trying to figure out the lashes

Bake tests, I've decided to retopo some parts before totally finishing the detailing in Zbrush  

sculpt wip

New side project. This time focussing on  Female anatomy and cloth sculpting. I am following the concept art piece by https://www.artstation.com/jroid for Jedi Fallen order. I hope the finished asset ends up  just half as good as the original by https://www.artstation.com/eugene.

Early blockout stage, trying to figure things out. I did spend quite some time making the female basemesh.

So... I've spent roughly 14 "french"working days on this , my self imposed limit being 15 days I will stop here. There is a lot I would do differently but like in production you have to move on. As always I now really dislike this asset and see only the flaws in it : it's ridgid and the fur is horrendous :) . Reflecting on it I wish I had followed the concept art more closely as I feel the original savagery is lost . I discarded the fur on the boots as my result was not satisfactory. I realised how much I struggle with hair cards styling , it will therefore be the focus on my next self imposed 2-3 weeks challenge. I really like the idea of setting deadlines for personnal projects as I tend to iterate forever and simply move on to other things because I just get bored or frustrated that I can not achieve what I had in mind. 

the concept from blizz's dev blog

kisses

Texturing is 95% done now let's work on the hair cards , going to try fibershop because I really can't be arsed to generate the strands in Xgen.

Some progress on the texturing, Marmoset is great unless you want to paint masks , so slow. Looking foward to the  next project, I've taken too many shortcuts on this one. Quite some texturing left, on the skin mostly it still feels really fake ( the rougness map, more tone varations ,SSS map) and I have to add the hair and fur cards . I'm at about 70k tris right now .

I started the retopo and I texture the parts bit by bit,.I decided to use Marmoset as my texturing tool for the first time ,  I have to learn as I go but so far I like it a lot. 

My fibermesh fur looks likes dog poo and the left axe is offset, I need to find a good  tutorial , evertthing I try turns to shit. I'll go back to the sculpt and redo that later. spending the next evenings retopoing.