Bobble Commando! [now with less bobble, moar RAD!]

LoTekK · Mar 2008

Been spamming the lowpoly thread a bit much, so I figured I'd promote this guy to his own thread. Started off with basically realistic-ish proportions, but that felt a bit boring, so I messed with the proportions and made me a bobble head.

old
old turnaround
old flats

Bionic arm has yet to be unwrapped.

StJoris · Mar 2008

nice start, but to be honest, the realistic one isn't boring at all and might even be slightly more interesting.

KonamiCode · Mar 2008

Hah! I was actually looking into doing a PSP-spec version of him for my next piece. I like the cartoony proportions, but he seems too top heavy, maybe you could play around with the shapes in the legs to sort of balance that out?

Zephir62 · Mar 2008

He's got a turtle-head, makes him look like Lester the Unlikely

ElysiumGX · Mar 2008

Body is off to a good start, but the face needs work. Are you going for the tough guy look? He could use a jawline. I second the head being too far forward.

LoTekK · Mar 2008

StJoris, I should rephrase, actually. I didn't mean the character or style itself was boring, I was simply more in the mood for something goofy-looking than realistic, after having done a bunch of more or less realistic models.

KonamiCode: The top-heaviness is quite intentional, actually. Though I was struggling a bit with the arms, simply because I wanted to emphasize the bionic arm without going too far overboard.

Zephir, ElysiumGX: Thanks, I made some mesh changes. Shifted the head back some (though the super-deep jawline makes it tough to shift /too/ far back), got rid of the overbite (didn't notice that before), and gave him a "proper" jawline.

and for fun (i guess it's a slight nod to the original). The shades are squeezed into the main uvs.

vertexguy · Mar 2008

Nice! You sure do make these fast. I think the proportions could be balanced just by enlarging his feet to like 5 times their current size. The grapple claw could also use more of a metallic shine, but from the looks of it you're out of map space.

LoTekK · Mar 2008

Thanks vertexguy!
I took your advice (somewhat) and enlarged his feet (though only slightly), and I think it helped quite a bit. The bionic arm actually still hasn't been unwrapped, so right now it's only vertex lighting.

Spent a bit of time today working on this, and mainly noodled a lot.

Tennis · Mar 2008

wow very cool.
looking forward to see his bionic sausage arm :P

LoTekK · Mar 2008

Thanks Tennis! love your lowpoly stuff and your pixel art.

Got around to unwrapping the bionic arm. Noodled a bit more on the main texture as well.

LoTekK · Mar 2008

Fucked around with posing him, and added a machine pistol. Still working on the textures.

LoTekK · Mar 2008

After getting some solid crits from my friend, I ended up dramatically reshaping the head and adding geometry for the ears and dreads. Sitting at 700 tris, now. Still cartoony proportions, but the head is less ridiculous.

Wires

t4paN · Mar 2008

Nice one man, did you change the head texture and/or geometry other than scaling it? I didn't like his mug at all at the begging to be perfectly honest, but he looks good now. Not in the gay sense!

stoofoo · Mar 2008

I actually quite like this in its current state. Head is nice and characicatured. great low res stuff=)

Razorb · Mar 2008

love the work

nice pose at the end too ! with the turn around

planaria · Mar 2008

yeah the head always looked wrong to me but now it looks quite badass .. the dynamic pose helps to opinionate also

also the muzzle flash rocks !

kary · Mar 2008

Very nice Teck, as per above the new head looks good and the pose sells it. Nice touch showing off the extendable arm

LoTekK · Mar 2008

Thanks guys!
Kary! Haven't seen you in a while!

Started on a quick reskin today, loosely based on the concept art of the original Rad Spencer as shown in one of the recent Bionic Commando Rearmed trailers.

Concept