Street Fighter 3 - Ibuki

[Vahl]

not sure it's ready for this but well...

this is based on capcom's illustration, not on the game sprite (they are quite different) I took some decisions to make it work in 3d proportions/sculpt wise too (and also because I want to enjoy what i'm doing sticking to a concept without adding anything sounds more like work than fun ;) )

aaaaaaanyways think the highpoly is pretty much done, maybe a few tweaks here and here...

http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_wip17.jpghttp://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_wip17_face.jpg

http://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/ibuki-ts.jpg <-- this is the pic I used as main ref, although I had tons of different refs for her, but since every drawing is a different interpretation I thought I should just pick one I like and do my own thing starting from here.

planning to pose her on a little stand that will be a reproduction of a part of her stage in SF3 third strike

[Gavin]

Nice man! Always played as this character, she was pretty bad ass. I really like the hard edge type folds in the pants. I think they read really well. Yeah...lookin' good!

Gav

[Mogster]

One of my fav chars from Sf :>

[butt_sahib]

Looks excellent.
Totally envious of the folds ;) love how you did the toe aswell

p.s.
SFTS = best 2d fighting game...next to KOF ofcourse ;)

[thomasmahler]

Great sculpt, put it into my Inspiration folder.

[ShadyD]

Woah excellent!
Just a heads up, making the cheeks a bit more straight in 3/4th and front might make it more true to the reference.

Keep it up!

[-JL-]

I could say that her chin in the concept seems to be a bit more pointy and her feet a bit bigger and wider...

But then these are those possible design choices that you made. :)

Very nice sculpt none the less!

[Twindragon]

I was going to agree with -JL- but other than that it looks great it will be nice to see her textured and in a fighters stance.

[Marcus Dublin]

This is pretty sick, keep em coming!:)

[Kalango]

wow man, very cool modelling, the clothes and details are very very welldone :D, i'm also a big fan of ibuki hehe, keep that comming.

[ThatDon]

Vahl, Most impressive! This thread may just motivate me to revive Akuma.

[Vahl]

damn, work took 3 weeks away from my life :p

thanks for all the good words guys :)

ShadyD : played a little with that, should be better now

-JL- : played with the chin size a little more too, as for the feet, it's some kind of balance choice, if they end up too big, the character ends up looking like a hobbit (see SF4 leaked screens) even though it works awesomly well in 2d, so i tried to mix the anime style with a bit more realism to balance it more in 3D.

ThatDon : cheers dude :) hope you'll find some time to finish your akuma :)

anyways, did more on her the past few days, lowpoly and texture are done I think unless there's really something crazy that I didn't see.

now I'll start on the stand, I also want to see if I can postprocess the same picture treatment as the SF4 trailer...we'll see I guess...

Lowpoly+normals (Xnormal)
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_wip18.jpg

textured model (8monkeys labs' Marmoset engine)
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_wip20.jpg

[Japhir]

cool! looks great! her feet are pretty big :p

[Sir Rodriguez]

the model and sculpt, done really well... the textures ehhh... the colors look good but they could use more contrast, seems dull now, i know youre going for that sf4 trailer look but i think you can push the darks and lights some more, just like your sculpts lighting looks good, crisp. hope this makes some sense :uhh:

[butt_sahib]

Excellent model and texture :)
How'd you get your hands on that engine? :P id like to knwo ;)

Care to show the flats/wires please?

p.s.
Would definatel be interested in how you went about your shaders :)

[yoyomon]

Nice model. The only thing I find kinda funky are those shoulder pads (?) They have a really rough looking edge but those faint horizontal lines kinda makes you question what kinda material it really is.

[ThatDon]

damn nice Vahl, damn nice

[Kalango]

Very nice texturing work man!, but the face is realy buggin me, the eyes...and nose...something about them...the eyebrows too...try to fix that :)
The rest is top notch :)

[Vahl]

update, fixes some of the stuff mentionned, the rest will probably stay the way it is since I like it that way.
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_wip21.jpg

and a SF4 trailer postprocess mockup :p
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_wip21SF4.jpg

[Ged]

love the results, well done vahl

[zabuza2k]

thats so amazing.

[Rasmus Holmgren]

Nice one, Ibuki is a great character. Don't think you have to do much with the texture, my only crits would be that while her feet look very realistic, her forehead and face have a very doll-like, pale eggshape look to them... She doesn't quite look like she's got all that attitude I remember from the game. But yeah, great job, especially the folds!

[ivars]

Eyelashes! That's what she's missing. Add a simple alphaplane with eyelashes on, it will make her look much better, and hotter!

[Vahl]

she has some already, I added them straight after that post :p didn't bother updating the screenshots though, will be for the next update (the highpoly stage is almost done)

[poopinmymouth]

Really nice work buddy, love how the face and materials came out.

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

[Mind Traveler]

This came out well. Good job.

-Anwar B.

[Pestibug]

Adorable ;)

Very nice work, can't wait to see what you cook up next buddy!

[ThatDon]

This is officially win. Good work Vahl. As poop said, the materials are freaking ace.

[Vahl]

thanks ^^

STAGE !, for those who played SF3.3 recently this is the right side of her stage in the game, of course, the final render will have a sunset like lighting to fit it better.

http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_Stagewib.jpg

EYELASHES
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_wip22.jpg

ok, now, needs a dagger, a pose and a nice sunsety light setup !

[Genz]

she's lovely!!! i love the textures and her face is soo smooth.very very nice :)
oh btw can you post some wires and maybe texture sheet,even resized?

[BoBo_the_seal]

Very nice!

[zabuza2k]

vahl can u sid he down on the mast ?? a lil bit ninja style ^^ i hope u have undertsand it ;P

[TryForce]

vahl can u sid he down on the mast ?? a lil bit ninja style ^^ i hope u have undertsand it ;P

Vahl: Can you make her sit on the mast/Antenna ? So a lil bit Ninja-style comes out.

;) completly agrees :D

[Vahl]

actually that will be on the stone :) but I see what kind of pose you're talking about and I think that's what I had in mind :) but on the stone ;) (otherwise I would just have made the pole as stand, that would have been less work for me :p)

[Frozan]

ahh the textures really make this look ace nice work!

[monkeyboy]

Really nice work Vahl. Smooth - really fits the style perfectly. THAT'S how SF4 should be done!

[triatami]

nice feets ;]

[Vahl]

thanks for the support guys :) seems I'm seeing the light on this one after all

still testwip render/angle, etc, taken from 8MonkeyLabs' awesome marmoset engine (huge pics, sorry).
I still need to add some shadows here and here for more consistency, but I'm waiting for the pose to be complete for that

http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/IbukiPose1-2.jpg
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/IbukiPose2-2.jpg

[onelung]

looking nice man, that skin shader is pretty rad too. Nice poses, feels like part of an internal monologue. :)

[poopinmymouth]

So nice! Emo-Ibuki. Where's them shadows, huh? Love your texturing man.

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

[Kalango]

this looks awesome :) very very cool.

[Vahl]

thanks all :)

update, more moody lighting/postFX and new angle
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/WP/Ibuki1_1440.jpg
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/WP/Ibuki2_1440.jpg
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/WP/Ibuki3_1440.jpg

[Japhir]

this is very cool! loving the rendering!

[Denny]

Are we going to see some kind of animations on her? :)

[zabuza2k]

Vahl im your biges fan i LOVE you charachters and SF ^^ SF 4 ever ^^

[brome]

Vince, looks great man. It's a really graceful scene - she's obviously contemplating something. Would be nice to see some wind in the scene? Just for the sake of movement. Perhaps her hair is blowing, the grass is off kilter, there's some birds in the sky, and so on.

[Razorb]

so badasss it hurts to look!! really nice work love it big time :D

[mrkite]

that turned out brilliant!

[Vahl]

Denny : I'm afraid not :( as far as i'd love to, the rig isn't really good and I'm quite bad at animating.

Bromepants : yeah i was thiking of it, dunno yet what I'm going to do with that

Japhir, Zabuza2k, MrKite : thanks a lot guys :) glad you like it :)

construction shot/flats
http://wip.global-illusions.com/SF3_Ibuki/Ibuki_construction.JPG

[ThatDon]

Nice work Vahl, She's very beautiful.

[-JL-]

Really nice work. Very nice modelling and texturing.

Question though, any particular reason why her face is so very dense with the polygons? While it does provide a very nice and smooth silhouette of the face you could have used some of that detail for example in the heels of the feet to smooth those out a bit... Just curious. :)

[seungeon]

how to expression viewports-fog??

[vikramvr]

fantastic stuff man. absolutely love the renders, and the highres sculpts:thumb:

[Frozan]

man that first beauty shot with her foot..... AWESOME. this turned out really well. nice work

[Denny]

Vahl, you got PM. :)

[Rasmus Holmgren]

Wow, nice incorporation of the background! Phonepole could do with some more love maybe, but great stuff. Turned out great.

[Vahl]

thanks all :)

Denny : you too :)

-JL- : that was to allow facial animations, didn't happen in the end though guess I could have spent more polies on the body but well it's done now :p

[Cheshire]

Great Piece Vahl! Love the scene renders.