[Riot Art Contest] - Lab Rat Twitch

lukazguzman

FINALLY DONE!!!!:





ORIGINAL POST:

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Hi, people!
I just started making a concept for a new skin for Twitch: The escaped lab experiment N17: "Rat Lab Twitch".
Here is my concept art, not done yet, as I'm still deciding colors, adding and removing details, and I still need to design its weapon!



Some notes!




And some of the reference I gathered to start working on it:



I'm still thinking on it... I mean, if it is really giving the feel of a rat that was heavily mistreated in a lab... so, any suggestions is greatly welcome!

OriginLinear

You should add a human ear on his back. haha



Anyway, looks interesting so far.

lukazguzman

hehe, actually I thought of that idea! thanks, but you helped me more with the idea of giving the guy a more 'naked-rat' look...

And I also got rid of the robot arm, I think this looks more like someone was really trying to modify his limbs and interiors!

So, two tests, with and without white fur. And I still would love to come up with how to give a more vivid palette...



Damn, I can't wait to go into the 3d modelling!

mrnunez

I like your lab rat man. Just the chest /mouth thing is kinda' distracting IMO.

Btw, the ear on the back suggestion doesn't sound that bad indeed!.

lukazguzman

Ok, so here is the blocking out of this character! Haven't had much time to put in it! But I'm making space in the agenda for the next weeks!



And due to the requests here is one with the ear in the back hehe. It looks fun.. but the back is such a big part to be seem in the game, that I prefer to give that space to something better...

mrnunez

Understandable, looks the ear can grab all the attention...not good

lukazguzman

An update on the high poly!

lukazguzman

Update on the high poly! It's getting there! And I have a pretty good idea for the weapon as well, which I will be posting soon!

lukazguzman

And with this I call the high poly done!
Now to make the weapon and polypain this mean guy!

grimmrobe

Pretty gruesome! Nice to see somebody else doing a version of Twitch.

lukazguzman

@grimmrobe thanks! yeah, it's a pretty cool character to work with!

Ok, I think the model and color is done! I'll add some more details if in the final low poly I have space for them.
Man, I learned so much about Zbrush, Zremesher, Polypaint, Keyshot, lightning, render... uufff.... Even if I dont manage to finish, this project was soooo useful for me!



Now to finally work on the weapon!

lukazguzman

And here is the model and basic color of the weapon! Finally, I made the time to make it
Oh, gosh, now to make the low poly! Not my favorite part...

lukazguzman

uufff... great moment for me to become sick! aagg....
Anyhow, I sat here for a short time to start with the retopo!

mrnunez

Good luck man!

Retopology is always time consuming, though is important to have a clean topology as a final result if you want to pose him. If you want to speed it up, maybe for certain meshes you can use the Zremesher, though probably will be more an aproximation rather than a final lowpoly.

Keep it up!

lukazguzman

@mrnunez thanks, man. And yeah, I think it's better just to rebuild topology by hand cause zmesher does wonders, but no in such a low low poly.

Anyhow here is the finished low poly! Now I need to unwrap the whole guy and start painting!



I found a really good artist that that uses low poly characters and paints then with such a nice detail. I find it really helpful for a LOL kind of style.

http://www.michaeldashow.com/tips_texturepainting.html

lukazguzman

Almost done painting it! This part is quite fun, but I need to move on into posing him!

lukazguzman

FINALLY DONE!!!!:

Waterbear

This is awesome! The hairless idea is a nice touch. My one crit would be to soften the face wrinkles. Nice job!

lukazguzman

thanks waterbear!
Yeah, this will definitely have some more retouching before it goes into my portfolio!

Darknavigator

Disturbingly awesome! Great job!

cesardca93

An Amazing job my friend

lukazguzman

Thanks for the kind words people!
I'll post soon a re-paint on the body and better (faked) lighting. But as soon as I can make the time!
Lkz

lukazguzman

And here is some extra retouching I've been doing, while learning a bit of Mari for hand painted textures!

And a little animation... This is the unholster animation, and the idle loop.


I'll go on with adding some more animation states, and put all togetther in a little interactive animation in unity!

http://www.lukazguzman.com
http://www.furiouspoly.com

vergilium

cool, but why sooooooo big?

lukazguzman

Oh, well... if there is something I dont like much about the current Twitch is that he is a bit too skiny... plus as I was adding mass to the high poly it kinda went that way and I liked it!

darkwx

isn't that twich a little too big?

lukazguzman

I know, he is quite big.. but it was my way to approach the character

I had a lot of fun here in the forums, and some damn good feedback, so I went ahead polished the character, made some animations for it, and ended up making a little demo in Unity.
Here is a screen:



Ad if you wanna give it a shot, please go over to my site! (I don't think I can post a Unity Web player here right?):

Mutated Lab Rat Demo

Thanks for your feedback! And looking forward to your comments!

mrnunez

WOW! The demo you did is super AWESOME! How you did it mate?

lukazguzman

Well, hey! Thank you!!
I have to say I really like coding as well, besides 3D

So I just built a good rig in 3Dsmax for the rat, made some animations, and brought them into Unity. Then some coding for the switching of guns and modes, the cheese pointer, and the enemies and there you go! A fun way for people to see my rat in action!

Thanks again! A lot of work was put into this!