Secret Apprentice
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Here is Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice I created for the game "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed".
This is one of the many costumes Galen Marek, aka "Starkiller" wore as he hunted down Jedi for Lord Vader.
For this render I remodeled the head amongst other sections of the model, then went on to up-rez my low poly in-game mesh since none of the high poly mudbox / z brush sculpts contain any UV information.
It was tricky keeping the UVs intact throughout the mesh while up-rezing the polys on hard edges, but still was much faster than re UV mapping to already created textures.
Rendered in xsi w/ mental ray, effects, vader and touch ups in photoshop.
The idea for the image was to show the Apprentice unleashing the over the top force powers seen in the game.
Hope you enjoy it!
(Sith eyes FTW)
This is one of the many costumes Galen Marek, aka "Starkiller" wore as he hunted down Jedi for Lord Vader.
For this render I remodeled the head amongst other sections of the model, then went on to up-rez my low poly in-game mesh since none of the high poly mudbox / z brush sculpts contain any UV information.
It was tricky keeping the UVs intact throughout the mesh while up-rezing the polys on hard edges, but still was much faster than re UV mapping to already created textures.
Rendered in xsi w/ mental ray, effects, vader and touch ups in photoshop.
The idea for the image was to show the Apprentice unleashing the over the top force powers seen in the game.
Hope you enjoy it!
(Sith eyes FTW)
Replies
are you going to show Kazdan and Maul aswell ???
oh and yeah yellow eyed monks with red neon tubes ftw, of course!
Can you show the model and stuff?
Awesomes
P.S. Any advice to a recent grad?
raiskul: Sam Witware, indeed, super cool guy too!
Vahl: Yup yup, ill post more characters soon man, lol u love the sith eyes admit it =P
Josh: Sure thing man, ill post some wip images for ya
Pixelmasher: thanks man I wil pass along the kind words to the other artists, appreciate it. Glad you liked the game.
Notebookguy: Yes it was rendered in XSI with mental ray, then created the effects and touchups in photoshop. Ill post the raw render out of xsi if you want, let me know. Any advice to a recent grad... hmmm what are you goin' for specifically? I can give ya some more advice once I know that, but all around, get your folio together, and make sure it shows your best work, quality over quantity is what I always say. And if you're goin' for a gig, make sure you do your homework on their projects/pass work, and show as much interest as possible in your interviews, it really helps filter out that kind of artists you wanna have working alongside you.
snake85027: Sam was also the voice for the emperor, he kicked ass!!! And some fun trivia: we brough in Chad Vader to voice Vader for us too!! How cool is that?
wireframes:
mudbox wip shots
lighting setup
diffuse
raw render out of xsi b4 effects/touchups
That's cool of Lucas to let you go back and tinker with him. Bring on the rest of the crew!
Good work holmes.
(click to enlerge the walpaper) =P
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I love the game. was just playing it again a few days ago.
did you do any of the other characters? if so, can you post some pics??
i think is cool Sam did the voice for the emperor and chad vader was darth. lol will be laughing next time i play and hear vader talking.
Mohawkd_Zombie: Yeah I made quite a few others, including:
- Apprentice Starting Costume
- Apprentice Felucia 1
- Apprentice Raxus 1
- Apprentice Death Star
- Apprentice Ultimate Evil
- Proxy
- Kazdan Paratus
- Darth Maul
- Evo Trooper
(dirty electricity absorbig troopers)
- Rebel Saboteur
(grenade thrower rebel)
from DLC:
- Apprentice Clone Wars Animated Style
- Apprentice Reconstructed
- Darth Sion
- Kit Fisto
Ill post renders of other characters soon
Sick work AustiN, would be cool to see the Apprentice in Clone wars style.
and thanks for the lightsaber pic
now I realise how close I was to a 100% accurate Secret apprentice lightsaber model for JKA
very good job !