SR_6274 - Gender Bender - Snake Eyes

[SR_6274]

Well, I'm gonna see if I can find time to do this one. Unfortunately I had a family emergency and wasn't able to complete the last one, although I might at a later date. Still a lot going on, but I'm at least gonna give this a shot to see if I can finish.

I'm planning on doing Snake Eyes from GI Joe. I have always loved GI Joe, and still have a lot of my original toys. Snake Eyes has always been one of my favorite characters, so I'll see what I can come up with.

Here are some of the references I will be using, and hopefully will have a concept sheet up soon.

[SR_6274]

Ok, here is the rough concept I will be going for. Any comments or critiques are more than welcome.

This is not my original art, just a reference pic I found and altered for my concept.

Breasts are going to be bigger to resemble a female better, but couldn't draw them in the way I wanted. (I suck at drawing by the way lol)

[guhhh]

i think the concept is toooooo male yet!!! get some refs in internet them draw over the picture....better way!

[Warlock 279]

Aye, guhhh is right. Find a couple pictures of female characters and do a paint over on that if that's how you're comfortable going about doing your ref. That's a very very masculine image you have now.

I scribbled over your ref a little as well, hopefully it'll give you some things to keep in mind once you get around to modeling. Narrower shoulders, narrower waist, more/smoother curves all over, smaller hands/feet, and in general just a slightly more slender build. Still a fairly muscled figure, but it'll read as female.

[dhin]

Full skintight padded leather always wins out over short-shorts and a belly shirt in my books.

If you are worried about drawing skills then just reference the baroness... (umm total badassed hotty there!) Put Snake-eyes helmet and visor and weapons on her body and you should almost have it.

[Edragon]

Awesome choice was thinking of doing Snake Eyes for my first Low Poly comp but I guess I need to rethink a gender bender. Can't wait to see how she comes out

[SR_6274]

Thanks guys. I know my concept still looks masculine atm, but I was mostly doing it to see what the outfit would look like. My drawing skills are pretty bad, but if I'm gonna really start to try doing character modeling, I need to at least practice more drawing.

When I start to model her, the proportions will definately be more feminine. Was going to use those female fitness champions as reference for the body. Strong, but without the muscles bulging out all over the place.

I am going to attempt to "draw" some better references, so hopefully have them up soon.

[SR_6274]

Ok, new concept. I know my drawing sucks, so don't laugh too hard lol. Tomorrow I will try to draw up a few more clothing options to see which one looks best.

What do you guys think?

[chris_solo]

me, I like it, I can see her in 3D.

[Agent-X]

Cool! Snake Eyes. This should be good too.

[SR_6274]

Been a while since I updated, so figured I should do so now lol. I'm still working on this, and came up with a few outfit concepts and a start of a base mesh. Let me know which outfit you guys like the most.

I kinda like the original outfit I drew up, but I know it probablly isn't the most stealthy for a ninja character. It is however the most revealing lol.

[H2olt]

I like the bottom right one. belly shirt seems a little sill for a ninja, but nothing wrong with showing a little leg. Maybe put fishnets on her in the texture phase..

[mel_danes]

The fully clothed version being the most direct translation is the best one.

If you want to do a revealing outfit but keep the fully clothed look try incorporating som elements from the game Nightshade.

[guhhh]

muchh betterr!!! go onn

[SR_6274]

guhhh : Thanks man, I appreciate it.

mel_danes : Nice idea. I will try to draw up some more options with that kind of revealing mesh.

Ok, here is the basic body base mesh. Right now I'm sitting at 2506 tris, so still quite a bit left for accessories, which will be a lot for this char I believe. Let me know if you guys see any glaring mistakes with the body and proportions.

I will start modeling the accessories now to see where I fall within the tri limit, then it's off to z-brush