Agent-X - Gender Bender - Julie (female Guile)

[Agent-X]

Here is my reference and concept sheet I put together.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/JulieConceptSheet001.jpg

[hulahuga]

This one could be cool.
Keep on going man!

[Agent-X]

Started Modeling. Work in progress. I am thinking of buttoning up the pants possibly and adding a utility belt. I will make the pants looser and look more like cargo pants. Right now the way I got em they look more like jeans. That will be fixed soon enough. Ill probably also tweak the hair more so it hangs more down, we will see. I will probably get rid of the tie loops on the bikini bottom too, too distracting. Anyways, I hope you guys like so far.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test010-2.jpg

[dark_maggot]

oh damn you and your quick progress screen....lol

Looking great man keep it up, cant wait to see the final result.

[VinsanityV20]

My God you move fast, Agent-X:O

Great choice man, and great concept/modeling so far. Just make sure you grab reference pics of Guile too man, so you can hone in on all the little touches he has. Stuff like those dog tags he wears, and the USA flag tattoo that's on his bicep - stuff like that. Without, say, the hair style to identify her immediately as female Guile, you're gonna have to nail other Guile-esque things about that character.

Still, you're moving so fast, I'm sure you'll have plenty of time to knock it out of the park!

[Agent-X]

:) Yes, I will add the US flag Tattoo, dog tags, and a utility belt. Right now I got all that as work in progress, I will share a shot of that come tomorrow.

[mel_danes]

Great progress so far Agent X. Still plugging away at Unreal 3 Skaarj, as well as this little beauty?
For great ref's look no further than the Zbrush masterpiece....Guile (http://www.gameartisans.org/gamecon/galleries/artwork.php?uid=273&aw=2597).
I think another way to really sell the character is to get her posed in the beginning of one of his signature moves, and move her through it in the beauty shots. Also a good background like from the levels he played on.
Altogether wonderful start.

[Agent-X]

Hehe, yup, I already got that reference, but I could use some help with like what patches and those award rank things he wears and stuff, so i can put that on shirt. I am not big on military stuff, so i don't know like what needs to be on the shirt exactly to be dead accurate. If you guys at 3d total could help me with that, that would be great. And yes for final poses you guys are going to see some Sonic Boom and Summersault kick action and hopeffuly some comb action for victory as well. And to top it off, you guys will get the Guile stage from 1991 Street Fighter 2. :) I currently got several accessories that I just did, I will share them with you guys later. I made some hand cuffs as well that I will have in the back of the Utility belt. Ill show you guys soon.

And yeah both me and EvilEngine have been working on some Skaarj. I will get back into that again as well. :)

[Agent-X]

Ok I think I need to share some of the reference I have so I can get feed back on what to do.
Here is the best freaking Guile I have ever seen.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Guile_A2.jpg
I can use this for the tatoo on the arm
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/usa_flag1.jpg
I was thinkingking I could use this for one of the patches on the shirt.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/us_flag_lg.jpg
Maybe I can use this too.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Air-Force-196.gif
Here is a shirt I found.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/2875.jpg
Another patch, but dont know what the heck it really means
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/26a0_1.jpg
UtilityBelt
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/black_web_belt_jpg.jpg
SonicBoom
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/street_fighter_4_video_game_image_g.jpg
SummersaultKick
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/guile.jpg
And ofcourse some og classic Guile Stage.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Street_Fighter_II_comparison.png

[H2olt]

It seems like for your design to represent guile It would help if you went with more of a female bodybuilder body type. It may not fit your idea of hot/sexy, but it seems more fitting with the source. Or you could at least go with a design as tough as chunli and cammy, so that the character looks like it could take part in street fighter.

[Agent-X]

Cool deal, I think I might take your advice and put in some more muscle, but no where near as large as what Guile is. But yeah, definitely more defined. If the 9k polygons cuts me short of accessories to get rid of, Ill probably get rid of the shirt, so I can keep the sex appeal with the camoflauge bikini top, either that or I might just do a tank top instead. We shall see, I know it's still early in the game and I got plenty of time.

[Agent-X]

More Reference pics to what I think and what you guys want. More muscle look.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Comp10-00-14-21.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/SF4-4.jpg
This might be a better look, let me know what ya think of this look.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/battlestar-galactica-starbuck-playe.jpg

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Rv_el did a great job making that model, you can see more of it here. (http://www.gameartisans.org/gamecon/galleries/artwork.php?uid=273&aw=2597)

as for your model, I would lean more towards Cammy as well. She has the muscle build you need. You may even want to go a bit larger in muscle to really push the fact that she reps Guile.

as for her clothing, you gotta do the tiny tank top, with nothing under it. You got to.

[Agent-X]

All right guys its on. Thanks for the input, making the changes now, this is going to be awsome!

[guhhh]

Great choice and refs !!!! following this thread!

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

I have a friend in the Army that said the patch with the 2 swords is the "10th Mountain Division" patch. It's an Army patch, so you might not want to use it for your Air Force character... if you're going for "authenticity"... ;)

[Darchand]

Looking good agent. The only thing that really bugs me is the pants not being buttoned. Sure it is sexy as hell but she is already pulling off the sexy just seems a little odd. I can just imagine how good this will look after you get in the belt and some of the accessories. Also I agree the latest female reference photo you picked would probably go better with the style of the character. Over all looks real slick.

[Agent-X]

Work in progress. Still Tweaking. Pushing and pulling items around so they fit and adjusting. Soon, Ill start doing the low res and then really see what I can have and can't have.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test024.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test027.jpg

[RHedendahl]

Looking great man, the triceps hanging a tad to much, but other than that really nice done.
Think you should skip the glasses has well. Can't wait to see more.

[Edragon]

WoW..............just wow :D

[chris_solo]

whoof!!! very good work! I like his head, idem that kirgan about the triceps.

[newhere]

I will be stalking this one, Good work.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

is there a reason why her cloths don't fit. Everything is poking out. My guess, it's just your style, the way you do things. Right, right.

[Agent-X]

The clothes and items are sticking out because I haven't resized them to the proportions of the body yet. I just wanted to make sure I nail the body first before I fit everything on the characters body. Ill get to the clothes and items soon enough. Thanks for all the comments and critiques and what not. I truly appreciate everything you guys have done for me.

[guhhh]

Looking great man, the triceps hanging a tad to much, but other than that really nice done.
Think you should skip the glasses has well. Can't wait to see more.


TRUE ! go onn.... is going great

[yoyomon]

Looking good Agent X

[Warlock 279]

Looking pretty good. I agree with them on the triceps issue, and I think its compounded by a bit of a bicep issue as well. I think the bicep should be a little wider where it goes under shoulder [the skinny bicep is making the triceps look like its hanging down much further than it is], and the triceps should be a little smoother/longer of a curve.

I think the calf could use a little more thickness as well, maybe not as thick as Chun-Li's but a hair more in that direction.

Those minor issues aside, I think your model is looking pretty solid so far. Keep it up.

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w303/Warlock279/Mini%20Tutorials/AgentX-GuileArmPO_01.jpg

[Agent-X]

Work in progress. Thinking of getting rid of the gun. I will stop here with the accessories and start on my low res. I am going to fix the arms next, work on the boots and add in the back pockets and then start the low res model. Then sculpt more in ZBrush.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test044.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test045.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test046.jpg

[Psycho Mantis]

the tights look to big and rectangualr. slim them down a bit or make the muscles displace the pants.. but i would slim her down a bit - she´s no soccer player.

and whats the "pelt" on her abs? they are disctracting to me ;)

other then that, great model and very sexy - awesome knockers...
and yeah - guile was always my favourite character too :D

[Agent-X]

Body builders are big. I will deffinitely add more wrinkles and looseness to the pants. Handcuffs and underwear? Or are you talking about the graininess in that area? If it is the graininess, it is from the area lights with hi number of samples in the shadows I am using along with final gather and global illumination. I hope that helps.

[Psycho Mantis]

yes, the grain ;) looked like a pube-carpet - and that was kinda freaky ;)

[Agent-X]

LMAO a pube carpet hunh? Hehe, thats so funny. In the end i will switch to a Directional light and an ambient light. I plan on doing an Out door scene. Ok I am going to post a couple more images of my character from different angles. And some more reference for my anatomy. Ok I figure with these angles you guys can really give me feed back and look at the reference photo and better give me advice.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test050.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test049.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test048.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test047.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/NPC_Team_USA_2007_Female_Bodybuilde.jpg

[kravo]

very nice so far. I`d be glad to have her as my personal trainer :smug:

[dhin]

Looks good. Something about the armpit area looks a bit off still but overall... WOW.

Keep it up I can wait to see this one textured and posed in classic Guile gloating.

[Edragon]

Sonic Boom!

[Vailias]

If I may make a suggestion: I think THE defining aspect to guile is his hair. Really, he's just another beefy marine otherwise, (yes I realize he's supposed to be "air force") but that near mohawk he sports practically defines him.

so.. suggestion on general hair and look/mood:
http://vailias.com/Misc/JaneGuileHair.jpg

(pardon the quick job on the hair)

[H2olt]

Agreed, I wouldn't try anything quite that crazy since it seems like you're going for a more realistic/natural look. But sans animations, guile is pretty much defined by his hair.

You should at least try out some things in this direction.

[Agent-X]

Work in progress.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/GuileStageTest014.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/GuileStageTest021.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/GuileStageTest020.jpg

[Psycho Mantis]

wow - this brings back memories..... impessive dude....

[Agent-X]

Thanks Psycho Mantis.

For everyone out there, I can use a hand with creating a shadow pass for my objects that have transparency maps, such as my chain link fence. I am rendering with Mental ray and using final gathering and global illumination. I am hoping someone out there is a maya user like and can help me by creating a short tutorial step by step how I might go about getting my chain link fence to cast shadows with a shadow render pass and if I need any other render passes to make this work. I know I can get the shadows if i don't use global illumination, but I do want global illumination. So I am hoping with a shadow pass I can comp the two together in photoshop to get what I want. If anyone could help me with that, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

Sincerely,
John Inman

[Edragon]

I just have three letters O M G! That is some sweet work you got there.

[SnappedStrings]

AgentX, I don't know how you can get the fence to cast shadows properly, however I know of a workaround.
Set the Chainlink fence to not cast shadows (this will get rid of the big black patch on the tarmac) and then create a texture to mimic what the fences shadow would look like in Photoshop and texture it on the ground. Now, obviously, this is useless if you need the shadows to be dynamic, but if you don't, then it should work just fine.

[Agent-X]

Thanks guys, I am going to try some other alternatives with the casting shadow of those transparency mapped objects. I am destined to figure it out. I know theres got to be ways. I just dont know of all of them yet. Ill try some rendering tricks and see what I can get. But yeah if anyone knows, please, please tell me. As I do want to push this to the limits that Maya can offer.

[Agent-X]

Ok, I can get shadow passes, but not with global illumination, so I am going to render these objects of mine that have transparency maps on them with out casting shadows with global illumination and final gather turned on then set them to not visible in the render stats but to cast shadows and turn off that damn global illumination so I can get my damn shadows I want, hehe. I am feeling develish right now. Its almost too easy.

[Quintonius]

Great job so far man, it's coming along well, how long did it take u to do the guile stage environment?

[Agent-X]

I figured it out Shadow Raw Pass it is, then invert it in photoshop and then set the sucker to mulitiply. OK, its on like Donkey Kong. I was working on that in my free time for about 5 days off and on. Now that I got that down, now to my character. I am looking foward to doing some SSS.

[Agent-X]

Yeah, I am just going to keep my life easy and turn off the global illumination and the caustics I had on and just keep the final gathering on. This way I get what I want and less crap for me to worry about. Heres how it looks with final gathering alone which I think it came out quite nice.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test2.jpg

[Crispy4004]

Congrats on getting the shadows to work. Now if only I could get that sort of thing to work correctly with Mia_material_X_passes.

[Agent-X]

Here's a little comb that's going to be waiting patiently for a little comb action in the end. Get ready because its coming!
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/CombTest001.jpg

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

Wow! That's the biggest render of a comb I've ever seen!

[Agent-X]

Hehe, I know hunh. LOL. Ill jump back on the character soon. I have been busy with a new small contract job I just got, so thats why I have been a little slow. Normally I can go very fast and hard. But yeah, I think that comb came out sweet. Nice little model.

[Agent-X]

I have decided I am going to add another character to the mix for my beauty shots for the win. So I am going to add Blanka to the mix. Here is some reference and where I am at on that.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/female-blanka.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/sf2-blanka.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/street_fighter_blanka.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test001-1.jpg

[Agent-X]

I deffinitely think I am going to have to make her look more animalish in some ways and open up her mouth to make her look freaking viscious as hell. Hehe. My plan is to use my female Guile body then use it and tweak the head to make Blankas. Thats the game plan. I will add in the nails and claws, hair on the chest and shackles and all that good ****. Must show the teeth. :D

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

/ME is officially completely jealous of you and your skills. :crazy:

[Agent-X]

Hehe, thanks. Much more to come in the end. I will also add electricity to blanka and launch sonic boom at that, then Ill have blanka do a cannon ball roll and Ill have Julie my female Guile Summersault Kick that. Winning pose I plan on having Julie combing her hair. I might add another one where I have Julie standing on blankas stomach with one foot and have a cigar in her mouth and flexing one bicep or some ****. We shall see what I come up with. Its all in good fun.

[Psycho Mantis]

nooo, why blanka? he was guiles friend. i always loved to beat the sh*t out of the four bosses.. so why not put her up against a female vega, or bison.... but not poor blanka- he suffered enough :D

bye the way - awesome boob sculpting. become a plastigc surgeon ;)

[Agent-X]

True, true, that is Charlie. I just picked blanka because it would be an easy one to do, hmmm, Ill take that into consideration, lets see what I come up with. I just might do a different character. Heheh.

[Agent-X]

Ok M. Bison it is. Ill do the Ultimate Good VS. Evil.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/bisonty8.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/sf4xbisoncopyfb7.png
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/bison_psycho_crusher.gif

[Psycho Mantis]

Yeah thats the stuff - looking forward to the bison-chick... i got a crush on mean looking women in uniforms. (with big boobs :D )

[DaddyDoom]

Looking hot X :D

[BiG ToE-3DT]

just make sure you finish your first character.

[Marty_McFly-3DT]

You shush your mouth BiG! By the time he's finished, I want to see the whole SFII cast redone! :D

[Agent-X]

LOL, ok easy now. Hehe. I am pretty busy at the moment with a contract thing I am doing, so thats going to take some time away from me, so yes one character at time and yeah my female Guile will come first. As that is yes, first and formost. The other character and all the other goodies I made, that is just icing on the cake. I got plenty of time still, so I am in no rush to finish em right away, I am going to take my time and do the job right. I have a life and personal problems to attend just like anyone else. Got to find ways to survive. 3d just happens to be the best skill I have at making money, so Ill make the most of what I got and know. As any family man working in this industry, its tough and hard. Jumping from one gig to the next and trying to support yourself and family can be tough. Ill get back to this when I can and finish. You guys take care and I want to see you guys kick butt too. Don't be shy, all of you got skill and plenty of community here to ask questions and help you out here at 3d total. This forum is very good. Lots of good people. Thanks 3dtotal. Keep up the good work everyone. :)

[Agent-X]

http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/phase3_winners.aspx
http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/App_Themes/MakeSomethingUnreal/images/Phase3/Skaarj1.jpg
Woo hoo! I and my partner EvilEngine won third place with our Skaarj entry for the make something unreal contest for best character. Split $1500.00 so thats $750.00 a piece. :D That will come in handy.

[ianchaos]

WOW!...congratulations! Excellent piece of work there.

Beautiful work on Guile so far as well...can't wait to see it finished.

[SR_6274]

Grats man. That piece came out awesome, as will this one when finished. Keep it up.

[G-khan]

It looks very cool... Very good job. By the way I chose the same subject as well.

[Agent-X]

Cool deal. Good luck with your entry G-Khan. I am unemployed for the most part again now. I at least got a teaching job one day a week teaching Maya to kids at Michael's Art School, so that's cool. I am still working in the realm of 3d so I don't care. More experience. Hehe. So that leaves plenty of time for me to kick arse in this competition.

[chris_solo]

Yep congrats man! really nice piece!

[VinsanityV20]

Holy Crap X! You work super, SUPER fast man! And it's looking great too - man, if I were easily intimidated, I'd quit in the face of competition such as this. However - lucky for me - I don't even ever think about winning around here:)

This seriously is looking great; all of it. The scene, the she-Guile, the other character stuff. Damn dude - sleep every once in awhile:D

[Agent-X]

Hehe, thanks VinsanityV20. Don't feel bad, I have never one any of the competitions here, but I honestly think this time around I got a chance possibly. There are many good entries. So, we shall see what happens. I have been busy working on the low res and down sizing some polies, so Hopefully soon I will post again once I can get everything into the low poly and under 10k.

[SR_6274]

Gonna have to do a little more than 10K tris, for this competition, the tri limit is 9K.

I can't wait to see the low poly, as the high poly looks awesome man.

[Agent-X]

Cool deal, thanks for the heads up. I am chopping the poly count down more on the hair right now.

[Agent-X]

Low Poly at 8,999 still tweaking.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test053.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test056.jpg

[chris_solo]

coOl!

[Tank[NL]]

that looks good man, really good. gl with unwrapping. the hair is prolly gonna be a bitch...

[adena22]

Really cool looking. Can't wait to see the textured version.

[gegrazion]

you cud really trim this model and give it some cleaner geom looks a little messy and theres alot of wasted polys. hope to see an update soon :)

[gegrazion]

just did a quick paintover, u got to realise that when u make a low poly game character when your distributing the polys theres 2 things u must bear in mind, is it helping the silouete or is it helping the deformation of the mesh? now things like the belly button should be left to the normal map to show of. i did this to show u how many polygons u can save and how much cleaner your mesh cud be. hope this helps :)

[Agent-X]

I did it the way I did, because skin has sub surface scattering and cloth doesn't. Unless I can tell the subsurface scattering shader to not scatter by possibly painting out a mask some how, but I have never done that or know if that will work. If it will work, then yes I can save some polies. If someone knows about that then please tell me. I don't plan on using a blinn in a layered shader for my entire model, just for the hair, clothing items and accessories. A blinn will not cut the realism for me in the skin, so I must use the miss fast skin shader. So yes, if there is a way to mask out the subsurface scattering so it will not scatter, please show me how and then I will cut the polys down more. If not then I am not going to do so. So here is an image of the shader I am going to use for the skin, I am just going to dial in the settings I need once I have the model uv mapped and textured.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/SSS.jpg

[Agent-X]

Hmmm, I think I found the answer, I apply a black and white texture into the scatter weight. So the clothes will be masked out black, and the skin area in the texture will be white. Hmmm. Yeah, I believe this is correct. Please do correct me or if you have a pointer for me using this shader regarding this issue and my character please tell me. Thanks.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I don't think he means cutting down your mesh to save pollies, I think he mainly means to cut down, to clean up the mesh. As it is now, the mesh flow is messy. Cleaning up the flow would be a good idea, before you unwrap.

[Agent-X]

Yes, I agree with that. And that I will, I am just trying to figure out more on this SSS, since I am still trying to master that shader. Lots of nodes in that bad boy. Hehe.

[hulahuga]

You'll ace this challenge X!

[southparx]

Hi X,

if you haven't already - try getting the Gnomonology's sss video by the great Alex Alvarez - it's for Maya but i got it anyway and it is veery informative, he almost went through the whole parameters and explain the effects given

[Agent-X]

Yup, got it, Alex Alvarez is great. Lots of good stuff by him. I also have Jason Walsh's tutorial on SSS, I have been researching it pretty good, its just in none of the tutorials I saw did they show where something doesn't get effected by scattering by using a texture map, so I didn't know which node to plug in that black and white texture, but yeah the scatter weight which is the one I think it is makes sense, no scatter weight should mean no scattering. I tried a test with a checker map and it appeared where it was white in the checker pattern it was having scattering there, but not where it was black.

[southparx]

hmm not sure how to get the effect you wanted by means of nodes since im using max and i think its much simpler implementation compared to maya and xsi's mental ray..

sorry wish i can be more of help

[Agent-X]

well basically where I have the tank top or any other clothes and accessories, I dont want that to scatter, So I could make a black and white texture map to tell it where to have scattering and where not to. So the only areas I would want SSS to show would be on the skin and the eyes. I might have to make a seperate sss shader for the eyes because of the size of the eyes is much smaller than the body. So the scatter radius is a much smaller value in the eyes. Ill probably watch those videos again to go over things. It wouldn't hurt. Lots of good info.

[Agent-X]

Now I am at 8,933 tris so the last thing I am going to add is the dog tags.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test059.jpg

[gegrazion]

much better, i stil think it could have alot more cleaning up but its in a good enuf phase to move on :) keep it up

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Agent-X, just make the clothing seperate objects.

[gegrazion]

BiG ToE-3DT: why would he make the clothes seperate that would just result in loads of wasted polys?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

nope, the count would be the same.

[gegrazion]

hmmmm wel im not sure how dat would work only thing i cud think was get his mesh and cut it into sectinos, pants, shirt etc but then there would be loads of problems becos wen the cam pans round you might see the sections where they dont join as one mesh.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

what you would need to do is have them overlap slightly. Then, even though the different parts of the mesh are seperate, it will still look as if it's a whole.

[platypus_green]

Looking really good. Can't wait to see thi model with normal mapping.

[Agent-X]

Here is my work in progress on the texture. I am still working on the textures, I am far from done, but its slowly coming along. I have been dealing with a lot of things in my personal life, so I am sorry for not showing sooner. Anyways, here is where I am at, I hope you guys like so far.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test063.jpg

[Tank[NL]]

holy crap dude, that looks awesome. very nice texturing. those tattoo's look a bit too saturated tho.

but damn, nice work man

[chris_solo]

nice progress so far Agent-X!!!!

[southparx]

she is HOTTT

agree that the tatoo looks saturated

usually blue inks -unless freshly tattooed - will change to a somewhat dark blue color and red color will fade to a more dark orange - this will give a more realistic feel to it

other than that, she is looking awesome

[dark_maggot]

Yes, yes she is southparx.

Great work so far, can't wait for the final version.

[Agent-X]

Thanks guys. Yeah, I just took the US flag and scaled it down to fit on her shoulders, I didnt think about changing the blue or red. I guess I can redo that. Yeah, Today is going to be a crazy texturing day for me, lots to do still. So Ill post again later tonight.

[hulahuga]

Great progress John!
The face and the eyes are killer. Sweatshirt looks really nice too. Good detail with the blackness from the sweat there ;). Gave it a realistic feeling.
The overall texturing looks good so far.

A couple of pointers though...
The stomach looks a bit to flat. And the "hipline" (where the bone ends) looks a bit "messy" (I think it's the diffuse that does that).
The triceps are actually hanging to much.
And lastly the pants ain't fitting realistically. Look at any real photo or person..
They are pushed to much outwards at the thighs. And they are to narrow below the knee.
You should also try making some sharp wrinkles at the cloth, to give that real feeling. This could be done with some normalmapping ;). Some tweaks to the material are needed too.
I also agree about the tattoos' color ;).


Just my two cents ;)

Rock on,
Hula

[newhere]

Looks better now in color. The tats need to be worked on more tho. Maybe make her look dirty a little and put little splats of blood on her gloves and feet from all the beat down she does to victims who mess with her.

[hulahuga]

Looks better now in color. The tats need to be worked on more tho. Maybe make her look dirty a little and put little splats of blood on her gloves and feet from all the beat down she does to victims who mess with her.

lol.
That blood thing would just make it gruesome. Would take away the sex-appeal a bit...

[lampshadehead]

Most likely she would only have a flag tatoo on one shoulder. if there was one on the other shoulder I'm guessing it would be something else like an airforce symbol of some sort

[Agent-X]

Small little update. I am working on the pants right now, I will then get back to the US Flag tattoos. In Street Fighter 4 Guile has the tattoo on both arms. So I am just going to leave it the way I have it and just darken the colors and try to make it look more real. Here is currently where I am at right now.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test065.jpg

[adena22]

wow, that looks amazing! Really cool work.

[hulahuga]

Great improvement. Now they look much more real.
The belt still needs a little work;).

The thing about the thigh thickness is still there, but it might be so that you can't change it now because of the UV mapping.?

[Agent-X]

Ok the only thing left I am going to add is some noise on the spec for the skin and thats it. I got to get to rigging and posing. I am pulling an all nighter for this one to finish.
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r125/extremecreations2001/Test071.jpg

[Fenixy]

good one,great job so far. My only crit is that boots can use more dirt on them.Good luck with rigging (i realy hate rigging >_< )

[BiG ToE-3DT]

is the tri count from your final entry post, your final tri count?

nevermind, I still have the original 8,000 tri count in my head. your fine.

[Agent-X]

:) Cool deal. I was deffinitely saying to myself whew, I barely made it in time. Lots of good entries. This was a good challenge and learning experience for all of us. I learned a lot. I am definitely one tired puppy. I havent slept since yesterday morning, so I am fefinitely a walking zombie right now. Time for me to sleep. All of you guys take care and have fun with the voting.