Test renders in marmoset before starting work on the hair/eyelashes/tentacle hooks/environment.
Not sure bout that face paint tho.

Testing out normal + ao bakes. 

Finishing up the sword.

Next up hair cards, tentacle hooks, texturing, environment.

Quick bpr renders of the face and simple hair blockout.

Managed to make some progress, with lots of changes. Learning mari ain't easy, but we're getting there. 

Her face and hair are going through lots of variations, since there should be something behind the mask that's interesting to look at. 

her coin/trinket belt

"hey kid, pssst, wanna hear more about our lord and savior cthulhu?"

Following a concept by the awesome Bogdan Rezunenko.
Nothing's final or finished yet, still playing with the shapes and the overall feel.

Bit of an update on the work so far:
Started detailing the high poly, feels like most of it is complete, but it still needs small tweaks here and there.
Did some iterations for the back of the suit and so far i'm ok with what it ended up being. Any feedback or tips are highly appreciated!
Next up more detailing of the high poly and starting on the low poly and UV's, that should be fun. 

I managed to get some free time the past week and work on the suit. I'm almost done with the bigger shapes and about 95% done with the small shapes. I did a quick test render in keyshot and applied some basic colors to the parts to see how they would work together.
Still not sure if I should change the back or leave it as is. After applying the colors I'm kind of losing the horror aspect of Dead Space with this one, but I'm hoping that with some more polish and some good textures/lighting that could change.

Decided to go from top to bottom, so I started to refine the helm, shoulders and back of the suit. The back and the helmet are still not 100% done, still testing out what looks good and what not.
Quick renders in keyshot: 

As a kid I played the hell out of Dead Space on my horrible desktop pc struggling to run it on the lowest settings and still making me crap my pants. Good times.
Stumbled upon this concept from Heng Z https://www.artstation.com/zz-heng, the dude is crazy good, and just had make it in 3D. Hope I do it justice and not screwing it up. The goal is to make it game res and probably have something decent for my portfolio.
First steps have been made the past days/week playing around with the proportions and figuring out how the thing is coming together. Still gotta get creative with the back, which is probably the most important part in a Dead Space suit and figure that out. Fun stuff, much to do. 

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xGZJr  

WIP #6

Skin and eyes progress, renders in Marmoset with simple 3 point lighting. Also added lots of small details to the rest of the textures.
Looks nice so far, can't wait to start the hair, it should be fun.

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WIP #5

Some quick test renders in Marmoset to see how stuff is holding up, and it doesn't look half bad right now. It's real fun making human skin and I think it's getting there. Also followed a GDC talk by Magdalena Dadela going through how she makes skin, great tips, very informative and she goes through all of her project layers in substance painter.
The eyes need some more work and I'm not sure about that eyebrow color, but I guess it works in the reference so it might work when the hair is done and match the color and eyes well.
Long ways to go still, but it's time well spent learning new things along the way.