Thx, all :)

Yes those pictures really helped as a reference.
Didnt have much time but i hope i can post a little update later this evening.

Here's another little update..
He's supposed to look like Jake at the end of the movie i guess.
Not sure i made him a bit too musculair, but unlike real life its easy to remove or add a bit of muscle here :P

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-h...eenshot009.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-j...eenshot010.jpg

(oh and dont mind the odd looking wrist, only just started on the hands and arms these will be replaced later)

oh my eywa he's hot.....:xD: looking really good, leep going! :D

Looks good so far :)

That is so true!! :xD:

Hey all, thx for the great feedback, youre all too kind :shy:

Well progres has been slow, had lots of crashes, really lost alot of time and work that way :(
Really frustrating and amazing i didnt destroy something at some point :P
Did some clean up, lots more saving and thats helping atleast!
Anyway his whole body is roughly done now, well actually one side thats mirrored.
Plan todo some more tweaking and then i merge the two sides, fix the middle and start adding details.

If you see anything off plz let me know!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...eenshot011.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-h...eenshot013.jpg

Other than the line down the middle, it all looks good to me! :D

looks great :D

The line would be from mirroring, that won't be on the finished model :)

Right, that's why I said "other than" lol.

I really, really think this is coming along well!

Hey thx all!

Well the line in the middle is gone along with alot of other small things.
Dont think i showed this in the Neytiri WIP thread but also started to prepare the model for textureing by laying out the UV's.
Basically thats a map that translates a 3D object into a 2D map so images can be layed out on top of it. The checker map is a helpfull temporary texture during this process.
Shouldnt take too long from this point, so soon i can start to give him some color!

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9...eenshot014.jpg

cant wait to see him in colour :D

Can't wait to see it with the texture :)

Hey again!
Been a while since last update. Summer time and me being sick were the biggest reason for that. But i'm almost better so time to get back on it :)
Made some good progress on Jake's texture. Globally its about done and now its time to add details.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-L...enshot015c.jpg

that looks AWESOME :awesome: i was afraid this project had come to a halt, good to see you back :)

I hope that you get better Fierox. You even work while you're sick..You're such a trooper! :D

this ;)

Brilliant. I hope you can do more work on it soon... I was wondering how this was going recently.

Looks good :) Glad to see you're doing better :)

:shock: That's amazing!

Thx all for the feedback and im all better again a while now, thx again.

Here's an update of Jake's Avatar, finally!
Model is edited a little since last time and all the skin texture maps are done, although there's still some tweaking needed here and there.
Already working on his hair but its not finished far enough yet for a render.
Its actually all standing up in sort of an electrifying way :D
Will have a new image with hair soon, hopefully it will look better then (more like Jake Sully :P)

front:
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ox-d45oyd5.jpg

rear:
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d45oymn.jpg

face:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z...enshot016.jpeg

Wow! :awesome:
Great job on the skin textures and the bioluminescence.

looking very good :) is he going to have his mowhawk or his original hair?

Looks good :)

THIS!! This is coming a long beautifully. Lots of great detail!! Love it so far. ;)


I would to see original but that choice is up to you of course. ;):)

Thx all, well about the hair, sorry Misstammie :shy:
The mohawk hair type is what he has at the end of the movie so thats the one im adding now. This is because my planned animation takes place shortly after the movie.
When a model is done, like Ney is now its very hard to change certain things, almost like starting over.
The way hair is added in my models isnt like that and its actually very easy to change, so things might change later on, even multiple hairstyles are possible.
I'm not going todo that now tho because i want to work towards the animation.
But its something i like to keep open, for Neytiri aswell would like to add her hair loose /unbraided.

Sounds good :)
Can't wait to see those.

Sounds good :)
Can't wait to see those.

Jake is finally getting his hair done!
Its not done yet and will take some more time getting it completely right.
Hair is added using Maya hair dynamics. Making sure the hair moves like hair but also doesnt slide off his head etc takes a while :)
Although less then Neytiri (but some longer) Jake still has 165 braids in total.
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ox-d464n4p.jpg

Wow this looks great!
The maya hair dynamics really work well. :D

Might be the angle, but it looks a bit too pointed at the front. Otherwise, looks great :)

I think it might be the angle, but I can't see anything wrong with it, that's how braids would naturally look as they wind together to form a ridge going back up the head.

hell yeah~! starting to look like a true blue badass :awesome: