Mecha Minotaur WIP

weiswayne

Finished with the little guy.
what did you guys think?



Hello Everyone,
I've been working on a high poly Mecha Minotaur on my free time these few weeks, and i would like to share with you my progress and open myself up for critique.

I didn't exactly based this on any concept art or sketches so the goal of this is to practice and test my ability to do concept design in 3D similar to the stuff Vitaly Bulgarov done.

some reference.


this is what i have so far.

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weiswayne

Updates:
Almost done

weiswayne

updates,
Almost done with the guy, left the arm and then the minor detaillings

DespicablCheese

This is looking really good you have some great concept art to be working from, definitely. Just bear in mind that his concept art has a lot of sharp contours and jagged edges which creates a real sense of dynamics, while yours is looking very smooth and clean. The legs do this very well, lots of interesting shapes, possibly think about applying the same to the torso and arms

weiswayne

the main reason i do away with alot of his edgy-ness was because halfway through i decided i want this design to be a little more "kid friendly". :P
but I'll keep that in mind and try to explore some alternative shapes when i work on the arms and the detailing of the torso.
Thanks!

weiswayne

update:
I think I'm gonna do some final detailing and wrap up this guy.
what do you guys think?

weiswayne

done with this guy.
what did you guys think?

Brian "Panda" Choi

Value/specularity separation wise, I feel like the midsection and the arms could use a lot more pullback to, on one end, prevent too much shininess from happening overall, and two, have more element separation. More directly, perhaps replacing the metal elements with a matte material.

Looks solid though, only goes up from here on these tiny, niggling steps.

weiswayne

@JadeEyePanda: Yea, I realize about the specularity issue after you mentioned it. I'll have to keep that in mind when i eventually revisit it. Thanks man!

have to focus on the next project for now