Khufu - Magical Monkey - hipoly game character finished

Levus · Jun 2008

Yo!

It's Khufu (means Cheops)- magical monkey from the underground oasis, character done for casual game Ancient Quest Of Saqqarah (www.SaqqarahTheGame.com), developed by polish development studio, Codeminion.

Demo of game you can find here: Game Club Cafe.

It's a hipoly model done in max, rendered with scanline and get some postproces in photoshop.

Any c&c are welome, thx for watching!
Cheers!

game splash screen:

concept sheet:

some in game shots:

Tumerboy · Jun 2008

good piece, great character to him.

konstruct · Jun 2008

lookin nice, any chance for a wire? I wanna see whats goin on with the hair.

oh and, DESERT COMBO BITCH!

Levus · Jun 2008

Tumerboy ->thank you!
konstruct -> thanks too, here is some technical shot:

Slum · Jun 2008

Cool character! The fur looks nice. I'd like to see what it looks like in motion.

MoP · Jun 2008

Nice work, I like him!

Levus · Jun 2008

Slum, MoP -> thanks!

We have game trailer what I've done, so there is a little motion of Khufu, nothing special but..
I post link for trailer when I can to do that.

veteehrri · Jun 2008

wow, really nice, love his colors, great work.

[MILES] · Jun 2008

That looks awesome! Love the character (and the color).
On a side note...you might want to consider this...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--szrOHtR6U[/ame]

"If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey...even if it has a monkey kind of shape...if it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey....if it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey it's an ape"

ViPr · Jun 2008

I'm so silly!*

*edited by adam

The_Kozmonaut · Jun 2008

ViPr wrote: »

so you decided to make this because Africans are not sick of being portrayed as apes?

Wow you have some serious issues.

anyway, really great work. Ignore the comment above mine because I am sure that wasnt your intention, and you have to be thinking like a racist for what he said to even cross your mind.

hellobuddy · Jun 2008

ViPr wrote: »

so you decided to make this because Africans are not sick of being portrayed as apes?

O_o

monkeyboy_garth · Jun 2008

ViPr wrote: »

so you decided to make this because Africans are not sick of being portrayed as apes?

C'mon, are you serious?

Nice work, Levus - looks great.

Archanex · Jun 2008

Really nice job on the fur man! I know how tricky lighting fur can be. I'd be interested in hearing more about your lighting/render setup, it looks like you're using a matte/shadow material on the ground there perhaps?

dejawolf · Jun 2008

its a mmm...ape! old habits die hard, sigh.

dale22x · Jun 2008

it's an ape....there is no tail rig

ViPr wrote: »

so you decided to make this because Africans are not sick of being portrayed as apes?

...they are apes....

TheSplash · Jun 2008

Nice job on the presentation, the lighting and colours look great. Why do most casual games have to be ancient civilization themed?

Levus · Jun 2008

Thanks all for nice comments!!

[MILES] -> haha, thx for attention:) We have in polish one name for the monkey and ape.
"Ape" we called something like "human-like or human-shape monkey". So its a little misunderstanding;)

ViPr -> sorry to read that, but if you are serious, you must know there was no any rasism from me or my team friends in creation this character.
Maybe try to understand this like that:
"It's a humanoid ape with ancient Egypt features"?

Archanex -> thx! when I get some free time I will do some description how scene done is.
The shadow on the ground is second render layer rendered with simple ambiet/reflective occlusion map in diffuse slot, and character is not visible for camera, thats all.

TheSplash -> thx! Ancient themes..why? 'Couse that's casual?;) Ancient themes are universal for get many different players, any age, any plains of interest, any culture, you know, games for all, not only for hardcore cosmo-techno-fantasy multigalactic killaz;)