Personally, I think that Davision had a great idea. Give him wings really similar to a fly. Maybe half the length that the body is tall. And then give him a jetpack or something. To me it just seems like the large wing structures that your making distract from the awsome design of your character.
this guy's stance/posture/silhouette are pretty unbeatable, and you've put together a really nice and clean mesh. interested to see how you finish up the details and texturing--it's always a bit of a balancing act keeping the geometry reading well, but yours is so clean i doubt you'll have much problem keep on truckin'!
i really like him a lot! great stuff and good you chose the fly-type wing, i think it fits best. I also disagree with onelung, i think the proportions are perfect.
he is 3/4 as high as a human
so he is not intended to be a huge fighting monster.. he is fast small and good protected .. and as soon as he gets some weapons he is going to be very deadly
started lowpoly now.. hope to get the normalmap next we
thx for all your comments .. i wouldn´t be as far as i am now if you wouldn´t comment
thx
btw .. final high FINAL HIGH
further details will be generated in 2d
tiny question.. does max 8 do a better normalbake than max 7?
wasted the whole we messing around with the normalmap lowpoly lowpolyfixing normalmapfixing crying normalmapfixing lowpolyfixing goingcracy normalmapfixing rebaking dying usw
and i realy have to say i hate this ****** ***** normalmap ******* stuff ******** i could rely **** the ****** **** out of of this ****** ***** ****************
ok and now...
a picture
have to keep on moving..
head is going to be rebaked bc i (hope) i can add some more details to it (time?!)
haha it was worth it . I wish I'd gone down your 'big chunky shapes with details fitted inside them' route instead of 'little fiddly bits all over the ****** place' route
Great pic! I particularly like the stance as well. I don't know if you've got a definate concept for your weapon yet, but I think you'd get a neat effect by having the contours of the blade mimic the curvature of the wings. Might make it fit in more, you know. Keep on rollin... rollin.
no not realy sure what weapon i should make.. love the closecombat axt like weapon idear but also the pumpgun idear and also the 2xsmalgun idear..
but now.. fixed some problems with the lowpoly looking to fat worked on the normalmap-2dfilter rebaked the head and first texture pass, mostly only laying out the colors
thx folks.. i´m happy this one is coming out better than i thought
still wip.. 3. tex pass and i´m still playing with the wings.. the look cool with glowing bits on it but its stupid to have some "shadow" with las-vegas-wings.. atm they are black with color-specs
all together ist about ca 6200 tris with gun
full body tex and full gun tex sices
Great piece rollin! The only crit I have is that the wings seem a little busy, and pull my eye away from the character. Maybe have it slightly transparent with an ellusive glow? Again, beuatifull piece.
Awesome!
But i habe some small crits for you.
I liked the red eyes more (organic and armour eyes.
The pattern on the wings is a bit too eye-catching.
His mouth looks too simple to me.
I agree with <font color="green">Davision3D</font> the helm's eyes should be red like before, right now they kinda get lost. Also a suggestion to make the wings seem not so busy is to give them a transperentcy on the hole thing not just the inbetween cells. Make the cells more see through then the dark lines and the green but still have the dark lines and green transparent.
At start I wasnt sure about this, but after seeing it again all modeled and textured.. I must say, thats one killer entry you got there! I love the wings man.. they are HOT'n SPICY!
Davision3D: thx alot.. there was some wired stuff in the fake-ao map around the mouth.. watched 1000-times on it but never realy recogniesed it.. like always thats made the mouth look bit stupid within a low-res render
but i realy won´t change back to orange.. nooo way .. sorry
Cridder: brighten up the helmet eyes, so they come out bit more.. good point!
btw.. the helmet eyes look so cool in motion.. doesn´t realy come out on steady renders
i should put a turnaround online in the end
so just a quicky to show the wings and the overall appearence in a busy environment... its ok.. not the best but ok i think
actually that would be pretty cool, with the whole bug theme. It'd be worth some playing around with funky perspective to give the whole bugeye feel. Just a thought
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the force-field generation arms are going to be folding so he can fight on the ground without disabiliy
thinking now about the weapon
i dropped the close combat idear and heading now into the stealth poison direction and the use of tiny helpers
btw.. smilie, my creature uses ::: )
-caseyjones
Seriously, this is one of my favorite contributions. Kinda liked the 3.-wings the best, I must say. Agreeing with gauss anyhow, so keep it up!
so he is not intended to be a huge fighting monster.. he is fast small and good protected .. and as soon as he gets some weapons he is going to be very deadly
started lowpoly now.. hope to get the normalmap next we
thx for all your comments .. i wouldn´t be as far as i am now if you wouldn´t comment
thx
btw .. final high FINAL HIGH
further details will be generated in 2d
Spark
tiny question.. does max 8 do a better normalbake than max 7?
wasted the whole we messing around with the normalmap lowpoly lowpolyfixing normalmapfixing crying normalmapfixing lowpolyfixing goingcracy normalmapfixing rebaking dying usw
and i realy have to say i hate this ****** ***** normalmap ******* stuff ******** i could rely **** the ****** **** out of of this ****** ***** ****************
ok and now...
a picture
have to keep on moving..
head is going to be rebaked bc i (hope) i can add some more details to it (time?!)
color setup
and don´t look at the weapon.. i just love this stance
-Dread_Reaper
but now.. fixed some problems with the lowpoly looking to fat worked on the normalmap-2dfilter rebaked the head and first texture pass, mostly only laying out the colors
now -> sleep
still wip.. 3. tex pass and i´m still playing with the wings.. the look cool with glowing bits on it but its stupid to have some "shadow" with las-vegas-wings.. atm they are black with color-specs
all together ist about ca 6200 tris with gun
full body tex and full gun tex sices
and for just beeing so cool.. a rig ..
Spark
spark: jie i´v changed it a bit.. this was too busy for me too and i _love_ busy stuff
finished texture and i hope i can rig him tonight
But i habe some small crits for you.
I liked the red eyes more (organic and armour eyes.
The pattern on the wings is a bit too eye-catching.
His mouth looks too simple to me.
My two-bits
can't wait to see the beauty shots on his pedestal
good luck to you man!
Davision3D: thx alot.. there was some wired stuff in the fake-ao map around the mouth.. watched 1000-times on it but never realy recogniesed it.. like always
but i realy won´t change back to orange.. nooo way .. sorry
Cridder: brighten up the helmet eyes, so they come out bit more.. good point!
btw.. the helmet eyes look so cool in motion.. doesn´t realy come out on steady renders
i should put a turnaround online in the end
so just a quicky to show the wings and the overall appearence in a busy environment... its ok.. not the best but ok i think
finished rig/skining .. now to the pedestal
awesome... i REALLY like this one. can u post up the texture flats? (maybe just the diffuse at least)... i wanna see what it looks like.
i hope u come up with a kick ass pose!
trying to get a feel of it..
don´t think i use this cam-setting nor rendersettings but its getting in the direction i want
atm the city is to cracy unreadable with this settings and it doesn´t reach wide enough
and still not sure if i want to show the big-light-tower in the bg or if i should shot a cracy perspective.. still playing
cool Bg!