Grumpy guard wip

Carl Brannstrom

I'm working on this character for the moment. My thought is that it's goign to be a guard for a stealth game with some action/rpg elements. I'm making this mostly for practicing hight poly modeling so it's going to have a normal map with specular etc. The main technique I'm going to use is smoothing groups and sub-d where's needed. The only place where I'm going to sculpt is the helmet.

The block-out is almost finished. Just going to add some bolts and such.

I would like to get critique for proportions, shapes and overall design. I'm a bit unsecure about the details on chest and thigh pads. Also I want to have chainmail on the parts between the armorplates but I'm not sure how to do that

ZacD

That's hot.

Carl Brannstrom

Thank you ZacD!

Here's some slow update. Too much work and a new xbox takes too much time
Here's the current high poly:

Taylor Hood

Agreement.

achillesian

very cool, reminds me of the robot pirates in rayman 2, dont know why

Carl Brannstrom

Thanks guys!

I've done some progress on the highpoly. Have to fix some ugly smoothing on some places.
I have a slight problem with the head though, it's optimized and if I edit it in any way, max will crash... I guess my computer can't really handle too high resolution models.

iWeReZ

You could try sending it to someone and letting them cut it up for you ?

Nice model, i like the cartoony face, but the head seems a tad bt too small, considering the cartoony proportions your going for.

Hitez

neh, the head size is fine. especially considering the cartoony proportions...

Taylor Hood

sweet highpoly. Keep going.

Awwwh sick! Got 500 posts! Polygon! POLYGONS FTW. haha.

Carl Brannstrom

Thanks for the comments!


@iWeReZ
It turned out alright, I made a sub-d model of the head instead of sculpting the eyes so the hi-poly became 1 million polys less.

Here's the lowpoly:

torontoanimator

is it just me or does the armor look kinda sci fi? its still good though, and i love the cartoony proportions on the gaurd

achillesian

torontoanimator wrote: »

is it just me or does the armor look kinda sci fi?

just you, the head makes it look a little clock-worky, but that not scifi, thats like, ancient mecha or something.

Carl Brannstrom

The bake turned out better than expected. Still needs some clean-up though.

I'll start with the texture tomorrow. The reason for the slow updates is because I don't have opportunity to work on this at home so I can only work on it on the weekends.

jett12

I like the log a lot, nice work.

Carl Brannstrom

Thank you jett12

I've started on the texture. Maybe I'm being too experimental? Still wip and I haven't done a specular yet. The log is kind of done though.

Nightroad

I can't help but think of D-pads whenI looka t the shoulder, I like the log though I think I need the blood needs a little work. The colors on the armor seem waaaay too saturated to me, and your color pallet needs a rethinking.

I like the character himself, really works.

jett12

YOU NEED NEON GREEN.

Carl Brannstrom

Finally got my computer back home so I could do some work on this model. Still needs to be rigged. Btw, Xoliul's shader is awesome!





@Nightroad
I agree. Went a bit overboard while experimenting hehe

ru4it

when the animation is done i hope that u post it here so that we can see it grove

Thegodzero

Love it! Tighten up the gloss and up the spec contrast!

Carl Brannstrom

There we go.

Quick pose with the worst rig ever made:



Thanks for all the comments in this thread!

bbob

Pleeeaase increase resolution on the log!

The texel differences is really killing this otherwise fantastic piece..

Btw, I love how his crotch looks like some robo snail, and how his hips look like goth furby's

Gallows

That was the oddest metaphor ever, but bbob is completely right. The model looks great, so much character, and so much quality.

Carl Brannstrom

Good call and thanks!

I tightened-up the highpoly on the log's butt: