LPC #05 Japhir -- God of War --- Kratos

Japhir

Yeah! Really cool idea and really looking forward to finishing this piece and watching you guys make awesome art. I decided to go with Kratos
Do you guys have any ideas on where to scrape off some polies?



P.S: And yeah I ripped spaceys technique for lowpoly hands and bobo's material

Japhir

yeah update! i got rid of as many polys as i could (without losing the silhouette) which was pretty hard, but i tink i managed

what d'ya think?

EDIT: oh and the blades are actually 148 tris

Slaught

Looks great Japhir.

cholden

Looks pretty good. If you haven't, check out screens of GoW for PSP. I'm sure their specs are higher, but it could give you some ideas.

TheSplash

looks nice. Remember that kratos has a super angular jaw

sama.van

Modeling looks nice, I looking forward your diffuse!

Mtg_kirin

ya good job man thats looking real good

Eclipse

The silhouette looks great man and the mesh looks super solid. I'm really looking forward to the texture.

Japhir

Here is a quick color blockin+some basic shading. it's really hard working at this resolution, since he is very a-symmetrical (the eyes are only 3 pixels!).

slaught thanks

cholden thanks, yeah i already tried finding those, but i find it extremely hard to get some proper reference (except for some action figure ) so if anyone has some good reference please post

the splash thanks, yeah i know i'll need to accentuate that in the texture.

sama.van thanks! well, here it is

mtg_kirin thanks!

eclipse thanks!


still got a lot of work to do

Japhir

another update:

i think i'm almost done now
one problem though, i noticed that the "real" model doesn't have those shoulder pad-thingies... (the action figure does).
crits and comments most welcome!

hawken

I think the blade looks confusing

you might be better off using the 148 tris to model the blade instead of using a texture to define it's shape.

aesir

I think you're ok with an alpha for the blade, but the texture could use a little less variation/texture in it so that it reads better at that pixel density. Just try and make it cleaner. (or add tons of blood?)

Japhir

thanks guys! it bugged me too, but since he has 2 blades, they each only have 150/2=75 tris. and the handle has already used that much so i can't model the blade itself. maybe i could make it a 64x64 texture and put it in diagonally? would add a bit more pixels.. too bad i can't use one step higher, so 256x256 for the character and 128x64 for the blade, that would be ideal for me. (i like painting 256's)
thanks for the comments!

Xaltar

Very nice work. Loving the fact that you didn't mirror everything. I does hurt your res a bit though

Japhir

thanks xaltar!

edit: ok i'll just make a new thread for my scrab

Japhir

i declare him done!

Name:
Kratos

Thumbnail:


Beauty:


Construction:

Xaltar

Awesome work dude, love the way he came out.