Reference Post
Welcome! This is the month right before my finals. Oh boy! We were given three choices in our Directed Study class for all of the Game Art students. The three included: Prop/Environment Modeling, Character Modeling, and Animation. I've decided to major in Character Modeling. So the next three months are going to be me focusing on three different characters. Month one will be a female, month two a male, and month three will hopefully be modeling a horse! I'm very excited. So the class I am currently in now (Game Technologies) is requiring us to find references for these character and then sculpt ONE of them.
So here are my references:

Female:

Male:

Horse:

And finally, my beauty. I have fallen in love with this character so much. If given more time I would have tried to do a full body, but I'm just not quite at that level yet. So this is my finished textures piece and then the beauty shot!

This is the last bit of sculpting I did as well as the start of my retopology! I started retopologizing in Maya but for whatever reason each time I put down a quad (using the quad draw tool) the program would slow down to the point where it was taking about 5 minutes to create one quad. I eneded up finishing the retopology process in ZBrush using the zremesher tool. The results were fantastic and only took about 10 minutes to complete versus the 10 plus hours I wasted trying to do it in Maya.

I feel like on of the hardest things to sculpt were her eyes. Everything else turned out amazing but I was still tweaking the eyes even until the very end! I loved the way everything turned out though.

This is the next step, I added a lot more details. 

I decided to give this character a name and a little bit of background information. She is an alien princess named Daya. Most of the terrain on her planet is either ocean or dessert areas.
This is my first block-out:

Hello! Sorry it's been so long, I've been so busy and unable to upload anything.
I would love to update you guys on last months project for the class Advanced Game Characters. I had a ton of fun completing this assignment. I guess I'll first start you guys off with all the references I gathered.

Texture and Painting
While I was taking Visual Effects I also had a texture and painting class that utilized photoshop and ZBrush. I will definitely say that I enjoyed Visual Effects more than I did texturing, mainly because UVs are going to be the death of me, but I had fun all the same. The following images are just some highlights of the work I accomplished.