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Final render! Added some subtle post effects to make it pop. I wanted to render in Painter but decided to go with Cycles due to the time constraint.

The bullet holes are part of the texture, wasnt able to update the other process view images.

Process view of "finalized" textures. I could spend another week just on texturing but its too late for that lol. The TLDR postmortem would be I shouldve re-envisioned Cookie as opposed to trying to update the old version. The overall design doesn't flow and compliment itself as much as I hoped it would, but in the end I learned a lot and more importantly got some long overdue mechanical design practice!

Texturing is still a WIP. As mentioned earlier theres no clear vision, just going with the flow. I'm using multiple texture sets to maintain a good resolution for the entire model since there are a lot of parts. In the future I would like to learn a proper UDIM workflow.

High poly is finished. Had to content lock again to try and stay on schedule. ID map materials are in place and ready for painter. I dont have a clear vision for what materials and colors are going to be used, just going with the flow at this point :)

I'm back! Decided to content-lock the low poly as there isn't much time left for the challenge. Started cleaning up the scene and working on the high poly. Its really fun to make stitching with some simple edge insets and modifiers! Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow to finish the hp and start UV's and material setup.

Disregard the n-gons, its part of the process! Decided to do gloves for hands as they seemed to be the best bang for buck option. PLUS I think it'll be cool to keep integrating more leather and cowboy getup to Cookie to really push the theme. Soon I'll have to start considering deformation topology for all of the cloth bits.

You can also see the spurs in this image which fit really well inside the shape of the boot.

Small update, added hand blockouts, adjusted upperbody proportions a tad, and added bullets to his belt. I plan on taking out some bullets to add a big Texas sized belt buckle. It'll be fun to bake down the hp detail for that (and the sheriff star) in painter.

He has arms!!   Not sure if I like the shoulder shape and arms but they do have full articulation. Might have to redo the socket part at least but for now i'm going to keep focusing on the arms and hands. (Also note the use of empty objects to maintain a central pivot point for multiple objects, very useful for complex mechanical models)

Worked on the upper-body and head as well as the cowboy hat and bullet belt. Sheriff star isnt final geo but I wanted to get an idea of what it might look like.