tiger warior

GoK

hey chaps i actualy got something to post this is where i am for the cgchat comp thought id post here see if i can get eny good advice/crits.. cheers

jody
consept


silightly older shot the ches/stomach has been updated since then



newest shot

Mr Smo

secksy! I like, but maybe beef his arms up a tiny bit?

love the head

gl in the comp!

GoK

ohhh heh cheers ill try and beef him up somemore he is meant to be totaly "armoured up".. apparently!

Jody

_Shimmer

wow he looks damn good. You improve quite fast Jody.

His arm are not yet definied and finshed i assume, so i dont want to crit that really. I would maybe scale his shoulderpads up abit and would give the legs / feets a bit more polylove.

The helmet and the head looks awesome. Im very exited about the texture. I guess you will be the next one i want to give a paintover advice after blankslatejoe and ghost_rider .

I am really looking forward to this. yummi

Josh_Singh

Jody, you models have improved a ton! The devils in the textures though! haha. But even those have improved dramatically. Is this for a comp? what comp if you dont mind me asking?

poopinmymouth

Your models always have a great natural proportion to them. Good concept, and I dig the helmet as well. Can't wait to see the texture. I do think the arms could use a bit more definition though.

GoK

....damn thier is no scratch head symbol.. wow thanks chaps just made my day! i would love a paintover shimmer and my biggest downfall at the moment is texturing so well see ill work more on the proportions and try to up the tris a bit but im close to my limit... about 400 or so left...

heres a little update.

Jody

ohh ps and it is for the contest over at www.cgchat.com (hope no one minds me posting the addy!?)

moose

thats sweet gok.

if you can spare it - maybe add soem planes coming off the face, for a kind of a 'beard' on the cat? cool stuff

Wells

i've been watching this over at cgchat... love how its turned out. one thing i'd like to see, if you've got the polys to spare, is some thickness to his helmet/face armor. nobody wants paper-thin armor!

GoK

moose: Yehh that would be cool... up and round under the ears mabey...hmmm

Secturs: totaly right consider it done.

Jody

adam

I love it. My only crit is his body seems really wide from the side.

Crash

Will there be an SDK for him? i'd love to texture that. hehe

GoK

wow iv never had an sdk request before! shure ill get one up once iv done mine nd adam ill look into the wideness thing but i quite like the chunky look!

Jody

Josh_Singh

Hahah I was about to ask the same thing! I would love to give this guy a skin! SDK Please.

GoK

no probs ill get one up soon the comp ends on the 3rd may so ill get it up then'ish

Jody

GoK

man iron man was one of the coolest models iv seen!... thought id let you know!

Jody

Crash

GoK: sweet. im gonna enjoy texturing this one i think.

allready have an idea. hehehe

DarthRevanII

all i have to say is wow, incredible job

the mesh flow is very well done, and it seems pretty low on polies compared to its detail. The character is very original and creative, and just really well done

I cant wait to see it textured, you did an awesome job man

Sean McBride

:O Thats awesome gok, love it!

GoK

wow chaps, thanks i appreciate it lots but god do i hate unwrapping stuff... its mundane and boring but i want to do a good job esspecialy if i release the model for others to texture... bear with me

Jody

Sean McBride

I'll definantly try and do a little something for this guy. I love animal human hybrids. UVing is fun! Its relaxing and easy. ;D Enjoy it.

GoK

hehe i will try to! it is easy yehh but thats the prob i think

Jody

Scott Ruggels

you gonna put this guy into UT2K4? With the Chaos UT sword and melee mods, he'd fit well.

Scott

Weiser_Cain

Umm, what are these melee mods you speak of?

shotgun

good job, looking ace to me.

He may be a little narrow in the torso, considering all that armor he's wearing it looks pretty *tight in there.

I'm also not too keen about the helmet. It adds a cool shape, overall, but does the horns really work? They seem unbalanced with his very solid structure. Perhaps consider revising the shape so it doesnt' pull so far away from his body.

Good job so far, anyways. I'd love to see him textured and all.

JKim3

You know how human warriors have helmets that resemble animals? This guy should have a helmet that resembles a human.


No, I'm actually not serious.

GoK

well cheers for all th crits and ideas guys really good stuff! but i only have till the 3rd may so i have to get cracking with the texture..

ok managed to dedicate some time to this tonight got it all unwrapped, might add a few more polies as i still have a few left.. well see.

Jody

GoK

ohh by the way i only have 2*512s to play with so this should be fun...

Jody

JKim3

Hard to tell, but are you giving more texture space to the back of the shield than to the front?!? Also, the pauldron looks to have way more space than the skirt thing and boots. Infact, it seems the further down your model you go, the smaller the UV space gets. :P

GoK

you cant see the front of the shield... and no, you are right about the legs tho ill work on it a bit more before bed

Cheers.

Jody

Weiser_Cain

*points to above post asking about melee mods for UT2K4 and waits quietly for the SDK*

GoK

yehh id like the link too might be a good idea! here is an update iv played round with the map and its *tight* i mean it may be a prooblem... less than 2 pixels betwee some things.. ? anyway heres the pic

Jody

JKim3

sorry to be a bitch, but could you post it with a map that's easier to see the uv space?

GoK

yehh shure man just though it looked cooler with that map

Jody

JKim3

In the 3/4 pic, looks liek you have something wonky going on in the pauldron. I hate unwrapping rounded objects.

GoK

texture finaly started ill take a note of the distortion you pointed out but i dont think itll be a massive problem..

Jody

Sean McBride

It looks like you have a seam there on the sides of the paldron and that gives you no stretching but its a bitch to work around sometimes. The fewer seams the better usualy. Even if you have a little stretching its not a big deal on some rounded objects. As long as you dont put a texture there that really shows off all the stretching you'll be fine. In the end it dosn't really matter, its what you come up with. If thats the way you like to do it then go for it. In my experiance though selecting all of the faces of a hemispherical surface and planar map based on the averaged normals then tweeking it works best and goes really fast.

Looking great, Are you going to release an SDK once you finish your entry?

GoK

yehh your right man im gonn update the uv map.. will make it eeasyer in the end i agree.. cheers and yehh im gonna put out an sddk.. seems people want to paint this

Jody

dejawolf

hmm... i dunno about the expression in his face.
says more nice little pussycat than tiger.

_Shimmer

hmm it does look good overall, though i think its face is kinda "dead" without any life. It looks like a painitng from a photo or something. Since you have the chance to stylize i would do so. Also the expression is a bit buff. Maybe add some wrinkles to make him look older, same for the saturation, desaturate a bit to give him more gritty feeling.

Overall good. Post the flats if you dont mind.

Wells

texture looks pretty good from the front and side, but for some reason looks 'off' in the perspective shots.

GoK

ok chaps, i am working in gryscale... not sure if its the best ideas really but seems ok so far!

shotgun

for a second there that numberican test uv render was promising great psychedelic colors and other worldly design.
carry on though, keep us posted.

GoK

ok the b&w is doing my head in... trying to add some colours... nite nite

Jody

Moz

Looking good, I really like him. You should try to give his face a bit of a snarl though.

It's kinda a tiger trademark. You should try to match his colours with actual tiger markings, he looks like he's suppost to be a tiger warrior, and not actual look like a tiger warrior.

Scott Ruggels

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Umm, what are these melee mods you speak of?

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Look up Chaos UT in google, and there is a mod that adds weird weapons both as a mutator, and a game type. One of Chaos UT's game types is "Duel" where two characters go at it with melee weapons in a single room, with soem fairly reasonable melee controls. Left Mose is attack, right mouse is block and you can toggle how "strong" the move is, as well as maneuver for advantage. if I can get the list of animations from the Chaos UT folks, I am going to add it to the Lupine Catelogue.

Scott

GoK

Cheers scot found it... not sure if im gonna go to the bother of puting this in a game, once iv finnished skinning i might see if someone could animate it and stick it in an engine for me.. will give the sdk more use

Moz: His facce will be posable (to and extent) a couple of expressions mabey. As for the texture im gonna do second pass over everything once its tetured and fix it up.. just laying it out the now.

Jody

moose

nice unwrap!

the texture definately needs some 'WHWHAHAAAAAAA' colors to it, some loud accents or something (in moderation of course).

woo! gogogo

Scott Ruggels

If his pproportions are not far off the Gorge, or UT_Male skeletons, I could probably port him into the game. I've done it for other models, Can do it for yours as well.

Scott

GoK

thanks moose ill add more pazaz scot yehh once its done that would be ace cheers =D

heres little update.. sheild will totaly be changed.. most of the rest im just going to try and work more detail and realistic colour into as well as finnishing its off. ohh and add a spec and traansparency map.

Jody

animatr

Beeeeeaautiful! I've been following this here but mostly when it started over at CGchat. I thought it was a great concept then too. I wish I wouldve had time to join the challenge, but oh well. I am digging the textures on this beast. It really really brought it to life. Cant wait for the SDK. Keep up the incredible work!