Hello,

this is my second attempt to create a female game character. This time I spent much more time to define the face. I almost used thousand polies only for this. The whole character has about 3000 polygons now:



Here is a closer shot of the head. This is not the final texture, just a place-holder-material to get a first impression:



And here you can see that I managed to unwrap the entire model. Even the shoes are perfectly unwrapped:



Texture and some more details will follow next days.

By the way: This took me 2 full days so far. I used one entire day only for the head. I will be faster next time since I am learning with every new model.

Regards,
Frank

I like it add some details to the head, like glasses or something. But I quess ye'll do it later on. looking forward onto this =D

Good proportions !
The only things i see : you can remove some consequent number of unecessary vertex .

And for bending knees and shoulders it's 2 or 3 edges outdoor and only one
in the bending area, someone had already posted a gif about that : )

Good work , now you could just like i said optimize it

ThExpert: You will lose volume with this technique when you animate the model later on. Your technique leads to less polygons without doubt but the bending objects will get thinner while bending.

Nice model, frank. Here are some things I liked and disliked:

-Good proportions.
-Good face texture
-Very bad topology. When you look at the body, arms, legs, you can see that you created a box or cylinder and just pushed some vertices in and out to get the right shape. Try cutting lines that follow the muscle flow.
-Waste of texture space. You unwrapped it very nicely, with all the parts on different places but you are not making use of that. Either map everything except head and hands and shoes on a small part of the skin and rely on the engine to shade it (works well when normalmapped) or add details to the skin.

I like it, its good. Especially the head, some hard work went into that.
Needs a few finishing touches though

Thanks for the comments. I will look into this.

By the way: I did not create any of this from a cylinder. I started with a simple box (cube) and shaped the head out of it. Then I extruded everything from this one.

The legs have some muscles in the lower leg and upper leg and the lower arm and upper arm is differently shaped. Maybe you cannot see this in the small image.

I think you are right with polygon flow. I could use more loops (e.g. in the stomach area) and more special shaped lines to define muscles.

But I am here at 3000 polies and I want to add bags and a headset. So I stopped it though I really would like to add muscles even to a female. I love that. But this time it will be better painted or will come later with the normal map that will be created from a way more dense model.

I did not understand your comment concerning uv-mapping. How do you know the use of it? I still do not use it because I have no textures applied so far. I finished the uv-map yesterday late night.
I did not use mirroring because it was a main point of critics in my last model here in this forum. The other reason is normalmapping. As far as I read in some articles it can lead to problems with normalmapping when you use mirrored uv-parts.
Some empty spaces in the uv-map are for purpose. I still have to map a few bags and a headset.

A better meshflow doesn't necesarily mean more polygons. For example: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/wheelchairninja/Model%20showcase/maleupdatewirefront.jpg(3012 faces) Now this model isn't perfect either but you can see how the lines are arranged (especially on the body) so they follow the features you want to highlight (muscles, wrinkles). I don't think you should change the whole model now because it would be alot of work but you might want to consider this for your next model(s).

About the skin, since the head is textured I thought the body is too. But if I understand you correctly it is just a single color material? If that's the case, forget my comment. I just thought you had unwrapped everything next to eachother but used a single color on the texture map which would be wastefull.

Thanks for this picture. This looks really helpful.

Yes. I wrote in my first post that I only used place-holder-materials. Final texture will have painted or photographed details. I am not sure about it. I will show the progress when texture is finished.

Looks good Frank G,
Your UV map looks exceptionally well, as my maps all end up looking like h*ll.