Dale Arden for Flash Gordon Modeling Contest

Final Update:

For this update, I created the renders and a few animations. I ended up using photoshop to finalize the renders, after setting up the model in Unreal the way I wanted it, I took a high-resolution screenshot in game mode with Unreal. I found that it was most effective when I created a sort of "green screen" (a plane with a mat green material) in the background in Unreal. Then,  when I put it into photoshop I could easily remove the background and adjust the positioning any way I want for the model as well as combine a few shots together. I also recreated a pretty close version of the background in the reference and used that instead of the backgrounds that were in my original Unreal renders. I also ended up having to edit the effect for her powers a bit in photoshop because cutting out the background destroyed their original softness a little bit, so I just smudged it a little. Overall I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out and doing this challenge was definitely a solid learning experience like I had hoped!

Optimization: 

(Excluding Arden's powers effect)

Tris Count: 9614

Faces: 4880

Final Addition: Arden's Powers

In the reference, there's a green/blue effect that she has by her hand which looks like her abilities, so I thought that for the full look I would recreate that effect as well, I made a quick mesh in Maya & did some texturing in substance painter and finally added a bit of displacement to the material in Unreal as well as a small particle effect at the top to make it move a little for the animations

Update 5: Finished up the textures, and tested them out in Unreal. Next I'm moving onto posing and making those final renders.

Update 4: Finished up retopology & UV maps in Maya and now am moving on to texturing in substance painter. A little bit of rigging and posing is next on the to-do list now before some final touches.  

Update 3: Pretty much finished up the detailing in in Zbrush by this update & now am moving onto retopology in Maya to get my lowpoly model. The next step after that is texturing. 

Update 2: Finally was able to get back into it and added some more detail to the main costume, face and hair. Hands and cloak/jacket up next as well as the smaller details like the glasses. 

Reference: 

Update 1: Just started on the project and decided to go with modeling Dale Arden head of the research team of the ADES mission. I started with blocking out the basic shapes in Zbrush and began adding the details, next I plan to finish up the detailing and start retopology in Maya.