DWIII - 3D - sonofrock- uredo animus

SonofRock

What the hell, I know I'm never going to get anywhere with this, but it's too much fun to resist.

Uredo Animus [latin, "Blight Soul"]

quick sketch to start...

I guess he's kind of a cross between Swampthing and The Flood. That's probably not original enough.

Race: undead treant? I'm not sure...
Class:Clericon
Artifact type: vegetation

Binds and saps enemies with his twin thorn dagger things, provides health to allies through the fruit from his tree.
I guess the tree would really be the artifact. I wonder if that's within the rules.

close up idea for head:

his eyes are sunflowers

Ok well that was fun!

Steve Schulze

I like the idea. theres certainly a lot you could do with this fellow. The idea of the golden apples is a particularly good one. It might be worth taking a look at some Greek and Norse myths - stories of magical golden apples that grant immortality appear in both. Perhaps theres some inspiration to be taken from one or other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_apple

I'd strongly reccomend doing some thumbnailing to workout the best way to take your character from here.

SonofRock

Thumbnails are good.

I decided having the tree on his back was best, gives it more of a sense of burden on the guy.

So this is where I'm at so far. I really like the idea of the artifact user being pierced/impaled by their artifact. So in this case, the zombie guy was killed by the magical sword of growth. After decaying for a while a tree sprouted near the sword in the guys back and was imbued with its magical powers. Its roots snaked out and replaced the guys muscles, reanimating the body. So really the artifact user is the tree and the guy is his mount. The artifacts magical properties of growth cause the tree to flower with the golden fruit of rebirth.

Any thoughts?

SonofRock

still messing around...

naruSol

Last one is by far the strongest image. Followed by the branch 'wings'. And I know we've seen a lot of 'mounted' concepts. But I'd love to see that last idea (walking tree thing) with it's mouth hanging open and a character(or artifact if you want to avoid the mount idea) wedged tightly inside.

slosh

wow, it would be pretty sweet if within the branches, it formed almost a throne for the summoner!

SonofRock

Thanks for the critiques. I don't think I'm going to go with a mounted guy, seems like it's kinda been done a lot. I do like the idea of the artifact in the mouth, I'll play around with that some more. For right now, I thought I'd try out something non-humanoid looking.

The sword is in his mouth

Steve Schulze

The version with the sword jammed in its back is definitely the one thats working the best. The walking trees aren't really working for my money, and people will inevitably start whining about Lord of the Rings.

SonofRock

ok I think I might be onto something here.

naruSol

Interesting, but I can't quite picture him fighting off evil hordes of robot invaders.

Asmuel

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Just make that orange in his hand a bomb, and hive him a hot air baloon

rollin

thats realy nice

SonofRock

Ok, final concept.

rollin

i realy love this one!! cool stuff

Ged

hehehe is that tree growing out his bum? this is quite whimsical, Im keen to see what happens.

Heart Murmer

Very cool man, I like the polycount bulbs. Can't wait to see the 3d translation.

Steve Schulze

Yeah, that came up nicely.

So is the fruit that the Christmas beetles are carrying off going to be a weapon dropped from the sky like a bomb or a healing fruit airlifted to friendly troops?

SonofRock

Here's the basic cage I'm going to sculpt from, which is already 11000 polys minus any sort of details . I should be able to reduce it by quite a bit for the final mesh. I could probably trim a few branches if I had to...just like a real bonsai.


e: as far as his abilities, his berries are imbued with magical powers of regeneration, so he mainly would use them to heal allies. I guess they could be used as weapons as well in some way or another.

bilbana

This concept is awesome! GO GO GO!

If you have trouble with polycount just reduce the polys on the branches as they get thinner. Like you said, you have way too many polys on the tree. Should be easily fixed though. I don`t think you have to reduce branches really. Just reduce polys on them

SonofRock

Been a while since my last update...but it's looking like I might make it to the finish line! We shall see...

I'm also going to bring his bag, rope, ring, and beetle into zbrush, as soon as I figure out subtools, or by some other method.

I had to cut it down to one beetle and one bag, but that's ok.