[ENDED] BC2-1803 – March 2018 Class Homepage – Creating Stylized Characters with Blender
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I spend the last few days preparing my character for texturing, plus I rigged her because I have a lot of free time haha! (If I sound pleased about this, it’s only because my programmers made this my default tone of writing! I’m actually quite depressed!)
I made a quick coloring with materials, as placeholders, and I was wondering what do you guys and gals think? Should I go with these colors? Maybe someone with knowledge in color theory can give me some advice:
The render and the material view of her face look so different >_>
I plan to do the textures in Substance Painter, at least the clothes. Not so sure about how to deal with the skin, maybe I can make a simple subsurface material in Substance… I need to learn how to make my own materials urgently!
Homework Submission – Week 4
All right, I think I’m satisfied with where I’ve got things.
I went with the non-shader style of texturing because it suits the character, which is based on a 2D cartoon-style concept to begin with. I understand now what everyone says about how Blender’s painting functionality could be better. Not so much with the paint tools themselves – I suppose they’re fine enough – but file-handling, referencing, linking, all of that is somewhat convoluted and unforgiving, and I imagine it could be done better.
After texturing the character, I modeled his typical equipment and textured it as well. And this is where I ran into a problem. Indy’s jacket is supposed to drape over the items around his waist, but I failed to account for that when I sculpted and retopologized the jacket. Because of the shrinkwrap modifier I couldn’t edit either object without severely distorting the shrinkwrapped mesh. It took a little while, but the way I worked it out was by blocking in a very simple mesh to surround the jacket, and then used it like a lattice, giving the original sculpt and retopo’d jacket a mesh-deform modifier and binding both of them to it. In that way I was able to edit both objects at the same time by editing the lattice. I’m glad I learned this utility, but it might have ultimately had little point, since at the very end of everything I ended up applying all the modifiers, decimating the mesh, and deleting all the sculpts anyway.
And before I forget, my ax texture, one of the very first exercises I did at CGC. I had looked at all of the other axes people had been submitting and decided to go with an old, very rusty and neglected blade because I hadn’t seen anyone else take that approach. Sad to say I was rather unambitious with the handle though, but I did try to make it look like old wood:
Homework Submission Week 1
Yes, week 1, I know I’m a bit late. However, I just got my hands on a graphic tablet and I had to test it out, so I thought I might just do the first assignment. Sculpting with a tablet is so much more fun than with a mouse and if anyone is thinking about getting one, I highly recommend it.
I decided to go with Sylvester Stallone. Now when I look at it he seems to have a baby face a bit, but I hope it resembles him enough.
Homework submission: Week 4
One hour before midnight but I managed to finish the professor by the end of the month. 🙂 I fixed a bunch of things, most notably his eyes and eyebrows, and the coat pockets. I lost some detail in the retopoed head, so I baked a normal map to reclaim them. And I finally got to sewing buttons on his lab coat. No more duct tape solutions, yay!
And here is the axe I painted I while ago:
Well, we are mostly cleaned and unpacked now. I had planned to focus on one of my other characters but, I’m going to go with this one, since I already have a good blockout-base done, I should be able to get a decent sculpt, and figure out some texturing stuffs this week, thanks to the extension that is. Here’s a snap from a character-storming session. His name is Moorkata. He’s a sidekick of the character I wanted to do but meh, life.
Just for kicks. I plan to sculpt him next after I figure out what I am doing with textures and stuffs with Moorkata.
Homework Assignment Week 4:
Well it looked pretty good in ZBrush, but to get the resolution I needed for decent vertex painting, I had to subd x 8. This warped the geometry even with creases so when I backed it down to the base subd for export, the textures were crooked. 🙁 Thus I’ve included a screencap from Blender using a decimated version, and then an even more decimated version at Sketchfab. I’ll have to figure out some other method when painting my main figure, maybe just leave in ZBrush.
Also tried painting in 3D Coat which was pretty fun but was running into too many little issues and was pressed for time. Thanks for viewing!
Demon Ax by lhumungus on Sketchfab
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