Just some progress pics. This character is taking a LONG time to create but I’m having a really good time with it. I just need to finish detailing the hands and then see if I want to use any stencils for more details. The feet I’m not going to bother with more detail because I’m going to be placing them into boots. Before I start to add clothing/armor, I may further stylize him and simplify. He kind of took on the life of the references I used so he’s more realistic looking than I had originally planned.
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Wow, this thing is absolutely amazing! the details you got in that are awesome! Very well done! blows mine out of the water! 
though I gots to say, mine has a juicier albeit totally unrealistic donk 
I got a little carried away and it was bringing me way to much amusement being such a adult sized child about it.
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I believe sir-mix-a-lot would definitely categorize that as a big butt . From the, er, rear, your sculpt looks great and it is super clean - something I struggle with.
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This looks great. The Orc must be hitting the gym 8 days in a week
Thank you for the kind words. Now I can’t get the Beatles out of my head .
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Haha
Almost done sculpting this guy. Good gravy I have no idea how I’m going to retopologize this behemoth! I’m just going to do my best to follow Grant’s tutorials 
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Hehe retopo is so exhausting. But it’s a really nice way to learn about topology.
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Great looking Character.
Thank you! I feel like he could have been a He-Man action figure from my youth .
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After countless hours and weighing in at 13 million faces (
), the sculpt of my orc character is completed. Now, I’m off to retopologize.
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Looks amazing ^^
Finished painting the low-poly orc. Cannot wait to rig this and see him come to life with some Mixamo animations 
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Alright! I finally got Mixamo and my orc to play nice together. Orc could really use some weight paint adjustments and there are things I will do differently in the future:
- Either model in T-pose or a much higher A-pose - stretching under his arms is pretty bad.
- Clothing objects need to be modeled as one mesh (or later combined together) to avoid them breaking apart - trying to get the weight paints to match perfectly is really difficult. So the belt and fur sections separate a lot!
- Extra objects like straps on boots need to be modeled onto the boot, not as separate objects or simply painted onto the textures - this would avoid a lot of weight paint headaches.
- For hands and head, manual retopologize to ensure that fingers operate properly and the face can be rigged for animation (didn’t worry about the face this go-around). There are some really nice free (Instant Meshes Remesh https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes) and pay addons (Quad Remesher Quad Remesher - Auto Retopology - EXOSIDE) for Blender that do a good job of basic retopology with good flow but not perfect for hands and faces.
- Be aware of the rotation of your bones. I had problems with my model and mixamo - Mixamo didn’t want to import my model, neither as a OBJ nor FBX. So I created my own rig and then retargeted the Mixamo rig/animation onto mine in Blender. This introduced some weird issues with the arms - when I tried to map an action onto my rig, the arms and hands wigged out and I had a hard time trying to figure out why this was - they appeared to be mapped backwards. Here are some tools I used to resolve my rig issues:
Rokoko Blender Plugin - this is a MUST for retargeting - works SO WELL and made my life much easier: https://support.rokoko.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410463492241-Install-the-Blender-plugin
Cats-Plugin: https://github.com/absolute-quantum/cats-blender-plugin
This plugin was designed for prepping models for VR chat apps but it is great for fixing bone rotations and for cleanly decimating models to lower their poly count. I was able to bring my orc tris down by half and retain the UV mapping and bones weight painting with this plugin.
Hope these help others out there!
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This looks really good!
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This is great. Even though there are some issues, the animation looks great.
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This looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing all the progress images, I find it very interesting and informative!
Lok’tar! Great job!
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