Interesting.
And glad to see you're still around even if we have no news of SF3 Sakura.

Your Angel looks good. I first thought the head is big. BUT it fits KOF XIII style, so it looks good.

I would give angel slightly bigger legs. I think she's more muscular than Athena.

Also, seems like her hip area is too "short". I mean the height/length of hip looks not "tall" enough.
Compared to other KOF XIII girls and compared to her classic appearance
Hope you can fix it, because it give strange feeling.

Beside of that, it looks good, particularly the animation.

great work. the only issue I see is the shadows on the face give her a harsh  masculine look, I don't know if it's the nature of the model or the lighting, maybe if you can mod it also slightly bigger eyes would help?

Result is way better.
But I feel like her legs are somewhat short.
And perhaps waist a bit too narrow... (I don't know...)

KOF XIII have shorter upper bodies I think.


Yes, sure it can be a good way to automatise the proccess and have minimal editing after it.

Here's my take, edited manually. Mostly fixing colors, limiting the palette and few details:



My suggestion is to do a gray render first because with a professional software you can limit the color amount to 7 tones, which is how KoF XII shading is.



Then I suggest to do a render with a color separation, like the ones you do but with more saturated colors avoiding white/gray/black tones. If you can get it to be pure colors it would be excellent, if not, something similar so you can saturate the palette with the professional software.



And then what you do is to overlap the gray render with the color separated render.

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(Or if you can do a render like this, that even if it has 256 colors when reduced to 7 tones per separation looks similar to KoF XII.)

*The extra renders I suggest are for a more accurate palette. It should ease the issue you have with the renders that have 256 colors. Which is a real issue. My example image should have 42 colors tops (6 separations x 7 tones each).

What is cool about the gray render is that you can manually edit stuff here and there without worrying about the palette. And after that you overlap the color separated render or even better you do a custom CS, with the 3d render as a guide.

Also, the textures would be better if they have more glossiness in the hair, clothes and skin.

The last renders you did have a shading that reminds me more of SF3 style rather than XII, the first versions you did were closer to XII, with a more absolute and simpler shadow. The last version has overlapping shadows, it's more noticeable on her right leg you can see a X shape due the multiple shadows.



This project looks promising.

I think I said this before, but the only thing that looks "off" are the frames.
They should be a lot fewer than what you have right now if you're going for the XIII look.

PeXXeR said, October 24, 2021, 11:35:40 pm

Don't look nothing like the original KOF sprites.
When they used 3d models to do this, sprites were touched up.

All you've done is ripped or grabbed and Angel model and put some shading on it.
If you modeled Angel thats a decent model of her but again its hard to pull of the effect your trying to achieve with no touch ups or spriting skills.

The ability with render modeling is still a desireble part. althougth the extra torture hell mile (Manual post work) would be desible.
Still, it's a ability I want to learn if time wasn't finite. for a good amount of projects, this is a underrated gift. (Like Yumurama for example)

The only thing I think that could be done is keeping only the Key frames to avoid excess.