DWIII - 3D - Asmuel - Lord Greentooth

Asmuel

Hmm, Kinda screwed up my thread by trying to be clever with organizing updates. Anwyays, here's a fugly sketch...



Lord Greentooth (Warlord)

He's the last great war-tortoise, born before the other dom wars. The polycount logo was once his old clan symbol, during the ancient tortoise wars.

His artifact is a magical staff, that makes a war cry that summons a massive reptilian army.

I'm open to any and all crits or suggestions. If anyone has better idea's, my ears are wide open.

Thanks dudes

LampRabbit

hey Asmuel, Good luck with your entry .. good to see another PolyCounter New Zealander.

Asmuel

Hey bro good luck to you too. I think there might be a few of us out this year yeeeee haaaaaawwwwww

Asmuel

Update at top ^

rollin

this is ... realy ... cracy .. 0.0

want a suggestion.. draw some idears with the lower part / legs, but without all the stuff on his back.. atm his lacking a bit of some sort of eye-catcher but the armor is realy cool!! i would develop that

tacit math

let's make it an all welly's thread then a *

looks awesome bro. enjoying the deep storyline he has beneath him. really think you're onto something with the oddness of it all. certainly fucked out enough to keep from being generic. love to see you rock up some other quick views and suss him out further

* 'til rollin sneaked in

vivin

Great to see something posted . Im really digging the whole idea of the old tortoise. Not to sure of the axe or armor thought. You could really run with the idea of an old senile tortoise, wielding a giant staff which he just owns everything with

Im glad you didnt just go with a generic warrior dude heh. Look forward to seeing some more updates

Asmuel

Thanks for the feedback dudes, all great suggestions. I think I'll elaborate/redesign some parts to fit better.

Asmuel

Update at the top

Asmuel

The original concept was terrible, totally out of practice with 2d, I might come back to it later but for now I decided to mock up a portion of this dude to see how he would look.



Feeling really demotivated with this dude right now. Might be moving on a poorly thought out concept. Crits, comments and suggestions would be helpful. Not sure if I should send this dude to the graveyard or not.

rollin

to be honest.. this dude has way more character than a lot of other entrys..

i love how this turns out.. if you´r not happy with the concept, try to invent some new species basen on you`r mudbox-base

(smal crit.. he has huuuuge .. realy huge arm-muscles.. but for what? his small fingers would brake under his owne strength, at least it looks like

MoP

hah, that sculpt is awesome

killingpeople

the sculpt looks like a wicked start dude, i like it so far.

vivin

Nice start on the sculpting. Loving the giant arms. I think his pec muscles need to be bigger/wider to be able to hold those giant arms. Still, im liking where this is going

Asmuel

Thanks for the crits and comments guys. I'll keep sculpting and see where it leads me.

rooster

sweeeet

Asmuel

Bah, not feeling this. Only a couple hours sculpting so far if that, just mocking stuff up, but I feel its lacking conceptually.

I really wanted to make something top shelf this year, this isn't really what I imagined. It seems my ability to come up with something that I can get passionate about is lacking.

rollin

there will be people hating you for saying such things while posting SUCH things *G*

so if you don´t like it (or feel it).. think about something else, maybe do what everyone else is doing.. some thumbs

btw.. if you don´t continue this awesome piece.. _I_ will hate you

aesir

that anatomy is really really freaky.

Im not sure how I feel about your piece as a whole right now. Im kinda seeing a ninja turtle atm, and those legs arent weird enough to go along with the rest of your weird character. I dont dislike what you've made, and its certainly technically good, but I just find it really weird.

Clint

Man oh man. Coolest turtle ever.
You have some badass sculpting skills man i cant wait to see more progress on this.

LampRabbit

Hey Sam, its not that bad ... I do find the arms and back area to look a little weird. Rather than starting again maybe try adding some asymetry to the design.. your concept has heaps.

Asmuel

Thanks rollin

I just thought I would post in the desperate and illogical hope that someone will tell me how to make it amazing in a few short sentences lol. I'm not fishing for complements or anything by shitting all over it, I'm just very critical of my work and don't look at it with rose tinted glasses.

I'll give it some more thought tonight, see if I can come up with an alternative, but the deadline means I'm gonna have to make a choice and stick with it or bow out.

Asmuel

Thanks dudes, yea I agree it makes me think of ninja turtles, which makes my willy go limp.

Thanks for the suggestion LampRabbit, I agree it needs asymmetry. I probably wont work much from that concept now, this is one of the only times I've drawn out a concept before modeling and it didnt work out too well. But it still has elements worth exploring though they need to be redesigned etc.

Thanks Clint, best of luck with your entry

Steve Schulze

He's not too dissilmilar to the Krogan aliens in Mass Effect. Perhaps it'd be worth looking over how they developped their big chunky hunchbacked lizardy guys.

aesir

Maybe something more like this?



I wont mind if you dont like it. Took me all of 4 minutes.

Asmuel

haha, nice one aesir, thanks. That helps get the creative juices flowing. I don't think I will do it exactly like that, but it helps me to see a different incarnation of it. thanks

@ Jackablade: Yea good call man, I never intended a resemblance, but I love the Krogans. thanks

Rick Stirling

Lovely paintover!

vahl

that's a pretty cool idea actually.

nice sculpt btw I like that big turtle god thing

Sage

I would made the chest area wider. Lower the turtle hump and get rid of the turtle paws unless you go and make them bigger and able to use them for using weapons. Maybe you can give him some kind of sharp armor on the forearms. Here is a quick suggestion. It looks really good though I hope you finish it.

FAT_CAP

I really like the anatomy and freakiness of this guy - has got the dumb lumbering look down really well and the helmet gives it that menacing edge.

The paintovers are cool too and could take the creature in some cool directions - definately a cool start even if you don;t like it too much!

vivin

Hey man, glad to see your still working on it . The areas you have worked on are looking really nice.

I think your design will be helped by a change in leg size/position. Eva make them short/stubby and wide or long thin and skinny. I personally think making his legs wide/having a lower COG would make sense since he has to carry that giant shell and upper body.

He could also maybe be more hunched over/Ape like? standing straight up seems a little weird to me, again due to the size of his shell

Smooth_Criminal

Freaking cool, Jus love the head.

Asmuel

Thanks for all the feedback and paintovers guys . I think you might have something there sage, thanks

What about t-rex leggies?

rollin

am i the only one who thinks he looks like a slug ?

rooster

mental is good!

Sage

Asmuel why don't you do several quick sculpts with different types of legs. While the Trex legs might work really well it might be worth your while to try other things, like say give him thin bambi legs, short turtle legs with really big or small feet, just things you would normally do because if it does look good it will be more original than with just dino legs. But that's up to you. Keep at it it's looking good.

Alex