Polycount- Generals - Chico

chico

Hi there...

Dunno if i will have time to finish up this one but i'll try...

Ok this is supposed to be Vahl's general's tank meca thing where she sits and rage battle. I gathered some concepts from my friend Sparth and i'll mix some of his awesome stuff together to get this done.
Go go go frenchies!

Here is the initial base concept i am using (but the legs and some parts of the body will change, colors prolly):
http://www.sparth.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=46&pos=57

And this is what i have got after 4 hours:


chico

vahl

haha !! GO CHICO GO !!

chico

update on the meca...
it will still change as i keep on working on it...
hopefully done by the end of this week for the hi maybe



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Makkon

That thing is beautiful! Even tough it doesn't seem to be a gneral in any way, it still rocks.

chico

Makkon : this is supposed to be the meca Vahl's general is riding to rage battle. So indeed, it isnt a general in any way:)
other possible design started...




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rooster

rockin'

Timex

impresive!!!!

Slum

It's beautiful, keep it coming!

chico

thx guys...I should have more soon...

chico

Makkon

You could make some mounts for our top Generals to ride. It would have a very unified look.

chico

makkon : that would be a good idea actually...at least I could try but it was initially intended to be vahl's mount.

It can be debated though.

chico

chico

updated...had a chance to work a bit on this



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Makkon

All I can say is, I'm glad we have you on our side.

ThE_BirD

Very cool chico...I dig the busy\simple shape contrast

rooster

what was that thing, that is better than quad miniguns?.. you know.. oh yeah- NOTHING! brill

chico

some more progress ( 4 hours on it) - i am still blocking out for the composition before working on anything Hi poly



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chico

more on this...almost blocked out..more massive



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PieXags

Looks like a pinky demon from Doom 3, with really big guns.

chico

yeah man, that's the idea:)

chico

Ferg

very cool lookin, though it doesn't really look like it could move... looks more like a stationary weapon with legs to stabalize it.

chico

well i got this dude ready for hi polyfication...
final block out here

ferg - yeah i noticed the rear legs were a bit too heavy ( more the feet than the legs actually)...fixed it thx

it isnt tho supposed to be a very fast mecha at all, more a heavy assault one that can also destroy buildings with its quadruple miniguns...



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Makkon

It looks like it could hop around like a frog. If you ever animate it, I'd go for that movement. Great update. Looks delicious!

animeboyz

Very Intense. Love the Mad Mecha Skillz

gavku

Man that is looking brutal...has a real sense of power. Love the hind legs.

chico

started the Hi Poly woohoo:)

engine started



rear leg



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aesir

wow, you are good at mechanical shit. Personally, Im awful at those kinds of things.

Im looking forward to seeing how you come up with a low poly for these things, and how it transfers onto a normal map.

Keep it up

(sparth rocks)

rawkstar

haha VERY nice!

vahl

hehehe, the meca manmachine is launched
as I told you, very cool stuff mate, the highpoly leg is cool tho maybe the "toes" should be a tad bigger, at least longer, if its meant to run fast or anything. Especially for a rear leg. (post the updated concept tho )

dfacto

Damn man, that's awesome.... O_o

rooster

its a bit good..

chico

Hi poly in the work...

front arm done




current state of the model



just need to work on the eyes (some detection system) which are totally placeholder atm and the main shell and that's it

chico

poopinmymouth

I don't know about the humanesque fingers. He was reading nicely as an artificial robot, with vaguely animalistic properties before, now he feels more like a person crouching down. I think they worked a bit better as angular box shapes. I'm sure it will work out fine either way, I just think the whole character would read better without human like digits.

chico

hey poop, I'll have time to modify stuff here and there afterwards. We'll see when the global Hi Poly model is done
Thanks for the input anyway

chico

aesir

I personally think the fingers work much better if your purpose for the robot is to be a general in itself. If its simply meant to be a tank bot, then lose it. If you want it to look more intelligent, then keep the fingers, cause they certainly do add that.

dfacto

Not to be a drag and all, but I think you sort of killed it with this last update, even though the modelling is delicious.

The back legs looked much more powerful in the early version, but now they look very weak, especially from the side.

The front legs also look weaker because now the bot is on tip-toes, which doesn't feel right for a giant super heavy looking robot.

I think you just took the feel of weight and presence out of it by making these changes.

chico

thanks for the inputs guys
dfacto - yeah I tend to agree - i'll asjust the proportions when i am totally done with the detailing of each part...I definetly wanna get this weight i had in the earlier version - however, i tend to disagree / the humanoid hands - I want it to have those kinda hands cause it gives the meca some sort of agility (that is actually required, since it supposed to ajust the vertical height and uses sensors that provide him informations / the ground)
i'll post an update tomorrow with those fixes
thx for the inputs

chico

dfacto

Why not just make it resting on the palms? Then it has fingers, but it also has the necessary sense of weight.

chico

dfacto - yeah that is prolly what i'll adjust - i also will try another design for the 'hands', a more robotic design
thx for the comments

chico

rawkstar

the fingers make it look more agile than it probably should be, i imagined this thing being more brutish and powerful.

chico

ok i just finished the Hi Poly design for the whole model

here is it:


and the details
of the front leg leg ( a former design)



and of the rear leg here



chico

rollin

Y O U ... A R E .. I N S A N E

ok but hornestly.. i realy like the design from the middle to the front.. the back isn´t realy my favorite... it doesn´t fit into the white-smooth design of the rest.. maybe you could try to expand the white thing over the rearlegs.. hmm maybe just a bit but to get them into the whole design.. do you understand my stupid english?

chico

I_might_add a protective plate on the 'thigh' of the rear leg but i like the contrast it has with those brutal raw rear legs that propulse the meca and stabilize it when firing with the machine guns and the front arms that are mainly used for guidance and vertical height adjustment.
I'll see

Thanks for the comments anyway

chico

MoP

Looks great.

My only crit is that in contrast to the size of the mecha, those guns are really tiny... I'd make them much bigger and more obvious!

rawkstar

so is this still supposed to be a mount for vahl's general? does she ride inside of it or will there be some sort of a seat on top of this beastie?

chico

rockstar - i dont like the idea of her riding it ( it is kinda ridiculous, you dont really ride a meca)
her being inside would be closer to what I had in mind but the idea Vahl had was it was her bodyguard of some sort, protecting her during the battle - we have to discuss the idea

Mop - i dunno about a bigger gun, it'd prolly break the sort of homogeneity the silhouette currentlty has - i have time to expemriment things tho

Thx for the comments guys

chico

dfacto

Chico, you could put the gun inside and have the head peaking out through the armor. Basically take what you have now, cut out one of the Gatling guns, increase the size of the other and tuck it in more, and then extend the carapace around it. Could look pretty cool.

chico

dfacto - thx for the ideas ( i'll play with some elements and see if i like something better than what i have right now)
- as for her having the head out of the armor, no. I figured out the machine more like the appleseed mecha that encapsulates the whole body of the pilot inside the shells so the pilot would be totally inside (if we'd got with the idea), in a cabin

thx for the comments

chico

notman

This is a rock solid design. I love the detail you've put into the mechanics of the arms. It's a sweet looking design, while also looking menacing

chico

I played around a bit (when max isnt crashing...my PC is low on RAM:(
so i made the machingun bigger and covered the rear legs with some shells...I think I am done now:



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dfacto

Well, I think a shell on the underside, sort of half covering the guns would look cool, but it's amazing as it is.

Top notch work man, your modelling is insane!

chico

Thx man, moving on to the Low poly model now...
I'll have 2500 tris as a limit cause Vahl is using the other 2500 tris for his chick...

chico