Draenei - Blizzard Fan Art - WIP

Arthur Ramazanov

Trying to experiment with the way more cinematic models are made...its sort of hard to find out the workflow - whether to use displacement maps and nm for smaller details or to just model in every detail and use a normal map for smaller details...

I am more familiar with game modeling than modeling for cinematics or for render...Planning on maybe trying out Vray in Max...But I am more comfortable with Mental ray in Maya...so not sure which...














Crits Welcome - harsh crits - even more welcome

almighty_gir

feet are waaaaaaaaaaaay too big...

Gannon

The feet feel almost twice as large as they should be and you could stand to give the knee guards a bit more volume.

Just my two cents.

Arthur Ramazanov

awesome thank you for the crit - Just to clarify - I was wondering do you mean the hoof is too wide? or too long -

Arthur Ramazanov

@Gannon - thanks will do :)it also needs a sort of leather padding i haven't made yet behind the knee pad Ill get to it

almighty_gir

well, look at the concept, the feet in the concept are maybe 30% wider than the knee, at the very most. and in your model they're over twice the size easily.

Arthur Ramazanov

Some refs

Arthur Ramazanov

ahhh - I see what you mean - thank you

Caldria

The face is looking great so far. I think his whole upper body (particularly the torso/groin area) could stand to be a bit wider or thicker, to give him a more "solid" or bulky feel.

The legs could also do with some thickening. This may help with the feet issue, either by having the legs match what you have now, or more likely to have a better perspective on fixing the feet.

Looking forward to seeing how you progress ^^

Arthur Ramazanov

that is a good point he is way too thin tx - I'll work on that

D4V1DC

I didnt read this thread but his hooves seem more rounded in the figure and taller and yours seems a bit more pointy and lower to the ground, I could be wrong.

Arthur Ramazanov

Bulked him out a bit more -
Made his hooves smaller

tottot

I'll try to dig around for it, but if you can find the Burning Crusade art book, the expansion that the Draenei cinematic is from, they have a full body render of that model. It would certainly help you match your proportions better. Right now his feet are very large compared to his much thinner body.

Arthur Ramazanov

OH WOW - I didn't know that - I gotta dig around to see if I can find a PDF of it somewhere online TX for the info

Arthur Ramazanov

awesome this will help

tottot

I couldnt find any images online without digging around, I snapped a quick pic from the art book:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/totorojonathan/photo1.jpg

It would be worth finding that book or the pages his model is on, they have ortho drawings as well.

Arthur Ramazanov

awesome - thank you - I actually found the PDF online

Arthur Ramazanov

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