Assassin Afro (Stylize Character Wip)

ivanvideo2 2018-09-26 19:30:00 UTC #1

This is my last character i´ve been working for the Dylan Ekren class, its not over yet, i need to do some fixes an a render but i want to show my progress.

I wanna thank the amazing artist Hong SoonSang (https://www.artstation.com/soonsanghong54) for giving me the oportunity to create a 3D version of his amazing concept.

I really enjoy the curse, Dylan was an amazing teacher and the classes were full of pretty usefull information.

Dylan Ekren: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/OQ3Be
Original Concept: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xQk8m

Latest Render Test

Week 2: Blocking of the character.

Week 3: Sculpting the body.

Week 4: Sculpting the head and face

Week 5: Hand and feet.

Week 6: Hair, clothing and accessories.

Week 7: Posing.

Week 8: Paint and details

Topology

Shia 2018-09-26 19:40:08 UTC #2

I love her face and expression but get the feeling it just doesn't fit with her assassin class. She looks too nice to be a murderer. Or she's a very diabolical assassin?

ivanvideo2 2018-09-26 19:50:46 UTC #3

XD i copy the original name from the original concept https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xQk8m i feel she could be like "Afro Samurai", but yes, she looks too cute to kill people

cedricgo 2018-09-26 23:26:12 UTC #5

Pretty nice work! I think you definitely did justice to the original design, no matter whether she's an assassin or a samurai

malcom 2018-09-27 04:46:49 UTC #6

Really awesome work here. I don;t see people pull off characters with afros really well so this is awesome to see. Nice clean topo. Solid work.

NomadPhotoReference 2018-09-27 09:07:17 UTC #7

Making hair is tough, making afro hair might be even tougher. The problem here is that you treat them like non-afro hair, too smooth.
I don't know if you want to stick to sculting the hair but if you want to try to use alphas maybe this tuto will help you
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/a2wPL

ivanvideo2 2018-09-27 16:02:55 UTC #8

thank you so much!

ivanvideo2 2018-09-27 16:10:05 UTC #9

Yeah i tried to do many variations

The focus on the course was to make a proxi stylize hair ( just geo, not xgen or curves), the conclusion from dylan was that i could do a relax version from a curly hair, with not so many details similar to the aproach of the concept. But ill try the tutorial too, thank you!!

ivanvideo2 2018-10-07 03:46:52 UTC #10

Here is a test render, i might do some adjustments.

NomadPhotoReference 2018-10-07 10:19:17 UTC #11

The hair look good with the final lighting

If I may give you one last advice, this one about character presentation to boost even further the "wohw effect".

Add a subtle ground so your character has a stronger presence into your scene (unless it flies). Some character artists just add shadows, simple and efficient, like the Elf artwork from Vahid Ahmadi for instance.

And if you have time, you can even add a few details about the surrounding environment (very subtle) for more story telling and context, like the artwork "Wild West Challenge - Native American" from Nikita Svechnikov.

ivanvideo2 2018-10-07 19:50:54 UTC #12

omg i never though about that! thats a good advice leeeeeeeeeeeetme do that!

cedricgo 2018-10-08 00:09:01 UTC #13

That render test looks really, really good! I also find that adding a groundplane would be a neat idea. Great job!

ivanvideo2 2018-10-24 16:19:13 UTC #14

Its been a while, i started other proyects but i really want to finish her with a good looking render, i fix some posing issues with the leg, i gonna do other pass to the hari and i want to add a small environment for the story telling, also restart again the process of render, because i really want to create mood, here is a little preview of what i´ve done.