Derby Demon Breakdown

Project Parameters

Derby Demon was a 4 day personal project that i started as a way to brush up on character skills as well as to help further learn lighting and composition.

Polycount: 41,532

Project Parameters

Derby Demon is a personal project that i started as a way to brush up on character skills as well as to help further learn lighting and composition.

Polycount: 41,532

Time: 3 days

Marmoset

Beautyshots

Character Breakdown

Diffuse

Smoothing

Wires

HiPoly

Concept

This is the original concept I sketched up before starting anything 3D. I wanted to get the general vibe, character design, and posing down before jumping in. Clearly, a few things changed during sculpting, such as the skates and the wall. Other things were excluded, such as her tattoo. This was mostly due to how I laid out her UVs, which had her arm islands stacked on top of each other.

Post-Mortem

What Went Well:

Hipoly & Retopology pipeline
Texture bakes
Research & Development on character texturing
Lighting in Marmoset

What Went WRONG:

Lack of resources (substance, marvelous)
Made the mistake of attaching eyes to head while skinning
Lack of solid foundations in skin texturing
lack of knowledge for hair in XGen
Rigging. Some of her bones, especially in the fingers, are too long or don't match up evenly. This made skinning wonky.

For next time:

Spend more time on texturing
Improved topology for deformation with rig/skin
Improved hair
Keep eyes separate!!!
SEAMS! Hopefully next time they will be hidden much better