Odinson V.2 Model tweaks

Hello Patrons!

Currently we facing a bad heat wave here in Germany which makes me unable to render new images for the moment without boiling myself to death. In case you're wondering: Apartments here in Germany don't come with Air Conditioning by default - you either can install one which is super expensive or you have to live with a simple "fan" only.

Nothing to complain about the fan since it gives you a little breeze at least. 😓

Anyways I thought I do some "light work" which doesn't require the PC to run at full blast and heating up the room even more so I decided to give my frequently used Models a small makeover. Starting first with Thor. I made his base model around a year ago which was done using the older Blender 2.79 version. Currently I am using and still learning the new Blender 3.0 which looks much different from the older one, but has more neat features which can be used to create some cool stuff.

His version 1 Model was a bit "bulkier" around the hips and chest area. It caused some issues with posing sometimes which I had to correct before rendering the scene.

His new Model, version 2 however has a redefined body shape also thanks to the new sculpting tools which came with the new version of blender. I decided to make his hips and waist a bit slimmer and increased the size of his shoulders by a good bit. Also I re-sculped his pecs to give them a more accurate shape rather than looking "bulky" in the first place.

here's a blender preview:

For his short hair variant I also applied the new sculpting techniques and refined his hairline along with the sideburns and other small texture adjustments. The following preview has been taken from blenders "eevee" engine which replaced the older "blender internal engine" which was used to show 3D meshes in the older version of blender:

With those edits done so far I've ported the model to XPS the tool I use to create poses for the Character models and created a small preview which I also have posted on my twitter account lately.

Here's a quick side by side comparison between the new and the old model in pose.

First the new one:

And second the older one:

You may also have noticed that his hair color has slightly changed. I did this to match his appearance to his movie counterpart rather than from the Avengers game. (Adjustments like this is what Crystal Dynamics could have done in the first place but oh well... xD)

Anyways that's it for now, tell me what do you think about those changes.

Have a nice (cool) day and stay healthy!

~F0