03-21-2012, 08:02 PM
From what I see it's looking pretty good so far as a base. What alot of the posters above me seem to be dealing with is a lack of understanding how low poly models work. In low poly work you bring out as much detail with the texture and in some cases *(normal/displacement maps)
Keeping the head and body limited to simply geometric shapes is a good thing when starting out. Even in high poly modeling you want to keep things as clean and simple as possible before adding in more loops as needed. Your work seems to be on the right track so far. Are you using reference images in front and side? that's the standard for basic modeling to get the form and shape going correctly and I'd recommend it. Modeling from pure imagination can end up with incorrect anatomy and bad silhouette.
If you're interested in lowpoly modeling in particular I'm part of a great site that's devoted to nothing but that.
Here's a link to my current WIP thread.
http://forum.lowpolyworkshop.com/topic/9357795/2/#new
If you're planning on making a game out of it it could help to look into the warcraft mod communities such as GV, WCU, Chaosrealm, ect. as well for help on implementing custom characters into engines.
Keeping the head and body limited to simply geometric shapes is a good thing when starting out. Even in high poly modeling you want to keep things as clean and simple as possible before adding in more loops as needed. Your work seems to be on the right track so far. Are you using reference images in front and side? that's the standard for basic modeling to get the form and shape going correctly and I'd recommend it. Modeling from pure imagination can end up with incorrect anatomy and bad silhouette.
If you're interested in lowpoly modeling in particular I'm part of a great site that's devoted to nothing but that.
Here's a link to my current WIP thread.
http://forum.lowpolyworkshop.com/topic/9357795/2/#new
If you're planning on making a game out of it it could help to look into the warcraft mod communities such as GV, WCU, Chaosrealm, ect. as well for help on implementing custom characters into engines.