Hostile Drone, big images !

Fuse

So i finally took the normal map plunge, it was a great learning experience and i found the process rather painless.

Big props to Jogshy for Xnormal

lowpoly at 5428 polygons and 1024x1024 textures: normal, spec, diffuse, glow and additional bump.

Without further ado:

http://fusebrush.com/image/stroggo_spin_bust.mov
http://fusebrush.com/image/spin.mov

Pedro Amorim

looks great. although it lacks an AO map multiplied on top of the difuse.

bounchfx

that is definitely sweet man, I like it a lot.

I kinda want to see a closer shot of the low poly back though

Daz

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It's there, just subtle.

Good stuff Fuse. The spec for the skin could use a bit more contrast overall. It seems like the range is just too narrow leaving him with pretty much the same spec value all over but nice touch with the sweat. The face feel like it could use a few more defining hard edges/creases, like where the upper lid meets the skull. It's just a little soft feeling overall. High quality work though man.

Fuse

Good eye Daz, there is some subtle AO on the skin.. Actually, for mechanical bits i used a modified cavity map sourced from the normal map using the photoshop plugin that come with Xnormal.

Since it was a first normalmapped character i experimented with a lot of stuff as the piece progressed.

Here's a 360 spin turntable

http://fusebrush.com/image/spin.mov

jogshy

Very nice, specially considering was your 1st normal-mapped character! I love the specular, the electronic "tatoo" on breast, the Borg red eye and the flesh-metal unions! Just a concept question... how he pees/poops?

Uly

Looks nice Fuse, and to answer your question jogshy, it's a known video game fact. *ahem*

The harder it is for a character to go to the washroom, the cooler he is. ie: Hellboy, Master Chief, etc.

Fuse

Thanks for all the comments. My work always ends up looking too subtle, hopefully the closeup does some justice to the diffuse

http://fusebrush.com/image/stroggo_spin_bust.mov

updated above too