Aaaaand she's finished! Feels like a bit of an anti-climax but oh well I've learned things!


I learned a lot about my workflow and what I can do/avoid earlier on to save myself trouble; things like detailing the skin in the highpoly, knowing what is better to bake than try and give geometry, smarter hair alpha placement and various other things.

I struggled a lot with the blood, and not being a huge fan of excessive gore or violence I really didn't want to google certain things even if it was to find solid reference, so I should probably consider that next time I want to make something!

I also didn't really consider the design before I started either. Rookie move but I figured since she was based in real life it wouldn't matter, but actually when it came to things like the dress it just didn't read very well for the situation she was in.

Also RENDERING AND LIGHTING!! I've been told about the importance of this time and time again but I just don't have a very good eye for it so its something I need to research and learn and apply!

There are lots of other little things that only make sense to me but by creating this character I've got a lot to bear in mind for the next ones so its been incredibly useful, even if the outcome isn't AAA standard (trust me I won't be happy till it is).

So I've kinda neglected updating recently because I've been working on this in fragments so I haven't had a big update to make.


Look at the state of her! I've spent a lot of time tweaking textures, especially on the face in order to get the blood right.



The hair is very much a work in progress, but I feel like she's certainly coming along!

She's finally starting to come together! Spent an excruciating few days retopologising and baking but I've finally done it all and got her polypaint done. I really love doing makeup on polypaints. Contour is on point.

She really needs her eyelashes at the moment to complete her look but they can wait. I still haven't decided what to do with her hair yet, I'm thinking I might just do it in a relatively simple (but pretty) ponytail so I can get to grips with hair alphas.


I'm really looking forward to texturing- I have a lot to learn so really want to buckle down with material definitions and convincing skin.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to update that frequently due to having no internet at home, but I managed to get a big chunk of this done over the weekend.

Although not a huge amount has changed, I made a lot of minor tweaks on things that weren't quite right and I think(!) I'm happier with it now.

At this point I'd call the high poly pretty much done, although I'm going to look for feedback since I've been staring at it for way too long. The toes definitely need work- I spent far too long changing them and trying to make them look non-deformed that I ended up using part of Zbrush's default female model's feet, but even those don't look great.


I changed her eyes slightly to previous versions and gave her a slightly angrier impression (with final renders in mind)


I detailed some of the back of the dress, changing my design multiple times.




I also made sure to give her earrings. I deleted the hair blob I had originally made because I found it too distracting and just couldn't make up my mind on what hairstyle to give her.


I also made her a ring! I think the hands are a little too blobby so I'll make sure to go back in and change them.

Its been a while since I updated this blog, mostly because I have been crazy busy and haven't had the motivation to write about anything I'm doing.

Although that aside I've finally found some time to start re-creating the bride I started a while ago as a game ready character this time!

I've been working on her for an hour or so at a time this past week but I've had all day today to get a good chunk done.


I can definitely see a lot of errors so far but I'm gradually working my way through them.



I'd like to have a really nicely detailed high poly by the end of this so I'll be doing several detail passes on things before they're finished.

I've been pretty busy since my last update doing not much 3D and then suddenly a lot of 3D at once. So after taking a step back on the bride for a while I've decided to start her again but make her a game ready character rather than a statue kinda model. I feel like I'd actually learn a lot more from doing this and she'll look cooler too.

I've also started my next university project: Off the Map. This is a group project and while being part of the course its also a competition. The set theme was 'Shakespeare' and we've chosen 'Macbeth' to base our game on. This project is quite a big undertaking so I'll be very busy working on it, but fortunately I chose to work on characters so I'll get some good practice out of it.

I'm currently modelling Macduff from my own concept, and I've just finished baking.

I decided to bake out a cavity map and an ambient occlusion (which I never normally do when I know I should) so I'm hoping these will make a difference/be helpful when it comes to texturing. There's a lot of messy parts since the bake was just stuck together before I left so I'll spend a bit of time refining and cleaning up before I move on.

I've allowed 3 weeks for each character and I've got this and one more today. On schedule so far!

So I got my friend to model me a gun for my lovely bride.... LOOK HOW GOOD IT LOOKS!

I only did a little bit of changes to her hands today but really wanted to show Will's work off. I'm really not gonna have much chance to work on her over the next few weeks since I've started a new uni project but Will has definitely set the bar for the quality level of my bride!