Yes. Great idea. I have to check that. But if you can achieve great quality, you can do it also and we buy it from you.

I don't think i'll do big quality, caus like i said i don't target realistic human models, i prefer bring minimum details and make fun characters.
I try to follow the Ratchet And CLanck fun and philosophie of the game

If one day i would make a quality character (complete with animations), i could sell to you , no problem !
And money is not what drives me

@Frank_G:

Yesterday i made a quick and really dirt retopology and paint in some 2 hours (glitches on normal maps on the hands and hands are really bad done).




Front and bigger view :


The Wireframe (not optimised mesh, too much vertices on boots for example) :


As asked the UV : I know it's really bad done on hands !!


A cool feature of 3D Coat : you are painting normal,spec and diff colors at seame time, it you find difficult to paint in your 3D model:
- You can paint on a map called shadowed map : it's just the realtime normal map, combined with diff ans spec on the flat UVMap.
Lot more easy to paint fine details on the plane (Same thing you can paint on normal map only, or diff or spec like all 3D similar tools).

You have a bunch of tool to draw precisely and fill an shape (drawn with by lines or cruves) on normal map or other channels : That's something really missing in Blender texture painting !




So Frank_G, the model is for community here are some points where you couldd try to contribute liek you said and if you really have some time ?

- Remove seems (from symmetry plane) , i've tried to copy and past normal map pieces and
blur it, but seems are visible ? perhaps it's impossible ?

- Invert normal map and Obj model : The normal map on 3D Coat is inverted, and normal of model object
also : if you can put them ok for exporting to A7 ? (don't know ofr normal map how to do, but i've seen an
option on 3D Coat some time ago)

- make loop cuts on the hands , to make them more closed (to carry guns or sword and shield)

- Perhaps bring details on textures and normal map : just by painting on textures if you have a 3D
Tools allowing that in real time like 3D Coat.

I can send you the half model or complete with the 3 textures.

I was not only refering to characters. Actually I was refering to your idea to create grounds, ruins, rocks, whatever.

Your progress on texturing looks very good.

No i'm really bad at texturing :D,
The character woul need more dirt, and metal things with some scratches specularity and dirt also !
for the floors the ones on Follout 3 where you see stones blocks overlapping is really great , and you really think it's models , but it's just texture and normal map on terrain !

I just said that you could make some floors packages also, specially with multitexturing tools, now it's something lot of people perhaps woud like ?

You could have World of Warcraft pack style, or a Follout 3 apocaliptyc style !

In fact there are some limits in 3D Coat not present in ZBrush :

-In 3D Coat, if you use Voxels and increase resolution one time only, it's very slow with big brushes

-Retopology on voxel model, even on low definition model, when you unwrap you can have : error message ont enought memory !
It has happend several times.
And caus i use it for doing real time models, you can't work if retopology can't unwrap, to bake normal map after.

To avoid the error you can divide your model on several parts , but when the model is in standard resolution, that is not very acceptable

Here is the simple model :


simple Retopology :


Because it happened several times, i'm somewhat confused wbout the tool.

Zbrush, is really really expensive, but with ZSpheres 2 incoming : it could be an alternative tool ?

I dont think it is that expensive. Mudbox is way more expensive with less functionality. And all the big 3d application are way more expensive. Even a 3d painting program like Bodypaint 3d is more expensive.
And I got several free upgrades now while you have to pay for Max and Maya every year.

Yesterday I got my free upgrade to ZBrush 3.5. They have some new tutorials at their zclassroom website and it looks really impressive:
http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/

@Frank_G : Yeah i must think of that free updates indeed

3D Coat and Voxels are great, normal works well and retopo tools are the best.Like a user said , every tool has it's own problems :
Zbrush can only do quads in retopo, and it has not all retopo tools of 3D Coat, and Zbrush baking can produce artifacts on normal maps also.

So there is no absolute tool

For Zbrush, i will try the demo when Zsphere 2 will be released, to see if it suits my workflow : 3D models for realtime !


Yeah Zbrush 3.5 is great, so i post here some cool 3D Coat Videos :
muscle tool
wrap tool

Better Hard Surface than Zbrush ??
Voxel Tree

A cool feature :
Voxel sketching

As Machinery_Frank said: every good modeling program is expensive - have a look at Cinema 4D - but it´s great!

But i still don´t know which is the best character modeling program is^^!?

Depends on what method for modeling you use.
-If you use old mdethods :
Extrude, loop cut etc ... Silo, Modo, Blender and lot of programs are ok.
-If you sculpt than retopology to make the low model and normal maps : Zbrush , 3D Coat, Blender are the ones i've tried and are ok !
For Mudbox,Modo,etc ... i don't know for them in that parts.


There are generic character makers tools like poser, but i find them really generic in terms or results, depends on what design and game you target !

If you plan to make really personnal characters, humanoids , creatures or mechanical , the best modeler is YOU : ) !!