Dan Haard

After some sketching I landed on a concept that I want to pursue. Her name is Sam and she wields dual samurai swords. Going for a relatively simple design here. The purpose of this sculpt is anatomy study and a more delicate handling (of the female form).

and here's my lores quad mesh ready for zbrush:

now to sculpt..

blocking out muscle groups

refine

more work..

imported base geometry of swords and modeled the hand grip

sculpt with gear

facial and other minor geom edits; added color and materials

added a few details to the clothes, reposed, modified the skin matcap

updated gearset, added severed head and base, detail pass on main figure esp face, et al.

Renders:

POST mod of face, color, hair, other minor tweaks

RENDERS:

Froggy has the honor of the first post. He has been on a long journey. He started life as a sketch for Dominance War. I then brought him through Maya and a Zbrush sculpt per the usual pipeline. But then I decided I wanted to learn Zbrush's transpose tools and to experiment with its projection mapping and other texturing capabilities. When all was said and done, poor Froggy got so old that I had to put him down.

Comments and criticism are welcome on this site!