DWIII - 3D - fly_soup - Void Invoker

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Mmm. I really dropped the ball on this one. I'm pretty embarrassed that I didn't at least finish something to enter. But I learned a lot. Had I known 2 months ago what I know now, I'd have finished in time. As it is, I failed. But I'll finish it up anyway. And I can give the rat some technology now, since it's just a personal project at this point. So that'll be fun.

[Deleted User]

Here's my first set of thumbs. So far, the only ones I'm feeling are the skinny spikey thing with the staff (which would be an undead invoker) and maybe the voodoo skull guy. So I'll probably run with those a little and post further concept sketches soon.

bounchfx

oh man I wanna say yes about the rocker but there's no electronics allowed... unless.. you use Lightning maybe? which it looks like anywho. awesome.

that and the top/bottom left I am digging most.

slosh

that rocker is my fav!

hikagesan

#4 reminds me of the cat from that animated film "9". i like the different feels of your people too. keep it up.

Illusions

Heh, he could easily make the rocker using a magical acoustic guitar. I see Dhalsim in the lower left though!

Steve Schulze

That giant flea is just begging for a saddle and rider.

[Deleted User]

I was thinking of the rocker having an ancient "axe of summoning", but yeah, it'd have to be acoustic, and what kind of beasts could acoustic rock summon??

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That giant flea is just begging for a saddle and rider.

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I couldn't agree more!

Here's some steedage:


Still not sure on the rider, and the saddle would need some work (to make it look more battle-ready and less leisurely), but I think I might stick with the giant bug mount in general.

slosh

hah! saddle the bug with the rocker dude and add a mic to the bug's head! no, but in all seriousness, stuff is lookin great. can't wait to see what you come up with to make the bug menacing and his rider even more!

Valandar

If he did that, Slosh, a certain someone from the Red hot Chili Peppers might have an orgasm over the idea...

[Deleted User]

Here's another saddle:


I looked to my old He-Man figures for inspiration. The shape of this one is pretty close to (but not the same as) the one he-man's tiger wears.

jaalto

I'd like to see that skull guy on top right to ride this thing. Its my favorite

[Deleted User]

I too would like to see that.


I started on a 3d model of the skull guy too, but I probably won't use it for DW.

Here are a couple other things:

rollin

oh this is too cool

jaalto

Great!

killingpeople

not a fan of the rider, the steed however is goods.

[Deleted User]

I just got fired from my mediocre retail job, so I had a bunch more time to spend on this today. Here's what I've been doing:

A human warlord with a sceptor as his artifact (summoning) and a shotgun for good measure. I was thinking of maybe trying to do something like this with him...


I'm still trying to figure out what to do with his headgear, and the chest and abdominal areas are still kinda fuzzy. But I think this is the direction I'm going to stick with.

rollin

still love the rider and his horse.. but the guy in the middle is atm to generic

slosh

so does the guy in the middle control the 2 dudes flankin him?

[Deleted User]

Here are 8 more thumbnails...

(I also updated the first post with this image, which I'll keep doing.)

Kind of stuck.

[Deleted User]

Okay, I settled on something. I'm going with a large hairless rat to ride on the giant mite. Vermin are probably the most likely candidates for surviving a massive apocolypse and carrying on with evolution.

Still not sure on the armor and weapons.

rollin

totally love this stuff

and a mixture between armor top left and bottom-right would be cool..

[Deleted User]

Some more armor variations...

WickedFingers

I like the sceptor the guy is holding in the middle. Kinda looks like the staff I re-designed. Keep the sceptor...

[Deleted User]

Thanks guys!

I started on the modeling of the steed. I'm going to do the legs and saddle as separate meshes for the high poly. Here's the body in ZB. It'll need another subdivision or two, and a few more detail passes; but I want to get the saddle and legs in place first.

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Jaco

Nice!

[Deleted User]

and here's some progress on the texture

Ged

nice, do you have a way of getting that polypaint texture on to the low poly?

dfacto

Hah, cool concept man, loving the tick riding undead guys.

Honestly, you should replace the central guy with an oversized undead grub of some kind to complete the trifecta. Think that would make for a pretty cool entry.

[Deleted User]

Cutting it close, but I still intend to finish this.

Here's some new progress from today. It's the hi-res mesh for the rat. To clarify (because it's unclear while reading the thread), the rat is replacing the human and the other rider. So it's the rat and the bug. The rat gets the sceptor.



He has no ears at the moment. I'm working on his helmet, and the ears are going to stick out through it, so I'm modeling the helmet and the ears together.

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I'm really not sure how I managed to make it all the way to the texturing phase of that model before noticing that I'd neglected to provide it with a neck. But I did. That was about 2 hours ago. I went back down to a lower subdiv level and straightened it out. I also added the ears and snakehooked some forearms out of the torso. I'll retopo, sculpt a little more, and hopefully have this thing ready to go later today.


Edit: The retopo is now finished, but the re-sculpting is no longer finished. As spectacular and awesome as ZBrush is, sometimes I really wish it would provide some kind of warning when it's about to un-undoably discard all of your most recent unsaved changes at the push of a button. (Reopening a zphere tool that's actually a retopo mesh that appears to be a real mesh but is actually an adaptive skin preview will let you sculpt for hours on the adaptive skin. I wasn't sure if it would let me go back and change the retopo lines after that point or not, so I figured I'd hit A and see. For the record, the answer is yes. But then anything you did with the preview is lost. Good to know.)

/vent.

Unrelatedly, here's a picture of the bug's saddle. I made some changes since the last time I posted an update of it.