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A little update on how the wood is looking, I haven't finished lighting, but I desaturated it alot and kind of defined some of the overlay a little more. It's a little darker and less saturated color compared to my refs, but I think it looks better.
Doodles, today, at work, got bored, maybe color, enjoi.
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You need to work on the roof area, it's too square. The windshield bends outwards.
Ok, well I started texturing today (as shitty as I am) as I have managed to fully UV this beast, aside from one or two faces that I probably forgot such as the backface of the silencer. Here is what I have so far, it's the base stuff.
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This is it applied to what I have been working on.
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Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been busy alot w/ school and a new job.
The face needs work geometry wise, from what I can see. post some wires. As far as I am saying, I think that the face is lacking in the characteristics to look...human. I'll be able to assess the model better if I get a closer shot and some wires.
I think the head/face needs some work.
For the most part, it's almost done. I just have to do the bolt, and add some small things in. the polycount is somewhere around 3872 or something like that, without optimization. Hopefully I'll be able to cut that number down by at least 500.
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Started this today. I
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And here's a wire, unoptimized as of now since I'm not worrying about it at this point.
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Yeah I know what you mean. For some reason, when I look at the whole picture my models always seem misproportioned but the proportions are correct. It's a wierd eye trick, I think.
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Update - Now that his head is finished for the most part (I'm gonna add some extra planes for hair and then do some edge cutting so he'll deform even better than he already will), I can most likely whizz by on the rest of this model.
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For those of you who are familiar with the movie Equilibrium, you know who he is. I'm just doing this as an aside project, mainly for practice. I'll probably keep him under 5-6k, so he can be usable in source or something (This is just an excuse I like to use when I don't want to spend time doing high-poly 
). Anyway, I started his head and have been working on it for about...oh, I'm lookin at about an hour and a half now just movin the verts around and what not. As you can see by my supreme MS PAINT skills, that little crescent shape will be, as you may have guessed, the ear. The tri count is shown, so here's the image.
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I will keep everyone updated.
Quote from ginsengavengeroh hell i'm installing maya right now so i can point you in the right direction. basically it's about hard and soft edges, not smoothing groups of faces. come to think of it you might even be accessing it through the same dialog but you should be selecting edges instead of faces because it's sooo much easier
*ed: fkn, main machine bombed.... anyway the process as i recall is that you select a mesh in object mode, and i don't remember the menus exactly but it's something like like Edit Polygons - Normals - Soften/Harden [] where you can set a hardness angle threshold for the entire object. then you can tweak it by selecting individual edges and going back to that same option box and hit all hard/all soft. best to put a shortcut to that option box on one of your shelves with a ctrl+shift-click ~
No, you're right. What you have to do is select your edges before you mess around with em. Basically, select the ones you want to be completely smooth except the outermost edges, and then edit poly
Well, actually the small highlight on the underlip is how the lighting would affect it, given the lightsource. I had to check the hl2 texture just to make sure it was consistent with what I was trying to do, for you see it's also apparent on my reference image.
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Yeah, I know it's blurry but it's still in the early stages of production. As for "outlining" the lips, I don't quite understand what you're trying to say. If you're talking about that thin highlighted line underneath his bottom lip, then I don't really know what to tell ya, I was goin off of the negro civi head skin for reference.
It's actually at almost regular size, the whole map itself is 2048 x 2048, the whole character being on it.
Well, this is my first ever fully hand painted skin texture, let me know what you all think. Yea, it is WIP
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EDIT: Here's an update, also applied on model. Ugly stretching on neck
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