Gladiator Challenge - t4paN

t4paN

... I'm going with Activision.




Sorry, couldn't help it.

I'll probably change to some real company tomorrow. Or maybe not.

Yeah I'm actually gonna stick with it.

Russian prison tattoo for inspiration:



MMA fighter Alexander Emelianenko's back tattoo.

vcool

Says God is with us in German. :S

Kwramm

...and it used to be what the Nazi soldiers had written on their belt buckles. Yeah, I've been watching Stalingrad

vcool

I was gonna ask whether Emelianenko was a member of the Nazi funclub in prison, but I thought it was not politically correct.

Looks like I was right.

Martin Henriksson

he also has two of these on his knees: http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/1261/95wl0.jpg

t4paN

Yeah, I kinda was focusing more on the grim reaper holding a dagger-wielding baby..

Belltann

Evil! go for the daggerwielder

Steve Schulze

The name Activision kind of sounds like it might be the company that runs a totalitarian, Big Brother, watching-the-citizens-with-hidden-cameras kind of deal. Still evil, just a different flavour, and perhaps one that's a little more appropriate to what Activision are really like.

t4paN

@Belltann: Yup, I'm going with a backstabbing, cloaked and rotten evil bastard. He's going to be holding a dagger on the arm he's got behind his back.



This is an early basemesh, I'm thinking of having small creepy arms protruding from his back (like 4 of them) but i'm worried he might look like a Mechanicum Adept with that. Of course, the arms would be creepy and not mechanical..

@Jackablade: Heh, I'm mostly using the idea of how I personally see activision, regardless of the name itself. But you are right on the other hand. I'm thinking of doing something with the eyes/one of the eyes so that it better sticks to the name, i guess.

ralusek

did you say weapon behind the back? what could be more ironic for actiVISION than a company called blind?

t4paN

Heh, rausek, that's a great catch. I hadn't thought about blind for years, but I guess the hooded-skeleton figure trying to conceal a weapon behind it's back image must come from that XD. It's fitting too.



Here's the finished basemesh before I start scultping. I've added two withered hands on it's back, one holds an infinity symbol and the other an extra dagger. Also added two placeholder daggers just so that I can model the hands around the grips.

Finally, instead of using yet another skull, like in the concept, I've decided to change it to a gangsta dollar-sign pendant that will be adorned with diamonds. A rather obvious association.

achillesian

infinity for infinity ward?

t4paN

achillesian wrote: »

infinity for infinity ward?

Yup. Thought if I'm going to do this, I might as well do it properly :P

Arkadius

Hahah I like the money sign, but that cloak is going to suck with the folds and all.

I dont know if this will help but I stumbled upon it awhile back.
http://www.selwy.com/2009/zbrush-clothes-tutorial/

t4paN

Hey Arkadius, I thought it'd be good practice with the folds, so thanks for the tutorial. It even has brushes and shit!

t4paN

Update with some early sculpting done. Trying out a very basic form for da hood and look for the head.







/edit ah yeah, the eyethingy is very wip and not exactly a placeholder right now. Gonna export the head and reposition the thing later.

Fucking Darkfall Online has me playing all day. Good thing they patched the thing today and I had the time to start working on the model while servers are down.

leslievdb

i like the idea

your sculpt seems veeeeeeeeery busy atm
i would suggest losing at least one of the backarms

the hood should be thinner and to make it look more evil you can make the hood cover the eyes.

Also make it look more dynamic, make him lean more forward , think of the folds and make the cloak spread out over the floor to make it look more interesting

just some suggestions , good job so far so keep it up