An ethnic rainbow of zombies!

Neo_God

Well not really a rainbow...anyway, I recently offered my helping hands to Half-life 2 mod No More Room In Hell. Which is a Zombie Apocalypse mod taking nods from Romero's zombie series. Since I love zombies so much, I figured I would join, plus it gives me an excuse to model more zombies without coming off as being too repetitive with my content.

Anyway. I made one model (I actually made it awhile ago, but I revamped it for this) and I had to make 3 different textures for it. Also I need to have a human form and a zombie form. Anyway here's the base mesh:

4200 polys

Now the human forms:


Now Zombified! (Their meshes differ slightly for things like damage and what not)


They all have the complete package (which is pretty much the standard now) of a normal, spec and diffuse. It was pretty much a day a texture. Though the old white guy I had made the texture for quite some time ago.

C&C is always welcome.

PoR3

I love zombies as well, very nice stuff ! I should reinstall HL² someday...

Geezus

don't the zombies look cute! :]
good work neo_god. any chance of getting a look at the texture flats?

Rick Stirling

I'll just skip to the art points.

the mesh is very square - you've got loads of 90 degree corners in it, adding noting to the shape.

Shoes are too thin

Doing multiple ethnicities on one base mesh is very hard indeed - very often it ooks like a wite man balcked up etc.

You've got a traingle at the shoulder which might cuase nasty pinching in some animaton poses.

There is no gather - add some loose cloth at the shoes to indicate some heft to the trousers. The same goes for the waist line, just above his very very thin belt.

Possibly too many buttons on the jacket.

Neo_God

Well I gave hims bodies poly flow, more of a flow and less of a grid. I also reduced his coat to three buttons instead of 6 and also made his clothes look a little more loose. Missed the point about the shoes, I'll fix that later.





Flats: (I also threw in a normal map of one of the bodys to just take a space and give you an idea of what I was working with.
Human Body Flat
Human head Flat
Zombie Body Flat
Zombie Head Flat

the heads were pretty much all photo sourced, while the heads were a combination of hand panted and photos.

zenarion

Those are awesome I think i have you guys on Modwatch
good luck

ebagg

Damn well done dude, and the mod is looking great, I'll be keeping my eye on it and hop in on the zombie killing fun as soon as it's released!

warby

dont you think the back of the head and ears are just ... too wide ?

Neo_God

Well the back of the head is wide because I wanted to it look like the hair had some plumage(I think that's the word I want to use, I don't know though).

Neo_God

Okay, here's an update.

Big thanks goes to Rick for helping me out on the geometery!

There are some changes to them. Not much to the humans more so to the Zombies. just some more blood and bitten up peices of flesh. I'll post the updated flats if it's requested.

Updated wires:


Humans:


Zombies:


Alright, enjoy!