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• Contestant: Luke Chesworth / @LukeChezConcepts Assessor: Tristan McGuire / @Draconic_Cowboy Tier: Search For A Star Congrats on completing your project! This is an incredible project and I hope you are proud of what you have achieved! So many high level skills are showcased and the documentation breaks everything down well. Keep up this passion for character art! Things that went well: ✧ Great research and concepting. ✧ Complex Marvelous Designer work and excellent method of exporting and optimising the cloth. Really high level stuff shown here. ✧ Range of high level Zbrush skills shown such as surface noise, micro poly, layers, custom alphas and morph targets. Also great detailing of the skin. ✧ Excellent knowledge of what tools and approaches work best for different elements of the character. ✧ Great facial topology. ✧ High level texturing skills with thorough understanding of how to build up the layers, including use of Substance Designer. ✧ Groom art skills showcased through the feathers. ✧ Excellent use of a custom rig. ✧ Confident material and scene setup in engine. Things to consider next time: ✧ Some areas of the low poly could be optimised a bit further such as the shoes. ✧ Great start to the UVs. To improve them even further, look into manually straightening as many edges as possible to allow you to pack the shells in more tightly. ✧ Adding an occlusion mesh to the eyes would really help improve the realism here. ✧ The beauty renders are great, but it would be best to also include finalised images of the LP, UVs and textures that you can present in your portfolio I hope this feedback proves useful and will help you with future projects and building your portfolio. You can find me on the social medias in the link below. Feel free to reach out in the future. All the best! https://draconic-cowboy.carrd.co/ - Tristan, Character Artist at Airship Interactive.