Week 3 - Zbrush Hard Surface

Week 2 - Ada All Maya hard surfaces

So! I had to cut my progress on this short for the last two days because my hand was really starting to hurt, and I didn't want to injure myself.  The shapes are all done, I just need to do some sculpting and extracting of tiny details in Zbrush, then move on to my low poly!

Ada-1 Schedule and Week 1 Progress

Schedule:

Week 1: Front Face Blockout
Week 2: Maya HP
Week 3: Full HP
Week 4: LP from Maya, Bake, Materials

Ada-1 Concept Bust with Crease+

I'm going to be modeling a bust of an early iteration of the Destiny 2 Black Armory Character, Ada-1.  Ada is a exo you encounter in one of the recent expansions to Destiny, and since she's both one of my favorite characters and a robot, she'd be a great change to learn Crease+ and do some nice hard surface modeling.  One thing I actually noticed about Ada's final design is that her face plate is sculpted in such a way to convey emotions with the angle of her head which I thought was very interesting.
I'm going to be doing an exploration of Crease+ in this project, examining the plugin and how useful I find it when constructing hard surface objects and breaking down how it is used.

Excalibur Texture and Lighting Pass

Alright! Here's the marmoset Renders of the Excalibur.  I think I might have to take another pass at the dirt distribution along the handle, it feels a little heavy but we'll see how people feel tomorrow.  I added a polish to the edge of the blade to try to emphasize it but I don't think it worked out the way I wanted it to, I'll take another pass at the lighting setup to try to catch that better.