[Civil War] teggs vs jp3d

teggs

The Brief

Another civil war has erupted on the Polycount forums. This time, two novice artists have decided to battle it out. Driven by the desire to improve their portfolios and create some awesome characters they have decided to make a friendly competition of it. Inspired by the epic Polycount civil war battle between Spark, Gav, Hazardous and Slipgate http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1263475 these two novices have decided to make their own thread, where they will battle it out.

There will be no prizes rewarded at the end of this competition but hopefully the participants can make some really cool new artwork for their portfolios.

Both participants in this battle have agreed to create fantasy female characters that would fit comfortably in Guild Wars 2 or Skyrim.

The Specs

Both members will create a final image of their hero character while adhering to the following budgets:

-20,000 Triangles

-1 2048x2048 Material (This includes the character, weapons, gear, mounts, FX, ect.)

-The final character must be posed via any method (game rig, adjusting the actual model, transpose master ect.)

-Pedestals are optional and have no limit.

-Work in progress images are required and will be posted in this thread.

The Deliverables

-A final “beauty” image showing the posed hero character.

-Images showing the wireframe and texture sheets of the hero character.

-A sketchfab display of the final model is encouraged but is not required.

The Restrictions

The final character must look as if it would fit into either the Guild Wars 2 or Skyrim game.

Everything created by the artist must be original. Base meshes are allowed but the character must be created specifically for this competition.

All work in progress updates will be posted in this thread following this post.

Start Date: 8/21/2013

Deadline: 9/13/2013

Let the battle begin!

Bonkahe

God speed, you brave souls, should you fall in your crusade for glory, you will be remembered.

teggs

To start this project I began by gathering various reference images. I then created a base mesh using dynamesh and Zremesher. I adjusted the proportions to match that of an average size female character from Guild Wars 2. I then took a screen shot of my character model and printed it out. I used this print outs as a starting point to sketch out armor/clothing ideas. From there I went into Photoshop and created the concept you see at the bottom of this post. I am now going to start blocking in the pieces of the armor.

PyrZern

Instant Fav

Bonkahe

I likes, I think I'm gonna sub.

jp3d

BOOM! i love everything about the cape and pants! armor and silouette, its so badass and paganical

jp3d

im gonna do somthing like thaatj

teggs

Time for an update! I have blocked in my character’s outfit and am going to start sculpting in the details. A few pieces of her attire are just place holders for now so I can figure out what I want to do with the back view of the character.

Nice work on your concept jp I really hope you go with the animal head one. I am looking forward to seeing how your character looks when you really start sculpting.

lotet

looks nice, good luck!
dunno if its just me but the head looks a tad small.

Shrike

I was inspired by this civil war roleplay thing, and I had an idea of some kind of badge spooking in my head with olive leaves as tris, turned out ok, but however



If you like, take it as volunteer prize, since you have noone, If you dont like it, leave it ; )

Looking nice so far!

jp3d

WAAAA great stuffs! i love the boots too, everything on it is cool! i guess ill be a little late for 13th. but i got some details too,