DWIII - 3D - ComradeJ - Untitled

Zwebbie

She's blind, but she has a magical musical instrument that plays music, to which she dances to fight. The result is a combination between a ballet and a slaughterhouse .

The main weapon is a Guisarme-Voulge, and she has sharp things on her costume that swirl all around when she's dancing... for as much as that helps against armoured robots. I guess that makes her class Warlord, since she doesn't use magic. Not sure what a magical instrument would fall under. Either air, because it's doing stuff with sound waves and all, or holy. I think Holy/Light fits better, but it really doesn't matter.

The pose is shamelessly ripped from Wikipedia's article on Dance .

rooster

nice! as gauss might say, don't get too hung up on rendering stuff, leave yourself open to exploring some different versions of the character before settling. looks promising though!

Zwebbie

That was my trick to lure Gauss into my thread and have him give some two-page essay advice, but you ruined it now


http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/1176/concept2qs3.jpg

Some more ideas here, but they're mostly exploring the same thing. To be honest, there are very few elements about the design that actually bother me. No glowy bits, the artifact is not a weapon and symmetrical arms (because everybody has one mutated arm, it seems).

Mostly just experimenting with big and puffy arms or legs, but that hides all femininity. The lower figure on the second page is what I'm imagining her to look like at the moment.

Zwebbie

Testing some colour schemes. Any other suggestions are more than welcome.

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/4334/concept3qw3.jpg

rollin

halequin colors are quite cool (but 2. is atm bit too strong with the color-contrast)

Arix

For the color schemes you might want to try some complimentary, split complimentary, or some Tetradic color schemes to get some more color in there that will help compliment the character.

For some reason, music jumps out at me from your concept. As if she is supposed to be some sort of bard. Since she is blind, perhaps her senses of hearing are heightened and she is somewhat of a siren? And her artifact is an ancient instrument to lure machines, then destroys then with a high frequency wave she emits from her voice? Dunno just some random ideas

Great stuff so far, keep it up!

Zwebbie

For some reason, music jumps out at me from your concept. As if she is supposed to be some sort of bard. Since she is blind, perhaps her senses of hearing are heightened and she is somewhat of a siren? And her artifact is an ancient instrument to lure machines, then destroys then with a high frequency wave she emits from her voice? Dunno just some random ideas

Those are actually some neat ideas... But it's just a personal preference of mine to keep her 100% regular human. It's easy to defeat a bunch of robots if you're a thousand-year old demon with magic gauntlets, but it's a lot more interesting to think of how (well-trained) humans fare. Granted, with her current fighting style, she'd probably only dent robots, but it'd look absolutely sweet


Anyway, I was struggling to decide whether I'd go with the gypsy/street performer look or the gala dress look, until a friend mentioned the Venetian carnival, which seemed like a perfect combination. Now to design the actual colour distribution, and details, like a haircut and jewellery.



And a start on the mesh. Needs loads of tweaking still. High poly modeling without ZBrush or MudBox will be interesting...

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2056/mesh1zd2.jpg

Zwebbie

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2284/mesh2co1.jpg

Zwebbie

I've redefined the very concept of 'sexy clothing'. I should be a pants designer.

rollin

this is cool.. but what´s she doing to not get hurt while running?

Soccerman18

she's just got some mad skills that way

Zwebbie

this is cool.. but what´s she doing to not get hurt while running?

Walk carefully and pray that all the sharp things will hit the ankle bracelets instead of her? I think potential for self-mutilation is a must for any DomWar character, and since she doesn't have any pointy teeth or spiked shoulder pads...



Ok, so I'm working on the low poly now and I notice that long hair reference isn't exactly abundant... it's surprising how few games have women with long hair.

Zwebbie

Not dead!

rollin

not dead is good!

looks good so far!
nice weapon!

Zwebbie

Here's another who finished . First time normal mapping and spec mapping, and first time rigging. It's been a useful experience if nothing else.




I originally wanted to paint attacking robots and a background on the beauty shots, but couldn't find the time.

corrosion

I really dig your concept and your wording on her beauty shot; it definetely shows the grace of the character her swift, non-aggressive (dare I say?!) approach... ... and yes, the learning experience from taking this dom war thing to the very end is priceless... congrats on finishing!!!!

JFF

Congrats on getting to the finish line sir. Particularly with so many skills to grapple with on the way.

I love the idea of the character dancing through her fight. Well done

rooster

shit how did I miss this thread so long??
congrats man