Dominance War 2 - Spacemonkey
polycounter lvl 18
Pyschic monster from beyond the stars! 
see if I get time to play as I am crunching my ass off right now.
see if I get time to play as I am crunching my ass off right now.
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Looking forward to see what you pump out dude.
-caseyjones
"After the decimation of the polycount weapons planet the dark generals were forced to look deep into the void seeking there beings of untapped power.
The Manitae was found, deadly and ruthless it joined the ranks not only with the intention of spilling blood for polycount, but also with the intent to climb to greater power amoungst those who sought to utilize its strength.
Outside of its native plane of existence it found the need to bind its tentacles to enable it to traverse in a humanoid method of locamotion. Ruthless and cunning it assaults mortal minds with its telepathic powers, turning men against their own troops causing sabotage and chaos. Perhaps the more brutal fate befalls the machines that it encounters. Its Telekenis is unmatched, they machines are tossed like a unwanted childs toy, the gears jamming and systems failing as they are ripped apart from the inside.
However he finds the greatest pleasure holding his enemies before his eyes, crushing them in his python like grip. "
one suggestion (though i know everything probably isn't final yet): make the blue glowies into green glowies... considering our colours that is...
Personally I'm not sure about the big gut but hey, it's a smoking concept.
cool shit, dude
gogogo!
keep it up
spacemonkey: thank you for showing the kids how it's done. you're crunching away, probably not even enough time to feed the missus and the kids back home a hot meal, and yet you're STILL posting a concept to rock socks every which way (and off).
while spacemonkeyish in many good ways, it's still very fresh. i really dont have much of anything in the way of crits or suggestions at this point, other than the token "do some thumbnails" bit. but i trust you'll have a horrible, unbeatable beastie in no time at the rate you're going. only fitting for a returning winner!
thanks guys,
dur23, who'd have thought that there is actually a manatee', I am a couple of letters away from a fat see elephant thing! haha!
richkid, its certainly not executed well in my peice... so it doesnt represent well - no holdies in this next sketch.. but that doesnt mean he wont
Hey gauss, yeah the feedback is good - before I painted I drafted out a series of 5 A4 sketches.. refinging shapes and figuring out the elements I want to include. Thumbnails are damned good - and they helped me avoid some retro scifi stuff that creeped into that first sketch.. but after a day at work away from the pic I decided he felt too generic.
not enough flesh - too many humanoid elements.. boring and tired.. so I am hoping to push him further down the spiral.
The new sketch needs lots of elaboration and exploration but I think he's more on the right track
last year I rushed my design and I felt the pain of it later... if you read my interview its one thing I kicked my own ass about!
ps
i did try grabbing a weapon once with my "tentacle", didn't fair so well, i would send some reference picks, but i dont know you that well. maybe if you buy me dinner
richkid, you free on Feb 14th?
Warby and jaskablade thanks!
all in all i think the 2. one nails the idear of this blumdigblub-thing a lot better down than the 1.
keep going workoholica
i liked the original concept, it had alot more recognizable shapes, the later ones got alot more blobby
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I agree with rawkstar on this one.
-caseyjones
I'll be watching this thread
prefer the second face tho!
rawkstar - yeah you was right, the second did degenerate into large blobbyness
rollin - its only work if your getting paid for it right?
Mansir thanks
struve - yeah mobility bugged me - so I added some!
almighty_gir, kongni thanks guys
rooster, yeah I prefer the second face - the first one was too skull - the second design has potential but the pose is a bit weak, so it doesnt sell well
ThE_BirD, good point - the crown kind of lost its function in the second degenerated into a glorified helmet! The tail was a hot suggestion
parasite7, thanks KennY! give us a job at Blizzard ! laF!!
no seriousely
imo the spikey head and the very smooth body (exept the back) aren´t fitting together very good yet..
but i think you only have to bring a bit of the idear of the head to the body or the other way
body->head
or
head->body
do you know what i ty to say with my superb english ?
otherwise the thing is looking great...
I love the ideas good solid base here I'm not sure the tenticals work fo9r this guy yet I'd like to see where you are going with them....
I hope to see more.
good luck
i know it's just a concept, but could you move the feet forward somewhat? it looks like it's gonna fall over!
Looks very cool though but more of a general rather than a soldier no?
good stuff!
-caseyjones
Dude, i love the drippy nether regions, icky and sticky
gavku, thanks
rollin , hey rollin I think you'll find the they blend a little better now
indian_boy yeah I reduced the length of the head- it was bugging me. the arm size... well I'll save my judgement till I see it in 3d
CitizenDown, tentacle rape? maybe in the final pose he can be violating some of the peeps from cgchat ? haha, in all seriousness I think he would be deadly in close combat with them, combined with the psychic powR is destruction.
Ninjas floaty was fun, but felt slow.. this guy needs that alien like agility for climing ceilings and chasing people down corridors. It just felt that with the hovering he would be a bullet magneT..
almighty_gir , yeah definately some alience.. I did a quick move of the feet but I'm more concerned about getting the right ideas down
MadGaz thanks
JPSeiler he felt clunky to me, boring shapes although I liked the head gear - its certainly gave me the ideas for his evolution
Painbringer I hope's I get time to actually make him..
warby , yeah but he's a shadow killer.. not a ice cream vendor.. I liked it..but it wasnt right
Shady-D some Elites?? I dont know.. glad you like him
stix I know I did some of what you mentioned, been adding some armour last day or so. He definately needed more balance
caseyjones thanks, well I did want those arms to feel small next to the power physical prescence of the tentacles - but in reality I wanted the small arms to be the conduits for his psychic power.
richkid well thats cool, I just bought 2 of Huante's books. Guess they were worth getting !
but something about the leg are bugging me... not to be mean or sound irritating or anything... but they seem to be too similar to ur last one(Brood). The shape and all are good, but the "cyborgification" is.... almost typical? With ur calibre, i think u can show more creativity and style in the legs... just my two cents...
otherwise, i luv it... looks great and the thing u did with the head is just right