#34 - Rook - Tamarin

Tamarin

Hi all,

Just working on the concept drawing right now. I got the idea from searching on google. Looks like some older chess sets used elephants. Might not get enough time to finish this but good practice, right?



Had some time today to get started on modelling. Already up to 1276 with only about half of the model. Working in Blender.

IronHawk

Awesome concept Tamarin!

Tamarin

Small modelling update.

Ramj

Beautiful, get it textured!, we should all unite and make a strange chess peice with oddly proportioned animals.

Pavel

Very nice!!!

Jaco

Awesome modelling so far man!

MoP

Very cool, I hope this one gets finished!

Emil Mujanovic

Yeah, this looks sweet as!

-caseyjones

indian_boy

just a note [in case u wanna know] the game of chess is an indian invention, and at that time, the pieces included elephants [we still call it "elephant" in hindi] and there was no such thing as a 'queen' [it was a vizier or advisor or something] and the bishop was something else too [can't remember...]. Pawn's were/are called 'footsoldiers' and horses were still horses...

in case u wanted to know.

as for ur model: looking great. i really like the huge thing on the back.. it's shapes [complimentary to that of the elephant's] and sheer size make it look awesome

Tamarin

indian_boy thanks for the background.

Had some time to work on a texture today. Still needs some tweaking as you can see. Rendered in Blender with texture and normal map.

Emil Mujanovic

HOLY SHIT!
That looks fucking awesome! It could use a bit of colour variation to stop it looking so monochromatic. But that aside, great work!

-caseyjones

Pavel

Awesome...man keep this UP!

Vylaroth

Awesomesauce! Are you going to add more variation to the diffuse?

Ramj

I like the way it looks like ivory, Awesomesauce indeed

MoP

Very, very cool work

X-One

Love the look you've got going on. Texturing is very nice so far. Looks very much like a crafted piece.

Thurban

really stellar work dude!
I am blown away by your texturing style, haven't seen anything like that around. If you do choose to add a little more color variation, perhaps something to show remnants of a once painted surface, or maybe something strong and vibrant, like a couple hues of gold as trim or something. As it stands now or a colored variant; brilliant work man, you've got my vote.

Tamarin

You guys are too kind. I feel like a bit of a charlatan. My sculpting skills are seriously inadequate. My original plan was to displace with a texture and sculpt deeper more pronounced features. My problem was getting the mesh up to the required number of polys. I'm thinking about breaking the mesh up and sculpting each piece seperately, but not sure of the method of bringing it all back together. I also realized that my normal map was world normals which are useless for moving objects. I wanted to do everything in Blender but there are some limitations, no ability to bake vertex normals. No ability to bake anything from a high res mesh to a lower mesh.

I tried adding some color to the diffuse but just ended up looking worse. Don't look at my submission thread or you will see what I'm talking about.

conte

it does look like wooden figure, i love it!

ericlash22

you have my vote. good job!

abigbeast

Dang man, lookin' sweet, keep it up!

conte

you got mine vote, man. hope you'll win.

bearkub

Congrats, dude! Looks like you won. =D

Em.

Grats Tamarin! Job well done.

Tamarin

Thanks to everyone for your vote. Most of this site consists of artists I look up to so it means alot. I can see a few entries in the unfinished that are better than mine, so thanks for not finishing! Do I win a copy of Zbrush 3?

conte

you won mspaint