Guts, The black Swordman [Berserk]

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hi, I’ve been lurking on this forum for quite a while but this time i’ll actually post something!

After spending the last 2 years modelling low-poly characters for my job I decided to start a more ambitious project:
Modelling Guts, the main character from Kentaro Miura’s manga, Berserk.
It’s still heavily WiP but I’d like some feedback.
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What I’ll do next:
I’ll redo the pants as I’m really unhappy with how they look.
Sculpting and texturing the face and arm.

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Wow, cool model and a rock solid start!

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Pretty cool, but his legs are too short.

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I agree the legs are short compared to his height portayed on the series.

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Because he’s Elijah Wood

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Thanks for the advice, I completely agree!
I had a hard time mixing realistic and manga proportions. I won’t have much time to work on it until next week but i tried to quickly tweak it.

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What do you think?

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Very nice!
I see some things that you may like to improve.
In the head: the forehead has a huge temporal line, I think you can make it more subtle. Also the mouth area is a little flat, remember how the bone is there, like a cylinder.
For the arms, some definition of the muscles will make a huge difference.
For the pose, study the silhouette, in cycles you can make a preview material all black, just to study the silhouette.
Keep going! You are doing great!

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I don’t see any difference between the new version and the original- you have no real choice but to go back and fix his legs.

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forget the too long legs or too short, the silhouette is going to tell you. just go fully black, and you will see

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Hi, Sorry for the lack of updates but i didn’t have much time too work on this project this last few weeks.

Here is a quick render of this week’s progress:

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-Reworked the armor plates covering the thighs
-A basic rig, no custom controllers for belts, armor pieces, bags, etc yet so still a lot of bad deformations/clipping.
-Sculpting and texturing.
-Hair and eyebrows

I found some official modelsheet and 3d model to adjust his proportions so i hope this won’t be an issue anymore!

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Some progress on his repeating crossbow.

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It can unfold and attach on his left arm.