First Character -- Crits Welcome

[dudecles]

Hello all.

I'm currently taking classes for 3D (Maya), and am working on my first character.

The texturing is getting closer to being finished so I figured it would be a good time to ask for crits, before going onto skinning. I haven't done a normal map for the head, and there are no maps other than Color, with the exception of a light bump on the body.











Let me know what you think!

Thanks,

[Valeoncat]

i like it nice texturing too. the only thing i see is if his neck is alittle short?

[dudecles]

Thanks Valeoncat! I got sidetracked for awhile, but finally finished rigging him for a beauty shot:

[Ged]

good work, arms look a bit too high up on his body like hes hunching his shoulders or maybe his forearms are too short

[kageko]

hey, nice character =) i def like the film noir kind of look to him tho u might want to make his neck a little longer as it looks like hes sort of shrugging atm. Also is that a lightbake in the texturing i see? =)

[zeus]

looks good for a first character, very impressive. I think there's some serious optimization that is required for the face though, there are so many edge loops around the eyes that aren't really adding anything to defining that area. It also doesn't look like you have correct edge loops in place for articulating joints - noteably on the fingers which will likely result in collapsing mesh when they bend.

www.poopinmymouth.com has some great tutorials for making good joints that deform well and is a great place to get valuable info.

The modelling is solid though so well done, a few changes here and there will make this really cool. Keep it up!

[dudecles]

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

I checked out those tutorials on deformation -- I didn't realize that it was OK for the forearm to overlap/clip the upper arm. I'll keep that in mind in the future.

Yeah the shrugging thing is due to me trying to get the silhouette of the coat to be almost up to the brim of the hat, to hide his face a little more, but the position of the armpits and shoulder definitely give him that shrugging/short neck look.

Thanks again,