Vinsanity -- Gender Bender -- Princess of Persia

[D-Chap]

Looks good Mr Vinsanity. She looks much better against a proper background.

Hopefully you get a chance to go in and do some more animations with her.

[Raul]

This is my fav entry!!! Awesome job dude!

[strict9]

just personal taiste, so please ingnore if it annoys you:
instead of having those hard cartoon shadows...would it be possible to paint some on like under her cheeks.....i know light can come from different angles but....i feel it the shading is bringing down your excellent hand painted stuff...also the hard black outlines around the silout really stick out the low poly parts
If you don't mind would you run a test and try a different version (not if your running out of time, maybe after the comp, i find playing with those settings is a big learning curve as well) sometimes i play with it just for fun and onces and a while i go woot...that looks better.
been keeping my eye on this model..hehehe if been learning with you long the way.
cheers for that

[VinsanityV20]

Well I've already submitted my finals, so I don't have anything final here to show Instead, I've got some stuff I ended up not using for my Winning pose:

No Toon shade:

I didn't go with this because I ended up putting a lot of post into my Winning pose entry. In the end what looked better against all the photoshop blend modes and filters was the Ink N Paint version of Princess Ashra. However, the Toon Shade version doesn't take lights at all, or spec maps/alpha maps - so lighting it was pointless. I wanted to see what the lights looked like, so I put on the normal diffuse here. It's actually still pretty good in normal mode, though her face definitely looks better in Ink N Paint...

Alt Winning Pose Sheet:

This alternate winning pose is the same resolution as all the others, and doesn't have a blend mode on it so it can...uh, blend with the dry ancient paper background. The main reason I decided not to use this is because it's so wide - the blend mode doesn't look good taking up the whole piece of paper that is the background, and the normal blend mode here has nice colors, but it's too wide. The winning pose is supposed to recall the cover to Warrior Within, which is narrowly aligned. The wide angle here doesn't cut it.

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SR_6274: Thanks for all the kind words man! I've seen your Snake Eyes and I can say that it's pretty rocking too. Glad I changed your mind a bit about the Ink N Paint - it sure was a fun thing to experiment with for this comp, and I really like how Ashra came out here

D-Chap:...wuh!?! Holy crap, Mr. Chapman actually shows up on 3DTotal!?! This is like, biblical or something - Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Thanks man. Don't spend too much time around here though, I know you're busy putting together some badass DS games over there!

Neto: Damn man, thanks a lot! Hope you like my final presentation stuff!

strict9: Well it definitely doesn't annoy me man, but yea, I didn't really have time to experiment with anything these last few days. I will say that i'm not happy with how subtle the face painted shadows came out - I've seen some excellent face textures, and mine is definitely not excellent. It looks fine for me personally here though because she's toon shaded. But yea, I'm not 100% happy with everything here - I don't think I've ever been with anything I've done; I'm still learning stuff, after all - but I am happy with how things turned out for this comp. I'll definitely keep that stuff in mind later though - I plan on re-rigging this model for animation purposes later on, so maybe I'll go in and tweak some texture stuff too. Never know

[chris_solo]

Hey Vinsanity!, you provided a great job! I see that your art is beginning to take shape!
good work man!!!!!!!!