Gold Knight

Randommonkies

needed a little break from dom war so I decided to do a low poly guy. I stumbled upon this drawing a did in grade 11 or 12 and figured it'd be a fun project.

I sat down an did the model and the UVs in 4, maybe 4 and a half hours and started on some texturing but its not worth showing yet.

t4paN

That dude looks fairly gangsta. I'd like to see how he'll turn out with the bling on!

Randommonkies

I'm going to keep him true to his roots. Keep it nice and stylized for the texture. word. lol

t4paN

Bring that shit on, yo.

El Z0rR

I like him a lot, nice silhouettes. He's a little bit like d0g from hl2.

nitzmoff

I really dig the concept. The style is something I really wish I'd see more of- keep at it!

HonkyPunch

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I like him a lot, nice silhouettes. He's a little bit like d0g from hl2.

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but instead of a robot, he's a total pimp.

Randommonkies

been slowly dabbling at the texture between dominance war and classes. Told myself I'd leave this aside until i finished the comp, but couldn't resist working on him.
i think the chain on the front might need some more work, as it gets lost in the bright spot a little. or i could tone the bright spot down i guess. either way I'm feeling pretty happy with how its going, despite the slowness.

Black stipes on the ribbons is going to be alpha'd out.

pangarang

Looking very nice. Those textures sure are low res! I'm guessing your building him to be in the BG or the textures would be bigger.

My only crit is the legs. With all that upper body bulk, the legs don't look like they'd carry that weight too well.

Randommonkies

Thanks!
Actually, I'm designing it with DS or similar Low-poly games in mind so I have to keep it low. And for the legs I was going for a super-stylazied look so I crazied up the proportions.

LoTekK

Nice! Love the crazy proportions, and the pink ribbons are hilarious.

I'd definitely say to darken the chest piece a tad, or suggest a bit of shadow from the chain, so it pops more. The chain was one of the cool things, imo, from the concept, so it'd be a waste to let it get lost visually.

What texture size are you working with, btw?

hawken

looking good!



the best way to do gold is lay off the brightness, and use it sparingly in places to highlight.



I recently found some good golds:




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rooster

orange/red with yellow highlights always works a treat..
i think i would smooth it up a bit personally, the gold looks a bit grainy. looks sweet though

Randommonkies

Working with what Hawken suggested. I guess i should have called the concept more like 'custard knight' or something lol, just not really sure if I should go super gold or keep it a little de-sat. I'm thinking stick around the A area, though I'd love to hear some suggestions.

...Either that or I drop everything and go purple knight lol.

Thanks LowtekK, I'm going to try out what you suggested too, see if I can make a shadow look cool.
And I'm working with a 128 texture.

Monochrome

The original one looks sassier IMO.

Adam Curtis

hmm I think A look's most blinging ;D which suites the design imo.

dreigrasheir

nice work, i love the stylized look. keep it up, cant wait to see progress

LoTekK

Still not gold looking enough. Don't be afraid to push the contrast on that, and really bring out the specular highlights. Did a quick paintover of version A. Basically used curves to get the initial contrast, then added some extra specular highlights. Also did up a quick shadow under the bling chain.

Monochrome

I think by turning it too gold makes it lose the cartoony look.

Randommonkies

Thanks for the paint over, it looks great, but I think I'm going to have to side with Monochrome on this.
I don't want to get too far from colours of the original concept and I'm going for the kinda cartoony Mario gold coin look. I really like the shadow suggestion for the chain though, I'm painting that in now. I'm also bumping up the contrast a bit more too, just to solidify the shadows some more.


I love this game too much.

edwardE

These are sweet beans - are you going to give him a weapon, or are those nun-chucks attached to his chest? Or perhaps he just punches stuff.

Randommonkies

i think the nunchuks might just be for show lol, I'm not really sure what I was planning for them when I drew them waaaay back when.
and to be honest I haven't really thought of weapons. I guess pummeling dudes with his meaty fists might suit his character.
Or maybe a phatty mace or halberd would be cool for this guy. I'll have to doodle up some weps, see if any look good.

edwardE

I like the idea of a big hammer or mace, or maybe a fancy axe, but fists are cool, as well.

Or you could give him a 9mm so he could cap some bitchez old style.

Randommonkies

i will take all of those into consideration. lol

Monochrome

I think his massive fists are enough of a weapon tbh. He makes me remember a 40k dreadnought.

Steve Schulze

If you take LoTekk's design and keep the highlights a really clean, hard shape, you should still be able to keep the cartoonish look and have him look shiny. STarting with a much darker base, like the first one that Hawken posted would also help.

t4paN

That turned out quite good man. LOL at the shadow for the chain suggestion, so simple yet so effective. Good stuff

Randommonkies

frick, the monitor I'm looking through now makes everything look totally different. LoTekK's design looked A LOT darker on my school monitor, (the one I use 5 days a week.)
Either way, I had moved the colours more towards his suggestion, so I'll have to compare them once I get back to school where I do my work.
Started on a simple little base too, has a bunch of crooked spears making a sort of rickety fence behind him. Put some planes in between them all too so I'm thinking of maybe tying them together with more of the pink ribbon or some kind of metal work.
Thanks for all the input guys!

Randommonkies

Almost done!
legs, ribbons and outside of arms need work but overall pretty much happy with it.

rooster

bit more orange in the shadows would do it for me, but nice job

Monochrome

I think the ribbon's colour should be lighter. "Baby pink" if you get what I mean. That will make 'em look more silky.

Joopson

just a question about maya.

how do you get the texture to be that pixely? on mine it smooths that, and i get very annoyed by it, lol.

i have tried disabling the filtering of the texture, but thats not the problem apparently.

thanks,
-Andy


BTW, i love it so far! it has a nice, simple edge flow

Ferg

haha love it! This is probably not intended, but it looks like some mage or bad guy took away the knight's golden nunchucks and bolted them to his chest... Possibly until he completes some unholy quest or finds his true golden love or something. Anyway, well done!

Randommonkies

Monochrome- That would be closer to the concept too, so I'll give it a try!
Joopson- all I've ever done is turn off the filtering by going Shading->hardware shading and selecting unfiltered and then in the UV texture editor you toggle the filtered/unfiltered checkerbox button in the right
Ferg- "One lone warrior, on a quest to regain his beloved Nunchucks..." I like it.

SHEPEIRO

nice now put it in that DS viewr

Randommonkies

I really want to. The DS rules.
I might look into it when Dom war is over.

spookyghosts

man, that looks awesome. It's like a badass iron giant, but way cooler.

bounchfx

this is bad ass man, great job!

Randommonkies

Thanks guys!
I'm gonna finish off all the texturing over the next half hour or so, (hopefully) and then try some rigging.