generic? Just a little bit. But I would close her eyes a bit. She looks crazy than goddess-like, or majestic or whatever. Other than that, can't wait for you to put her in a better pose and light her up.

[Rasmus Holmgren]

Looks like top-quality modelling to me, great stuff. Though I'm guessing that's a pretty hi-poly low-poly :)

[-JL-]

Really nice work there! :) Though personally I liked the red additions to the colorscheme...

And I agree with ThatDon's comment... those glowy bits there don't seem to really add to the character much, other then to make it look a bit too busy.

[Fishypants]

Freakin badass! Me likes!

[Duranial]

OMG!! I like so much all the modeling and the sculpting... I think I will add this as a piece to catch inspiration O_O

[Jacky-Boy]

This is amazing work El Scorcho. Colour-wise I'd like to see a darker undersuit, with the steely armour you have at the moment, but other than that, I love it. :D

[El Scorcho]

Marcus Dublin, Slythis, Ramseus, butt_sahib, Ged, miezis, Tweaker, Miguelito, Fishypants and Duranial; Wow thanks guys didn't think so many people would like her so much:)

BuroKun; Hey if you live in the dallas area, we should. Would be really funny to see a bunch of inept artists at a local La Fitness flopping about:lol:

MM; Thanks will see what I can to fix that.

Steel Style; Back when I started her it was just for fun. Now that I'm going to truly finish her it's for a portfolio piece. I needs a JOB :)

Richard; Thanks man, the a@s is very important. I think that'll break some of the flow and design on her back though.

ThatDon; Thanks for the crit, will do:)

_tdc_; Thanks for the crits, will see what I can do to fix that.

Rasmus Holmgren; Depends on what you think high is:) She sits at 10500 tris right now. Could be lower but I don't have any budgets so......ha.

-JL-; Yea they were nice, but they didn't work well:).

Jacky-Boy; Thanks Jack, I'll try that.


Gonna work on the girly and really finish her this time:). Just slapped on some quick textures on her last time and didn't even model her sword. Update coming soon :).

[El Scorcho]

Almost done texturing her, just some minor tweaks left. Then it's on to her sword and pose. What do you guys think?

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaFinishing1.jpg

[ThatDon]

metal treatment is ace, the blue lipstick might be abit much though?

[El Scorcho]

Thanks Don should I make it red, skin color or something?

[Swisher]

The whole model looks excellent Scorcho. On the lips issue I'd probably go with a darker tone to compliment that great metal texture you got going. Great stuff man.

[Deto]

Excellent looking model, El Scorcho. Liking it alot and its very professional looking :)

one suggestion thought. It has very plain colors. Either this steely looking or blue shade. The lights and 'armor color', look a bit strange to me, as in, there's very little color in overral. If you want, you could make greyscale layer of the turqoise armor part and try how it would look with different colors, just to test, it infact might look nice if that was different color, that or the lights, but I kinda love the blue lights, they rock :)

[miezis]

ace!!! i agree that lip tone should be a bit darker. deto has a point too, i would suggest you make round shapes with one tone of blue and streaks like on her sides and arms with other/or different color, like yellow! :)
i myself tend to overuse blue/yellow combination! :lucky:

[onelung]

textures are looking great man. might be nice if the metal fins on the head dress showed that they move, and possibly scratch against each other. Lookin rad man.

[El Scorcho]

Thanks guys, I tried to implement as much of the feedback as I could:)

Working on some poses for her, still not sure how to pose her yet. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Here two poses I've tried so far, I'm looking for something that looks good from front, side and back.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaStandingPose.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaFlyingPose1.jpg

[miezis]

sweeeeeet!
the exhausts on her boosters look a bit sloppy though! :)

[El Scorcho]

Thanks Miezis, I give those boosters another pass.

[_tdc_]

Love this. But no love is perfect. Lol. I agree with Miezis. The particles seems last second and so does her weapon. But man, I love her face. Kind of generic, but she's a hot. Good job. Love you're armor as well. Very believable material. Can't wait to see what you did next. Also I love your Dwar concept. Great stuff.

-tchiu

[HntrLuc]

Really awesome work man! Digging the poses too.

[jramauri]

Incredible work man. Her textures and proportions are really nice!

[Hazlim]

I like her face and make up. Great work. The blue color recall "Stargate". Very good texture

[ianllanas]

This model is really amazing man, I love this idea of floaties, can't wait to use them myself. I would steer away from that flying shot, at least the way it stands. It looks like you used directional motion blur in Photoshop and it makes her look as though she's going exactly perpendicular to the camera, but that doesn't match the pose. Also, the exhaust from the jetpack isn't even in the same ballpark quality-wise as the rest of the model, IMO the blur and exhaust distract from an awesome piece of work. I am totally inspired by your work, but totally uninspired by the fact that you're unemployed, WTF! If you can't get work with your skills, I don't stand a chance.
Good luck!

[Mattimusss]

solid work!

[MM]

these look absolutely great.

if you want a dynamic pose you should look up some comic book references. there should be tons of inspirations there.

[butt_sahib]

Excellent work :D
The poses looks extremely dynamic to me :)

How about exporting to Unreal? :) Might become a positive asset

[El Scorcho]

HntrLuc, jramauri, Hazlim, Mattimusss thanks guys:)

_tdc_; Thanks man, good eye pointing those problem out. I 'll be going back and giving my dom war model some love later too. I left it really uncomplete.

ianllanas; Thanks dude, I cut those problem areas out entirely. As for being unemployed, that's probably because I haven't started applying anywhere yet. After my last job, I reeeeaally want to make sure that I land a job that I will enjoy working at. I was miserable there for so many reasons and I don't to repeat that miskake ever again. So I'm working on strengthinig my portfolio so I can maybe land a really cool job.

MM; Thanks MM, I went to some comic book stores yesterday and the day before. Found alot ref and that yesterday was free comic book day:D

butt_sahib; Thanks sahib; if I had access to that engine right now I would. But I don't being unemployed and all:)

I think I'll call this done now, unless you guys see some glaring errors:)

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaStandingPose3.jpg

[Jacky-Boy]

Great work man, I'm sure you'll land a sweet job with this. I'd say this pose and the one with the sword are equally strong, so go with whatever you prefer. :)

[miezis]

wish you all the best finding that perfect workplace - you obviously deserve it!

[poopinmymouth]

Wow, this is great. I liked the first pose more, and the flying shot (just without the blur).

http://www.mr-chompers.com/images/poop.gif (http://www.poopinmymouth.com)

[BigJohn]

Awesome piece, I love it a lot. Texturing is real nice. I love how the colors work together. Especially the different shades of blue (which you have even on the lipstick). Good stuff man.

Any chance you could post the texture page for noobs like me to gawk at?

[ThatDon]

ace ace ace, I love it.

[Chasarsis]

fantastic work dude!

[Jason-Lavoie]

Wow...

Ha ha this turned out SOOO amazing, great work buddy :)

[El Scorcho]

Jacky-Boy: Thanks Jacky, I hope so but just to make sure I'm also working on other stuff for my port:)

miezis: Thanks miezis, your a true friend:)

poopinmymouth: Thanks Poop, I liked those too. But never worked well from multiple angles. I wanted something that let it all hang out:lol:

BigJohn: Thanks John, no problem heres the diffuse.

ThatDon, Chasarsis, Jason-Lavoie: Tahnks guys:D

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/ValaTextures.jpg

[BigJohn]

Ooh, so awesome. Thanks for sharing this. I literally have a folder inside My Pictures called Awesome, and this is going in it. It's where I keep stuff that's better than anything I can produce, so I have something to shoot for.

[Trigon]

Very nice! Love the colors and the first pose. Shouldn't be that hard for you to land a job :)

[Marcus Dublin]

Awesome work El Scorcho, my only nitpick would have to be with your UV layout, It seems you have some of the major chunks positioned on a 20-degree angle. This sort thing may come off as a bit trivial but it would drive a few texture artist nuts:s. I personally think it’s better to have UV chucks sitting as vertically or horizontally as possible since it makes the texturing process easier. Anyways nitpick aside it’s a “terrific” piece that any artist would love to have grace there portfolio, good luck with the job hunt and keep us posted!:thumb:

[jpgourley]

Great work El Scorcho, this model turned out looking great. Best of luck on the job hunt.

[zeus]

this work is excellent, the renders are also so clean and crisp and on the first few there's a neat black line around them that really makes them pop out of the page! any chance you could let us all in on your secret?

I was surprised at how simple the texture sheet looks, when compared to the renders of the model but i guess your specular map just compliments it really well. Top class stuff! thanks for the inspiration

[ianllanas]

Dude, I love the new pose, it adds to her femininity, she's got a lot of angles going on and that pose helps to balance her out. I would narrow the eyes and furrow the brow abit, she looks maybe scared or surprised, maybe it's determination, but anyway it's intense. I saw that you applied for the character artist position at id, best of luck, I hope that you get it! I'm mean how sweet would that be? They are one of the best game companies out there, and IMO the best as far as character art goes (tied w/ Epic) and they're in Dallas! Looking forward to seeing your characters in Doom4!

[MARTS]

Really nice work. Professional quality :)

Excellent !!

[El Scorcho]

Omg dusty old thread unburied:o Thanks guys, I recently polished her for my port. Fixed alot of problems.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t285/elscorchohm/d.jpg

[zeus]

ah the new render is nicer can see the face more clearly! Ooh a portfolio at last i can drool over a collection of your works....

[Nutz /Paulette]

Hi!

I love her, the design, the pose, the curves, the armour... I love all! ^^
Will you animate her? It would be fun to see her in action, in air fight for exemple! And you could enjoy it with particle effects...

Oh man I'd love to have your level! *___*

Could you show us the topology please? The pictures have been removed ='(

[mrkite]

that looks awesome el scorcho!

[Rasmus Holmgren]

Nice! And a great portfolio... Gunslinger's still my favourite. "Hire me" - I hear ya :)

[onelung]

very nice sir. metal really feels good.

[Parnell]

Much better.
The face before always looks a little dead to me. It's much sexier.
Congrats.
B

[Swisher]

great job man, excellent piece for your port!

[El Scorcho]

Thanks guys :)