High poly - KRANG, evil warlord - preview.

sevenfingers

Hello, first post here.

I got fed up with a project I was working on, so I figured I'd make a tribute to my childhood hero; Krang.
The texturing and modelling is not finished yet. I just took him in to Max from Wings and slapped some procedurals on him.

anyways, C&C greatly appreciated.

CheapAlert

YES

ElysiumGX

hehe...very cool. perhaps render it to texture, and change those dark areas into a displacement map. get more of a folded surface of a cerebral cortex.

Wells

Krang! Sweet.

Definately needs more tubular folds and whatnot that a brain has.

You going to make his body, or at least his little walker?

sevenfingers

Thanks fellas!

There's a bumpmap in there, but the bump smoothing / amount seems to be too low. Didn't want to emphasize it anyways since it's a stinking procedural

I'll most likely model some more folds, and handle the smaller folds with a displacement map.
I'm considering taking him in to zbrush, but I think it might be a bit overkill.

I hate the android body with a passion, so that one ain't coming near. But I'm going to make the tripod thing he had in the first episodes, and perhaps the walker.
I just don't want to hide too much of the gooey goodness that Krang is in the nude.

As for what I'm planning for the general look and feel for the texture; here's the ref I'm planning to use:

The3DGuy

keep it up. would love to see it when its done.

ironbearxl

Zbrush wouldn't be such a bad idea, you could paint your bump map and see the results realtime with the bumpviewer material, don't turn on deform in projection master. It would show up grayscale when you turn it back to the standard material then you could turn it to an alpha, fix seams/export.

Darksun

Heck yeah, would be great to see Krang with a more realistic touch.. Gotta love the veins..
eww.. that's in MY head!?!?

Keep em comin man!

Zergxes

I think Krang in suit could fit perfectly style-wise in the quake 4 world.

sevenfingers

Okey, trying out some basic tiling textures. No spec map and the displacement is kind of shoddy;

shotgun

winz!

something is missing about the light, tho
i dont know, its too white?
because the shadows are very purple-ish i guess im missing more yellow in the light.
but its all good anyways

Zergxes

Wow! Big change. Very nice. Ditto on the yellow.

flaagan

"But Kraaaaaaaang.. I wanna take over Earth.. not Dimension X!"
Lookin pretty sinister there, needs a bit more pink!

ironbearxl

bad ass man!

Slash

sweet!

Now give him something to sit in!

sevenfingers

Thanks for the comments. Dunno what the hell I was thinking with that dark purple. He's now pink as he's supposed to be.
Teeth are fugly, but I haven't had the time to replace them yet

cholden

Wow, that's really coming together. Can't wait to see what you do with those teeth.

ScoobyDoofus

That is really awesome. Great improvement since the last render.

aesir

Looks pretty good right now. Very freaky. A suggestion though: I'd consider ditching the teeth entirely. I think he'd look better just as a fleshy Krang with no teeth.

MoP

Haha, that looks great!
Keep it up!

Slum

Oh wow, this brings back memories. I love him. Great work, keep it comin'

killingpeople

yeah, much better. those teeth do need love.

Wells

theres the krang I love!

rawesome stuff.

sevenfingers

Something like this?

Mark Dygert

Beautiful, if such a word could discribe something so ugly =P
I love it!

sevenfingers

I blame the last one on sleep depravation.
This is more like I want it:

Skizot

the veins on that sucker ROCK

Zergxes

Looks great!

Etienne

Great work... where's the cybebody... Crag is a brain and can't do much with out it.

Etienne

Wells

Looks fucking awesome.

I particularly like how he appears to be on his little 'legs' in the render. Maybe its just me, but the picture screams for some tapshoes and a little bowtie.

sevenfingers

Hhehe, thanks. Tapshoes and a little bowtie is way cooler than the cyborgbody... I say it again, that was the most retarded design evvar!

Anyway, I started some sketching on the area where he sits in the technodrome. Going painfully slow:

sevenfingers

I'm interested in a collab with an animator for Krang btw, It feels like such a shame to leave him static.
Unfortunately I know nothing about animation and rigging, and it feels like a bit too ambitious of a project to start with.

Feel free to express any interest in helping me with making him move... bearing in mind it will take a while before the scenery is done.

Wells

I can't animate him, but I've got some nice .wavs of Krang, should you want them for the final effort.

KeR

that rocks, looks bad ass

Zergxes

What app do you want him animated in? Any actions in particular?

ironbearxl

Good to see him finished, great work!!

spider2cool

you should do a glamor shot with him actually being supported by his bulk. I don't think he is normally standing on those chin thingys...don't know what to call them. =

sevenfingers

Sectaur; Thanks, that'd be appreciated. I haven't litened to the original Krang as a matter of fact. Only the Swedish version.




KeR; thanks

Zergxes; He's being rendered in 3dsmax 8 along with Vray. I guess native Max animation would be the best; but anything that works really.

ironbearxl; Thanks, still missing something to sit on though

spider2cool; Hehe, yeah, they wouldn't hold him. I'm gonna make a shot with his stand that he had in the first episodes.

Thanks again, I really appreciate the comments!

JKim3

I don't remember this thing.
http://dev.neuroatomik.com/user_grafix/krang.jpeg

But that stupid chicken-legged walker might be neat.
http://www.tartarugheninja.it/giocattoli/img_1988/krang.jpg

sevenfingers

Well, the tripod thing was only the very first episodes.
If anyone remembers, I'd love to know in which episodes he has the chicken-walker... I've downloaded a few episodes, but it's either the android body or the tripod.

Here's an update; I remade the eye-area a bit. Added eyelids and fixed the IOR on the eyes. Looks much better IMHO.

Wells

Friend pointed out to me that in the cartoon, he only had four teeth. two upper and two lower.



PM me your email addy and I'll send you the sound clips if you want them.

sevenfingers

The teeth changed in pretty much every episode

I haven't made a final desicion wether to make four or a bunch of teeth like now. I've taken some liberties with stuff like the eyes too (they're not purple)...

All in all, I doubt he could be mistaken for anything except Krang

I PM:d the email, thanks!

Zergxes

Yeah, I like how you did the eyes there.

Slash

This really is my kind of sexy!

moose

lol awesome.

i just want to wrap a towel around him, dry him out a bit. soggy brain.

sevenfingers

Thanks a bunch!

Sorry for the lack of updates; I had to do some research on spherical wheels and their construction. Small update:

ebagg

There be some damn tasty material work. Keep it comin!!!

Daz

You really seem to know your stuff with lighting, rendering and shaders sevenfingers. Impressive stuff.

sevenfingers

Thanks.

I'm doing some tests with slime. Surprisingly difficult to make...



I found a decent workflow with blobmesh now; so it should be downhill from now on.

rooster

I just want to give him a big squelchy hug! (before you cover him in goo )

arshlevon

you know you have to do a tutorial on lighting rendering and materials now... or at the least screens of material and rendering settings... looks too awesome man...