Character Design & Scene WIP

jmiles

Starting a new project. Full project details coming soon, but too kick it all off, I thought I would share some prelims for the character and his weapon. There are a lot of kinks to work out yet w/ details in clothing, and i'm not sure i'm happy w/ the weapon design just yet, but it's getting there. I also will be working on a sculpt of the character in Super Sculpy (all the materials are ready, just doing prelim work first)

DrunkShaman

Once again Jmiles have emerged from the ground with a mouse as his weapon and lowpoly as his strength..Looking forward to this thread also!! *as usual*

I dont know why but something about your work clicks me *in terms of learning* which usually doesnt happen in other threads in pimp and preview.

Oh ya, you work with edit mesh instead of polies alot!
Forgot to ask you in your previous thread. Do you know anywhere I can find the tutorials for lowpoly model like this? Or did you figure it out by playing around with them...

jmiles

oh yeah man.. pretty much practice makes perfect... but my biggest influence of low poly characters is Tom Tallian. His work is amazing and a great place to learn to create good low poly meshes and textures.. check it out

http://www.tomtallian.com/

jmiles

painted up his front profile today.. bout 6 hours.. next will be a side view.. then on to some sculpting

DrunkShaman

Will definately check that TF low poly models out bro thanks!!

and looking forward for the updates!!

jmiles

anything look weird or not make sense w/ the drawing so far? any suggestions or ideas?.. discuss!

jmiles

side profile.. prolly about the same amount of time to paint as the front.. maybe a little less..4 to 4.5 i think

Fang

Crazy lowpoly work! Very nice model-sheet you've got going and sweet concept, style too.

DrunkShaman

Once again your low-poly work is hard to crit except for the last thread where you couldnt figure out how to get the view'rs attention by setting the models up right. =\

This one is on the start so cant really say, except for the comment that the character is too fat.. <.<

jmiles

updated my design a bit and painted up some orthographics of the his arms.

jmiles

painted up his back ortho tonight.. finally ready to do some real life sculptin'... crits & suggestions always appreciated.. peace

P442

i think his pauldron thing could use a couple of divisions.

jmiles

like, line divisions to look like plates?

P442

just some more roundness on the pauldron, to fit the natural curve of the shoulders.
Just a suggestion
sorry for bad paintover, Wacom not working right.

Japhir

awesome concepting work! I'm really looking forward to the model progress!

btw, so the lowpoly was just to get the silhouette you drew earlier (the thumbnail) correct in all views so you could draw your concept over that?

jmiles

@ P442-- ah yes, that would make more sense-- thanks.. donno why I didn't think of that. I think more for the low poly prelim model, I did that on purpose.. for something like a zbrush or (in this case) a sculpt in super sculpy.. that would be necessary.. ya still got me thinking on a more elaborate design for the pauldron surface. ;P

@ Japhir-- yeah that's exactly what i did actually.. Took a screen shot of the silhouette from 3DS Max, then sized it up to about 8 inches (project space 8.5 x 11, 300 dpi).. I used the rulers in Photoshop with the project windows as close and accurate to each other as i could.. really helped me line up all the different areas. The front, side and back views are 8 inches tall, and the arms are 4 inches, I believe. Then I simply did a paint over. So the character, when done in sculpty, will be about this height.

jmiles

oh and yeah.. I built my low poly early on, so i could get a feel for the silhouette..

DrunkShaman

Looking great miles

Emil Mujanovic

This is looking ace, dude! I'm really looking forward to seeing this progress.