The Princess Crown

lopster

Hi guys,

I'm going with a classic fantasy/fairytail theme for this challenge.
Bascially its about a troll that acts a bit like a magpie (mainly collecting shiny/pretty things from humans).  One day he nicks the ultimate bling: the princess crown! This will ultimately lead to his downfall because the king isn't to happy about the whole thing etc. etc.

For reference I'm mainly using Paul Bonner, John Bauer and Petar Meseldzija (The Book of Giants)

Here is a very rough blockout of the whole scene (C&C are very appreciated!): 

Pixelgorilla

This looks great. I really like the little diorama. Great start.

luxxo

I think that this competition is more about beast itself than a scene with lighting etc. Even postprocessing is not allowed.

dreadleft

looks interesting

fantasymaster

Great start. And a nice pose allready! Keep it up man.

Tripl3M

Looking great so far

vickgaza

Looking very cool so far. Scale suffers at the moment though it`s still early stage. Those trees help with scale, but the boulders are all huge, and it looks atm more like miniature trees rather than big gigant. I`m sure that will be fixed with smaller props scattered. Other than that it`s awesome so far !

lopster

thank you for the kind words guys!

@vickgaza you're absolutely right. i'm planning on creating the base with a human stand-in later on to get the scale right.

heres the next update. roughed in the anatomy. still all separate pieces, so the transitions and a few other spots are quite rough and/or more on the ecorche side. hair is also just a reference for haircards. hope you like it

OneHotDay

nice design u got there , looking forward to see the finals

fantasymaster

Nice, I love that expression. Lookig forward to more 

Shamaz

Very cool design!

lopster

hi everyone! i worked a bit more on the anatomy and blocked out all his gear/trophies (very rough!). also experimented with some "Ötzi" (stone age) tattoos hope you like it

Pixelgorilla

coming along nicely!

fantasymaster

Nice update! I don't want to piss him off while he is lurking around my garden.

lotet

hey, ur doing the same thing im doing classic fairy tale troll collecting stuff, good luck and may you be my nemesis >,<

tushar

Looking good.

.csm

luxxo said:

I think that this competition is more about beast itself than a scene with lighting etc. Even postprocessing is not allowed.

There was an answer  in the Q&A about in-engine post-effects like color correction is okay. Probably some other too, like DoF. 

By the way, character looks cool so far! Magpie troll, what a nice idea

ljsketch

nice concept! pose/scene looks good so far. I like the modeling of the hair and anatomy. Also digging the proportions of the feet and hands. nice stuff. 

LexiWhite

Nice Shapes! I wonder what his expression will be like?

Nitecon

This looks fantastic, great job

DroneSoma

Nice work! I really like this!

CCRUZ

LOOKS AWESOME

avagyanlevon

Looks good yea, I'd like to invite you to submit your works in our gallery also www.3dtutorials.net

lopster

oh wow frontpage. many thanks!!! that explains all the comments i guess  
thank you for your kind words everyone! it's much appreciated.

@Lotet - yeah you're right we really are doing a very similar theme. cool to see how different the output is though. good luck...nemesis 

@LexiWhite - well the idea is to go with an astonished or rather dumbstruck look. something like this i guess (i'm obviously referencing the hair already)


anyway i started blocking basemeshes for all the stuff the troll is carrying around. i'll probably change/add quite a bit of stuff on these later on.
first up the viking shield on his back:

Optey

this is coming along nicely!Cool char and good primary forms...can't wait to see more progress on it!

lotet

@lopster haha yeah, this is looking very different from mine, Im going way more cartoony, love what you got going on though, sincerely your friendly neighborhood arch enemy :P

lopster

sadly i couldn't spare much time lately, but i managed to work on his trophies a little more.

first up a tasset armour piece (worn on his left upper arm) taken from a foolish knight (that got stomped to death):


and a torc especially made by some dwarve armourers (so he wouldn't stomp them to death):

lopster

next update. nothing fancy just a base for the arrows that are sticking out of the shield and a little glaced pottery tankard. next up is (finally) the crown and the base meshes for the various pieces of clothing. after that its sculpting time 

Slava Gedich

Great Job! I want to see your character with texture!