ART WAR | 3D | Nordic Huntress | Mathijs Kapteijn

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Really looking forward to this competition, great initiative and genre.

I am going for a strong female huntress from the north. Probably with a lot of viking inspirations etc. but i will decide on that along the way. And so naturally, I will be on the fantasy team.

Good luck everyone!

This is my progress thus far. I have been gathering reference and creating thumbnails/quick iterations of a concept. This is what I came up with in the end. I feel like I have a solid idea in my mind, therefore the work i am showing is a bit more detailed and the concept are quite similar to each other already. Probably I will make a mix of these for the final line drawing.

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Please let me know what you think. Feedback would be very much appreciated, and especially suggestions are very welcome at this stage.

I finished my concept, so its time i move on to the block-out stage of the model. I am going a bit slow since i haven´t been feeling too well lately sadly. But the idea is there.
The previous upload did not really portrait a champion in my opinion. So I decided to make some changes to the concept. By giving her more armor and a bit of a robust look. Personally I feel I am on the right way, but as always feedback and critics will always be more than welcome to improve my work.

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It has been a while since I posted (blame Christmas holidays), but I have made some progress. I started a base body for her, but most of all I focused on the head. Since this is the first time i am creating a female character I was most worried for this part. I hope she shows some character and that the facial structure is correct? Feedback and suggestions will be much appreciated.

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From here on i will continue to add the next level of detail etc. I´ll try to create a final body mesh and head sculpt by the end of the weekend.

Maybe it wasn't such a great idea to create a female for the competition, since its the first female i create. I noticed i struggled with the anatomy, since i wanted an athletic woman but it turned out too manly all the time. This is a result i'm pleased with, although feedback would be very much appreciated.

I also did the low poly, bakes, textures and shader set/up of the head already in Marmoset 3.
The reason I went this far with the head is simply because its my first time doing this workflow, so I wanted to know if I would be able to tackle this. For now i am happy with the skin but not with the eyes and eyelashes yet. I am thinking about starting new eyes, since i tried it the "real" way, but only after i finished the eye i discovered there is no refraction in marmoset. So i will go for the paralax map eyes.

Again, feedback please please please. I will start clothing now, and this will go fast since this is what i am comfortable with.

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Thanks for the kind words guys! Im pleased to hear you like it so far.
@rebornrock the face has been baked down already, but this is just a test, since i wanted to set up my marmoset skin etc. already. I will still have to tweak quite some stuff in the high. The texture are also a very early wip.