VG Remix - Shadow of the Colossus Gaius

HTobitt

my plan is to make the Gaius battle from shadow of the colossus.
currently making Gaius.

since it's a huge character i'm going to try and keep it below 600 tri's

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HTobitt

early tests with fur and uv placement

HTobitt

after looking at the q&a i'm going to bump it up to about 700 tri's, this should give the detail needed. texture first pass finished, just need to place uv's.

HTobitt

finished the uv's for gaius and the first pass of textures currently at 706 tri's
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PaperTig3rs

Looking good:)

HTobitt

current texture is 128

needs lots of work with the colours

a3sthesia

hey! that's such a cool texture layout. well done ^_^

HTobitt

working on Wander atm

dont know whether to incorporate the poncho into the main body or have it as floating geo.

PacoCasares

This is looking stellar, might be a lot to ask, but if you did the environment, and you looked more closely at some concept art of the ico team, would help. Great work!

a3sthesia

yeah, will you model the big spiral pillar where the battle takes place? That would support the scale of everything I think. It looks like the contest rules are including clothes with your characters poly-count, so maybe it would be better to have it all as one mesh. Depends how you approach it I guess.

Either way, it's all coming along great! I'm going to play around with your sketchfab model some more.... ^_^

AlanSMitchell

OMG Soo Good

HTobitt

Thanks everyone for all the kind words!

after seeing that transparencies are allowed i messed around with some of the fur. this bumps it up to about 850 tri but it gives a nice effect. cant tell if it is worth the polycount though.
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HTobitt

@a3sthesia yeah i plan on doing the huge pillar with the spiral staircase and if it works i will try and do some water and a skydome.

a3sthesia

awesome! That's going to be epic. I love that whole scene

HTobitt

blocked out the texture and got the uv's done for wander
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crit is very welcome

HTobitt

changed a bunch of little things on the wander model and finished the first texture pass.
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was also thinking of bumping the colossus texture to 256x after seeing some other wips doing that for larger characters.

HTobitt

another 128 for this guy

a3sthesia

I hope I manage to nail the shading that you've done. It looks great.

HTobitt

got the blockout of the environment started

a3sthesia

Yeeeaassss! ^_^b

minorthreat

looking amazing so far, i loved this game. I think you should make the fur layer a little farther away, it's hard to notice unless you really zoom in.

HTobitt

cheers guys!
I'll try messing with the fur and if i cant get it looking good i'll probably scrap it.

HTobitt

got some texture on the pillar,
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seriously thinking about redoing the colossus texture and do it in two 128's.

HTobitt

Got a pose for the Colossus and I've modified the base to make it feel more like a diorama and less like an actual environment.
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oh and I also messed with the fur a bit, hopefully this is better.

SentryTheGod

Sweet!

Spacey

For me this new diorama is a unwieldy. It's this giant blue half-sphere that doesn't really have anything to do with the main action or interest of the piece. I'd either get rid of it or change up the diorama some. One option is to make the base a caricature. I sketched up something real quick to give you an idea of what I mean. I don't know if that's the best way but something needs to change. That way the the platform and the action happening on the platform is center stage and we don't need to navigate around this monstrous orb.

HTobitt

That! is a genius idea, and I completely agree with how unwieldy the "lake" is. My original plan was to have some surrounding rock and trees to border the environment. Thanks for the sketch, I've just quickly made some alterations to the scene to see how it would look in 3d. I'll probably remake the ramp now, the verts are all over the place. Thanks for the crit.
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a3sthesia

ack! so good! And so dynamic with the debris and stuff! So glad you're making this.

HTobitt

Cheers a3sthesia.
Finally got Wander posed. and since i'm using so many tiling textures in the environment I've reduced them to 64x to try and be more within the rules.
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just the skybox and maybe some more environmental elements and it's finished. Crit is very welcome.

AuntieJamima

It's looking great! I think Wander is much too big though, even though it's going to be a tough balance of making him small enough and noticeable enough, I think you can scale him down a bit though.

Fenyce

That's awesome! I really like that overall feeling of the diorama! The textures (especially on the enviroment) are really nice!

evilblah

This looks fantastic. I agree that Wander is a little large and while its hard to balance the scale of everything within a diorama, it might be cool to see Wander scaled down and leaping up the sword so that he is in the air. This would make the eye jump to him because he would be popping out in contrast with the background. Just a thought, I am digging it completely, good work!

HTobitt

Thanks guys for all the kind words, I really appreciate it.
I've made Wander slightly smaller, I didn't want to go too small because you just won't be able to see the character when looking at the diorama as a whole. I've also added some bird and a skybox. The texture for the skybox is 128x256, I hope I can get away with it.
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still having some readability problems with the water, may have to quickly experiment with go for darker shades with lighter highlights.

AlanSMitchell

I think people are right with the scale. I'm right there with them. I think as long as you pick your beauty shot you will definitely look amazing. Aside from that I think the small character would make you want to go into sketchfab zoom in and look at the wonderful composition of everything. ^^; but that's just me. maybe you could do both, a to scale and a stylized. I just want to see a to scale one cause I love the game so bad.

ZacD

I think the colossus loses a bit of it's "epicness" when it's at a smaller scale, it's less impressive and god-like. I can't really imagine the character clinging on to it's body like it would normally happen in game, the character is just too big. Some fog would also be nice, what makes the orginal games look is the gray silhouettes the fog creates.

HTobitt

Thanks everyone for all the help and advice, this contest has been really fun.
I made some slight alterations and improvements here and there. I hope everyone enjoys it.
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NickGW

This looks fantastic! You scaled wander down to just the right size to create that epic scale. Great job on this one.

AlanSMitchell

^ Totally Agree with the comment above. Fantastic work

HTobitt

Thanks to everyone for voting. I got into the top 20!

digcoupondcc

It looks great....