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Description
Either Nova had her armor stolen and is on the hunt, or she has her own from of training!

I got restless and needed to kick out something new. I also forgot to do a release with her new and improved face. Blizzard was sneaky and put the expansion model in the Legacy of the Void release which was months before the expansion pack. Not like this has any super secret sneak preview at this point, but I'm really glad Blizzard improved her face. The old one was so bad.

I didn't have any particular inspiration for this, I just needed to make a base for Nova if I were to mix and match some wardrobe or render concepts. The key challenge was mixing the neck and body. For all of the porting and renders, I guess I hadn't attempted it until now. Mission accomplished, other than my poor texture skills leaving a minor gradient issue it's otherwise seam free.

Definitely a much lower sample count, but they still took forever with some added time since I had to render them in parts and stitch a couple pieces together.

Notes
Extracted with miscellaneous modding tools
Imported using Blender
Edited, Posed, Rendered in Blender 2.75a
3840 x 3840 (1920 x 1080 @ 200% each)
1800 Samples
Front: 5 Hrs. 9 Min.
Back: 7 Hrs. 29 Min.

Credits
Nova (Blizzard)
- Face (Nova Covert Ops)
- Ghost Rifle (StarCraft II Base)
DOA5 Assets (Team Ninja, Koei Tecmo)
- Mila: Body, Bikini Top
- Leifang: Body, Bikini Bottom

Techniques
- Merge of assets from different game engines
- Reuse of existing workflow

Flaws
- Mesh Tearing (Elbow, Shoulder)
- Bump Map Strength
- Neck Texture Blend
- Minor Mesh Shadow (Butt)

Description
Either Nova had her armor stolen and is on the hunt, or she has her own from of training!

I got restless and needed to kick out something new. I also forgot to do a release with her new and improved face. Blizzard was sneaky and put the expansion model in the Legacy of the Void release which was months before the expansion pack. Not like this has any super secret sneak preview at this point, but I'm really glad Blizzard improved her face. The old one was so bad.

I didn't have any particular inspiration for this, I just needed to make a base for Nova if I were to mix and match some wardrobe or render concepts. The key challenge was mixing the neck and body. For all of the porting and renders, I guess I hadn't attempted it until now. Mission accomplished, other than my poor texture skills leaving a minor gradient issue it's otherwise seam free.

Definitely a much lower sample count, but they still took forever with some added time since I had to render them in parts and stitch a couple pieces together.

Notes
Extracted with miscellaneous modding tools
Imported using Blender
Edited, Posed, Rendered in Blender 2.75a
3840 x 3840 (1920 x 1080 @ 200% each)
1800 Samples
Front: 5 Hrs. 9 Min.
Back: 7 Hrs. 29 Min.

Credits
Nova (Blizzard)
- Face (Nova Covert Ops)
- Ghost Rifle (StarCraft II Base)
DOA5 Assets (Team Ninja, Koei Tecmo)
- Mila: Body, Bikini Top
- Leifang: Body, Bikini Bottom

Techniques
- Merge of assets from different game engines
- Reuse of existing workflow

Flaws
- Mesh Tearing (Elbow, Shoulder)
- Bump Map Strength
- Neck Texture Blend
- Minor Mesh Shadow (Butt)