Polycount - Generals - [Niflheim]

Devoid

Another lurker forced to enter.
The orginal concept was a Human general who leads alien troops. Wanted someone older and beaten and battered by war, wanting it all to end but unable to lose. The idea was that the aliens ended up using him as much as he lead them.


After working on him for a couple days and not getting anywhere, I decided to just go ahead and make the alien the primary focus.

I'm still kinda torn as to which one to go with - any suggestions?

gauss

Why on earth have you been lurking with this quality of work?! Personally I think the choice to go with the alien is clear. Not only is it more interesting to look at, but I think just from those two images it's clear what you're more interested in depicting. I think you should be able to work in some of the themes you were wanting to express with the human general, but incorporate them into the alien instead. Think about ways of expressing that sort of world weariness and battle-hardened wisdom with the alien, outfit him accordingly, and you'll have a great entry on your hands. Keep us posted!

Wells

Holy crap, beautiful concepts!

Mr Ray

Everyone is coming out the closet for this comp =D

LoTekK

That alien looks incredible! It's kinda reminding me of Eva, only about a million times more badass. Not that the human concept doesn't look good, but I'm with gauss; the alien wins hands down.

Neo_God

I was thinking the exact same thing Gauss!

Anyway, those concepts are fantastic!
I say go with the bottom one though, it just looks more original and has a much more evil vibe to it.

Emil Mujanovic

ALIEN ALIEN ALIEN!

-caseyjones

Devoid

Haven't had a lot of time but started the mesh. Had to optimize a lot cause I had used up most of the tris before I even hit the waist.

- FredH -

please give me a thumbnail in the thumbnail thread when you can:) Even though I hate you guys, I still like to see good work on the main page;)

Yes, alien all the way!

_FreD_

Devoid

a little more work on the mesh, not much been busy. also a color comp

poopinmymouth

Dang, I love his gnarly tan fingers, and his green hair. Really nice work man. Looks like it has tons of nice details that will be strengthened even further with the color map.

gauss

that's definitely a majestic color scheme, very cool stuff. keep 'er updated!

Timex

really cool i love the wings ,nice colors

rv_el

I look forward to seeing this bad boy when its complete. Really cool character

Devoid

Went about this the low tech way, no hi poly just a hand painted normal map.

And a rough color map. Spec is nonexistant

Still have a lot of work to go, but I'm happy that I'm making some progress

MoP

shaping up very nicely

Devoid

Another couple of hours of work tonight. Spec and diffuse work

Lee3dee

Looks great! reminds me of the hydralisk, but made for battle.

Devoid

finished - still more I'd like to do on it, but other projects are creeping in. Changed the color scheme one more time :P

TactMasterZero

Man, that is awesome. I'd like to see how you made that rock, it looks so real!

Devoid

thanks tact, base is nothing special just a quick box model w/ some cracs cut in and a photosourced texture with a bit of manipulation. The small pebbles were made made from a simple sphere then scattered collapsed and tweaked em.
Didnt even unwrap it just box mapped it :P

InfectedLetters

looks really cool for all low poly stuff