Swey's gross character project

Swey

Hi everyone,
This is my first time posting on Polycount and I'm excited to absorb everyone's great critique. I'm a game art senior in college and now we've started work on our Senior Project. Since I want to do monsters and characters for a career, I'm doing two enemy characters for a dark fantasy/horror type theme.

This is going to be a dual boss type situation, the humanoid guy with the eyes will provide ranged support to his partner, the monster, who is going to be the melee muscle.
Here is the concept for both characters:


Right now I'm working on the humanoid guy, I thought I'd get him out of the way first since he has equipment and clothes and so on.
This is my sculpting progress so far:




I would love to hear any thoughts on this and I will be continually posting updates as I make progress on the assignment.

Thanks,
Swey

LRoy

Haha this is awesome. I love weird things like this. You're doing a great job. Everything comes across really nicely even at the low subd level.

Tits

Thats quite original!

Carabiner

From a conceptual standpoint, I'm curious to hear more about the character with the eyes. Does he not have normal human eyes or is he blind (hence the blindfold) so he has to use the eye-head stuff? Does he have a nose under there (doesn't look like enough room for one so I guess not?)

Swey

Thanks LRoy and Tits!

Carabiner wrote: »

From a conceptual standpoint, I'm curious to hear more about the character with the eyes. Does he not have normal human eyes or is he blind (hence the blindfold) so he has to use the eye-head stuff? Does he have a nose under there (doesn't look like enough room for one so I guess not?)

Hahah, well, as you can see I didn't think about it too hard, but I think what makes the most sense is that he no longer has a nose or ears (which the bandage is covering), but there are sort of lumps under the bandage so perhaps they were cut off at some point. And the top of his head, including his original eyes, magically mutated into some sort of...eye-shroom. Probably forbidden knowledge or curses or something, you know how those things are.

Update tomorrow, with less polygonal pants.

Swey

Okay, did more work on the fabric today:



No major changes to the face.

Swey

Working on the face.

Swey

Tightening up the clothing. No stitches yet since I decided to try making my own brush, I didn't like any of the ones I found.

HitmonInfinity

Awesome work! Very unique vibe.

Swey

Thanks HitmonInfinity!

Just started blocking out this guy. I figured he'd be tricky to balance. How's his center of gravity feeling?

Tectonic

It might be neat to have his arms tied in a more dynamic position like this:

Swey

Tectonic wrote: »

It might be neat to have his arms tied in a more dynamic position like this:

Yeah! Definitely going to try and pose him something like that if I have time. For now, though, I'm sculpting in symmetry mode.

Working on the hands:

[kaz]

This is looking gorgeous. I'm definitely looking forward to watching this continue to progress. Thank you for sharing!

Swey

Thank you kaz!

All right, so the high poly sculpting for the ranged character is more or less finished. The only thing that remains is to get a nice fabric alpha on his doublet sleeves & panels and some sort of suede-like texture on the pants, and also to add stitching where it's needed. I'm planning to try making my own brush for the stitching, wish me luck.



When I've got the missing textures and the stitching on there, I'll get a proper non-crappy clay render!

Got a little bit further blocking out the anatomy on the other guy. I've done a bit more work on him since this screenshot.

Swey

Updaaaaaaate

Sorry for the cruddy renders, they were made in haste! Should have just screengrabbed from the viewport as usual, it's not done anyway.

Arms are still low-res as I'm waiting to get some real-life reference before I solidify them.

cgBrad

Creepy. Please stop. I'm not saying it's bad, just, fuck man.

Stinkfoot

I'll never sleep again.

Jack M.

I'm not sure why but that last one reminds of a something that belongs in the church section of Dead Space 2.

Jakub

That is just looking sick and awesome at the same time

Har

You shouldn't apologize, the images look good enough for a wip.

You really made him creepy, but can you tell us more about how he attacks? His arms are very short to actually hit anything, or does he bite?

And the ranged many eyed guy, how does he attack? He has large claws but does he throw stuff? Or use guns? I like the concept and models though .

Stinkfoot

[quoteAnd the ranged many eyed guy, how does he attack? He has large claws but does he throw stuff?][/quote]

How about lazers from his eyes.. .ALL OF THEM. it would be like dodging disco ball lights.

Tectonic

I know this is supposed to be gross. but man those sculpts are beautiful. I hope to one day be this good.

MyattC

Yes please, good imagination and amazing form in these productions!

Tul_

Really amazing work man, can't wait to see it finished

Swey

Thanks everyone! Har, the melee guy would probably rely a lot on charging and backing off, he has a pointy front end. The tentacles could maybe be used in a special grab attack. As for the ranged character, his claws can detach and regrow, he is going to use them like throwing knives while you're fighting his partner. Once you kill the melee dude, the ranged is going to stop throwing his claws and fight you hand-to-hand with them.

Okay, I neglected to post last week but in fact I have been busy polypainting. Here are a couple progress shots:

Swey

Hi, everyone. I finally finished up, more or less, the low-poly render of these characters. I use the term low-poly loosely since the meshes themselves are quite dense, as their only real purpose is to look good. The posing is not quite as dynamic as I had hoped. I'm still a bit struggling with Marmoset for not quite giving the look I'm striving for, perhaps I should try something else. Tried using the skin shader in Marmoset but it obliterated way too much detail, even on the lowest settings. Anyway, here they are.