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Em.

Team Nom Nom is:

Oglemeanimations

Funky Bunnies

Etoli

Concept: Loosely based off of.......



More concepts/prototypes/etc to come later this week.

Rough Concepts 9/16

rooster

HAHA I hoped someone would pick this!

Mangled Poly

cool would love to see an evil version of this!

Tumerboy

LOL Awesome! I loved this piece and really hoped someone would pick it up!

Em.

Edit! Took a while, but we've been working on stuff behind the scenes and I've updated the first post with some roughs from Etoli. More Evil Chicken Overlord goodness to come brought to you by the His Eggcellency Buk-Buk Bukaw.

Em.

OM NOM NOM....we have been workin behind the scenes on this bad boy. First off, a finalized beauty shot #1 from Etoli.


Me screwing around last night with lighting and whatnot, very WIP, normals, textures, etc. subject to change.


We have various other things in the pipeline as well, until next update...SUBMIT! The glorious reign of Buk-Buk is upon you.

Funky Bunnies

and some chicken statues, full of pride!

aesir

beyond awesome funk bunny

Basil

Thems some prideful chickens! Love the playful concept and looking forward to seeing more.

Steve Schulze

Heil Buk-buk. This is brilliant on so many levels.

Kinda wish we'd gone with something a bit more whimsical now.

petrol

Theres nothing whimsical about giant chickens of nazi doom.

NOTHING.

Peris

awesome

felixthepuerto

hahaa, I love those chickens...

misterboogie

Yes, those are some kick butt chickens! They look so regal!

adam

Greentooth egg as a Swastika ftw!

Funky Bunnies

Thanks a ton, everyone!

I had family down for a few days, but oglemeanimations has been hard at work behind the scenes and I'm back to work too with chicken-plane! Pride of buk-buk's airforce.

Here's the hi-rez with floating geo in Max, possibly doing evasive maneuvers in a gif?
Who's to say what goes through the minds of a nazi chicken-pilots of doom.



P.S.- is there any way we could get the thread title edited 4realz?

Mangled Poly

your gif hurts my head but I can not stop looking at it

b.z.b

HEY!
i knew some one wud come wid a cool concept with this image.
its crazy...like the chickens.

Em.

Egads! Second page already. Tons of stuff in progress not ready to show yet, but to tide the thread over here's a preview of the normal-mapped and textured chicken statues on a wip base.

Em.

Awww shiiiit...art dump!

First off, one more concept from Etoli with a view from above:


Some Modular WIP :



And a couple of little misc WIP shots:





Up Next...here comes Buk-Buk, trees of evil swirliness, and braziers of firey goodness, our backstory is revealed and much much more....

Kovac

Very cool silhouettes on all of these assets. My biggest gripe would be the textures feel very inconsistent still.. Some feel close to photo refs like the brick sidewalk and the chicken texture, where the wood planks seem much more fitting to the original concept. I know lighting will play a huge role, but it doesn't feel like you're quite sticking to the color palette that you originally concepted; it should be closer resembled to the brightness of the untextured chicken plane right now (which is my favorite part so far) so the colors really pop once you throw in some faked HDR goodness. Keep it up!

Em.

Definitely all handpainted, no photos will be used in this scene. I think what's throwing off the textures thus far is temp lighting schemes and the diffuse of the cobblestones is too dark atm. What has been done thus far on the diffuse textures for the buildings is the same color palette as the original and will be for sure. The temp lighting just killed it..I'll update tonight when I get home from work with some unlit stuff.

Thanks for stoppin by Kovac and thanks for the crits, I'll definitely take a closer look when I get home tonight.

Kovac

Excellent, I really look forward to seeing it. I agree with the self crits, everything just needs to feel soft and bright. Sure that counters the whole 'evil' thing, but aren't Nazi chickens evil enough??

Funky Bunnies

Thanks for the crits, Kovac. And you are quite right. Any further attempts to augment evil in our nazi chickens have to be very carefully planned as to avoid threatening our very existence.

we're putting a statue of his eggcellency Buk-Buk in the center of the cobblestone bit.
I've got him up to this point, but I'm really not too sure where to go from here to be sure that he looks like the dictator of the other chickens. I've been toying with a few ideas, but any ideas for pose, accessories, etc are certainly welcomed!

Kovac

Monocle!

http://warandgame.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/sauckendv-1.jpg

[Deleted User]

Would it be going too far to have one wing up and forward?

Em.

Moar WIP..Still a lot of temp in there, but we're workin on it.

Dakkon

Haha, cool . When I first saw that shot I assumed that the cut in chicken shape was supposed to be a shadow cast from a tiny Hitler-esc chicken giving a speech. Anyway, cool stuff guys, I like the evil yet funny take you're doing.

Funky Bunnies

Thanks Dakkon, Kaskad, and Kovac

Decided too many full-body chickens is probably bad idea.
I'm not sure if we'll end up using this because it's a little distracting, but I thought it would be cool to have a big stupid BukBuk head statue. I may add a monocle haha, but I'm afraid that might make him look too refined.



and the iron chicken for the building




I need to get on the low polys

PixelGoat

That statue head is brilliant! You MUST include it =D

calf

haha love it especially the imperial chicken
and I agree with pixelGoat

Thefirston

i really like how this one is coming along. whimsical and stylized yet still evil. i love the style your going for the buildings. it totaly fits with the theme of the concept

Em.

Quick update before bed, never enough time in a day. : /








Ah yes and just for fun, the new Team Nom Nom Mascot(my 22 year-old cat Wilma in a chicken hat).

Em.

Bump. Forgot to add the kick ass propaganda poster that Etoli made the other day. Every good leader needs an even greater propaganda factory to keep the small minded and fearful at bay. I also hope to get our story posted tonight: an 11 year old Simkinian girl and her shape shifting pet must liberate her people from servitude and certain death brought by the evil Buk-Buk Bucaw and his minions....more to come.

Funky Bunnies

I'm glad to see such strong support of Buk-Buk Bucaw from a feline of such political standing as Wilma Anne Meowmeister.
Thanks also to the other most recent supporters of Bucaw's cause: PixelGoat, calf, and Thefirston

Temp textures on this one before I hand it off to oglemeanimations

Funky Bunnies

some chicken planes in viewport

XRevan23

I love the chickens i just think your focusing too much on the characters and statues things and not enough on the environment

Em.

Thanks for stopping by man, I really hate posting without work to show, but as to not leave you hangin...
The environment itself has actually come a long way in assets, textures, and lighting since the last update. I've been busy ditching max and bringing everything into Unreal, as well as working on all sorts of new assets. Everything should be a lot more..um..environmentally friendly very soon.

I had some pretty daunting deadlines at work last week that caused me to stay up till 4 am doin work work and then over the weekend my cat Wilma, pictured above, passed away. I've been practically incapacitated since. So, I'm playing catch-up this week and I'm hoping to have something I feel comfortable with showing later in the week or this weekend. I'm just realllllyyyy glad we got an extension, thanks Fred!

Funky Bunnies

yeah, thanks XRevan

that's a totally valid concern and - as ogleme said - a huge one that we're fighting with right now. I think we've gotten on track now though, and hope we can show some progress soon to be sure

zeus

sorry to hear about your cat man, that sucks. This is looking great so far-love the humour, cant wait to see some Unreal shots!

misterboogie

Update??

Em.

So, long story short work was insane until last Thursday/Friday including one day that was 35 hours long. FB is working on the K.F.C. and I'm working on getting the lighting down and tweaking my assets, second passes on arts and whatnot. We will be finishing this one.

From UE viewport:

ae.

thats money!

Em.

Thanks man, and thanks for stoppin by! Here's another small update on the lighting, textures and temped in the chicken zeppelin. Need to do another pass on the ground and second passes on a lot of textures, lighting, etc. etc. too much to list.

Japhir

that is super cool and original. super!

ae.

very original even though this doesn't have the craziness of normals high-poly and fx of the other entries i must say its the most original and my most liked so far keep it up!

Em.

Thanks for the support guys, it's really appreciated. I'm gonna pack all this up and take it to work with me tomorrow cause I'm goin in early, bed for now. Added the proper buildings in the background and more with lighting and composition.

Em.

More texture, light and layout tweaking. Checked how much texture space we have and have a comfortable amount to finish out the scene. Funky Bunnies is working on finishing the zeppelin and I'm adding foliage bits, decorative elements/replacing temp pieces, painting clouds for the sky, decals etc. We're good to go rolling into the finish line and feeling good about where we're at. Couple of quick UE screencaps before bed.

Loren Broach

This is looking really good!

One thing I'd suggest is making your skybox more menacing. Maybe more red colors and dark thunder clouds etc. Right now it looks like it was a nice pleasant day.

Keep up the good work!

Em.

Thanks guy disguised as Nate (you can't fool us). There are clouds and stuff that still need to go in, probably in tonight/tomorrow mornings update.

Loren Broach

oh, your welcome . And this is actually Nate, I just signed into my brothers account to write this.