Leveling up

Hello! today is the last day of term and I couldn't be happier! I finished my dichotomy character project in time and it turned out quite well!

I feel like I am progressing on my 3D a lot faster than I did last year and so far I've been enjoying every project.

okay, let's go back to my dichotomous character:

Texturing was long but enjoyable at the same time. For this project I went back to use diffuse and specular maps instead of PBR. The reason for that is that I wanted to keep my character in 3DSmax since I don't know how to rig and animate in unreal and time was limited for this project.

Halfway through texturing I realised that I had an error in my UVs. The ear mesh was overlapping with the head one which meant that when I textured it, there was a  patch on the side of the head where there was no hair...At this point I didn't have enough time to go back and change my unwrapp, therefore I had to tweak the UVs once the texture was applied to the model. It looks okay now but the UVs seem a bit streched on that particular zone.

These are some of my final renders in 3Ds max. In the end I didn't have time to create an animation which would've been awesome...

I decided to put my mesh into marmoset just for fun and surprisingly it looked good!

I am very pleased with this project. It's so much better than my gladiator one! I feel that every project I do is better than the last one. Hopefully the tutors will like it as well!


With this project coming to a close, my Christmas holiday has officially begun! Time to wrap myself with thick layers of clothing and hibernate (and do some personal work from time to time).

See you soon!

Carla.