Sora of Kingdom Hearts [WIP]

[Zerox]

Hey guys, I don't know how many know this but I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts fan, I've played all the games all the way through and own all of them as far as all the games that are released so far are concerned.

Anyway getting to the point. I have been craving it a lot lately and I have found myself really wanting to make a model of Sora from scratch. So I have spent the last 3 and a half hours working on this mesh for him.

Does it seem alright so far? I've still got to make his keyblade (sword) but other than that and UVmapping and texturing him I that's all I got left. Oh and animation. XD Anyway I plan on finishing him tonight so I can submit it before I go camping for the remainder of the week. So being that it's 1:20 am now I may be pulling an all nighter.

This is who it's supposed to be:

Any suggestions for me? I think I'll be doing some clever use of planes and or at least almost planes to make the keyblade to keep it as low poly as possible.

 

[chilla_killa]

You could make the keyblade as an extra attachment model.
The mesh looks very good.
Good Luck on making the texture and the anims.

 

[Zerox]

Well texturing and UVing is going well. I doing a 128x64 texture for low file size. I only got his chains and pendant left to UV. I'll post up a textured preview soon. Then it's time to make my keyblade.

Edit: I just realize I have no room for the keyblade texture. So I'm going to be making it 128x128 instead.

Edit 2: And now 2 hours later he's all UV mapped and textured. Making this 5 hours total so far give or take. I haven't done the keyblade yet but here he is all textured. Any thoughts and opnions? Keep in mind it's a small texture so yeah. XD

Edit 3: Alright I got the keyblade done and the texture finalized. I didn't give the keyblade a keychain for lack of simplicity but I may add one and so just in case the texture has a keychain texture in it. Now I'm moving on to animation. I'm supposed to be up in 3 hours and yet I haven't gone to bed yet. XD

Edit 4: Wow my head feels numb or something. Inside and out. But despite all that I've finished Sora. I'm going to go test him in-game and then should he work properly I'll submit him to the Hive. And then it's bed time for me.

Edit 5: The model is done and uploaded you can get it here: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/kh1-sora-zerox-175108/

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[D a w n]

the texture looks really blurry and I absolutely dislike the plane-weapon and that extremely low detailed face. You could much rather save polies on the hands, shoes or shorts instead.

 

[Zerox]

Mmm... DonDustin I'm sorry for the face I'm not all that good at making faces. I can see why people steal wc3 premade ones for their models often. But I believe it looks fine as is.

The plane-weapon only looks kinda bland in a model viewer. In-game it works fine.

As for the blurry texture it's a 128x128 texture you can't expect Hi-Res outta that. Love it for what it is and for the low file-size it gives.

If you look at my in-game picture it really doesn't look that bad or blurry in-game.

Its only 997 (still under 1k ), that's really not that bad. I think he's lower poly than my original Goku model is.

 

[Dragonson]

Hey, that's a pretty cool model.
The face needs to be widened abit though, in my opinion anyway.

+rep for the good work!
Hope it turns out well in the end.