[Mixamo] Archer - Ballista User

Myaou

Hi everyone !

So, really late start ... didn't think at first about entering the contest, as I still have a lot of things to learn, but I had an idea about ~1 week ago, and couldn't resist joining in the competition .

My idea was to play around with the weapons' theme : I wanted to make a character that uses a bow, but not a regular one, and instead making it the size of a ballista (so some kind of blacksmith / engineer).

Might be a little bit off topic for the competition but ... well .

Here's what I came up :







I'm considering to put the ballista on wheels, or on some kind of vehicle, but don't know if it would be too much ..

Anyway, thanks again for any feedback

lotet

Hmm, Think ur pushing the limits here, but Its a clever concept I personally think you should go with the wheels, at least then its a mobile weapon, like a bow.

Texelion

Just put this on a fecking rollin barrel of mead and you got it ^^.

But remember that the character AND the weapon should be under 15 000 and use a mx texture space of 2048px². Looks ok for the 15 000 tris, but putting both on a 2048... looks difficult.

Myaou

Thanks for the feedbacks !

As for the ballista, I agree that making a whole vehicle might be a bit too extreme .. I was thinking on making something like this (Age of Empires - something simple, like the first design)



For the texture size, I haven't really thought about it. In fact, I still have to find out a good workflow in sculpting with Zbrush and retopology, that's kinda freaking me out (don't know if I'll have the time to finish this up)

For now, I still have too much things to figure out, I think, so I'll just take this as an opportunity to try new things.

Well, ~one week to go ..

Myaou

Ok, last update for today ..

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Won't be able to work in this week-end, but I'll have a little bit more time next week.

Let's just hope I can finish in time !

lotet

how about making it on just 2 wheels?

Myaou

Hi,

2 wheels, like this ?



Or else, I've resized the wheels when having 4 of them ..

lotet

I like 2 wheels, I think you could remove the support beam too, and make a handle or something so he can hold it with his hand and run around with it, make it more of a weapon and less of a vehicle. that would make it a gun with wheels on the front for support or something, just n idea.