Dawn of War: Thousand Sons CSM (56k beware)
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The model was done by MrD and I did the texture - it uses the specs of DoW and while I don't know the exact number of polygons, I can say it's about 2200 IIRC.
Anyways, without further delay here it is:
!( a second colorsheme is to be found here: http://www.joust3d.com/MitGas/red.jpg )!
And at last the flats:
I like this new smilie, never saw it one the old boards.
Anyways, without further delay here it is:
!( a second colorsheme is to be found here: http://www.joust3d.com/MitGas/red.jpg )!
And at last the flats:
I like this new smilie, never saw it one the old boards.
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/me wants a tutorial
Anyway, amazing work!
Scott
Renaud Galand: Basically it's the base color (which are officially blue and yellow/gold for these guys) with texture overlays and my skin for the Joust skelknight (for a pic: http://www.joust3d.com/MitGas/nolights.jpgor http://www.joust3d.com/MitGas/headcloseup.jpg
for the flats(800k HUGE!): http://www.joust3d.com/MitGas/skelknightflat.jpg)
copied in on some part to get some more greyish and less saturated parts - you could however paste any grey metal in there to make rob the skin off of it's color.
Those Thousand Sons are basically nothing more than dust in huge power armor, so they're like mindless ghosts that can't die except if their whole suit is destroyed. And even than they can be summoned back. The one tip I can give on metal is that it lives from little details - on a 512 texture map I actually use the pencil (1 pixel) on 12 opacity with light grey and black to add manually etc. so that it gets to look sharp. The gold took long but I'll make a mini tutorial once I skin the leader of these guys.
Steakhouse: So true...
Thegodzero: I'll take that as a compliment although me, grimlock doesn't see many similarities.......then again, I couldn't judge who has the most similar style to me I guess.
Scott Ruggels: Will do!
killingpeople: thanks a bunch.
Phew, making the typical polycount-reply with answering every one personally took me quite a while - merry christmas everyone btw.
again, exellent skill !
The metal work is relly cool, but i think you should add more highlights and stuf that defines the diretion of light better since i guess the DoW engine hasnt a too good light engine. well, im really not into this warhammer stuff and dont know how they suppose to look exactly so thuis may sound like neatpicking
please be so kind a post a wireframe too, looks like youve come a long way , mrd. Looks very good what i see.
Good work bros, now get the hell back to joust ;-)!
u 2 did a very nice job together
the skin has some nice touches,
like the wires casting shadow down at the cloth thing
the gun looks very nice too imo
the thing is, i think the gun is the best part of the model. the design is much more striking than that of the model. theres more contrast between colors, and ur rendering is more convincing
i feel that doesn't carry through to the model itself, which looks relatively very flat. wear effects add nice detail but don't efffect the design and 3d significantly
for example, if u look at his leg while squinting, it looks at one flat piece. rear view too
i believe that with a little more low-relief work, pushing the values and 3d-ing the different materials more, around the edges perhaps, u could get a lot more out of the model
Quality
About the gun looking superior to the marine, that's pretty much an issue of taste - I used various pictures of the amazing artists that work for GW and stole from everywhere something - I also had more real metal to paint on that texture and that looks cooler due to stronger highlights and shadows. Like his head is the one of a very old thousand sons model I used to have (the newer ones have the same faceplate as normal 40k marines) and his legs are like the new miniatures and so on. The bolter is also a mix of different stuff (some details are exactly like on the miniatures they sell, some stuff like the that sign with the diamond are lifted from a GW artwork of a thousand sons guy et cetera)
Since GW fans are nuts about it (I know what I'm talking about as I have lots of those little minis too
It really makes me want to get back to working on my witch hunters mod for DoW. Just take your marine, slap a cute face on her and slap on a pair of tits, and that's where I'm headed.
I'm sick of seeing these other mods that just look like mspaint/milkshape assturds.
Actually the metal parts are "ceramite" which is a mix out of metal and ceramics (don't look at me, I didn't make that up!) that forms a super hard shell for these battle-suits; that's also why there are no really hard edges and strong/er lights/shades on it - it's not intended to be very reflective as it's pretty much unlike real metal (I g for a tutorial :Pused various pieces of artwork by GW (the guys behind Warhammer) to get the armor kind of right (= like in the official pictures).
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I love the style, do you have any links to the GW artwork pieces
saw this link on Blue's news: http://www.compfused.com/directlink/404/
I'm sick of seeing these other mods that just look like mspaint/milkshape assturds.
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and you get too many of them with each mddable game as it is...
Here are pictures: http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/spacemarines/extras/art/default.htm
Make sure to check the concept sketches out too, they're also pretty cool. somewhere there must be Chaos art too. Which is even cooler as I love those chaos dudes.
Kman: I might mess things up but aren't you a modeler too? There are many Thousand Sons guys, if you really care you can do stuff for them too (like the sexy pink daemons et cetera). Just a suggestion though as I worry about your life...female space marines? The hardcore fans will kill you....or worse, castrate you. You should already fear for your life. However they're a nice community as they are really thankful for new stuff and satisfaction in our work and praise (hopefully) are the only things we get from our skins (at least I do).
Now back to bheing a hermit and watching transformers! I just got the whole series on DVD a few weeks ago and it's the best cartoon I ever saw. Amazing stuff. Especially the characters like Megatron, Soundwave, Starscream, Optimus, Tracks et cetera (too many to name)....... Spielberg better make the real life movie as good as the original cartoon (Generation 1)or else ............I'm going to cry. I just think what Paul Anderson or other fools could do with it and then I fear for my loved tranformers.....Milla Jovovich as Optima Prime?
anyways, D couldn't register and gave me this pic to post for people who are interested in the model (IMHO it looks a lot superior to the Relic ones).
NINJA EDIT: And the blue one reminds me of the Diamond Sword from the Tribes universe.