[Chivalry] – Mason Man-At-Arms – Zantorian Set

Syros

Hail to all the smiths around,
As I saw the fog of all the fire up in the air, I found lots of smiths gathered in this valley and forging steel for lots of brand new brutal Weaponry for the fight going on in the war halls and castles of Chivalry!
Well I could not stop myself from running toward you guys, Well here I am, Although I got late, but I try me best to catch up with you guys!
Tones of nice models are maid till now.
As I was on my way I found Man at arms with Broadsword is good to go.
I will keep hard to stay with silhouette, but lets see what it will be at the end.

Syros

I forgot to say that "Zantorian" is name of a medieval dragon, I found on the web:
http://medieval.stormthecastle.com/medieval-names.htm

Syros

well I think this will be my ref sheet, Lets do some doodles , and I have to prepare a ref sheet for the Broadsword, the weapon I will make in this set.

Shiv

Go go go!

Syros

Thanks Shiv, even a word injects motivation \m/
So I did some doodles, my main design will be following g such shapes, rounded, faded into each other, twirls and ..., well , I think due to lack of time, I have to jump into 3D ASAP.

Syros

well started sketching inside ZB with dynamesh, any idea? keep some form, remove some? C&C are most welcome as it may clear the sky for me and makes ease of desicion making upon design, huge nice art works have been done, hope i get to finish line with you guys


\m/

Nolt

Might make those side parts hanging down a bit thicker. Not too much though.

hedi

Yo bro,nice job ,cant wait to see more details ,break the leg \m/

Syros

@9thKnigh: Yes man, I do agree, thanks for pointing it out, what a nice Sets you have made, I have followed, cheers \m/
@hedi: I will go for it, thanks dude. \m/
well I gotta start the sword parallel as time is not much. lets see...

audi100

Middle one is definetely the right choice, with more protection. Others looked a bit too much like venetian masks. Great progress so far! Maybe try somethin else for the side ornament, making the cheek armor seem to extend more into the upper half for example.

Syros

@audi100: thanks dude, very nice comment, yes, I will have to go for a better side ornament, and I think I myself likes the middle one more, about the chick armors I will do some tests and send, thanks fro dropping by man.
So here I did a fast retopo of the helmet , bring back to Max, cleaned and separated parts, and I think some how ready for ZB to start sculpting on those part.

Syros

just an update, still in max

Syros

I like this one , more near to those sketches, gotta extend those side design further to back.

Syros

I know it is getting late, but I will continue I think,

Syros

here is another update:

Nolt

Man, that side profile if wicked cool I really like how this has developed. Nice job

Syros

9thKnight : thanks buddy, glad you liked, Hope the best for you, I am Sure yours will be among the winners. you deserve it man.
I think I gotta continue anyway, at least I can add it and let the community gamers vote, if they like it too, it will be more cool.
So I went for some more details here and there, what you think?
thanks for dropping by dude, means a lot to me
cheers \m/

Nolt

Thanks, man! Yeah definitely get that in front of the community! I do like the extra etching you added in there. Really adds a little elegance to it.

Noth

This is cool, I missed your thread. I like how you turned those guard pieces that line the face into jaws. Everything seems to be flowing pretty nicely too. Nice work, yeah I would finish anyway and post for the community. gw

Imperium101

Same feeling ! Finish it !

Syros

9thKnight : well, I do agree, I have also did corrected the back to mimic the front to get that feeling, but with bigger shapes just to make the balance with the back details. hope you like it too
Noth: yeah man, lets give this to all those gamers (I really wanna go in-game with this one ), I am turning to a fan of this game, amazing I would say, ha ha, and glad you have great eyes for the flow, I feel I have missed lots of parts according to that, but any way, I think it's time to add final; touches and I am done with all the forms and details.
TheMightyKnight: Best luck to you man, nice job on your Elite, liked it, great \m/

Guys here are some updates: I had some problems with some forms and I went for the fix. Also add more detail, I think I have to make some time erosion and scratches, that reminds everyone of all the fights in the wars it had, , hope you like.

Imperium101

Thanks Syros!
Concerning the scratches: you can do that with the specular map! Check on youtube:

[ame="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gqp4bNJ52M"]Specular Map Creation Tutorial - YouTube[/ame]

Imperium101

As for the color of your helmet: I quite like this bronze look! Maybe I would make it a little bit lighter, but that is just my personal opinion! Good work so far !

Syros

TheMightyKnight: Very nice super cool Tut man, I liked it too much, and I think next time I will surly use the normal edge manipulation the guy says, thanks to him and to you for sharing buddy, cheers. and about the bronze , yes I will go for it absolutely, same idea, may be some parts to keep silver look, I mean more bare metal to mix things up a little. what you think? I think that color map I will have will help us clearly make it doable.

well I did actually put some details in ZB just to have some thing in normal map,
and exported a color version if I need to select parts for texturing, also a base polypaint to start off of it later when Lowpoly was done.
well I did played with some more materials inside AB just to see what variations will look like. But I agree TheMightyKnight, bronze is the best one, hope you like

Imperium101

I prefer the 6th one of the last image! Make it more shiny and a lighter color, add a good specular map, and it should be perfect! Good work!

Syros

Yes TheMightyKnight I do agree, I will do it same as 6th of, glad you liked, and with the video you send (thanks to that) I will make some goooood Spec for it man, with lots of stories
Cheers \m/

3mm

Great Start Amuji:D

Syros

@ 3mm: buddy you are always encouraging, thanks man \m/
I will continue this asset and make more over:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=142725