Polycount - Generals - Concept General GAUSS
polycounter lvl 18
ALRIGHT YOU SLAGS, I FIGHT TO WIN
now i don't normally post these kinds of pre-emptive "staking my claim" nonsense posts, but this is war. i haven't made a model in a long while and i don't think i'll be starting now, HOWEVER: just as with our previous polycount challenge, as a dedicated member of the polycount camp, i'm going to help the war effort as much as i can.
<u>THIS MEANS that i will help out anyone who needs help with a big juicy concept for this challenge</u>. first of all i'm looking for a primary collaborator who needs a concept, but my invitation is open to all polycounters who are serious about this challenge, since there are no rules about multiple submissions. the rules stipulate that you can only have 2 people work an entry, so if you're confident about your modeling and texturing but want some extra muscle at the design end of the spectrum, let me know.
we can't let those cgchat dogs show us up--those cg_inserthere_ community sites are a dime a dozen! horribly messy subforums sprawling everywhere, teeming with insensate masses clutching their lumpy zbrush rejects and over-budget "low poly" models--ARE WE LIKE THEM? NAY SIR, I THINK NOT. this is our time, no excuses gentlemen!
just setting up a list for my own reference:
Sectaurs - fleshtank - done
EarthQuake - gunbot - first pass done
katzeimsack - mecha hitler - done
Downsizer - floaty psionic girl -first pass done
Whargoul - special sauce in progress
Scoob - Scoob's got it COVERED
Slum - General Birdstein done
almighty gir - demon engine
flaagan - voldo grievous
nkoste - saboteur
Narusol - Naru's got it COVERED!
dur23 - tagged!
aegix - concept done
hedhunta - concept
Asthane - tagged!
resin - gavku supplied a concept!
infectedletters - concept
pseudo - concept
psycho - concept
bort - tagged!
edit: if you would like to see all of the concepts i've done for this contest all on one convenient page, visit gausswerks - construct:
http://gausswerks.blogspot.com
now i don't normally post these kinds of pre-emptive "staking my claim" nonsense posts, but this is war. i haven't made a model in a long while and i don't think i'll be starting now, HOWEVER: just as with our previous polycount challenge, as a dedicated member of the polycount camp, i'm going to help the war effort as much as i can.
<u>THIS MEANS that i will help out anyone who needs help with a big juicy concept for this challenge</u>. first of all i'm looking for a primary collaborator who needs a concept, but my invitation is open to all polycounters who are serious about this challenge, since there are no rules about multiple submissions. the rules stipulate that you can only have 2 people work an entry, so if you're confident about your modeling and texturing but want some extra muscle at the design end of the spectrum, let me know.
we can't let those cgchat dogs show us up--those cg_inserthere_ community sites are a dime a dozen! horribly messy subforums sprawling everywhere, teeming with insensate masses clutching their lumpy zbrush rejects and over-budget "low poly" models--ARE WE LIKE THEM? NAY SIR, I THINK NOT. this is our time, no excuses gentlemen!
just setting up a list for my own reference:
Sectaurs - fleshtank - done
EarthQuake - gunbot - first pass done
katzeimsack - mecha hitler - done
Downsizer - floaty psionic girl -first pass done
Whargoul - special sauce in progress
Scoob - Scoob's got it COVERED
Slum - General Birdstein done
almighty gir - demon engine
flaagan - voldo grievous
nkoste - saboteur
Narusol - Naru's got it COVERED!
dur23 - tagged!
aegix - concept done
hedhunta - concept
Asthane - tagged!
resin - gavku supplied a concept!
infectedletters - concept
pseudo - concept
psycho - concept
bort - tagged!
edit: if you would like to see all of the concepts i've done for this contest all on one convenient page, visit gausswerks - construct:
http://gausswerks.blogspot.com
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I would gladly take your construct into the trenches [or towering over them, should he prove a biggun] against that chattering horde.
[edit] would also be cool it if could fly.
...teeming with insensate masses clutching their lumpy zbrush rejects and over-budget "low poly" models--ARE WE LIKE THEM? NAY SIR, I THINK NOT.
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Gauss is an ANIMAL!
Go Gauss go!
We need more Open Canvas brainstorming sessions.
Sectaurs: i'd be proud to see you help a concept to completion, do you have any particular type (human/cyborg/alien etc.) that you know you do better with, or a kind that you'd prefer to work on like EQ's? let me know so we can get CRACKIN'!
EQ: ROBOTS with LARGE GUNS is something i can DO, SOLDIER! flying is also exceedingly useful, tactically speaking, so i'll keep that under advisement as well! i'll bounce some ideas/thumbnails/etc. off you tomorrow.
Pseudo: right you are soldier. if we can get more opencanvas sessions going throughout this war, doubtless we'll have a leg up on the enemy!
Hell, give me a quasi-sentient flesh-tank for other's to ride upon, to carry the proud standard of our peoples into war. With a big gun on his back.
now what
http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=97405&an=0&page=0#97405
From my last post there:
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On other"look and feel" should we go with clean futurist design (my pref usually), or something else? What flavor of Evil? WIth the SF design, I'd shy awy from Metalgothic horror, in general, and try something.. oh.. say predatory and dangerous looking, but "lively" as opposed to undead?
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So Gauss, you think you want to take the "general" direction of things, and make this look like a Team of Soldiers, or a Mottley band of Pie-rates? or what?
Scott
Just don't have the time to do a good concept
e: should have an old look (damage, wounds, dirt so on)
I like the gears of war marien style , but he should definatly have some antik/german god skills (thor)
I need a cybog Hitler, with many hightec attachments and two laiserswords on his hands (like the protos warriors)
Just don't have the time to do a good concept
e: should have an old look (damage, wounds, dirt so on)
I like the gears of war marien style , but he should definatly have some antik/german god skills (thor)
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Uh, make that a double order! Give him the supreme powers granted by the Spear of Destiny.
Valandar: so long as you're not planning on having a different collaborator to help with the skin or something, since the rules stipulate that only two people can work on a given entry... so long as that's the case yes, i'd be happy to help you troubleshoot/refine your concept!
Cheap: i don't see how we'd expect you to make something other than a gargoyle for this contest... if you want help, it's available to you.
ramucho: yeah, if you want to use an emblem Vailias' is good, but i think with the evil nature of our side of the Dominance War that an emblem's really not all that necessary.
Scott: i think it's in our best interest to diversify--for the aforementioned reasons, i really see this side as being an almost Nietzschian eclectic of very bad dudes... so yeah, i guess "motley band of pie-rates" style by default
Rick: Sorted!
SyaPed: traitorous dog!
Snowfly: would LOVE to bat some ideas around with you my man!
katzeimsack: a cyberhitler, now that i can do
Xeno: we can't have two cyberhitlers on the team! they would clearly destroy each other, making no benefit to the war effort at large.
Downsizer: sounds like an interesting concept to me, i'll get on it when i can. i think i'll approach these in roughly the order they're received, but don't worry, i'll get around to this one
alright gentlemen, i'm up early and about to start thumbnailing. i'll be on #md as well available through PMs on this board and gauss_9@hotmail.com on MSN.
just some hightec swords on the back of both hands...
But other weapons will be fine
addendum for everyone looking for a concept: because of the number of people wanting a concept, the submit and feedback client-style design thing just isn't going to work. trust that i will put a lot of work into the concepts, but i'm not going to make significant alterations without a good reason. just so we're clear about that.
-LD
Whargoul: are you kidding? After what you've done for me there's always a concept left for Whargoul! and happy birthday man, don't think I'll be able to get around to one for you on your birthday but I will get you one.
so first up is Sectaurs: not quite a "flesh-tank" but that was the basic idea i started with... he's got a gun on his back, of a kind... more like some re-arranged anatomy for war
-LD
I love him. I will hug him and squeeze him...
Scott
I was thinking some kind of brutal Venomous hulking mighty Crab/Lobster-like general, with an army of sideways walking skittering minions. His not humanoid, but not exactly crustacean carapace & limbs decorated for war, and scarred by battle. Truely a terror to behold.
Oh, and a gigantic weapon that fits to his arm(the big claw arm), some sort of Bio gun or Vile poisoned Harpoon launcher. However this beast prefers the upclose kill, tearing his foes limb off with his powerful claws & mandibles.
DO NOT ABANDON MEEEE
Thanks as always dude!
ok, long since time for some works in progress update: here are Earthquake's gunmech (w/female pilot i talked him into) and Mecha Hitler. EQ's mech still has a long way to go, i still have to nail down the main shapes, especially for the gun arms. the red on the sides of the torso are heatsinks.
Katzeimsack, i'm sorry this isn't really what you described, but laserswords (protoss or otherwise) still don't fit with the subject matter, and furthermore the idea of attributing "german god skills" to Hitler is troubling. since when is Thor a german god, anyhow?
I went with a mech design that seems to fit vaguely with mechanical themes of WWII... Hitler's undead head is pickled in the airplane style canopy glass, and he's got a pair of souped up MG-42's. since he's fighting 1000 years after he lived, he's not quite himself anymore, and really very few other people in the army recognize who he is. he mutters incoherently to himself occasionally, but his only real purpose these days is on the battlefield. soldiers fighting with him find him a capable, if savage and deranged leader.
this is just the first pass, naturally after 1000+ years the mech is going to be a lot more beat up than this.
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This concept just made my day, great work dude.
However, I still don't think attributing god-like aspects or associations to Hitler is appropriate, particularly the mythological. To me, that would suggest that Hitler actually managed to end up something like what he always pictured himself as, which would be giving him way too much credit.
I'd much rather depict him akin to the way the film Downfall portrays him: a tired, completely deluded old man. Something of a pathetic figure. Here (and this will hopefully born out in the later versions of the concept), it's 1000 years after the fact, and although Hitler's head has been preserved in this completely ridiculous mecha, his mind and his legacy have not. In the distant star systems in which this war is set, no one knows him or regards him with anything like what we do today, and he himself is a revenant, an insane ghost in the machine.
Okay, so maybe this is a bit much waxing philosophic about a MechaHitler concept, but I want to make my position quite clear
awesome work gauss!
hrmm am I on the right team? LOL!
awesome work gauss!
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Fear not Steady, we dont discriminate here, we kill everybody! We're not anti-semites, we're anti-Cgchatites.
But anyways, glad you like my idea, I look forward to workin with yah on it!