Taki (Soul Calibur fanart)
Hi! This is Taki from Soul Calibur series. Made for 'Sculpt Jam: Fighting' mini-challenge, where the goal was to make a 3D fanart of an existing fighting game character and put it into a scene with pre-animated camera. The result should be somewhat similar to what pwnisher does, but on smaller scale.
To push myself I decided to model entire thing in Zbrush. Never tried this before, and never will again ever lol. Combo of Maya+Zbrush with GN Import/Export bridge is unbeatable for me.
This character is not finished yet. Doing another round after this, needs a proper texture pass, better rig and animations.
To make this even harder I tried plugging in Marvelous Designer for dynamic wrinkles and folds simulation. Having harness to work properly with cloth layers wasn't easy, but I think I know how to properly approach this now.
2 super useful plugins that keep my sanity intact
www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/VO29d/rizom-uv-bridge
www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/8vPd/gn-zbrush-maya-import-export-tool
Sorry I'm no animator, this is literally first idle loop I ever did
Walk cycle test in Maya Advanced Skeleton
final (not really final) render. Textures are not 4K, lots of noise, I want to improve all that on next iteration of this project.
alternate dark for phone wallpaper
alternate angle
raster render in Marmoset Toolbag, anisotropic satin material looks realy cool here compared to raytraced mode
sepia render with film noise in marmoset
base mannequin, starting point for most projects
face with eyes closed so I can continue on the rest of the character without getting distracted
gear blockout done
refined face, V1
final face shape, polypainted zbrush model, looked in Marmoset. She'll change a lot along the way, but this is a good start.
Zwrapping topology over the dynameshed body
Final dynamic SubD mesh in Brush BPR render
Final gear model in Marmoset
sword! I think it's Nodachi, correct me here
Finished harness model
final model turnarounds
wires. Sculpted faces will be zremeshed later.
Rizom UV, UDIM workflow
riggin, advanced skeleton, NG skin tools
Baking in Substance, pretty robust and reliable now.
Satisfying baking
sewing in MD
partially successful wrinkle animation test
Testing rig with quick idle pose
combat idle pose
setting up cameras in Toolbag
untextured model fully assembled
Moodboard, mostly official artworks. I didn't follow any specific concepts, mostly used them as inspiration for my own design
Sword refs
I was stuck with harness design, had my friend Khantian help me with functional rig, mad props to him, turned out really cool.
Rough cut of livestreams, 93 hours