Bone Golem

Randommonkies

did a quick drawing for fun a couple months ago and decided to
model it. Idea is its a magical golem made by some shaman out of various animal bones.

I imagine him as being some common enemy or lesser-miniboss you'd fight in a video game.

I'm thinking that once i have one done, I'll switch up some of the parts and change the red blood/paint pattern to look like a couple different bone golems. Also want to do a creepy little
crawling version that would scurry under the feet of the bigger golems.

Randommonkies

target was around 9000 and I'm at 7125 so I'm pretty happy.

The little cards are going to be feathers and the planes in the rings are going to be dreamcatchers

just finished the UVing now going to do some simple zbrushing

Kawe

for the concept presentation you might want to change the background to something else. the bone is white too so... there's outlines thought so it isn't too bad but I'd change it. could probably knock in some quick colors for the jewelry too.

looks pretty good though. mind showing UVs too?

Randommonkies

I havn't really touched the concept since I scanned it in from my scketchbook.
I plan on making it a bit fancier in the future.

edwardE

He looks real nice-like. Are you going to dirty him up a bit more than the concept? He seems like he'd be have some blemishes on parts of his bones and stuff.

Randommonkies

ya for sure. I'll put some dirt on him and make the red paint/blood more splotchy. The concept was a really quick drawing with some felt, did it just for fun in a couple minutes, but I think it got the general idea across.

heres the UVs

Randommonkies

Skull is done, looked at both herbivore and carnivore skulls for ref

Kawe

Still looking good

sub_roland

awesome job on the skull can't wait to see more.

RobStites

This is looking good, but the UVs seem like they could be a lot better, there is a lot of unused space in there.

Monochrome

Indeed that enemy is kickass for some sort of RPG miniboss. I could use something like that on my game project.

Neox

thats some nasty unwrap do you really want to struggle with all those seams? i mean it might be stretch free but painting on seams is just a pain in the ass even with projection painting, personally i'd just stitch some parts together to make texturing less annoying

Japhir

shouldn't he have like this .. huuuuuuuge boner? .

looking great so far, loving the proportions and silhouette. uv's not so much.

Randommonkies

For The UVs I'm not too worried about the seams. There are some annoying ones but i wanted to keep the spikes on the spines and arms stretch-free so I pretty much had to cut them up. Other than the vertabrae though, pretty much everything else is one solid chunk. If a seam is really giving me a problem then I'll just model it into the bones lol. Ya some of the space could have been used better but I only have a short amount of time to do this guy so it'll have to do for now.

Monochrome wrote: »

Indeed that enemy is kickass for some sort of RPG miniboss. I could use something like that on my game project.

what're you working on?


thanks for crits so far!


..hmm, I guess I could add an extra walrus tusk to the crotch region.. lol

Monochrome

Randommonkies wrote: »

what're you working on?

I'm working on a dungeon explorer based game with a few friends. Something like diablo meets nethack, and we're actually using a similar semi cartoony graphic style. I would go in more detail, but i feel this is not the place to discuss it.

Anyway, great model and concept. Cant wait to see it textured.

Randommonkies

ya no prob

thanks!

Wiktor

Wow, I'm definately gonna follow this thread! Looking awesome!

ElysiumGX

Interesting concept. I want to see the result. Those UVs are insane. I would dread working with something like that.

Randommonkies

spines-dun.

ya he's about 100 separate pieces.

konstruct

lookin good- something about how his legs attach directly to the spinal column makes it seem sort of toy like. I`m okay with the knees and everything else not being based in reality, I just feel there needs to be a more believable mechanism at the hips

Helixx

Cool idea, reminds me of some old school rpg miniboss too. Keep it up, I want to see it finished.

Stubbs

This is turning out cool, I love the design.

Wiktor

I think he needs hips. The way the legs come together with the spine looks kinda weird.
Looking sweet besides that!

Monochrome

Disting wrote: »

I think he needs hips. The way the legs come together with the spine looks kinda weird.
Looking sweet besides that!

Nonsense. We're talking about a magically animated creature composed by a random assortment of bones here. No hips just make it more awsome. Screw anatomy for a while, this is the stuff of what dreams are made of. The low poly mesh however, could use a bit less in someparts since the normal map is so heavily detailed.

Randommonkies

chest fur and spikes done last night. Right arm is done too but i'll post it with the other limbs.

good point about the hip disting. If i have time later I might experiment giving him and actual hip, but for now I'm going to see how the current one turns out. I did try to make it a little more 'hip-like' than the concept. Hope to have all the zbrushing done today

Randommonkies

there it is. A bunch of the little things arent on there because they are either just repeats or I'm just painting them, the rings, dreamcatcher etc.

otherwise I'm on to baking ambients and norms then texturing.

BoBo_the_seal

very nice. I dig the style

- BoBo

Monochrome

Are you gonna texture the LP mesh aswell or just the HP one?

Randommonkies

thanks bobo!

the low poly is my focus, using the the hp for baking and sculpting fun