Wizard diffuze texture time

Remember this old man? Well I"m back to working on this model because this is part of the school assessment project so I need to finish it...The top image is the color variations I provided my team and they liked "D" for color choice so I started working with it.
The model is done so now its time for the texture!

Today in class I spent the whole day basically working on the armor part. (Shoulder/chest)
I actually like how it turned out so far, there's still more polishing to do but it looks like a great start.

Zbrushing from low poly model.

Its been a while since I used zbrush to work on a model (tileable texture was a good warmup). I have a problem from working from a base mesh from maya and trying to work from there. After a few hours in I remember how fun it is to sculpt on the computer, Dynamesh FTW.
Now I'm just going all out on the detail and such, I'm trying to get a more stylized feel to the character. The hair I feel like I have the grasp, but the face I'll need some more work on.
Its gonna be fun retopo'ng this model..orz

Unfortunately I wont have time until next week to work on this some more since i'll be busy at a convention this weekend.

on another news, I was able to add the base coloring for the warrior character.

UV Unwrapped models

With the game project with my classmates, I havent had too much time to work on the character models as much as I like, also with the second assessment I've been working on another character (which will get used in the game hopefully) which is the wizard.

I was able to get the unwrapping of the UV's done over the week at school for both character models. So now its time to figure out what to do next..should i try and zbrush some details onto it or should i just go straight into hand painting the model...

anyhow heres the result of the uv unwrapping, I still need to learn how to unwrap and map out the textures nicely.

Wizard WIP

Wizard character low poly for next school assessment. Will add hair and beard but for now its looking pretty good. Perhaps the shoulder pads are a tad wide so I will most likely fix that up later. After this step it'll be onto zbrushing details!

I havent had time to work on the other model which is unfortunate, now with our game going full fledge foward been focusing alot of time on that.

Double update

I was planning on putting up my blog yesterday of the model I was working on last night, but it when I figured I'd finish for the day it was already 1pm, so I decided to do a double update today of the current state of the model and what I did at school today.

I think its coming along pretty weeeel, so far its about 5k tri's so not bad for a low poly model. And I'm pretty much done just a few fixes here and there to match the design. I really wish I could get 3D coat to paint this character,
One thing I worked hard on was getting a good topology, I'm still a little unfamiliar with getting nice looking topology's so I took some time to work on this. How does it look?

Hopefully I can finish up the model soon and start unwrapping UV's so then I can start coloring this in!! Oh but theres a technique I want to try out, Ambient Occlusion baking into the texture. I heard that gives nice shadows to the model when adding colors.

How do these controllers look like!? does it look real? Take a closer look!
I spent a good amount of time stylizing/vectorizing this xbox one controller for the control screen for the game I am working on with a few of my classmates. (https://grunkamunka.com/)

I really like how these turned out, it was all done in photoshop, no tablet was used, all done with a mouse.
I spent a good amount of time working on our game today at school and did a little bit of sketching out for the next assessment which is character modeling. The model I am planning to make is a wizard character from one of the factions in the game.  

Heres a sneak peak of the profile of the character I thought of. The actual design will most likely change, but I'd like to keep the monocle and curly eyebrows.