Phil (amphibi-phil)

Torrrtilla

I've been meaning to model a frog slash angler fish like character for a while now. Big inspiration is Davy Jones and the idea is that this being lives as a sentinel guard for an ancient underwater civilization.

The armor I was going for is sort of a cross between Samurai and Roman with nautilus decorations and think leather. I haven't worked on the game mesh yet, the base mesh is at 15k Tris which I'm posting. Also I modeled the character in Max and and sculpt with polypaint in Zbrush.

Torrrtilla

raul

the textures and the sculpt look pretty good. One thing that bugs, is how the antennas are so flat looking. and that carried over to the low poly. Which looks like its just teh base mesh reduced. Got any texture sheets?

Is all looking good! looking forward to see more!

now...wtf is the second post with the thumb nails. lol, i just cant seem to make a connection.

Torrrtilla

Ha, well I put up the initial silhouette concept thumbs, at the time I wasn't sure what I wanted to do so I changed it quite a but as I was working on the model. I totally understand why that would be confusing but I thought I would put my process up there.
Thanks for the crit! Right now I'm transferring the polypaint in xnormal. Some odd reason zbrush crashes when I try to extract texture with my current uvs even though they appear ok.

Torrrtilla

Got a first pass at the normal diffuse maps from zbrush and thickened the antennas (although it bothers me greatly that he looks like an oddworld character which was not really my intention) Any suggestions on fixing this? . Definitely some cleaning up on the maps to do now.
Cheers,
-Neil

Torrrtilla

Cleaned up the textures in PS a bit and added a spec map. Rendered in 3ds max w/ raytraced shadows and no gi. I think I'm going to do a bit more clean up and then call it good for this guy.

Steve Schulze

(although it bothers me greatly that he looks like an oddworld character which was not really my intention) Any suggestions on fixing his?

It's an amphibious character with a unique design and a whole lot of personality. I suppose you could make him more boring and generic if you wanted to avoid comparisons to Oddworld Inhabitants, but why would you ever desire that?

P442

i like the character, but the armor feels unfinished and too random. I can't put my finger on it.

pliang

It has pretty plain skin colors for an amphibious being, perhaps some color variations would make it pop more instead of making it deep blue.

Torrrtilla

Thanks for the comments guys!

I've been thinking about adding some patterns to the armor (perhaps Minoan?), and maybe some stripes or additional textures to the skin.

bounchfx

freaky. I like it. however, I can't say the same about the UV's... sorry! FIX ER UP! otherwise, good job so far.

Torrrtilla

Oh man, I thought the uvs were fine (but it seems I've got a lot to learn) I'll do my best to optimize him, any suggestions?
Thanks

n88tr

To me it doesn't look like any of his clothes would stay on if he got into a scrap, it looks held together with string and glue or something. Make it more robust and I think it'd be a lot more solid.

Torch

I'd have to disagree, this might be the case for his pauldrons, but I think the rest of the armor fits together really well. Color scheme blends nicely together as well, nice work!

Torrrtilla

n88tr, I totally agree and I think I may add some leather straps in the back to hold it together.


Just some more progress.

Highelf

I particularly like the hands and feet but the thing that, sadly, I don't like about it is the face. Overal it looks great - just the face bothers me. The silhouette is fine, I like the broad head and neck it has, but it's (probably) the eyes that bother me. I'd mess around with different eye designs, or facial expressions. He seems like a low-IQ zombie at the moment, staring into space like that. (Though that's probably a conscious decision, it being a fishmonster and all, but it still looks odd.) :P

I took the liberty to try out different eyes visually:



Nonetheless I still love it. I love everything oddworld and it being oddworld-y is in no way a bad thing.