Daaamn you bastards can paint! I can't decide which one I like better... Suffeli finish the texture man, it looks really good so far - the armor is great.
Some quick messing around with Maya's 3D paint tool.
Probably gonna scrap this, the armour design was just sketched with no thought, so it's a bit busy and misleading. Kinda looks like one of those Transformers from the new movie, heh.
I kinda wanna do an evil LOTR-style black armoured knight on this model, seems like it'd fit.
Damn guys some hot texture work going on in here. I was quite proud of my head then I took a look at some of the other work in here... Inspiring stuff.
qubism> You are a maaaadman. I was frustrated to no end by the pixel-brush when I started painting my textures. I ended up doubling the res, painting, then crunching for the render you see now. I might give the pixel-brush another go at true res rather than using my hax method.
Here's mine so far:
Ice, ice baby...he will eventually have frozen up gauntlets and hands...
well u just use it where its needed.
i had a time where i did all the painting with it tho
u can have semismooth results even with the pencil
gotta work on very low opacity most of t he time and boost
it up when hardness is nessacary and smudge over areas where
u want true smoothness or leave the overall random crispiness
i got some crits for u. u came up with this ice material.
thats great. its kinda like my blue and red. easy readable shapes.
work good on distance and they give the whole character a sort
of balance when u have areas with ornamtents and stuff.
u cannot over detail the whole thing. so u think the tighs for example
look somwhat busy. also the lower torso aint exactly clean. bring in some
of that whiteblue there. break it
i like the pelvis and the collar ornament. tho they dont fit together perfectly
one is very curvy the other is just straight lines. decide on one and stick to
it maybe or give each some of the other...
color overall are nice tho i like it.
keep goin. and use the brush in the smallest size is good. the pencil will only be needed
whenever u real need a dot or a line or an edge..
WhiteEagle - Really like the additions, agreed about the face though. It's gonna be a goodun when finished.
Started mine earlier, really rough still as you can see, bit of a warm up before my uni work. nothing there is finished :P Gonna have a proper bash at the armour later 2nite.
Xaltar: You could always try enzo, http://www.electriciris.com/ It isn't exactly free or "cheap" but at least it should be very easy to learn and it has a meager 30 day trial.
Mop: Very nice use of fake depth of field with those textures... i'm not sure though how does it look and distort the silhoutte? The red splotch on the shoulders looks like a red cross so I'm guessing it's a medic suit? Some white painted metal parts such as the hands would work very well with the green theme...
Yeah I was thinking the same thing Marine, I'll probably move them around to the back, and just have smaller circular intakes on the front, with the proper vents behind. Still very sketchy
qubism> Thanks for your input dude! I agreed with all of it, although I'm not 100% sure what you meant about the lower torso. Let me know what you think of him.
Massbot> Cheers man, you've made a good start with that face, I look forward to seeing more of the body textured.
MoP> Looking sweet man, glad to hear you'll be keeping the vents and just shifting them.
SupRore> Digging your texture style, I'll be very interested to see more if it completed
Here's my latest update. I'm still not happy with the thigh armor design...
qubism> Thanks for your input dude! I agreed with all of it, although I'm not 100% sure what you meant about the lower torso. Let me know what you think of him.
okay so what i did here is just follow some of what u created.
you bordered the armor in certian places where they connect or end.
the collar there for example. the bordure is part of the ornaments.
and can be applied on the whole skin for consistency. i suggest to
do so. copy elements if u dont come up with them instantly. turn em,
scale em, copy dem again, take parts, rescale and turn and puzzle
elements together to create something new that matches what u
allready have.
the lower torso there might not be the perfect thing as i did it but
what i meant by that is that u did some "useless" detail between
2 detail centers. collar and crotch. u will give those 2 more power
by addin a bigger shape inbetween. instead of adding more small
parts that will only do one thing.... marmelade...
if u looked at the visor highpoly model that is posted on teh forums
at the moment. there u find the same thing. if u ask me. bigger
shapes that are readable and clear are important. and details only
work if they have space to let them "work". its the tension between
small and big and blah blah... thats what i feel. of course the model
doesnt have a texture to it and with color and brightness difference
im sure one can do a bit about whta i just said.... still i think its a tiny
bit overdone. ... have done the same at some point ...
on the colors.
u have this turquies and some other blue. i suggest not usin the other
blue on its own. use it allways together with the turquies as for blending
it into the darks. makes a good mix. otherwise i think u boost up the color
palate a bit too much. of course one cann allways add an accent color.
but for that their both to close to each other i think.
on the changes u did to the model. i think u create too much different
directions with all these spikes. i like the basic idea. but go soft on it.
make some short fat ones or long ones thinner?... could work.
work more with light directions. paint in gradiants. i hope this all helps a lil bit.
still got a lot of room for details but this is my progress so far The color scheme is not final its just something i threw in there real quick to give it some color... looks Brazilian haha. Thanks for the SDK man!
benclark: Normal res, I pretty much never work at double size. I like just painting the detail that will be seen, and I find (for me) it's faster to paint a lower-res texture.
I'm going for something like a knight with stove-themed armor
Supposed to be cartoony, by the way
I'm also probably going to take away thise rectangle things on his chest plate, they're kinda ugly
Bit more work on mine. Sized the head down to 64x64 for better consistency.
Moved the vents on the side so they match the mesh better.
Might scrap the shoulderpad headlight things because the UVs are a bit nasty there ... that's also why the insignia is gone for now, until I figure out how to make it look good.
dont think the grey tecbits on his belly work too well...
dig the face. nice shadow on his eyes that hes lookin out of ..... eeeeeeeeeviil hes gonna kill all of u
hey noel. reminds me of what dark horizon did back in the day....
the way u shade and all. especially how u do the highlights....
keep goin. to everyone whos doing half skins there.
please try roughing out the whole first even if u might change certain things.
white eagles is a good example. from what is done there u get a good idea
of how different materials are balanced out. ofcourse details can change. shapes
change from one thing to another but the main compostion is kinda sorted out.
i find that one important thing to do if u paint a character. its alot about the big picture
and not only some polished/detailed stuff.
plus chances are greater to finish it than wastin time carin about details on just one
spot and not getting far with the thing as a whole
dont wanna lecture but dudes come on i wanna see more more more!!! :P
Great character Slaught, really makes me wanna start texturing..
Mop: wow thats some great texturing, this should usually make me not wanna try this out but your texturing really inspired me, so i think im gonna give it a try, maybe even try 3d paint tool for the first time .
Some great stuff going on in this thread
A bit of iron man inspiration haha, throw some hot rod red on that. im not diggin the brown too much any ideas?
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whiteeagle its trueres. i just use the pixelpencil thing in photoshop instead of the allways smoothed brush. but just when its needed.
Probably gonna scrap this, the armour design was just sketched with no thought, so it's a bit busy and misleading. Kinda looks like one of those Transformers from the new movie, heh.
I kinda wanna do an evil LOTR-style black armoured knight on this model, seems like it'd fit.
the model is definatly knightable!!
looking forward to yours b1ll
ill give mine another pass and take caree of
the crits i got in this thread. i kinda agree about them.
everyone keep rocking!!! starts feeling good
I think I'll try the body now...
I gave a try, still WIP
Here's mine so far:
Ice, ice baby...he will eventually have frozen up gauntlets and hands...
i had a time where i did all the painting with it tho
u can have semismooth results even with the pencil
gotta work on very low opacity most of t he time and boost
it up when hardness is nessacary and smudge over areas where
u want true smoothness or leave the overall random crispiness
i got some crits for u. u came up with this ice material.
thats great. its kinda like my blue and red. easy readable shapes.
work good on distance and they give the whole character a sort
of balance when u have areas with ornamtents and stuff.
u cannot over detail the whole thing. so u think the tighs for example
look somwhat busy. also the lower torso aint exactly clean. bring in some
of that whiteblue there. break it
i like the pelvis and the collar ornament. tho they dont fit together perfectly
one is very curvy the other is just straight lines. decide on one and stick to
it maybe or give each some of the other...
color overall are nice tho i like it.
keep goin. and use the brush in the smallest size is good. the pencil will only be needed
whenever u real need a dot or a line or an edge..
show flats!
Started mine earlier, really rough still as you can see, bit of a warm up before my uni work. nothing there is finished :P Gonna have a proper bash at the armour later 2nite.
Not too happy with this design, may go ahead with it anyway.
Flats show how crappy everything else is
I heart this thread, MOAR people!
Agreed about ditching the tatoo's Suprore, the style of the face was cool enough as it was.
MOP...looking sexy dude, really nice stuff keep it up!
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9206/redwingsqk0.jpg
edit: Huzzah for .OBJ and time to waste at work
Layed down a base coat, will work some more tommorow afternoon after the boss has gone home.
Awesome model. You can tell an unwrap is nice when you can just throw some paint strokes on and it comes out looking like a character.
Can you recomend any good 3d paint apps or tools? Preferably free ones seeing as my 3d budget is gone for the next ummm.... 2 years lol
Mop: Very nice use of fake depth of field with those textures... i'm not sure though how does it look and distort the silhoutte? The red splotch on the shoulders looks like a red cross so I'm guessing it's a medic suit? Some white painted metal parts such as the hands would work very well with the green theme...
heres what I have so far...
prepare for your eye ballz to get rocked! I'll work on it more tomorrow
hmm i like drawing on one layer and see what happens :P
kinda fableish take on the model, makes my try feel pooh, might have to take some more time...
Awesome work everyone!
@Mop
Could you do one of these turnarounds?
I would like to see how the painted depth works with the model from different angles.
qubism> Thanks for your input dude! I agreed with all of it, although I'm not 100% sure what you meant about the lower torso. Let me know what you think of him.
Massbot> Cheers man, you've made a good start with that face, I look forward to seeing more of the body textured.
MoP> Looking sweet man, glad to hear you'll be keeping the vents and just shifting them.
SupRore> Digging your texture style, I'll be very interested to see more if it completed
Here's my latest update. I'm still not happy with the thigh armor design...
Great work guys, keep up the pace!
Jackblade: LOVING THE CHOPS MAN!
Here is an update, messing with the armor, color is no where near final, but just messin for the time being.
okay so what i did here is just follow some of what u created.
you bordered the armor in certian places where they connect or end.
the collar there for example. the bordure is part of the ornaments.
and can be applied on the whole skin for consistency. i suggest to
do so. copy elements if u dont come up with them instantly. turn em,
scale em, copy dem again, take parts, rescale and turn and puzzle
elements together to create something new that matches what u
allready have.
the lower torso there might not be the perfect thing as i did it but
what i meant by that is that u did some "useless" detail between
2 detail centers. collar and crotch. u will give those 2 more power
by addin a bigger shape inbetween. instead of adding more small
parts that will only do one thing.... marmelade...
if u looked at the visor highpoly model that is posted on teh forums
at the moment. there u find the same thing. if u ask me. bigger
shapes that are readable and clear are important. and details only
work if they have space to let them "work". its the tension between
small and big and blah blah... thats what i feel. of course the model
doesnt have a texture to it and with color and brightness difference
im sure one can do a bit about whta i just said.... still i think its a tiny
bit overdone. ... have done the same at some point ...
on the colors.
u have this turquies and some other blue. i suggest not usin the other
blue on its own. use it allways together with the turquies as for blending
it into the darks. makes a good mix. otherwise i think u boost up the color
palate a bit too much. of course one cann allways add an accent color.
but for that their both to close to each other i think.
on the changes u did to the model. i think u create too much different
directions with all these spikes. i like the basic idea. but go soft on it.
make some short fat ones or long ones thinner?... could work.
work more with light directions. paint in gradiants. i hope this all helps a lil bit.
Had bit of a bash at re-doing the armour whilst dinner was in the oven! Wasnt liking the wire mesh/face thing on the original .
His neck hole sort of looks like a split open watermelon but oh well.
The unwrap is so... ehm, painfull... I'll probably leave it unfinished.
Woo.
Edit: Attempt #2 at mask thingy.
Supposed to be cartoony, by the way
I'm also probably going to take away thise rectangle things on his chest plate, they're kinda ugly
Moved the vents on the side so they match the mesh better.
Might scrap the shoulderpad headlight things because the UVs are a bit nasty there ... that's also why the insignia is gone for now, until I figure out how to make it look good.
p.s. Its an honour being online the same time as you :P
dig the face. nice shadow on his eyes that hes lookin out of ..... eeeeeeeeeviil hes gonna kill all of u
the way u shade and all. especially how u do the highlights....
keep goin. to everyone whos doing half skins there.
please try roughing out the whole first even if u might change certain things.
white eagles is a good example. from what is done there u get a good idea
of how different materials are balanced out. ofcourse details can change. shapes
change from one thing to another but the main compostion is kinda sorted out.
i find that one important thing to do if u paint a character. its alot about the big picture
and not only some polished/detailed stuff.
plus chances are greater to finish it than wastin time carin about details on just one
spot and not getting far with the thing as a whole
dont wanna lecture but dudes come on i wanna see more more more!!! :P
Mop: wow thats some great texturing, this should usually make me not wanna try this out but your texturing really inspired me, so i think im gonna give it a try, maybe even try 3d paint tool for the first time
A bit of iron man inspiration haha, throw some hot rod red on that. im not diggin the brown too much