Tag: character design

Goal: Asian Human Character for Medieval/Dark Ages-based game.

Tools Used: Zbrush 4R5

Character Traits: Emaciated. Starved. Skinny. Unhealthy.

Decided it was time to move on to the Asian-based character. Zbrush is so powerful to be able to take the same model and just use the move tool. This is from the same Nordic/Germanic sculpt. About 2 hours of work to get it to this point. 

Feedback received from indie studio Dragon Slumber says that the neck is a bit thin. If the character is emaciated the skull would remain the same size, but the neck muscles would atrophied leaving nothing but skin and bone. Needless to say I would go ahead and thicken the neck up which they said looks better. Don’t know… may change later.  

Goal: African Human Character for Medieval/Dark Ages-based game.

Tools Used: Zbrush 4R5

Character Traits: Emaciated. Starved. Skinny. Unhealthy.

Decided to move on to the African based character.

This character is an amalgamation of several different references of African male images from google and 3d.sk. 

Mostly just used the move, clay buildup and dam standard brushes. 

Still needs a lot of work. 

Goal: Nordic/Germanic Human Character for Medieval/Dark Ages-based game.

Tools Used: Zbrush 4R5

Character Traits: Emaciated. Starved. Skinny. Unhealthy.

Got some more work done on the entire body. Even with detailed references, I’m still struggling with getting the knees correct. Guess this is what i deserve for abandoning my anatomy studies. I’m also struggling with the balance of proportions and what I have for healthy references and unhealthy references.  

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Goal: Nordic/Germanic Human Character for Medieval/Dark Ages-based game.

Tools Used: Zbrush 4R5

Character Traits: Emaciated. Starved. Skinny. Unhealthy.

More reworking the shapes and messing around with spotlight in Zbrush. I’m pretty happy with how this is turning out, but you know how it goes being an artist. Gotta keep pushing it to the point where it goes too far and then just pull back enough to balance it just right. Ok. More work to do. 

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)