Remaking an old Quake III character I did.

spitty

I made this Quake III plugin character around 13 or 14 years ago, posted it on polycount, and ended up getting my first job in the game industry because of it. I thought it would be fun to remake it and see how much video game tech has improved over the years, and also hopefully how much better I've gotten

here's the original guy:


also here's a cached version of polycount with some more info and shots.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020802112120/http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/info/quake3/scurvy/scurvy.shtml


and here are some sketches i've been working on, i think i have enough to get started modeling. i'm sure i'll change a bunch when i get it in 3d.

rough sketches:


more polished sketch:

Carter

Holy hell I remember downloading this. Concepts looks solid, I personally really like the strap holding the arm into place on your original model. Not sure if you have seen it but there is an Aardman Pirates movie which could have some good reference too - looking forward to progress!

spitty

cool! i'm glad someone remembers this guy. yeah i saw aardman pirates, they even had a guy with a wheel leg too, hopefully people don't think i'm copying that guy

i might experiment with the arm strap again. the original wouldn't really be able to move, but i just looked up some old artificial limbs that look cool. the shoulder part might make a better perch for his dead parrot too.

Brian "Panda" Choi

This is one of the msot fun character designs I've seen in a while.

spitty

thanks Brian!
I finally did some more work on this guy, here's a colored version of the concept, and a wip of his face sculpt.

ddoan88

Dude this is looking really cool! Reminds me of Old Solid Snake in the Pirate Era. Badass! Can't wait to see more WIP.

skodone

oh wow... oO

i just thought whyd you change so much but.. now i think dont change anything from the new concept

OrganizedChaos

Hahaha, not a bad idea Eric! This guy has way more character than your previous version already, I can't wait to see it finished

WarrenM

Killer character, I love this to death...

JFinn_UK

This is bloody brilliant, made me chuckle

spitty

thanks everyone! i've done some more work on his head and some polypainting. i've blocked out his body too, but not really worth showing yet.

Bolovorix

I really like the style of this character. Love the face and the way you sculpted the hair.

DavidCruz

Both characters look great, the first could be his crew mate or mates on a ship, minus the wheel + hook. Just a random thought, otherwise the updates are looking sweet want to see more of this guy. Nostalgia is high, ah the good ol'days.

Mark Dygert

Awesome Spitty!

Elrinion

Man. This looks awesome. Love the cartoonish style.

Keep up the good work o/

spitty

thanks everyone! here's a quick test i did with a shitty auto generated low poly/uvs. i was trying to do an oil paint type look by using a rough brush in 3dcoat that puts down normal map depth as i paint the diff to make it look like thick brush strokes.

didn't exactly turn out like i hoped, but shows some promise. i did a paint over to try and get it closer to how i'd like it to look.

Thane-

WOW!

suopaFR

That's really good! Like the texture

Abrvpt

Looking good ! The face have a lot of personality. Deepening the eye socket is definitely a good idea.

Krater

Love it! Looking forward to the rest.

Ruz

think he needs heavier top eyelids.concept seems to indicate that
great design anyways

spitty

thanks guys, i'll definitely spend some more time on his eye.  i finally blocked out his body and i'll start detailing it soon.  still missing his gun, sword and knife.  might make him a compass too. 

wizo

really cool project spitty, I love everything about this, the art style reminds me a bit of curse of the monkey island game! 

spitty

still working on this guy when i get a chance.  more details in zbrush, messing around with keyshot to render, and a paintover.

jhoythottle

Woah.  Awesome job.

How did you achieve that look with the hair?

Tits

Sick style!

Kanni3d

Ridiculously beautiful concept and sculpt, and I fondly remember downloading and playing as this guy as a kid!!

DanielJohnsson

Great job man!. The hair and beard looks insane, keep it up!

erroldynamic

This is frickin' epic!

Stinkhorse

Wow, talk about a trip down memory lane. I clearly remember seeing the original get posted WAAAAY back in the day. You've seriously come a long way Spitty.

DavidCruz

Awesome to see this guy again, looks great, love the parrot, super cool.

spitty

thanks for all the compliments everyone! @Kanni3d it cracks me up that you remember playing this character as a "kid".  i guess it has been almost 15 years  

here's how i did the hair.  I sculpted the volume of the hair in dynamesh and then added individual hairs using a custom insert curve brush.  make all those hairs have their own polygroup and set the brush to mask by polygroups.  now you can quickly grab an individual hair easily using the move brush and make it line up with the underlying hair volume.  its pretty tedious of course...

Kanni3d

@spitty Playing tons of Quake 3 in 2000-2002, i was only 8 years old

spitty

did some more work detailing his hat and his dead parrot.  

Poinball

Omg Men ! Look at you !! You make AMAZING STUFF ! How old are you now ??

spitty

I did some more work on this guy, calling the hipoly done.  still might make a lowpoly and texture it.  
there's even more images on my artstation  https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4EevL







and also put up a turn around from zbrush on youtube.
https://youtu.be/d42iQADqdiU 

lotet

NIce, highpoly looks awesome! cant wait to see it with textures!

aaronmwolford

This is so rad! Definitely subbing! 

Wendy de Boer

Looks great! I remember the old one, haha.

tda

Seriously kickass work dude, love love love it! So much personality as always in your work

epicjim

Looks amazing, Please texture this Great work!

Dogrtt

Wow, I'm impressed. You are very talented and experienced artist!

Bitmalty

Absolutely the best pirate model I have ever see.  I love it!

Kobalt Kiwii

absolutely love this! really want to see it baked down and running/rolling around in a game. maybe you could try get it into UT4  

amirabd2130

outstanding work

demigodssw

spitty said:

I did some more work on this guy, calling the hipoly done.  still might make a lowpoly and texture it.  
there's even more images on my artstation  https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4EevL







and also put up a turn around from zbrush on youtube.
https://youtu.be/d42iQADqdiU 

looks really good how did u make the feathers?

spitty

thanks a lot everyone. @demigodssw  check out the feather tutorial on this site.  it has a bunch of ways to make a feather, i went with the fibermesh method.  http://www.zbrushguides.com/ebooks/  i think you can download it for free.

demigodssw

spitty said:

thanks a lot everyone. @demigodssw  check out the feather tutorial on this site.  it has a bunch of ways to make a feather, i went with the fibermesh method.  http://www.zbrushguides.com/ebooks/  i think you can download it for free.
thanks a lot spitty

Aluvay

@spitty this is looking really awesome man! I especially love the paintover of the face

Bolovorix

Looks amazing, love how you handled the hair!

QOR_082

So full of life and style. So many details, so many personality. I would love to see this model in a movie or video game.

Congrats. Just by watching your stuff I am already getting inspiration