Frodo Baggins WIP

[Stanakin]

I'm working on a Frodo skin for the villager kid, a request by Shanghai.

I want this skin to be as good as possible, so any advice is welcome.
I'd especially like to hear your opinion on one thing; the overcoat or whatever you call it. The red cloth that goes over his shirt. As you can see, it looks bad on the back of the model. I also found out that it being this long is inaccurate to the costume this version of Frodo had on. However, I'm afraid that if I shorten it, the model will be mostly pants and Frodo's pants are boring. So, what do you think, should I shorten it or not? I really can't decide.

 

[dansaDisco]

to be honest, he looks quite... dumb.

 

[Stanakin]

... Okay. So, what do you suggest I do to fix that?

 

[dansaDisco]

I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with his eyes.
I know that it's the wrap who fucks them up, but You should try to fix it if you can.

also, wtf is up with his hands?

 

[Stanakin]

His hands are a really weird shape and have a strange wrap as well, I'm still tyring to figure out how to make them look appectable. (I don't think I'll get them to look good)

I'll experiment with the eyes a bit and see if I can make them look better, thanks.

 

[dansaDisco]

Though, I just wanna say that the quality of the skin looks awesome so far. so yeah, GJ

 

[TheHunterKiller]

He has a strange expression, and the hands are strange, but yeah, it looks awesome.

 

[Deolrin]

What be happenin' to this fella's lips? It be lookin' strange, me mattey! You be havin' to make them less filled o' grog, if ye know what I be meanin'!

 

[Linaze]

In proper English: The lips look strange.

 

[Deolrin]

What he said

 

[Rui]

The problem is not the skin, but the model itself. Warcraft III's models are just unfitting for such things. You managed to texture it pretty well, in my opinion.

 

[Just_Spectating]

i like it.

the eyes definitely match frodo in the movie

 

[Sabelion]

i like it.

the eyes definitely match frodo in the movie

They do not definitely match. But they are pretty nice.

Altought his hair on the back of his head looks realy stupid....Man....you cant be serious when you draw that hair. the hair on his forehead looks pretty nice tho.

And too little hair on his feet if you want to have hair on the feets.

 

[Stanakin]

WIP stands for Work In Progress, as in: it isn't done yet, as in: the back of the head is only the base color and I didn't even start working on the hair yet...

Thanks for the comments. Though no one answered my main question yet.

 

[Just_Spectating]

i think you should try the short pants.
Huck finn like

 

[Stanakin]

Which version do you think is better (neither is finished yet)?

The short coat version is movie-accurate and doesn't look really weird on the back, but I still sort of think the long coat looks better...

 

[Deolrin]

I actually prefer the one with the short coat. Looks... hmm... better?

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I agree, the short coat looks better.
But the clown lips has got to go.

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Amazing, that's all i can say.

 

[dansaDisco]

Uh, why does it looks like he has a cameltoe?

 

[Stanakin]

Lol. The pants was done pretty quickly without much regard to the wrap, but I didn't see that before, I'll fix it along with his lips.

The short coat it is, then.

 

[Hawkwing]

The problem is not the skin, but the model itself. Warcraft III's models are just unfitting for such things. You managed to texture it pretty well, in my opinion.

Agreed. I just dislike the lip colour.

 

[Fingolfin]

The ring is just superior in detail. Perhaps it's just because its small, but it makes the whole skin imo

 

[XS-Archangel]

I like it and I understand that wrap limits it.
the most of all the ring detail is superb

 

[Shanghai]

he looks nice. Just edit lipps little. And the hair on the back needs more detail its still very good But i still like the lips. but the hair on the back needs edit