Overall, I personally think that rethinking her design will take it a lot further. Those gears are not attached to anything, how do they stay in place? The gears in her head also seem too random, the structure and their position seems out of place, throwing a whole lot of gears inside something doesnвЂ™t necessarily make it steampunk. Is it battle damage? A removable part to look and maintain the gears inside? You might need to think about that and make changes accordingly.

There is no explanation as to why the вЂњskinвЂќ pieces on her face are gone, and that, to the viewer, makes it seem like you added those because you really didnвЂ™t know what else to do. I find the character design itself undeveloped, to me it seems strange to have such slices taken out of her face. You can follow my step by step progress on my blog: () I am also hoping to get advice on what I should do next. I am specifically looking for crits on what I should improve on before I take her further. This is a WIP, so there are several unfinished parts (such as the hair). I want to minimize the amount of seperate objects so that rigging won't be a nightmare. I tend to murk the model up when I start adding details. I would like some help figuring out where to take her from here. I have no concept in mind except just wanting to use her for animation cycles. What I have in mind with this character is to fully rig it for animation. Not to mention the fact that there are unlimited steampunk references out there now. I figured this would be a good model to test my skills in detail. I decided to work on a female steampunk inspired character. Now that's out of the way, I'd like to discuss this character. I specifically focus on animation, but I am trying to further develop my modeling, UVing, texturing and rigging skills. I have been working in Maya for about 4 years now (off and on).

This is my first time posting my work on these forums. IвЂ™d like to start by introducing myselfвЂ¦ My name is Matt Shapiro and I went to college (SCAD) for 3d animation.

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