Dominance War II - rollin
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Ha.. THE SKY IS MINE !!!!
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initial concept
initial design
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Great start all the same, just keep nutting at it.
-caseyjones
I like
notice how in The Fly, while he become progressively more fly-like, his head never suddenly turns into a giant fly's head. granted, that's because he's supposed to be fused 50/50 with a fly, but it's also good design sense.
personally, i think the giant fly head on any body is going to look silly if you don't alter it significantly. a fly has certain proportions because they are best for its scale; if a fly were human sized, there's be no reason to have such enormous (and highly sensitive to damage) eyes covering such a large portion of the head. contrarywise, the mouth is likely to be the opposite: at a larger scale, and particularly as a big mean whatever you're intending him to be in this entry, his mouth would probably get even bigger.
it also happens that smaller eyes, bigger mouth is also generally just good practice if you want to make anything look meaner and more threatening... neat coincidence, isn't it?
and as i've been telling other people--if you give people exactly what they expect to see, their brains turn off. if i said, "draw a guy with a giant fly's head," i guarantee most people would go straight to drawing exactly what you just drew, and that's a common housefly's head. insect species outnumber all other kinds of species by the millions, so why are you going with the one absolutely everyone knows? there are many other flys with heads that are going to look waaaay creepier on a human-sized body, i guarantee you that.
and as per the body, the armor suffers a similar problem (designed by autopilot) and as pointed out, the body shape itself doesn't jibe with the fly head. so sort out a more insectile body, or a more bruteish head.
hope this helps, and keep us all posted on further developments!
as i see an guessed before the mix from head and body is the main problem
so for my personal taste i don´t realy like exoscelettal designs or at least i don´t want to make one for this char.
on the other hand i don´t want to drop the big eyes "baby.. können diese augen lügen?"
but gauss your point isn´t bad.. the head should better fit to the body.. but i realy realy don´t want to make a the-fly like design bc i think the-fly looks stupid.. i´v watched over it more than one times when i start sketching... and on the other hand i realy realy don´t want to make the 1000. lil evil eyes and big mouth dämon.. i could fall in sleep if i see one..
i play today a bit around, it realy should be possible to get the head and body closer together *G*
and for the armor.. the armor should catch a bit of the exoscelettal idear.. the wings are also part of the armor instead of the body ... but this could be pushed a lot more
and thx again.. if we want to win we have to be our toughest enemy *G*
so, and now i have to do real work
not very sure what to do.. should sleep over it
Keep on refining
marisa: jap the helmet isn´t final.. but it should not look like "ohhh i´m sooo evil, have fear!"
quaggs: thx.. and the color is not nearly thought of .. i will play with this later on long enough *G*
clint: thx thx .. the head isnt final.. but i love this lil bit stupid helmet idear atm most.. so lets see whats happening
aesir: jap thas maybe true .. but i can´t stand the "oh sci-fi must be smooth and so sci-fi looking". .. we are in a long war and more or less everything was destroyed.. so why not making something more .. primitv.. but jey.. i will push him.. it.. more to a "normal" sci-fi look.. and if it´s only with some funky glowing bits
soooooooo and for this.. don´t ask me what this is.. i´m just making wired stuff atm so i should go to bed *G*
for some really cool bugs and bug armor check out a few japanese stuff, SIC and masked rider, i've done the research for you, here's a link to some of those, i think its like a thread with people posting pics, just scroll through i'm sure u'll find something cool http://robotjapan.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=BandaiOther&action=print&thread=1104010238
but i can´t realy cotton on these asia bug exo spacy spacy armors..
and i´m still not sure if i should make a fleshy face-head or some insect like.. but because you can´t ever see the body naked (wuhaaa) i´m not that bound with my decision, but i think it would be wired to have a exo-insect-guy with cloth on ?!
anyways.. lil playaround with the face.. but i think i will try out some stuff with the fleshy one
Keep at it.
-caseyjones
ähhh katze.. : green and orange.. complementär.. ?!?!?
complementär Kontrast
nearly but not realy .. (harhar what a rime
first idear about the fly-thing-back
and some refining.. not sure about the weapon and effekt.. and the wings are still "under construction" but it´s comming..
but that'S deffinately light not shadow :P
Maybe a red laserswordthing is a part of the weapon...would cut things much better.
and weapon and wings are not fix
Looking good like how this turned out it being an alien insect and all:).
The weapon doesn't seem to fit him much, just for fun a huge flyswatter
the shadow-source are the tube-things on his fore-arms, shoulders and legs
lalalalalaaa
ok, puns aside, it's great to see how far you've developed this bugger. very imposing, looks ready for modeling if you ask me. which you didn't. it's ok, i'm used to it by now... sob...
and i ask you everytime i post something by default.. i just don´t write it there everytime
and here we go.. the armor is nearly finished.. but no pics yet.. but for excuse i startet to play with the head..
not sure about the amount of the detail you can see on the normalmap.. i don´t want to give the head so much space on the tex.. but the tex is huuuuge.. so i have to test it a bit
Only thing I'm not totally sold on is the weapon - Guess I'll have to wait and see how that turns out
I'll be watching this one
still so much to do.. but it´s coming
so if you want to choose do it now.. maybe it works
tim.. you will get your details.. i swear
btw.. i´m not sure but i think only the thin/forcefield wings "feel" right..
Awesome looking character so far. You'll figure something out no doubt.
second fit´s best, but i´m not shure about the functionality. I can´t wait to see that wings animated
Hard to imagine that one these wings can carry that big and armoured guy. What about some nozzle jet wings with small turbines? Maybe you can also make that chainsaw thing in front of them.
Rounded off wings seems to soften up his appearence.
but i don´t want bird-like wings.. so i tried out some more fly-like shapes
then took the parts i liked most from the old concepts and now i´m going in this direction
but how should he/it fly?