DWIII - 3D - Fuse - Death Baron

Fuse

toying with an idea of some kind of marionette/voodoo black magic.. also wanting to incorporate some kind of a steed...

Things are looking generic right now, we'll see where these drawings take me.

RazorBladder

Fuse babe, your image is all whited out, looking forward to your entry though.

Rick Stirling

Aye, re-upload a level corrected version.

kary

Cool to see a heftier character, nice expressive face and a blank canvas to hang voodoo symbolism on. Important to get those in the sketches as early as you can, that'll be how you sell the threat of the character.

Seems like a nice stead design, the left reads as a bipedal cross between a dinosaur and a rhino which is pretty interesting. The calmer face works better for me, good start look forward to following it

Fuse

some really rough things.. i think i want to keep it that way until i start refining and narrowing down the concept..

Fuse

getting closer to where i want to take this .. i kind of liked the idea of the baron sitting on the creature's hump to have a commanding view of the battlefield to cast his dark magic..

I am thinking of merging the more contemporary elements of cliche post-apocalyptic props like gas masks and canisters with more classic fantasy bags and satchels and such ... still gotta explore that with more sketches..

gauss

fuse, all these images are absolutely enormous for very little to convey. bring all of them into photoshop, bring up the darks in levels in the histogram, and then crop the last fifth of the white off the bottom slider. sharpen, crop more artfully, reduce by 50% at least. this is an art competition, presentation is absolutely crucial.

Fuse

Thanks gauss.. I updated it above .. i'll try to post further sketches in this format ..

Cheers

gauss

huuuuge improvement. as to the sketch, rider/mount combos are always fun, but try and come up with a novel take on it. a rider larger than the mount character? novel positioning, not just riding on the back of? unusual relationship?
though everyone wants to be, not everyone can be Master Blaster
keep it up!

richkid

HAHAHAHA, i almost did a master blaster take...soooo good.

Fuse

final concept:



It's more of a mother/son relationship now .. the baron is suspended in a harness of sorts while his beast mother carries him around the battlefield as he casts his darkness magic..

His artifact are the two demonic marionettes he carries. I'll probably add trails of dark energy around them to give them more punch

Fuse

oh boy i have a lot of work ahead of me ... but i am going to try my best to finish

Fuse

Davision3D

Ugh, thats an really ugly face!
Ears need to be more fatty hanging

Fuse

rollin

haha lol

Fuse

looks like i am throwing in the towel ... it was a monumental task to get this done in a matter of a few nights .. but at least i have something for my portfolio ...

I might resurrect this at some point and finish the textures ...

Good luck to all