Starting some basic texture blockout. Also, instead of making all the small high poly details in ZBrush (such as stitches, pattern designs, etc) I will be adding them on the clothes the normal maps via texturing. In the next post I'll share my approach to this.

A little more progress on the pants and the vest. Also added the glove, which will be detailed further as well.

Update: boots modeling and working in some folds on the pants.

Basic clothes and hair block-out.

Decided to finally create the character based on one of my favorite video games. Keep following for the reveal as the character takes shape.

Putting some finishing touches and testing the model in various lighting conditions. 

-Time

This is real-time hair using traditional method of alpha textures on polygon planes. Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag.

When creating this hair style I realized that it easier to start laying out the alpha cards from the lowest point on the neck and building up layer by layer, instead of trying to squeeze in small strands underneath the top ones.  

Here is another round of updates on the face surface details. Next will be Color (Albedo) map creation to test things out and see how they work together with the normal map.

Adding first pass of details. Further will need to accentuate the facial features and secondary details.

If anyone could share their preferred method of normal baking, I'd really appreciate it. I tired both Maya bake and XNormal bake and it seems that Maya transferred sharper details. The only issue is that Maya limits normal bake to 4K and I am aiming for 8K normal map. I have not tried Marmoset baking yet, so I give that a go as well. Thanks for looking!

This is  a character work in progress. I am planning to texture this head in 8K resolution.