Dominance War II - caps- LETUM MORTIS
Hi... Just now I've found time to post again... These are my almost finished wips of my character...
Since I have a few hours left till deadline I'll finish up and pose the character with the weapon... And if I have time there's some new gear for him also...
*** And I'll do my best to post in the more detailed process, step by step, of how I got to this model like I was doing before...
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I kinda like the sketch on the left with that single horn on the head, could be an interesting approach. But keep at the sketching dude and you'll get something you'll like.
Keep it up.
-caseyjones
caseyjones : thanks for the tip, for sure this is just the beginning for me, I'll have some more posts by the end of the day with a better "direction" of my character design/develpment...
Welcome aboard.
welcome and good luck
These are the major points I'll be focusing on from now on to develop him...
Centaur --> Agility, Power and Mass.
2- Inspired by the brutality and scary looks of the character from Mortal Kombat game, Goro, I decided to add an extra pair of arms giving him a much wider possibility of moves; Atack, defence and some bonus features (wich I'm still to figure out)...
Extra pair of arms -> Superiority/brutality in hand-to-hand combat.
So the character now had mass (weight and size), strong hand-to-hand combat possibilities but it lacked a good armour idea...
3 - So, still going for that Alien/genetic thing and knowing he could not be merged with machine/metal armour as well as to not carry many armour plates tied around him wich would reduce his maneuverability/balance and speed, I reaserched some very familiar forms of life that had a naturally "merged" armour in the body somewhat similar to a exoskeleton: Insects and Arthropods.
Yes! just like lobsters, those big black and strong bugs, scorpions etc... They would fit in just fine for a genetically modified/alien character with strong/thick armour that still maintained the maneuverability, agility and speed...
Exoskeleton/natural armour ---> strong/thick armour that still maintained the maneuverability, agility and speed.
So I start out with references from horses (for centaur body)
Ok, for the body... Like I said Goro really inspired me, not only it looks kind of scary but seems very very strong... Along with other images it served as perfect reference for the four armed beast!
Now for the armour... Those exoskeleton armours...
So after all of these initial starting points/parameters, I'm finally ready to concentrate in drawing the character, designed specifically for this competition and having solid/concise foundations wich should, I hope, lead me to building (modeling) the final character without too many modifications...
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b1ll, Rollin ->
er... geez... really sorry about those reference texts.. I thought it would be nice to explicit that in the image but I guess it distorted all my intentions...
No problem, I'll fix that right away...
Ok, fixed those TERRIBLE texts on the images... Terribly sorry for that...
Jackablade -> those are toy horses from a cartoon series called He-Man from the 80's... DOn't know exactly wich character was supposed to sit on it...
caps: now get some stuff done
These are my initial sketches for the head... I think I'm going to stick with this face, maybe just changing some expressions... But I'm still studying the horns...
3D-J, thanks for the tip...
I've decided to make some more changes... more studies... This is the actual blueprint for modeling... Still not finished, need to somehow fit the head accordingly...
It goes with that idea of something freaky, as if "something went wrong" with the genetic tests...
I really enjoyed the final results... One of my friends asked me if he had different kind of "visions" like beeing capable of seeing a large scope of wave forms, from infrared to ultraviolet... So...
Yeah, I like that! Thanks Marcelo!
keep on ..now in 3d!!
If you need any more physical reference, you might like to check out the bariaur from the Dungeons and Dragons - kind of a goat centuar guy.
Tem que botar esse bicho ai pra bater horrores!
hehehehe
Hum... Sure, I'll take a look... Haven't heard of that character, for sure it'll have its use... Final details can still be added... I just don't have more time for fancy colorful concepts... : /
Bengas->
E ai Bro, tamo nessa agora at
ta empenhando mesmo hein bicho!!!
ta ficando cada vez mais doido!!!
manda ver a
num rola de botar uma Asa Mecanica nele nao???