Character: Home Girl

[sketchyjay]

This is a girl I did for no particular reason beyond learning detailing.

Still want to replace the hair.

crits welcome

click image to see qt vr movie. 500k

http://www.byjason.com/media/tempest-003.jpg (http://www.byjason.com/media/tempest-003.mov)


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[cybernaut]

A very fun style. Nice work.

For the hair you could try something like a really long Lara Croft type pony tail. It would echo her long legs nicely. JUT :)

[drclare]

Great model. I kinda like the hair as is. And i like how she blinks when you rotate her in the VR movie. Nice job.

[Maimo]

I would love to see her celshaded.

[iluvatar]

very nice design, but as you are aiming to details, it should be nice for us if you uploaded some close-up shots... would love to see some. i like the way her shirt is done; you didn't use motion designer did you? will she be animated some day?

[sketchyjay]

Thanks,

no motion designer, yet.

I modeled it all by hand.

When I say detail I mean that I am trying to make her accurate as to what a woman would wear and carry. So up close you would realize there actually isn't any details as in hinges or holes in the belt kind of detail. I am talking about gross detail in what will look good in an animation were you wouldn't be focused on what she is wearing.

Here is the original model I started with
http://www.byjason.com/media/dominique-mk0.jpg
obviously a nude character with a hint of a collar the breasts joined into one shape to make it seem like she is clothed. So I decided to add some clothing to her;

Here is my fist clothed version,
http://www.byjason.com/media/dominique-mk1.jpg

since I am going for a 20ish woman in summer clothing then there is not enough skin exposed. At least for NY. I was still cheating the top and realized that for the summer it is too long, if it was colder then her belly would not be exposed. So I choped off a chunk of her torso remodeled it and ran it though thickener to give it mass then rejoined it into the existing torso and legs.

Here she is after that work:
http://www.byjason.com/media/dominique-mk2.jpg

Alot better. Then I decided that is was missing a belt, loops, jewelry etc so I started adding things that I thought were fun to add.

Which resulted in this:
http://www.byjason.com/media/dominique-mk3.jpg

So now I am looking at hair styles (it will remain short) and am beginning to think sandles or something open toed may be more appropriate. I am going for a cutsy kind of feel for her.

This should give you an idea of where I am trying to go with this.

Once she is done I will do some kind of animation.

propably more info than you need to know. :D

I'll post some close-ups later and maybe some shots of her broken down by object so you can see how it all fits together

[Scott]

I think this is brilliant ! :)

Love the colors , and the style. If I had one tiny criticism it's the elbows , they look a little 'pinched'/sharp , maybe this was intentional ?

Anyways , great stuff !

[mattclary]

That's pretty dog-gone cool!