princess

sumguy

Hey, It’s been along time since I’ve posted here. Truth be told, there’s too much beurocratic process to go through at Ubisoft to flash our pixels on the forums. And I’m just way to lazy and beat down to bother.

SO…. I’ve just finished a batch of product and finally have some time to myself. I was swimming through my hard drive and I came across my web portfolio from like 6 years ago. Most of it is quite embarrassing and humiliating. I often think it would be cool if I had a time machine, I would go back with the knowledge/technique I have acquired thus far and do things right. ANYWAY, I found this image from when I worked at 3DO, it’s so painful to look at, really makes me start to understand why 3DO went under It was a princess for one of their Might and Magic spin-offs for the PS2. Unfortunately I don’t have a larger image, and don’t have the model anymore; it’s probably sitting on a hard drive back in the states somewhere.



So I started thinking; what would the model look like if I used the techniques I have acquired today with the same restraints I had 6 years ago? Well there’s only one way to find out. So I’m committing myself to a 1 day Challenge (Shanghai Time) to model and texture this character.

LET THE HUMILIATION BEGIN!!!

sumguy

Blocking finished

cholden

Cool, Ben! I'll be watching.

acc

Geez, he was one hell of a princess, if you know what I mean.

Be interesting to see how this turns out.

Weiser_Cain

Very cool, I do this all the time. I'll be watching this.

sumguy

Hmm… the model took a little while, because I created the UV’s as I modeled. A wise and skilled Andrew Gilmore once told me, “The UV’s are laid out before I begin modeling”. It’s like a good game of chess.


acc; I know exactly what you mean :P

sumguy

I'm reading F.H Dune for the first time SO FUCKING SUE ME!!
but there might be an ever so slight hint of dune in the texture.

motives

pff.. looked better before. What have u been doing with your time?


hehe seriously though, good work sofar! Looks to be a nice piece when its finished

sumguy

OK, finished some more.. a little left to go.

Joao Sapiro

go go go ! finish it !
the highlights above and below her lips seem a bit unnatural, maybe tone them down a bit i can say the same from the highlights on the tissue/scale thingy she is wearing.

appart from that i dont have crits , go !

sumguy

Ok so first I would like to point out my own faults, first of all….. all of the penciled pixel painting I’ve been doing would never work on a TV, it would just flicker like a strobe light on a television. But at this point this project is purely hypothetical. So who gives a fuck….. WOOOOO HOOOOO

sumguy

starting to get tired.

sumguy

And I’m fuckin spent. I need sleep, tomorrow I will revisit what I have done today, but in the mean time. I hope you’ve enjoyed my little bob ross wanna be.

Cheers,

MoP

Very nice! The clothing work is excellent, although that hexagonal pattern at the top doesn't really match with the style of the rest of her clothes.
Neck looks a tad thick at the base of the skull, and something's weird with the eyes, probably the angle of the mesh there. A little more shadow under the eyebrow near the middle of the face would help that, I think.

Definitely a huge improvement though, and fast work too! Good stuff, glad to see you posting again too