DWIII - 3D - DH_ - Brachyura

DH_

Saw this cool picture of a coconut crab and got inspired to do something crustacean-like.



woot, crabs. crabs 4 lyfe.



did some quick sketches, some ideas I like. Did some messing around in photoshop today and got a few more ideas that I think I'll draw up to a more finished state.






Anyways, if thers stuff that stands out let me know, or if it's a really dumb idea let me know that too.

ThE_BirD

awesome:) I like the idea of the human face with the crab shape coming over it in the first page of sketches... kinda like a cobra

Crabs 4 lyfe yo

Xenobond

Anything with a mandible is a-ok in my book!

Belltann

So simple but yet so effective

MoP

mmmmmmm nice

RazorBladder

Lookin forward to seeing your final idea mate. I'm gonna have to start making DWIII Entry bookmarks :P

Jeremy Wright

Great stuff. The second sheet especially had some strong stuff. Prefer the crabby faces on that sheet.

cholden

I'm posting on page 1.

You told me you would finish so that's official.

rooster

hot dawg

dur23

I like DH.

Clint

I love whats goin on in the latest rendition. This could result in some sick ass zbrushing detail. Go for it!!

peppi

Very cool reference! Now I want myself a pet coconut crab.

I'm digging those hand designs, and the bottom-most head on page 2 winz. Can't wait to see where this is going.

Emil Mujanovic

Good to see you in this, dude.
I'm really liking the face designs in the second sketch. Especially the one at the bottom, I think its the way the teeth look or something. Really solid!

-caseyjones

Marine

can't wait to see this finished. maybe next year if we're lucky.

Steve Schulze

Sounds good to me, DH, though you could find yourself some more exciting looking crustaceans. A Pistol Shrimp might be a good option for inspiring your weapons. Theres a good video on Youtube showing the mechanics of its concussive super-heated bubble attack deal.
Theres also the mantis shrimp that punches its prey to death.

DH_

^^^ crabs 4 lyfe jack.

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I still need to do the artifact and armor and shit, just trying to get a body shape I like and then do all that other shit on top. Solid foundation and all that.

Water will be the element of choice, my character is actually an invoker belive it or not. The idea was that the character was originally human, and the water artifact (whatever it ends up being) had slowly mutated him into this crab type creature.

I thought about doing a mix of multiple ocean creatuers, like 1 arm looks sharkish, the legs look squidish, head is crustacean, etc. Not sure, I don't want to get too crazy and out there with the idea, might still do some drawings of it though.

Valandar

I'd go for the REALLY short and stocky one... the primary build makes me think of an AD&D Umber hulk, and the tall skinny one just doesn't have a sense of 'power' to it.

rollin

ok its more easy to say wich faces i don´t like.. *G*

1 3 and 5

7 is kind of my fav

cool stuf!

Jeremy Wright

Favs: 2 from top sheet, 4 from the bottom sheet.

Jaco

Yea the short stocky one is cool, and more crablike. For the heads I like 6 or 7, the crabbier the better imo

struve

I don't know, you can't get that dynamic of a pose with a short stocky guy as what you can get with a tall slender character. Your faces are very interesting, especially #5. Having a human face rapped in shell could be a great way to break up it up some, from adding variation in the final material. Soft flesh material next to a hard exoskeleton material. Also it goes the part human cavity.

BoBo_the_seal

Love the profile piece in Sketch4. That coupled with the wide upper body in your later sketches would kick ass. I'd also go with a wide head that is fused into the torso. For me the creepiest/coolest part of a crab (other than the claws) is the mouth area so maybe give it more realestate.

- BoBo

rooster

pincer fingers ftw!

Por@szek

OMG Jason is in :O
That will be so sweet if U will finish.
Love the 3 version.

Vidar

Nasty guy, should be cool to work on!

EricElwell

2, 5, 7 ... 5 is my fave for sure, but that is influenced by the values contrast. Would like to see 7 with some of the white/gray variation.

Love the face, hate the body. Just looks unblanced and tarded in general.

killingpeople

black pearl as artifact held in a toothed clamgina?

Belltann

2.

dur23

4 on the first image.

super_villain

I like 4 on the second page.

DH_

some mesh sketching.

not sure I like the human/crab merger one, so I tried a more crab all the way through version that so far I like much better.



still need to do his artifact/gear. Got some ideas/sketches, but they probably only make sense to me at the momment.

dur23

crap sakes that was fast....
Looks pants off!

killingpeople

one on the right is way cooler, imo - the chest and everything works better, the head could use more character to pull it from the mass.

rooster

prefer the crab face definately

struve

would be cool to have the one on the right open up to show what you see on the left.

Smooth_Criminal

Crab looks really good.. though what I like abut the first one is the human head sticking out.. maybe you can get that back in the crab version.

wake

Definitely looking good, although I'm not so sure that he'd be able to get back up if he was knocked over As for the head debate you might try blending the two-- what I'm thinking of are the two crustaceans that plagued many of our early gaming days. That grin on the Chryssalid still haunts me...

Definitely some sweet stuff DH

vahl

crab face all over

great one man

DH_

still in this, new more human-like proportions. Would be farther but lost a decent chunk of work to a system crash over the weekend

gonna get started on the gear/artifact soon enough.

Clint

Man systems crashes suck. I hate to say man but for me, this has moved in the wrong direction. I much preferred the sculpts that you had at the top of this page. You have lost many of the dynamic shapes and patterns that you had in the previous sculpts. Bring it back man! You've already proved that you have the skills.

Red Republik

hey jason. you are super skilled with the zedbrush, but i think you might be jumping the gun with the details (which rock by the way. i think the overall proportions could use some work. he looks very flat in the z direction, and the way his legs attach to the torso is a little strange. i agree with clint that the earlier sculpts had more appeal. just my 2 cents

DH_

Well that sucks

I switched to this version since I wasn't getting a good read off the old one, and went to something more humanoid to make it feel less 'wierd'. The old one has more silhouette through the spikes but those can eat up a lot of polys so I'm not sure how many I can stick on the new version, but I do want to add more than what's there so far.

He's pretty much got action figure legs atm, though I can make it look like theres more room for them to move pretty easy I think.

On the detail thing, might partly be the material, maybe this will look better?

http://www.horribledeath.com/images/wip/DWIII/crab_wip01_diffmat.jpg

same mesh, diff material. The other one is great for seeing subtle surface variations but has the side effect of amplifying all small detail.

I feel like I need to just start over and I kind of want to but with the deadline as close as it is I don't think I'd be able to finish if I did a reboot this far along.

EarthQuake

Yeah i gotta agree, proportionally both of these feel a bit akward, maybe try something a bit more sleek like this?

DH_

did some armor sketches



I prefer the body armor in A - F but am not sure about the back crest thingy yet. The artifact will hover in that area (I'm probably going to cop out and just make the artifact a hunk of crystal or something).

Jaco

F is nice, I can imagine a chained magical artifact floating there. (Maybe a crystal covered in seaweed/coral?)

rooster

f's pretty cool yeah

rollin

f too

indian_boy

F deserves the love