12 November 2006

I've been wanting to do a female vampire for sometime now, so I thought that I would start off with a simple bust. I started this quickly this afternoon, and plan on working on it at lunchtimes at work. I know she doesn't look too vampy yet, but she will....

I haven't been feeling too inspired by the other character I've been trying to work on in my lunches and besides, this should go pretty quickly.

I wasn't going to post this just yet because of the early state that it's in, but anyway. The mesh is based on my zombie girl model and the base texture on a early version of that same character...

These are quick screengrabs form ZBrush (thus the weird perspective). I've basically just started fleshing out the meat of the character.

I've mainly been testing some materials for her. I was originally contemplating using a realtime shader so I started mucking about with ShaderFx, which is pretty good. I then decided to give Vray a go, but also decided to go with standard Max materials. So far I think they look pretty decent, but there is still some tweaking to be done.

Aside from that there is the following that needs to be worked on:

- hair still needs a few extra layers for thickness and some work on areas of the alpha maps. There is still no specular on the hair either;
- I need to pose here;
- I also want to add in the blood, etc.
- her make-up still needs work;
- a few small texture seam problems need sorting to;
- I'll need to optimise her a bit as well.

There are probably still a few other areas that could get worked on. I was also considering some jewelry around her neck.

I've also done the teeth which should be visible when she is finally posed.

Anyway, until then....