DWIII - 3D - Struve - .::QUAKE::.

struve

For my 3d entry I shall create an Invoker with an earth/rock artifact. With his artifact he can create an earthquake, hints the name. His race would be a Giant with elephant characteristics.

:Final Entry:








Sketches:

naruSol

interesting proportions. Be curious to see where you take it.

The bottom left head has the most personality by far, I'd lean more in that direction.

Frantic27

need to see closeup on the head...would like to see what shoots out of the trunk!

struve

ummm, creamy beige

i painted a close up of the head.

Graff Pirate

what happend to the chick? i like htis guys too though. good show

Snowfly

great concepting so far mate there's a sense of mass in the design that a lot of giant characters don't seem to have. cute costume too, very dominatrix.

Dusty

OH YEAHW. Big ole tusks that are magically making their way into our lives.

I_luv_Pixels

very nice dude....i think i like this idea better

JFletcher

holy shit!

slipgatecentral

potential winner sighted

rooster

hmm a post from someone called slipgatecentral in thread about a character called quake.. nostalgia pangs!

btw, tusks look great.. hope you can translate that look into 3d!

struve

Graff Pirate - I’m planning on finishing out the chick for the concept portion of the competition. I decided to go with something a little more creative for my 3d entry.
Snowfly –Yeah, Bondage, hehe
Dusty – and that’s why I don’t like cricket
I_luv_Pixels – me too
JFletcher – Thanks
Slipgatecentral – I don’t know; that Stalker of yours is looking mighty good.
Rooster – I’ll try my best

I figured the most earth shaking artifact a giant could carry into battle would be a Big Ol Hammer. All he’s got to do is slam this thing down to release the artifact’s powers.

Dusty

My word. Hes gonna pound things silly.

dur23

I'm so jealous right now that i didn't think of elephants. This is gonna kick butt.

struve

Dusty - pound, stab and claw.

dur23 - I'm sure there's room for more elephants in this Competition

block out:

oobersli

damn... I get my lil egg thing going and you come off and have a whole damn model blocked out... lay off the awesomesauce a bit... Looks cool.

Chernobyl

Nice design, very interesting. Although the head looks a bit odd being so small I think the large and awesome tusks you've concepted will help sell it. And now I have "Elephants on Parade" stuck in my head...great.

Dusty

This is some good stuff. There is a quite a bulge directly under the tail. Probably a good spot to practice wrinkles.

spetch

lookin good man, can't wait to see more

struve

Oobersli - Thanks!

Chernobyl- I chose to do a small head to make him appear massive. I believe he’s about 10 heads high, haha

Dusty – you know I’ll be spending some time in that area

Spetch – thanks!

little progress...

pestibug

I like this idea, but I'm not sure that I'm sold on the way the trunk is connected to the body. It looks too stuck on. When you look at an elephant's trunk you see it has massive muscles that spread out for a huge deal over the skull, specially the typical big bulge on the front of the head.

I think you should go back and see if you can implement that into the way how this trunk connects to the shoulder.

I'd also assume it would have a radically altered shoulderblade to allow for such muscles to connect in a proper (believeable way) Hell, I assume the same would go for the sternum (think of birds sternum and how wing muscles are connected to it).

Other than that, good idea, and shaping up nicely, I like how you incorporated the front legs into the body very much. Weight and bulk of the character are done very well.

struve

Pestibug - good suggestion, i'll mess around with that a bit.

little progress...

Mangled Poly

Looking cool!

struve

Mangled Poly- Thanks

Update:

Spark

Hey Buddy, nice update! Only crit I have is that he feels a little bubbly, where you might want to define and reduce some of the buldge to the muscles. Looking forward to your next update, and still want to see that dragon chick:P

Spark

Ged

yeah good sculpting but the muscles are a bit hard too read, all a bit lumpy, try flattening and pinching here and there, if possible some skin folds stretching across the muscles maybe.

rooster

yeah it has an inflated feel to the muscles, but nice progress nonetheless

Quickel

I miss you Struve. Nice sculpting on the head area. I would agree on the muscles, especially looking at the legs - I think they are perhaps too inflated AND inaccurate. I'd look at elephant and horse muscle groups.

indian_boy

yea the bubblyness is disctracting. didnt like it. looks like he's got goo dripping off him lol.

the concept and all are pretty interesting though!

struve

I can see what you guys are talking about, thanks for the Crits.

Little progress...

kary

The handle seems to have some sharp edges in it, or at least thats how they're reading -- looks a bit painful for the user. Neat overall design, definitely something that looks like it could incapacitate

struve

Kary – Bring on the hurt!

Butts!!

struve

update:

Lear

cool update, things are looking good. I was wondering if you were planing on putting some more clothing on his back near the back legs.

rooster

nice update man!

Wells

i think his muscle sculpts could stand to be a lot more subtle. right now you've got every muscle coming out BAM with the same chiseled depth to their outlines. remember, he's got [some] fat and skin over these muscles that will smooth them out quite a bit, and seeing as he's pachydermal his skill will be extremely thick, softening the look even more. I think he could really benefit from more surface detail [which i know is a final step - the cracks and creases of the skin] and less absolute anatomy-study muscle definition.

struve

Lear - Thanks
Rooster – Thanks
Sectaurs – Thanks for the crits, I’ll do a CrazyBump pass and try to flesh things out in PS.

Here’s the lowpoly…

struve

*crickets*

been messing around with the pose...

Sage

Very cool, love the style.

Alex

rollin

i´m not a fan that his arm is his nose.. but i like the way, the nm turned out!

struve

Sage - Thank you! Somebody understands I’m going for style, haha.
Rollin – The ladies like it :P

adding some colors...

Japhir

wow great colors! especially on the tusks and feet! his arm is kinda fallus-like though
keep it up!

Spark

Looking good buddy, are you going to put the axe in his trunk hand? As it feels kinda odd sitting on his side. Looking forward to the final shots, ohh and maybe bring that warm to the hands? to help show the flesh throughout.

Spark

struve

Japhir – Hah!
Spark – Think it fits better in the hand hand. Thanks for the feedback!

Getting closer…

audi100

This is shaping up real nice like the idea of having the nose as an arm

Have to admit though I liked the previous colors on the legs more. Maybe you can tone down the darker (shadow colors?) a bit.

Ged

its coming out well, one thing that I think is really important for this piece is the scale, it would add alot to the piece to have something to measure the size by cause at the moment it could be the size of a small collectable figure

struve

Audi100 – I messed around with the colors some more and I may have gone even darker, hehe
Ged – Thanks, I’ll have to put something on the stand to show his size.

After material pass…

I_luv_Pixels

WHoa!

nice material pass man!!!!

wizo

man....Great texturing, this is coming to life, great work!

Jaco

Very nice, love those colors.
Maybe the color of the tusks is a bit too white, I was expecting a yellowish color like the toenails.

rooster

very nice colours on the flesh!
maybe this is sacrilige, but I would dampen down the green of the smiley he stands out a lot