Old school character creation process

Here’s a character I made, and here is the process for creating an old-school (last gen, no normal maps) character for a Wii game for Red Fly:

His proportions are different from the concept because he had to be made to fit an existing rig and skeleton.

Concept (by Thomas Szakolczay)

Model

UV layout

Grayscale underpainting in ZBrush

Texture process in Photoshop

Grayscale underpainting, then add color and levels to skin, then color and levels on armor, add scars and final touchups for final diffuse map.

Model with diffuse map

Similar process for creating specular map using same grayscale underpainting, adding grunge, noise, patterns, and especially bringing out edges to describe form.

Model with specular component only

Final model w/ both diffuse and specular components: