W40K Dreadnought
ngon master
Hey everyone! Here's my interpretation of the Beast in one of my favorite universes - Warhammer 40k.
Using a lot of reference of the many different Dreadnought designs and elements, I'm planning on piecing together a unique Dreadnought.
The way this particular Dreadnought has come to be, is when a Librarian is critically wounded in battle, he's given a second life and put inside the beast of a machine that is the Dreadnought. I'm planning on having his grisly image exposed in the chest of the Dreadnought as shown in many of WH40k miniatures.
"Once a Blood Angels Librarian, a highly intelligent and highly esteemed individual, is critically wounded, they are given another chance at retribution. They are amputated and placed inside a heavily-armed combat walker – essentially an armored sarcophagus, the Dreadnought. The Librarians’ grisly and vicious image is embellished in the center of the Dreadnoughts chest. The Librarian, trekking amongst muddy and wet ruins at dawn, glances at his new armaments. He catches a glimpse of his own reflection off the reflective shiny blade, momentarily realizing the beast he has transformed into."
CURRENT STAGE:
UPDATES:
- FEB 2 Concept, Reference, Story added
- FEB 3 Quick DN Shape/Size Blockout
- FEB 6 Quick Possible Terrain Sculpts
- FEB 9 Base Sculpt of Librarian Bust
- FEB 24 Highpoly Modeling Exterior Begun
- FEB 27 Highpoly Exterior Update #1
- FEB 29 Highpoly Exterior Update #2
- MAR 2 - Highpoly Exterior Update #3 + Additional Sculpted Elements
- MAR 5 - Dreadnought Complete, Continued Sculpting Librarian
- MAR 9 - Librarian Sculpt and retopo completed
- MAR 10 - Dreadnought low-res mesh completed
- MAR 13 - Optimization, Pedestal Progress
- MAR 16 - Further Optimization, All elements UV'd
- MAR 19 - Baked Normals/AO - imported into UE4
- APR 2 - Texturing Update #1
- APR 3 - Texturing Update #2 (Completed Texturing)
- APR 5 - Texturing Update + Unreal 4 fiddling
- APR 9 - Posing, Lighting, Final Renders + Submission
Using a lot of reference of the many different Dreadnought designs and elements, I'm planning on piecing together a unique Dreadnought.
The way this particular Dreadnought has come to be, is when a Librarian is critically wounded in battle, he's given a second life and put inside the beast of a machine that is the Dreadnought. I'm planning on having his grisly image exposed in the chest of the Dreadnought as shown in many of WH40k miniatures.
"Once a Blood Angels Librarian, a highly intelligent and highly esteemed individual, is critically wounded, they are given another chance at retribution. They are amputated and placed inside a heavily-armed combat walker – essentially an armored sarcophagus, the Dreadnought. The Librarians’ grisly and vicious image is embellished in the center of the Dreadnoughts chest. The Librarian, trekking amongst muddy and wet ruins at dawn, glances at his new armaments. He catches a glimpse of his own reflection off the reflective shiny blade, momentarily realizing the beast he has transformed into."
CURRENT STAGE:
UPDATES:
- FEB 2 Concept, Reference, Story added
- FEB 3 Quick DN Shape/Size Blockout
- FEB 6 Quick Possible Terrain Sculpts
- FEB 9 Base Sculpt of Librarian Bust
- FEB 24 Highpoly Modeling Exterior Begun
- FEB 27 Highpoly Exterior Update #1
- FEB 29 Highpoly Exterior Update #2
- MAR 2 - Highpoly Exterior Update #3 + Additional Sculpted Elements
- MAR 5 - Dreadnought Complete, Continued Sculpting Librarian
- MAR 9 - Librarian Sculpt and retopo completed
- MAR 10 - Dreadnought low-res mesh completed
- MAR 13 - Optimization, Pedestal Progress
- MAR 16 - Further Optimization, All elements UV'd
- MAR 19 - Baked Normals/AO - imported into UE4
- APR 2 - Texturing Update #1
- APR 3 - Texturing Update #2 (Completed Texturing)
- APR 5 - Texturing Update + Unreal 4 fiddling
- APR 9 - Posing, Lighting, Final Renders + Submission
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Did some sculpting today, here's how far I got with the sculpt of the Librarian (what would be visible from being seated in the Dreadnought)
and some attempts at facial and torso scar tissue (possibly burns/mechanical scarring)
EDIT: other four images decided to break
Thank you guys! Both of your submissions are lookin so well polished this far in.
Here's a quick update - completed one of his two armaments, and his back exhaust/engine.
I'm not an expert at hard surface modelling but to me it seems like you have a lot of loops in your low poly that don't add to the silhoutte at all and could easially be removed.
Or is this for smoothing/baking?
T.
Thank you so much! Texturing is well on its way.
Decided to post an update to some progress on texturing!
Once a Blood Angels Librarian, a highly intelligent and highly esteemed individual, is critically wounded, they are given another chance at retribution. They are amputated and placed inside a heavily-armed combat walker – essentially an armored sarcophagus, the Dreadnought. The Librarians’ grisly and vicious image is embellished in the center of the Dreadnoughts chest. The Librarian, trekking amongst muddy and wet ruins, glances at his new armaments. He catches a glimpse of his own reflection off the reflective shiny blade, momentarily realizing the beast he has transformed into
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