DukeNukem- PIGCOP!

tasart

I started this thread at cgchat and wanted to share this work in progress with you all.

E3 got me off my ass and into some Normal map action!
I decided to re-concept a Pig Cop from Duke Nukem, and hopefully model him up.

here's the re-design


concept process


and model so far

skrubbles

kickin' ass so far Tom! Love the redesign and the model so far

DarthRevanII

Very sweet! Two things though

#1-From the side view, the ears need to be rotated forwards more, you shouldnt be able to see as much of the inner ear as you see from your renders

#2-I realize what you did, but your lips dont make any sense. It honestly looks like there is a THIRD lip below the bottom one. What happened with this area? Is there something i just dont see, or did you accidentally make it twice?

Despite these two small things, looks f'ing great

MoP

Awesome stuff TAS. Totally love the concept painting (as usual!).

I think DarthRevanII is right about the chin looking like an extra lower lip - I think you should push it back and make it less prominent, like the concept is. Pigs' lower lips are usually very prominent, and kinda flop over the chin to hide a lot of it, doing something like that might help here.

I'd also recommend moving the eyebrow polys around a bit, he's looking a bit friendly and dopey, while he looks feral and angry in the concept - a more steeply angled eyebrow-ish part would improve that, I think.

Great stuff so far, keep it up dude!

MoP

Jeff Parrott

Looking real nice TAS. Can't wait to see this thing textured.

rooster

that concept is so cool! man I used to love that game, bricked it every time one of those floaty psionic jellyfish was about

shotgun

Good to see you posting here tasart,
I wish I could see you do a more refreshing take on the concept. It was cool back in the day, but today I think I find it pretty boring.. maybe you are just saving your demons for other stuff
keep updating anyways.

El_PIG

Really digg'n the redesign! Great stuff so far, keep it up.

pogonip

Man you are good...top notch concept and modeling skills .. how are you modeling that cage modeling ???

tasart

Awsome feedback!, I'll definitly revisit the chin and Brow. Ive been going back and forth alot so nothing is set n stone. Mop / Revan, good eye, I get to close to this stuff sometimes.

Shotgun:I didnt want to stray to far from the original, My main purpose was to bring it up to date with subtle changes the concept is more of an update, not a redesign. Its easy to make hime evil and scaly looking, I'm trying to capture the campy design is what made Duke so Fun, I really hope the pigcop in DNF stays more true to the original.

Pogonip: thanks , I model by extruding edges.. maintains a more sucessful edgeloop.

tasart

some more... made subtle changes to the head... I want to keep his expression more neutral for now, I found a midpoint between "dopey" and "ferral". also brought the chin in a bit and hung the lip out a bit more. started on the arm as well.

Keep the crits comming, they help alot

Daz

Hah looks great man.

Kevin Johnstone

Love the rich tones of the concept, if you capture 50% of
that in the model you'll be doing great!

r.

DarthRevanII

oh my gosh its Tasart...ive been a fan of your concepts for a LOOOONG time (heard of you first from the C&C Renegade community). I never even read your name bro. It's great to finally "run into you." It's like meeting a famous person .

Arm's are looking great, but something seems wierd...i cant place it...ill keep studying it and get back to you

arshlevon

sweet concept.. the model is still early.. and i know you will probably pull it together.. but at the moment he dosent seem to have the "ima gonna kill you suka"look on his face.. he kinda looks like a puppy that wants to play.. i am not very afraid of this guy... but the concept it pretty cool..i almost want him to be fatter.. a big lard ass.. but thats always how i pictured them.. your take is still pretty cool.. "who wants some?"

poopinmymouth

Looking really cool Tasso. One question, is this gonna be a high poly model (turbosmoothed)? or is it just a really dense in game model? Just curious. If it's for turbosmoothing eventually, you might want to be modeling with that turned on, as it will seriously change the definition and volume of the details when you do. Better to make it work with it while modeling, than have to give it an entire once over when you apply it.

Anywho, looking pimp, love the concept!

sumguy

oh...

fucking sweet idea.

tasart

Revan: thats a first... thanks man.. too much! Jeez Renegade, ::gulp::

Arsh: long time no speak... ya I'll definitly be doing alot of tweaking as the model starts to come together, proportions being among those.. I still have a whole zbrush process to go through for detailing.

Poop!: This is a model ment to be smoothed, Ive be turning it on and off to check progess, but i dont see why i cant keep it on... good advice, thanks man!

Well.. ive been working on this for 4 hours straight, time to go to sleep.Heres where i'm leaving it for now...

Badname

Tasart very nice. Man I love your work i remember your site how you started on RG ;D man how much i played that game

Jeff Parrott

Dang Tas that is looking better every update. This is getting me looking forward to DNF.

tasart

I'll killed my bandwidth this month... ALMOST MADE IT TOO, My Site and Pig Cop images will be back up soon, might have to wait till the the 1st which is in a couple days.

_Shimmer

this one is looking great. really looking forward to the texture.

Moz

heh, the new dukenukem openGL port has support for models, though not this hi poly. Pretty interesting concept, but I always liked the enforcer lizard chaingun guys better, they jumped and stuff.

tasart

Probebly wont be any updates till next week due to my sis's graduation... sooo see ya'll then

gauss

the concept and the model both look sharp--but as you're progressing with your model, i hope you retain the meaty look of his lower legs as portrayed in the concept! keep us posted

Sean McBride

yeah man, duke is what got me into game modding. I love this tas, great stuff. Really inspirational.

Enix

wow man, I used to love to play duke nukem XD. Then I discovered resident evil, and traded in exotic dancers for zombies .

Model looks great, I love the arms, everything is looking awsome.

Weiser_Cain

Just a reminder, pigs have split hooves.

pogonip

I dont think he is nearly that far along wiht the fete they look like simple blocks to me ...im sure he'll get there

Weiser_Cain

I did say it was just a reminder.

Josh_Singh

Haha This looks awsome Tas! Man I love the lighting in your concept! The model looks great too. It seemes in the concept he's a bit more hunched over and menacing, but that might just be the pose and rigging thing.

tasart

You rock weiser, thanks for the reminder, i dumped it in my ref directory. Expect more updates later this week...hopefully!

tasart

oops... and ghost,,, ya everything on him is a static pose including the face... it will be posed up near the end.

tasart

Back from beautiful Boulder CO,

Here's some hand and belly button action I squeezed in last night, I hope to get the base model done this week so i can start z-brushing. I'm Itching!

MoP

Hot stuff. Can't wait to see what he'll look like when Zbrushed... I can just imagine the cool flesh texture and surface detail now... awesome!

Renardin

OMG, you are the one who worked on Renegade2!!!

Well hello my hero!

Nice work as usual. Plz, come and visit us @ www.cncreborn.net , you will meet some people you might know as Eric Gooch or Eric K...

Cya soon!

RazorBladder

the concept piece for this is rocks
modelling is progressing nicely.

ZBRUSH THE MOTHER!

tasart

here's some more progress...

SLOWW GOING!, been hard to find time. Here's a bit more.

Started the Back Device. The idea behind this device is a Tranlation machine that turns his squeals into human speech, hence the speakerish gadget on his neck.. I'll probebly end up doing some redesigns on this, so its temp for now. Starting some proportion correction So any input would Help.
I'll get some smoothed renders next round... wasnt thinking.




Other than that, took a departure and started modelling his gun based off of an old concept in my sketchbook..

A 50 Cal 6 shooter.. uh huh... thats right!

Wells

Hey, looking good. One of my favorite toys sitting around here is the pigcop.

Not crazy about his feet... they don't really look anything like pig feet. Thems got hooves, not claws.

odium

Thats amazing!

We cna only hope DNF has even half that style!

tasart

Actually.. Pigs have toes... its a common misconception, I thought they had hooves too until a CG chat member pointed it out ,just do a google search on "Pig"

Wells

Well, I've owned pigs. They have hooves.



but I'll go check out the cgchat thread and see whats up.

46th Avenue

This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy....

tasart

Hmm..the the ref i was looking at was more this



looks like its a mix, kinda a toed hoove...

thanks for the insight

Irritant

Commonly known as a "cloven hoof".

Evil if you're a Muslim.

KDR_11k

It's a cloven hoof, the same kind of foot that sheep, goats and cows have. Only horses have plain hooves.

EDIT: Heh, Irritant posted while I was googling up a translation...

Wells

Yup. just make sure you don't use references of the feet after the hoof/nail is removed. they take those and make dog chew-toys with them, leaving the nasty toes.

tasart

HA HA HA...got it...Thanks for the heads up all, Guess i was fed faulty reference. I'll be making it more hoof-like