Wing Commander 1 AI enhanced Characters

Bossman!

The new background actually helps a lot! Far more realistic as well, dang now I'm going to have to go and slowly clean the backgrounds ALL back up. They are definitely detracting from the photo qualityness of the effect.

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I like your Bossman a lot more than any of the previous ones (not just the background, but the face itself too), so this does indeed seem to be the way to go! Do you plan to redo your first images entirely, or just the backgrounds?
 
Gniwu said:
I like your Bossman a lot more than any of the previous ones (not just the background, but the face itself too), so this does indeed seem to be the way to go! Do you plan to redo your first images entirely, or just the backgrounds?
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Good question, i'm thinking..

Hunter - Pretty Happy Just redo the BG
Spirit - Needs a complete do over
Iceman - Just needs more realistic hair and background work
Angel - Needs full redo
Paladin - People seem to like him but it feels like his soul isn't quite right? Almost feel like a full redo on him.
Halcyon - Probably leave for now
Shotglass - Needs new BG but I like him quite a bit (honestly i'd sit down with a pint and share my woahs with this guy)
Bossman - Agreed he is just about spot on and real, which is what I would wish for them all.
 
Hello guys, I'm new here, so hello everyone. Dude, this looks amaizing, and Shotglass is just spot on! It's like 2AM for me, but I've thought, I must register and write how amazing those characters look! Thx for sharing.
 
I'd make many guesses from where that version of Knight is from, but I'm afraid South Africa wouldn't be on the list. The uniforms are starting to look a lot closer/consistent though.
 
gloude123 said:
Hello guys, I'm new here, so hello everyone. Dude, this looks amaizing, and Shotglass is just spot on! It's like 2AM for me, but I've thought, I must register and write how amazing those characters look! Thx for sharing.
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Hey thanks for dropping in to comment :)

I'm spending more time than I should on these, but it's kind of therapeutic trying to find out what they will look like.

Here is a further skin detail realism bump on Shotglass with a new fixed Background.

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This has to be a GIF unfortunately because I can't upload a video but...Wanna see something wild??

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As a final note, I couldn't get over that he looked like someone and I finally realized who he reminded me of. Actor Ray Wise

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ok i'm done....
 
Honestly, I wasn't quite sure what to do with the purple eyes. I realize some of you may have ideas of what these people should look like based on your experience with the entire wing commander universe. But I'm just focusing on trying to make a real human as close as possible to what the WC1 artwork looks like. I'm certainly open to suggestions!

Maniac

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cryptomax said:
Honestly, I wasn't quite sure what to do with the purple eyes. I realize some of you may have ideas of what these people should look like based on your experience with the entire wing commander universe. But I'm just focusing on trying to make a real human as close as possible to what the WC1 artwork looks like. I'm certainly open to suggestions!

Maniac

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Pretty good. Needs a bit more of that constant look of disdain and arrogance that Tom Wilson brought to the character.
 
I always wondered if the purple eyes were intentional; his original backstory was that he was from a colony planet instead of Earth.
 
cryptomax said:
Honestly, I wasn't quite sure what to do with the purple eyes. I realize some of you may have ideas of what these people should look like based on your experience with the entire wing commander universe. But I'm just focusing on trying to make a real human as close as possible to what the WC1 artwork looks like. I'm certainly open to suggestions!

Maniac

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I mean, aren’t violet eyes real? Like super rare but according to my super in-depth, completely legitimate google AI search they exist naturally in less than 1% of the human population…normally in conjunction with albinism but hey, things may have shifted in 600ish years…
 
@Bandit LOAF Do you mean it could have actually been like a color palette issue or something?

@YCDTD I did try to prompt some Tom Wilson in there, but it didn't really give us much, all it really did was subtly increase the bags under his eyes, that's about it.

@ODVS Thanks man!

@Tellana Iinnnteresting... I looked it up myself now, so sort of technically possible... but maniac is obviously not albino

@wcnut Agreed about South African, the art for him on this is fairly odd frankly, the manual black and white graphic would be closer to what people think of Knight as looking like, which... I could go off that and it would be a totally different character... hmmmm hmmm
 
cryptomax said:
@wcnut Agreed about South African, the art for him on this is fairly odd frankly, the manual black and white graphic would be closer to what people think of Knight as looking like, which... I could go off that and it would be a totally different character... hmmmm hmmm
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I'd probably try doing a pass and fixing the hair first which is entirely too straight.
 
Well I think you are misinterpreting the hair in the original sprite. It's suppose to be short curly black. As for the face, the original sprite is perhaps a little lighter but definitely African. Yours Id think of as Middle Eastern or Indian.
 
Here is a take on WC1 Blair... Trust me I tried to get Mark Hamil going but it just started looking really weird so I figured better to just head in the artwork direction.

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And then a relighting experiment because it's interesting

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AD said:
I'd probably try doing a pass and fixing the hair first which is entirely too straight.
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Reworked Knights hair, it helped, but he maybe feels a bit latino to me now. It does look more natural though.


Edit. Some more lighting work actually pushes it in a good direction and also more photographic. Which is my ultimate goal.

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