April 2021 Pin-ups: Sindel Swimsuit (Patreon)

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Summer is coming.

Magazine covers are pretty fun to do so I thought I'd revisit them.  I've been doing a lot of work with outfits recently so I thought I'd try out some swimsuit magazine pin-ups with MK characters.  They come with quite a few challenges but I think I'm getting the hang of it.

With this one I really wanted to focus on the final 10% of effort that I usually avoid when making images.  There are tons of polishes and tiny clean-ups and corrections that I don't normally pay attention to so now I'm getting a bit more practice.  Boy does it suck up time though.  For this Sindel cover I wanted to pay close attention to the lines, keep away from awkward tangents, and clean up distracting lights and shadows.  At this level of detail, even tiny texture stretches or UV mismatches can stick out like sore thumbs, and the shrink-wrap modifier on the swimsuit caused quite a few issues because of its weird topology.

For others I'll try to focus more on the fabric of the swimsuit and how it interacts with the body.  Stretching around the sides, compressing the breasts, etc.  I really want to use multi-res for sculpting but I've had so many problems with it in the past.