DWIII - 3D - audi100 - Warlord - Helicorn

audi100

hi all first post here (been lurking around though).

Ready to participate in the great War.
Some doodles soon to come....

Latest update:





http://www.audi-c.net/texturwip1.jpg
http://www.audi-c.net/helihitolow.jpg

MoP

Woot, best time to sign up ... looking forward to what you come up with

thefatladysings

great to see you participating in this one audi

SystemKrash

go go go audi!

audi100

thx for the nice welcome

Some early Sketches. Not very much so far.


think I have to try out the thumbnail/little silhouette technique too.

Oleg

looking nice !

audi100

meh my tablet broke

Anyways here is some thumbnails hardly drawn together, gotta admit its quite fun drawing those, even with mouse



Think i go with either nr. 3 (dude with magical wind horns) or 6. (nature invoker with a "grown" armor and those 3 legged creatures).

Jaco

Nice thumbs. 3 and 6 are good choices, but 4 is so damn cool!

BlackB

ha i like the 3 and 4 one, im sure u can pull something out of it!!

rollin

4 n 5

greenj2

I'm liking #6 myself, particularly the idea of him summoning those little tripod creatures. It might look even cooler if he had a couple of little #4 creatures under his control instead.

Steve Schulze

The massive horn gets my vote.

audi100

Thx for the input, Like that little fella too but don't quite knew what to do with him further.

After sleeping got a nice idea what to do with the character with the horn, so I will stick to it to the bitter end.

The Horn is ripped of from a giant fire deamon thousands of years ago. Laying around useless the inner magic never really vanished. With the upcoming era of magic some magicians managed to activate the sleeping power. Tataa the perfect flamethrower... . Its wielded by a warlord to burn the opposing forces to nothing but ashes

nuff text.
a pic



more to come

kakikukeko

don't really understand everything on the last sketch.. but it seems to have a lot of potential! maybe try to sort out a bit more detail... but it could be a nice direction imo

MoP

hmm, the giant horn idea is very cool

Divide By Zer0

The horn is definitely a unique weapon.

Jaco

I'm lovin the size of that horn!

sama.van

4st with little pets of the 6st

Rick Stirling

Fantastic idea to push the artifact into such a massive part of the design.

jaalto

This is one of my favorites

JFletcher

i like 6 mostly, but after seeing the more detailed horn guy, i think i might change my mind. it's a really cool weapon concept, and that little back story works real well. (taking something from an slain epic creature as an intimidating battle wear/weapon)

audi100

Thx for all the encouraging replys.
@kakikukeko Will make some thumbs which go in that direction.

Some more progress.
Was thinking about a possible race, a friend of mine mentioned the last sketch would remind him of a Pan. Liked that Idea so tried to develop something in that direction.
Also thought a creature which is living in a environment with high humidity would be a nice contrast to the artifact.

Some approaches on the characters head.


And some Variations where the horn is wielded more like a weapon.


Liking 3 and 4 thus far, not sure if 4 is breaking the rules though (armored suit filled with water regulating the body temperature).

Want to do some more going in the direction in the previous post before deciding on anything final.

Poly-Jon

I like 4 it seems more fitting that it rests on the ground or near as it looks dam heavy ..

Leto

the horn really takes a lot of movement out of the character and turns him into more a static object. if you are really married to it (the horn), then i think making the character bulkier would help.

reminds me of my sousaphone days...

audi100

@Hell Yea !: You are right nr.3 makes the horn look like an lightweight.

Ok making it bulkier actually did help, looks much more dominating . Thx for pointing that out Leto.

Made 2 more detailed concepts based on the first sketch


If i can't get anything better in the next 3 days i will work on the second variant. Really need the time for the modelling and texturing process. Especially texturing :P

Will probably add some sort of trophy:
- Necklace with Burnt robot heads.
- a Bag for the heads?

rollin

like them both, but the 2nd is more unique

but anyhow.. try to balance the whole thing a bit more, the center of gravity is atm too faar in the front

audi100

started with the 3d.

http://www.audi-c.net/3drender1.jpg

Want to have some fresh eyes to have a look at it and maybe point out whats looking odd before going on and add more detail so any c&c is appreciated.

Danke rollin, i think i took care of that. Tried to shorten it but it looked odd so now he can rest it on the ground.


been a bit lazy but expect more updates now .

Davision3D

Nice
Looks like hes putting his belly/haunches too much to the front. I wonder how he will move, must be hard like someone that walks with skis.

madN0RMan

Wow!
Great work dude, looking good. I like the second concept best, I think he needs to be more mobile though, maybe some lobster/crab ref would help. bit of a tail and some hind legs, maybe two pairs.
I can't wait to see some more good work

audi100

Update:

ThX Davision 3d. In Terms of movement i thought of a turtle or walruss. Its more like a crouching

@ Madnorman: Thx dude. May try some additional legs if there is time left (which i doubt).
I think just the front legs work too, made a test animation and it did not look to bad .

Unwrapping of the low poly is as good as done need to add some planes for the fire though.
Hipoly needs more detail here and there, especially on his back.

Ran into a problem with the horn, tried to bake the normalmap in zbrush but the Zmapper plugin only allows 500,000 tris for the hires mesh so had to use a lower subdivision. If anyone knows a workaround to get all the detail of the higher subdivisions I would be glad to hear it. (too much polys too import it into a other 3d app)

Hope to start with the texture tomorrow, only 10 days left.
I'll try my best to get it finished but i think I'll die on the battlefield. =P
In that case I'll rise of the ashes after the war and complete it anyway.

Pics:
http://www.audi-c.net/helihitolow.jpg
http://www.audi-c.net/heliback.jpg

audi100

Started with the diffuse on the character.

rollin

jiha.. we have a musician !! like the start of the texturing so far

audi100

Cheers rollin.

update
currently working on the specular map.

rooster

hey man not seen this thread before.. great weapon idea!
keep it up man looks like you're set to finish

audi100

Reporting in for final update:


http://www.audi-c.net/Helicorn-Texture.jpg
http://www.audi-c.net/Helicorn-Construction.jpg
http://www.audi-c.net/Helicorn-Concept.jpg

Thanks rooster, I actually did finish

Well it was a great learning experience, hope to participate in the next War too.
Thanks for the C&C and all.

Recruit audi100 signing off.

rollin

nicely done