Unearthly Challenge | D`evil one | Spreading Death

Target_Renegade

ORIGINAL CONCEPT by Reagan Lodge http://www.reaganlodge.com



Using the concept to enable me realise a vision I had after seeing it. Here is a rough.

adam

Is this the concept you've chosen from the list?

Target_Renegade

Yeah, its not really a specific concept, but it suits the scale of what I want to do. Can we not change ideas/concepts around, or is it a permanent thing?

Either way this is probably what I'll stick with.

Tumerboy

you should probably repost the original concept that you're altering, so we can see what you're changing and see the elements you're keeping.

root

Neat! Reagan's my homeslice, I'll have to point him at this thread.

Target_Renegade

Rootdown: Sweet, he's left a ton of space for some architectural inclusions.

Scrapped the huge skeletons, although some the rock face is going to be catacomb like. Going to go with urotsukidoji type cable/tentacle theme that is basically raping the earth/planet. No details going in yet, hopefully its going to go in Unreal.

Target_Renegade

Started work on a strange looking rock facade/area. Found a new word 'striations', so thats a bonus! The catacomb idea will be next after I finish the rock face. The platform bit, will be where the valley is viewed from, going to use about 2048 texture space for the whole terrain.

Target_Renegade

So I've baked out the Normal maps and AO maps for the terrain, but the wire is a bit dodgy since I'm using 3ds max optimise and weld vertices by hand, which took ages. I'm using the AO on the diffuse to add some subtle shadow. Whilst I'm thinking about it, I'll start work on the bone elements. The terrain might have to get redone.

Crits appreciated.

Target_Renegade

Started work on a skull base mesh. Its a happy skull at the moment.

adam

Please show your chosen concept in the original post, just link to the image. You have to show which one you're going from. The concept you've drawn is fine, but we have to see the one you chose. It's part of the rules.

Target_Renegade

Its already there, second from the top.

Edit: Edited the first post so its more obvious what concept I'm using.

Target_Renegade

I decided to redo the terrain, not sure if it was worth it but it was good practice. Started on some concepts for the main meat of the environment.

Target_Renegade

I've blocked out where the bits and pieces are supposed to be roughly. Quite a lot of the high poly stuff is done, will hopefully have it on show by the end of the week. The final squeeze is seemingly quite hard.

Target_Renegade

I've been messing around with some lights and ish, hopefully it won't look like a giant toy when I'm finished. Its going to be a challenge for me to get the textures and overall look right. Going to bake the colours, specular and maybe bump into maps. Should have it locked down by the weekend allowing a week or so to tweek everything.

Target_Renegade

I have been progressing steadily with this.



Lots of texturing work still to do. Any crits are appreciated.

Can admin change the title to the thread please? To: Unearthly Challenge | D`evil one | Spreading Death

Thanks.

Nistrum

i have to say i LOVEd the giant skulls and bones and stuff. but i cant get feeling you have lost some of the coolness now. im not sure what it is. but the green that everything has on it really kill sit for me atm

Target_Renegade

Hi Nistrum, yeah maybe I have gone OTT with the green stuff. That was the plan from the start so maybe it wasn't a good choice on my part. Could it be the lighting as well? Its harder to notice the skulls and bones because of that.....

Target_Renegade

I've been trying to change things a bit, looking at this for too long is making me really un-objective. Crits appreciated.

Target_Renegade

Bit off more than I could chew, maybe next time eh.