ART WAR | 3D | Vairocana | Ashfall_Art

AshfallArt 2016-12-20 04:44:23 UTC #1

Hey, everyone! I will be working on Vairocana one of my D&D player's character. She is a sun elf monk. I will be trying to post things daily but life can get in the way. I look forward to this contest and the amazing things I will be seeing

For this piece, I will be using this beautiful piece by Dmitry Khrapovitsky https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qbWAa as a reference for Vairocana's cloths. I am not planning on following exactly but the look and feel of it is amazing. The body I will be using a free program called Make Human to build me a quick base, where I will remove the Make Human's head and replace it with the one I am making.

I am hoping to post some screen shots tomorrow but we will see.

AshfallArt 2016-12-21 02:15:43 UTC #4

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Hey everyone, I made a lot of progress today working on the head sculpt. Since I already had a strong idea of what kind of look I was going for this part was relatively easy, I thoroughly like working on faces and have spent a lot of time working on faces. Once I had made a base Dynamesh I then took that into 3D Coat to do some manual retopo.

The reason I did manual retopo vs zremesher at this early stage to so I had to topology to get a stronger, more controlled topology for sculpting. When I do this eyes and lips are generally easier to work with on the detailing.

The next step is to work out a quick bake and texture in substance painter. I may post another update tonight but I don't think I will until tomorrow.

Hope everyone else is having fun. After I post this I am going to see what everyone else is working on.

Cybuster89 2016-12-21 02:20:52 UTC #5

As awesome as that concept is, I don't think you can use it since it's against the rules to use anything that wasn't specifically made for this contest.

AshfallArt 2016-12-23 01:33:47 UTC #7

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Hey everyone another quick update. in this update, I am showing the really really quick texture pass so when I start doing the high-frequency detail I have a simple skin texture that will reflect (only in color) what the final product should look like. Once I am satisfied with the head I will be moving onto the body where I am going to be using MakeHuman to give me a quick head start figuring out the proportions. From there I plan on decimating the character and throwing it into Marvelous Designer where I will be concepting the clothes. I am excited for this 3 day weekend. Until the next update Merry Christmas.

AshfallArt 2016-12-28 04:58:43 UTC #8

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Hey everyone hope you all had a good Christmas holiday. I, on the other hand, lost some of the work I did during last week but I think it came out for the best, I had to re-sculpt some of the face features which I think helped me bring out a better-looking character but only time will tell. The other thing I lost was the part attaching the retopo head onto the Make Human body but after some helpful quicksaves I was able to make it to that part really quickly. Once the body and head were one mesh I began the high rez sculpting the piece mainly focusing on anatomical landmarks and some muscles. I then did a quick extract for some basic clothing while I prep the mesh for MD. I also made some dreads because that is what the player wants, I think it'll look cool once everything is said and done.

AshfallArt 2017-01-02 18:01:30 UTC #9

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I have been fine tuning the body and face working on some subtle detail not the hyper details but just some breaking symmetry details. I am hopefully going to get this character into MD this week and get started on the outfit hope you all enjoy.