@crazymoon Thanks! That's the idea, I can't wait to get to the texturing phase to add even more glitter and glamour
@art1ficer Thanks! My hope is to add gradients to them as well, that will be around in the texturing phase
@RogerP @maxloegler Thank you both!

I've been given some great critiques from other places on how to modify it further, here is a short list:

  • Modify the shorts a little bit, they become a larger color block from a distance
  • Add some asymmetry to the hanging cloth designs, particularly the ones coming from her back, give them slightly different designs.
  • Thinking about filling the holes I created with a semi-tranparent cloth, create kind of a butterfly wing effect
  • Adjust some of the metal shapes on the shoulders

17 days later

Just saw this over on polycount, nice work so far dude! I too have a lot of jewelry type stuff going on, excited to see your final renders!

@aveon Thanks! I hope I can get this finished in time.

So I pretty much have to call the sculpt done, I couldn't quite implement all the changes due to time, but I am overall happy with the design.

Quite happy with the hair:

Also here is the final full-body, a lot of the changes are minor in comparison to the previous render.

I also worked on a stage a little bit, I don't know if I'm going to have time to achieve the ideas I have for it or if I'll have the time to use it at all. We shall see!

Currently working on retopo, my hope is to have the final presentation in marmoset viewer.

long time i didn't come in here but the weekly milestones seem to work pretty well ! super work so far ! Incredible hair !

@briandolan89 Thanks!
@grigouips Thanks! Doing my best to stay on track! Hopefully I should be able to finish!

Low poly is finished, although it's not exactly low running at about 260K triangles. However since there is no limit, I'm not sweating it too much.

I also did a quick marmoset test for the hair!

UVs and bakes are next should have them done by the end of the week, I'm hoping to take the textures into substance. After that Rigging, skinning, posing and various neat effects to amp up the presentation more. Final stretch!

Fantastic work, can't wait to see it done!

Looking good Alex, especially the hair. Look forward to seeing your final!

@piotr47 Thanks!
@loraine_howard_iii Thanks Raine!

Just a small update I have finished the retopo and bakes over the weekend. Marmoset Is completely awesome for baking! I'm currently running though textures on Substance Painter and will post an image once I have a more substantial update. This is due to time, gotta run the gauntlet and finish up!

ah! she's got some goup on her face! But really the purple stuff leaking from her eyes and mouth is kinda freaky, maybe lower the normal map intensity for it? Nice color scheme by the way!

looking good, my only feedback right now is to add something to break up the reflections on the gold. Its currently really new and shinny looking, I would add some wear and tear

@aveon I'm hoping to get it too look like a crystalline iridescent liquid, having a bit of trouble getting it to look right. I will definitely mess with it more. She isn't an "Opal Eater" for nothing you know :wink:

@itseffindan Pretty confident I can get it done!

@JoseFuentes Agreed! I have some but it's not showing as well as I would like, I will mess with it more

Ahhh got it, curious to see how you tackle it then!

I have model posed and messed around with some effects. I have adjusted some proportions and adjusted some textures based on feedback, but there are still more texture tweaks I want to do. I also plan to give her something to stand on and catch shadows, the marmoset shadow catcher only works so well with a dark background. My plan is to finish this up tomorrow, so if there are any feedback, I will be more than happy to hear it!


Final Entry! Thank you so much everyone who has given me feedback along the way!

Since my Marmoset viewer file wound up being too big for the contest (25mb) I have it uploaded to Artstation which you can check out here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/13eOe

Final


Detail

Concept

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