tf2 wip
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talons model in http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=2&Number=82&page=0&fpart=391 inspired me to make my own freeman model in a tf2 style so i started on it friday a bit, and starting back up on it today. pretty happy with the lower body proportions, working on the shoulders and arms now, try and get happy with them.
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lee what do you mean by stylized? if you look thru the tf2 models, only some of them are crazy exagerated. only to suit the character. http://www.tfportal.de/tf2_classes.php
i know its easy to just think "stylized" and poof make giant hands and feet. but tf2 is a lot more subtle than that.
the scout is pretty much straight on normal proportions.
sniper is mostly, just slightly oversized hands and arms.
soldier has slightly oversized upper body.
demmo guy has larger uper bod and skinny legs,
doctor pretty much normal proportions
heavy is most stylized huge upper bod and arms, small legs
pyro mostly standard proportions slightly big hands
spy besides a long upper bod he's a normal proportioned skinny guy.
engie fairly normal proportions just slightly small legs.
what i'm trying to do is not make a warner bros cartoon char and make one that i think would fit right in with the tf2 game. i don't think thats done with mostly the geo but a mix of geo and texture
what do you mean by stylized? if you look thru the tf2 models, only some of them are crazy exagerated.
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Thats one way to view the word stylized. If you going to recreate Gordan in the TF universe then maybe give him big glasses, or a really large crow bar. (coming up with random ideas) I wasn't thinking big hands a feet but more of things from his universe that could be exaggerated so players would know, "Oh theres Gordan from across the map"
I'm glad you're keeping to more of a "Gordon Rockwell" body style.
Also just though: if you brought out the beard out when you do it - you'd see it side - which is all part of the TF2 look, silhouette.
ROck on, looks great.
what kind of 'tude are you trying to give your TF2 freeman? Still feels kind of aimless right now in that respect (unless you're going for the "weiner" attitude)
last update for today i'm headin home, weighs in at 3k polys i'l have to check and see if talon was correct that the tf2 models are actualy over 13k if so i got a lot of smoothin to do i just wanted to get him roughed in completely first.
So I guess I should ask what direction you'll take him? Gordon Freeman who's new to the suit? A generalized Gordon Freeman? A post-battle Gordon Freeman? And so on.
Top notch here man looks great so far.
milkjoibrome: have not thought much about the textures yet. but if i do put this in tf2 i will have to make red and blue skins. but i will surely make a traditional gordon one. and maybe one with blood. not sure. none of the tf2 characters are dirtied up from the start.
vig and josh: glad you guys like it.
I'm currently working on a Patrick Bateman model in TF2 style (will be posting a WIP shortly) and while heavily looking at the topology and silhouettes of the TF2 characters in the model viewer, I noticed that the hands for the models are pretty much identical (with a few tweaks here and there, mainly for the scout). They all generally have thick wrists and chunky hands and I think that is what is missing with your Freeman model so far. You've got the main propotions down and the head looks great! Just the hands are really letting it down for me.
Keep plugging away, its really coming together.
-caseyjones
If you're going to over-exxagerate anything it should be the forearms, but they look great the way they are and I personally wouldn't change it.
If you look at the early HL stuff he has a massive beard and is somewhat chunky!
I think the neck is a bit long. With armored characters I often forget that their shoulders are buried underneath a good bit of armor, which leads to the same problem.
Maybe his fingers could be a tad longer?
the count shows in the viewer as 16k for the models i've looked at. the faces are insanely high poly modeled teeth, tongues even those uvula things
i'm not sure how the eye works but i asume its some kinda shader, that follows you within limits, as you move around int he viewer the eye follows you, but the geo does not move
the models seem to have normal maps that don't really do much for faking shape, but moslty just helps with lighting rendering to make it look smoother on the blockier body parts.
That would be creepy as fuck to work with.
It will be intresting to see where u go with this!
Don't use half-spheres or whatever for the eyes, or it fucks up the movement range and the irises can slide right inside the head. Just model an old-school eye shape as part of the head mesh. You assign a shader to the polys that make up the eye and if you set it all up right the eyes will do that auto tracking thing along with some other cool stuff.
think i'm pretty happy with the body (besides ugly hip blocks. will start on the head at lunch i guess. try and get the model finished sometime today.
Really looking forward to seeing this bad boy finished with all the shaders applied.
-caseyjones
Other than that he's looking great, got the style down just right
This isn't the first interpretation I've seen of Gordon in TF2 style, but it is definitely my favorite.
Please finish him, for great justice!