Chainperator

Sigmatron · Apr 2021

Greetings fellow polycounters! Whew, I didn't posted for a while, but anyway I was quite busy working on realtime 3d stuff.

And from now on I really want to be a more active member of community, share artwork not only among my friends in telegram chat, but among my friends here, on polycount

So, without further ado, let me share Chainperator with you

It is collaborative work with a very talented artist Oksana Cherry. It was a great pleasure to work with her on this project. And while her part is almost done on this character, I'm still working on him, adding some additional stuff which I will share later when it will be in more presentable form.

You can find more renders on the Oksana's artstion page

My main contribution is armor, rigging and animation.

"He is big, he is nuclear, and he is not respecting any authority except his own. With his chainsaw gauntlet and drill mace he is terrorizing countless arenas around the galaxy. And doing it with a great comfort in his stylish armor."

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/6a/k5amw1q4ixc9.jpg

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/74/7b2y0j9wo4v5.jpg

renders by Oksana, mine probably will be in UE4

Cheers!

Cherry · Apr 2021

EricElwell · Apr 2021

I love the padding around the collar. It's a nice touch in addition to all of the other nicely executed elements. Thanks for sharing!

renanfab · Apr 2021

Masterpiece !

Sigmatron · Apr 2021

@EricElwell

@renanfab

Thank you!

pixelpatron · Apr 2021

Sexy. your work is beautiful.

Sigmatron · Apr 2021

pixelpatron

Thank you!

I'm working on some additional stuff with this character, so stay tuned.

littleclaude · Apr 2021

This has come out soooooo well! thanks for the share.

Sigmatron · Apr 2021

littleclaude Thank you!

To keep thread alive I want to share, some unused ideas.

So, Chainperator is a super badass space gladiator/tyrant and at some point I really wanted to add him a helmet with two states: brand new and damaged, cut near the eye.

I spend a week of a free time and did a few rough concepts of it. But after valuable feedback from my friends I agreed that it will be an overkill, there are a lot of stuff already on him, and it is definitely not the last character I'm designing, so I put this idea with a helmet on the shelf. Instead, he will have a cyber-eye on which I'm still working. Because huh, safety is for kids, not for real warriors

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/v2/3dvr5hrfls9l.png

Which one do you like more?

jose.fuentes · Apr 2021

Beautiful work for sure.

For your concepts my favs are top left and bottom right

Sigmatron · Apr 2021

jose.fuentes said:

Beautiful work for sure.

For your concepts my favs are top left and bottom right

Thanks a lot, glad you lik it!

As for helmets I planned to proceed with bottom right one cuz I think gasmasks are cool, gasmasks and turbines xD

Sigmatron · Apr 2021

Good day fellas! Today I wanna show you test animation of a chainsaw-gauntlet. Overall there are quite a few animated and rigged staff on a character.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/oj/pqwq6e915xxk.gif

ugh, gif resolution is baaad, here is better one on gfycat

poweredbygeeko · Apr 2021

Wow the detail is really good, nice one!

PedroCorreiaArtwork · Apr 2021

Just yesterday I was wondering how could I animate a chainsaw or maybe an escalator, did you use curves?

Sigmatron · Apr 2021

poweredbygeeko said:

Wow the detail is really good, nice one!

Thank you!

PedroCorreiaArtwork said:

Just yesterday I was wondering how could I animate a chainsaw or maybe an escalator, did you use curves?

I did it like here

Sigmatron · May 2021

For a such over the top character like Chainperator, chainsaw gauntlet is necessary, but it is quite not enough for the total devastation on the arena, so he got a drill mace.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/5v/4bnegrrd7ixs.gif

It is quite heavy, so I thought it would be cool if character will have some sort of pet-helper. So I explored the idea of rover with a stand for a mace.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/vc/fkchsbonhfj2.jpg

And over all we decided that time needed to model both those assets on reasonable quality level is too much, there are already a lot of stuff with the character(so stay tuned

). And If I'm planning to do one of those things, it is better to unite mace and pet in to one character: drill-mace-bot

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/1x/jsrblum1sc14.png

Cherry · May 2021

pet-helper!

Crazy_pixel · May 2021

That robotic dog is gorgeous

zhabinskiy · Jun 2021

Insane! Keep up the good work

Sigmatron · Jul 2021

zhabinskiy said:

Insane! Keep up the good work

Thank you very much!
In a latest month i did a lot of new stuff for the project, so stay tuned
Also bump bump bump

DavidCruz · Jul 2021

Maybe have the handle retract so an enemy doesn't just pick the dog up and use it, just 1st thoughts on doggy but i like this, cool.

Sigmatron · Jul 2021

DavidCruz said:

Maybe have the handle retract so an enemy doesn't just pick the dog up and use it, just 1st thoughts on doggy but i like this, cool.

Thank you, glad you like it! You have a valid point, but I already finished with the mace, textured rigged and animated already, so probably I will not touch it