FINAL | ARTWAR 2 | 3D | Cavalier | briansmuin

archsider 2018-02-13 19:14:28 UTC #41

I see you rigged in Maya , any resource or tut for rigging in Maya properly ?
I do half assed rig in Blender which is workable , but not at all good quality.

briansmuin 2018-02-13 21:24:31 UTC #42

Sure! There is this (my opinion) EXCELLENT teacher on YouTube named James Taylor. This is the link to his rigging video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah-Jk7d30ks The only thing I had to adjust (other than weights) on mine was the orientation of the finger joints. Here's the link to the online documentation for that: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya/files/GUID-FE43EB66-30EB-4148-9324-34390A4A0D3E-htm.html Let me know if you want to set up a control rig over the top of your basic rig and I'll link you on that as well. I have to dig that up.

briansmuin 2018-02-13 21:26:04 UTC #43

I started to model his weapon. Not sure if he's going to "dual wield" yet, as was suggested to me. I save a UV'd version in low, unsmoothed resolution then export my hi-res one into ZBrush to add details for the normal map. As far as the main character model, I received some excellent feedback this last week, in regard to materials. Those are going to be overhauled by the end of this week.

archsider 2018-02-14 17:46:04 UTC #44

Nice, yes I have seen it b4 , I plan to use James Taylor's tut for Maya rigging in the future. But I didn't see any fk/ik stuff in there. But this will do for quick rigging and posing then.Thanks for the info

briansmuin 2018-02-15 04:39:19 UTC #45

You're welcome! Yep, I think he may have left out the IK stuff and I had to find another tutorial on setting that up. I have a lot of good notes. I can send them your way if you'd like.

briansmuin 2018-02-15 04:40:38 UTC #46

Finished the high-resolution sculping in ZBrush. I'm going to bake that and start on texturing this gun in Substance Painter tomorrow. That will give me a week and a half to really nail the materials and the renders.

briansmuin 2018-02-15 22:59:03 UTC #47

Textures on guns. Trying to follow the color scheme. Now to finally fix the materials on the main character...

archsider 2018-02-16 14:17:43 UTC #48

Sure if you have some rig tips send me some ,and the sculpt is nice , using zmodeler or clip brushes ?

briansmuin 2018-02-16 20:58:54 UTC #49

Send me your email and I'll give you everything I have. Thank you! I used ZModeler, the clip brushes and Boolean functions.

briansmuin 2018-02-16 20:59:44 UTC #50

I think I'm ready to work out the poses and renders for my final compositions. On the topic of dual wielding... Yes or No?

briansmuin 2018-02-17 02:21:20 UTC #51

Messing around with a bunch of stuff....

briansmuin 2018-02-19 12:54:39 UTC #53

I tried to keep his weapon at a moderately low-res polycount. I also changed up the materials a little bit. Too much red... and I wanted it to contrast the character.

briansmuin 2018-02-20 04:54:21 UTC #54

Got the final pose worked out and created the Marmoset viewer for it. Here's a preview snip. Now on to creating my final shot and finishing up.

briansmuin 2018-02-20 21:37:15 UTC #55

In order to stay compliant with the "3D Only" rule, I decided to try and physically model the muzzle flash. It really ruins my polycount if you don't take that into account but it was still fun nonetheless... especially painting the materials in Substance Painter.

briansmuin 2018-02-21 01:42:46 UTC #56

CavalierFinal.mview (17.2 MB)
CAVALIER
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Acolet 2018-02-21 13:29:03 UTC #57

Hi! Seems you final image got resized by the forum because the file size was too high. You need to make the file size smaller (around 2.3MB) in order to keep the dimensions you need.

briansmuin 2018-02-21 13:53:01 UTC #58

Oh okay. Thank you! ...resized.

briansmuin 2018-02-21 14:09:55 UTC #59

Looks like I still need to put up my concept sheet. That will arrive later today. It's a series of drawings that were primarily done with a ballpoint pen. I need to scan those in and comp them together.

briansmuin 2018-02-21 23:38:38 UTC #60

So this is my concept sheet. Being primarily a 3D artist, my rough sketches are mostly just for me to work out the basic ideas and rough shapes/functionality. I have a hard time sharing a lot of my concept work because it may not make a lot of sense to anyone else and some of it's even drawn on-the-fly. You never know when inspiration is going to hit, and I don't usually polish my table-napkin concepts.

archsider 2018-02-28 20:31:51 UTC #61

love the posing , where did you render it , the lighting looks a little static