Bungie Destiny Hunter Dude WIP Thread

dwgagner

So I'm inspired by the new game from Bungie called Destiny. I really dig the concepts and art coming out for it so I decided to sculpt one of the hunter class concepts. This will be my WIP thread for it so any critique as I go is welcome. Sci-Fi type stuff is newer to me but I recently learned a great technique on how to hard surface model in Zbrush so I'll be working that out as I go.

Latest Progress:





Here is the concept and where I'm at atm. Still building pieces and roughly blocking things in.

artquest

hah I knew it was only a matter of time before someone started doing Destiny Fan art. That game has some of the most amazing concept art. Looks really great so far man. There isn't much to crit so far so I'll check back later *subscribed*
You're inspiring me to make some 3D models of Destiny now too!

dwgagner

Quick update, did a model of a beretta quickly today in Zbrush to use in the chest holster and possibly also in his hand during the final pose.

JoshVanZuylen

Looks awesome. But in the concept he has no face! Jks I won't be a smart arse. Lookin good not much I can say at the moment will check back when you make some more progress!

dwgagner

Quick update, still blocking in stuff, about to redo the straps.

Grubber

Looks very interesting. I hope to see more soon!

dwgagner

Finished building the low poly base, on to sculpting.

dwgagner

Been on vacation since the 13th just got back yesterday, here's my resumed progress. Still a lot to do. Rebuilt the helmet / started sculpting pants, boots, gloves, scarf, cape, haven't touched much else.

Un_dead

Just a note on the chest holster: It will be incredibly difficult to draw from that holster with either hand, making it very impractical in combat, particularly for such a fast moving, lightly armoured operator. My suggestion is to move it further to the front of the chest and to turn it around (the majority of people are right-dominant). Check out these pictures for reference:





This one is a shoulder holster, which attaches around the back, but you could still use it for reference:

dwgagner

Ya I agree, I wasn't certain if I should flip it or not since I'm trying to work off bungie's concept art but it would be impossible to use it easily in the direction its facing so I think I might flip it.

dwgagner

Another update, surface detailing, denting, scratching, adjusted some volumes etc. Just about ready to build the low poly proxy. Moved the gun lower so that it would be more reasonable to use but decided to stick to the concept in this case. Particularly because he also has a leg holster on his right leg so if I swap the gun the other direction both guns would only be useable by the right hand. Whereas if I leave the chest holster facing towards the left hand he could potentially dual wield.

dwgagner

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dwgagner

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Brian "Panda" Choi

Sculpt looks about ready to me, (to my untrained eyes, heh)

I have a feeling this may be a heavy texture job in terms of where most of the challenges lie?

dwgagner

Got feedback from a friend of mine, rebuilt the helmet / hoodie area. Any and all critique is welcome.

Garnet

Looking very good.

One thing that jumps out at me is the belts, especially around the torso, seem to not have tension.

So my suggestion is to tighten up the straps on the arms a bit as they look to be cloth and should be tighter, deforming the clothing below. For the torso, the thick leather straps don't look to be holding weight. They are also not sagging, so it looks as if they are solid rather than flexible.

dwgagner

That's a good point thanks Garnet.

dwgagner

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refugee3d

This is looking really clean. For a quick critique, as far as anatomy goes. I feel that the arms could go a little longer. Especially when looking at the character in an A pose. The finger tips should hit the mid thigh and the elbow should line up with the bottom of the rib cage. And maybe the waist could come up just a little bit? Should be a 5 min fix with the Transpose Master.

Definitely looking forward to seeing the final. Props on doing a destiny piece btw

dwgagner

Update based on some more feedback and self dissection.

Ged

good work so far! I think the top of the belt should join the bottom part of the chest armour and flow with his armour and body shape more.. Also you have some sort of double colar around his neck and it looks like cloth whereas the concept reads to me as a more stiff leather or carbon fibre armour type material with very little folds or bends, it seems to be the same colour and thickness as the disc thing sticking out the shoulder armour so that makes me think its a similar material. you could also thicken up some of the armour pieces so that they have some depth and give nice shadows and normal maps eg the shoulder armour seems very thin at the moment. Maybe add some wear and tear to the character when its closer to done

dwgagner

Thanks for the feedback guys, making some more changes will have an update up soon.

dwgagner

Quick Update, I'm going through and re-hauling anything I don't feel looks quite right as I try to push myself to a higher quality bar. Here's a quick update though some of it may look like taking a step backwards as far as detail I am fixing the silhouette to read better, also gave him more of a manly figure. Some pieces have not been sculpted on yet as I went back to dynamesh on some stuff to tweak and retopo again. I.E. a lot of the armor.

dwgagner

Update :O.

DWalker

His pistol still needs to be flipped.

dwgagner

Here's a quick update, still in progress but currently polypainting. I've built the low poly game res model. Once I'm finished polypainting I'll bake down my maps and finish out the textures in photoshop. Note that I haven't added the blood yet depicted in the concept. I am aware and will be doing that.

Ged

looking good so far! keep going!

dwgagner

Thanks Ged.

theStoff

Looking good so far. Some things you might want to work on though include the wrinkles on the torso area and the straps. The wrinkles on the pants seem to be much more refined but there are almost no folds on the torso. The ones on the back also seem a bit misplaced. As for the belts, they seem to float off the body too much. besides that I'm liking where this is headed, especially the helmet. Keep it up.

dwgagner

Thanks Kosh, I've actually adjusted the belts a bit since my last full body render. Though keep in mind that the side belts will be sitting over a gun and holster that is not currently in place. The chest holster will be re-used on the thigh and the gun I've made in a separate tool will be added to both. The reason there aren't a lot of wrinkles on the torso is that the material his vest is made of is leather. As a much thicker, denser material it isn't as flexible as cloth would be. By leather I mean the thicker armor stuff like and not modern "fashion" leather that is generally softer and more flexible.

Andyjonescreative

obivously it looks great, I would just say the fold on the bum is a little distracting but not a big thing. I like the lines of the mask

dwgagner

I believe I have finished polypainting. Full body renders incoming. Tomorrow I'll begin baking my maps down to my low poly and fine tuning the textures. Critique is still welcome but will be carried over to the low poly.

dwgagner

K so I finished polypainting, did some Zbrush renders. Moving on to texturing the game res version. Will have that up soon.

Add3r

Love the knife in the arm wrap, though it seems the wrap itself reads as an afterthought. The wrapping is loose and the surrounding cloth is not effected by it at all, which makes it less believable, unlike your pants which are awesome. A little bit of depth and reaction to the wrapping on the arms would top off the HP in my opinion. Nice work though, the HP and polypaint is lookin' pretty sweet.

dwgagner

Thanks Add3r I'll see if I can carry some of that advice over to the game res.

Ged

I would be wary of baking in those blood splats, rather leave them for later and you can play with them in photoshop to get them just right with all the other material definition. Its looking really good, I feel you could pull up some of the colours a tad just so that you get more shape/material definition from a distance and tone down the cape and arm red slighty as they are stealing the show. Really cool!

dwgagner

Yea, I have the blood on a separate layer, so if baking them down to the diffuse sucks I'll just turn it off and rebake the diffuse and do them in photoshop. I went ahead and knocked back the red a bit on the renders. They got a little blown out because of the way I was compiling in photoshop.

dwgagner

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Brian "Panda" Choi

You sly dog you: http://www.bungie.net/7_Community-Focus-Javelin/en-us/News/News?aid=10812

dwgagner

Haha ya, I figured the harshest critiques would be other fans, I really wasn't expecting such an enormously positive response, very surprising.

Ged

haha well done on the blog feature, thats pretty damn cool!

dwgagner

Thanks Ged, I was pretty surprised lol :P.

alvordr

Very nice! I would say if I were to change anything about this it would be to tone down the wrinkles in the legs, as they look a bit sharp and the scratches on the armor looks a little hand-drawn, but a very cool piece overall. Can't wait to see more! How many polys is the low-poly mesh?

dwgagner

The low poly is roughly 7k.