This week I made more details of the character, again using Maya to create the general shape of the hair; I wanted the character’s hair to look like clay material and didn’t intend to make it hairy, as the design of the art style I will make the hair glow.
I imported the basic model into Zbrush to sculpt the details and created some textures to make it look like a bundle of hair that had been tied up.
(The detail is barely visible after I add the glowing material to the hair..)
Similarly, I made the basic ear shape in Maya and then sculpted the details in Zbrush.
I also tried to make flippers for the character’s hands, but again, it needed to be made in a transparent material, so I abandoned that design.
I created more detail on the face, separated the upper and lower lips, and hollowed out the mouth.
Once the model was complete, I imported it into Maya and started topology, turning on symmetry mode and topping up the whole head, beginning with the eyes, then linking it to the chest, back, arms, and gradually the tail, which was a lot of work as I needed to think about the correct number and position of each line.
Similarly, I made the ears and hair, which will be imported into unreal as a low-poly model of the character.
The next step was to cut the UVs; I split the material into three parts: hair, eyes, and body.
The basic process of making hair
finish the basic model
import to Zbrush
starting made some details
The basic process of making hair
made the detail of ears
Spikes on the elbow, a means of protection for the mermaid
Flippers
Details on the face
Parting of the lips
low poly model topology
Face effect
Link the chest
Making Hands
Making the arms, linking the chest
Finishing the elbow line neatly
Topological body model
Make hair and ears in the same way
UV cropping