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Support By Alexis Rives - Silhouette Feedback / Texturing Prep / Lookdev

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Changed Silhouette to better match the Reference image, This was after some very helpful drawovers that helped point out some of the issues. Mainly changed the Silhouette of the Cloak. Bringing the volumetric a little more  on top of the character which helps integrate it into the Image also added in a ground texture UVED

Support by Alexis Rives - Third Week Of 2021

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Progress is steadily being made Though I fallen a bit behind my schedule for when I wanted to get my retopology going This Is because I started working on the Environment that the character will be standing in   Optimization Below is the ground plane which is fit for purpose, However it can be optimized currently sitting at 1 millions polys which is unnecessary considering I want the high detail close to the camera and not at the edges, My plan was to to use Zremesher in Zbrush masking out the area I want to keep and then having the rest of the model be remeshed. Unfortunately it turns out Zremeshing has to remesh the entire subtool, Next I tried dynamesh again masking out the area I wanted to keep and again I was thwarted by dynamesh inability to use masks. After mentioning what is was I was attempting to do my tutor reminded me of sculptris pro and its levels of details which ended up being perfect for what I wanted to do.   In my defence I was trying to do something I had d...

Support by Alexis Rives - First week back on the Project

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First week back  As per my project plan the little girl was supposed to be modelled over the Christmas break, and since she wasn't cut from the project (Doesn't mean I work revist modelling her after the School project is complete) Zbrush Screenshot after the first week back I tried using the new Cloth brushes in Zbrush to help create folds in my characters clothing, I liked using the crumple brush the most especially for bandages for the feet  I made a decision to have the bag be a drawstring bag as its hard to tell what the bag is supposed to contain as he is a doctor of sorts, I imagine he might need quick access to things like bandages so a draw string bag would work quite well for this purpose. Some Issues that will need to be resolved After smoothing and trialing various brushes on the Fabric has left its edges quite wobbly and I will at fixing the issue through retopology and then Sculpting in my high frequency details into that This single faced strap shrunk when I put...