HMP Contest - harmless

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I am going to make a guardian character with long and tattered robes. His head has a jar of liquid around it because he is quite old. He needs a new body every now and then, so his body will be quite large and muscular. He will have all sorts of weird cannisters and hoses to support the tank around his head. I'll post some rough drawings soon.

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Here is a little update of my work-in-progress mesh. The head is basically going to be a weird type of alien skull.

Anais

Wouldn't want to mess with this guy.

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more progress on his back. almost done with the modeling of the body. soon I will move on to the accessories.

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Eggbert

I like the veins in the arms

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@Eggbert - thanks! that is a pretty small feature, I am surprised you saw it!

The high res base mesh is done now.

Dryulya

this man is very scary

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@Dryulya --

Here is the low res base mesh. it is about 7k triangles

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I have it rigged against several resolutions of the character. I have baked out some maps and laid out the uvs for the base mesh. He is now animated. I will be tightening up the transitions between animations then figuring out my camera. Stay tuned!

Here is a frame from the low res base mesh moving around

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an sss test in mantra on the low res base mesh with no textures:

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higher res test:

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I have tried various cloth sim tests and all seems well. I will continue to work on the costume and post progress. Afterwards I will tighten up the render and add costume details/accessories.

Dryulya

I like this monster.

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The simulation has gone very well. I am now working on constructing the costume. Here are the beginnings of some gloves:

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Finished gloves:

Dryulya

very realistic. I like

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Jim Crafton

Wow, that looks very cool! Can't wait to see this with cloth.

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Here is a test render of the helmet full of liquid. I am adding some bubbles in the liquid as well.

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ChewyPixels

I really like the worn, weathered look to the cloth elements you have there. I suggest you adjust your lighting to show off more of the details. I'm seeing more blacks than anything. It needs some fill and rim lighting to make this stand out imho.

Keep it up!

-Chewy

nacertag

looking nice man, wish you could let us see higher res or just a shot from the view-port so we can see more detail ,your renders are small and too dark so we cant really c much

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Thanks to everyone that hosted the contest! It was a lot of fun!
Here are some more WIP images that I finally got a chance to upload.

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