Ayvie-3D

Manged to start a bit on the clothes...  I”m actually not sure how to go about this project to be honest; I want to keep ti low poly and with a hand painted style but I feel like modeling everything out in zbrush first is going to make a much smoother modeling process

Hype AF to finish this project! Spent the night baking normal maps and cleaning it up. Looking really good!  Initially I was really worried that the negative space would look really bizarre with the normal map and it wouldn’t look really odd, but it actually enhances the design more than I thought. I really wanted these designs to pop outand they definitely do since they’re actually modeled out and not just a texture slapped onto the coat.

Take 2 on the UVs. Split up some of the shells and packed them really tight. There's even some extra space at the top for some parts I still have to add and also in case I need extra space for any mishaps.  I still feel like there’s a lot of negative space I’m not using but overall this is way better than yesterday’s lazy attempt. I really wanna keep the hat coat to one single texture space since they go together as an ensemble piece and aren’t two different accessories slapped onto a character

Finished most of the UVs. I probably need to do 1-2 more passes on optimizing bbut I at least got the shells done.  I’ve been playing a lot of Granado Espada and it’s been giving my ideas on the texturing of this coat. Other than the large topology meshes I’m also gonna be doing some layered ornate stuff as well

FINALLY retopo’d the decal meshes. It took a really long time but I managed to get them done.  I’m not really sure if I ever wanna make a character with decals that are actually geometry again lol. This took way too long to do. I know the results will be worth it but’s just soooooo tedious.

(via Chibi Monk Girl - 3D model by Ayvie 3D (@ayvie3D))

Finally finished this small little project. I don't intend on making it game ready. It was just a little something to stay in practice with zbrush.

Finished the modeling for this small model. Just gonna pose her later and call it done. I wanted to just do a simple zbrush project in between contract work but it took longer than expected due to other deadlines.

I started a small project a few days ago to familiarize myself with Zbrush again. I love having work from my contractors but it leaves me little time to want to do some personal 3D work. The Captain project is taking really long. I really need to clear my head with another project.

Finished all the coat designs. I’m really not looking forward to doing the retopo process but I gotta do it x.x; I think I can get away with having a flat mesh for the coat, but I think for next gen it’d look a lot betrter of all those designs were actually geometry.

I’m finally getting to the ornamental details. It’s definitely adding a lot more “pop” to her somewhat simple design.  I’m hoping that I can stay consistent with the designs, as halfway through I wanted to change it up. I’ll have to see what it looks like with everything added.

A little closer to finished. Her coat has a ton of detail on it. I’m gonna have to do that soon. Hopefully My hard surface skills will carry me!

Just some progress on an old project that I should probably finish up. After playing a lot of Dark Souls 3, I remembered From Software’s other game, BloodBorne, and how there was a lot of that long coat + tricorn hat aesthetic that I was going for on this project.  I spent about an hour roughly modeling the hat. I should have some of the more fine details soon.

Quick 30 min study.  I don't quite trust my zbrush skills (I'm much better at the technical game stuff), so I'm pretty happy with myself for hitting the key facial landmarks. So, one of the things that I like making in 3D is pretty women, and I think it’s kinda janky if I don’t know how to make attractive faces.  I have a bad habit of skipping fine tuned details once I get to the key landmarks. I’m gonna try to spend a bit more time to get those small little intricacies right.

Spent the day fine tuning Jubei. Mostly texture and rendering fixes. I think she's done now! There’s some small tweaks here and there regarding rigging that I could’ve made but they don’t affect the overall finished piece. I’ve learned a lot during this project and refined a lot of my strengths. Going forward I think I really need to work on faces a bit more, fine tune my rendering, and work on my roughness maps. I have this problem of having a shine on everything and it all looks like plastic. I’ve managed to successfully fix it after a few hours, but I wish I didn’t need to do that in the first place.  Anyway, I hope you enjoy the model! Full 3D can be seen here: https://skfb.ly/6zGLC  More shots: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/We8v2