Village Character

rose785
Mar 13, 2016
2 min read

Started on March 8th of 2016. Since the Village Stable is done. I have to create a character fit for the role of a stable running woman. So the character will be based in 70% on my own looks. Intriguing. Here's a 3D model of my face in 3D Max. I don't quite remember how high Triangle count the face can be because it isn't mentioned in the brief, only the summary of the whole character. But the face is the key most important feature in the character therefore I believe it has to be quite high.

This is the very First attempt in modeling my face, all before applying smoothing and before the whole face was finished. I have choose this screen shoot because it very well allows to imagine the symmetry and face proportion but also leaves some things to the imagination. I have then proceeded to some quick inspirational visual research of Fable characters, to get rough costume proposition for my character.

That Lead me to do a little bit of my own research on different medieval periods female outfits, that added a little bit of unique style to it, and also to back up my medieval look and secure it by these very images.

Which lead me to creating these unique character proposals with a twist of real medieval style and Fable fantasy look.

I have developed the proposal further adding some color and shadows.

I have looked up some fabric types to support my fabric texture.

and here is that tiny bit of fabric texture that I have used in the final outfit.

My favorite costume was the very last one... number 7 but I faced many complications with the model and decided to quickly change it to number 1 because it was easier and because I have never made any human model I wasn't confident enough to stick to more complex one. So therefore This was the design I decided to use

Oh I need to mention that I completely hate modeling hands...this models hands look terrible but I tried my best to make them fairly decent after the first attempt where they looked like gnarled roots. This Piece Was my final One And I haven't done any animation to it because I believe I stumbled upon a problem with my 3DS and it was crashing every time I played the animation, I Tried to place characters bones as close to the body as I could...bones allow for the character to move however mine had some problems. I ended up posting the whole model rigged but not animated because before I realized my 3Ds refuses to cooperate It was the day I had to hand in my piece. I will attempt to animate it However In my spare time. Oh and also to mention. My 3Ds does not display Alpha textures properly although I have done everything correctly so that they should work. Therefore the model won't display hair strands endings as see through.