LPC: Time 2 Die - landwhale + cptincognito

cptincognito

Starting to develop a small library refuge, going to be cptincognito on env and landwhale doing character design. Library isn't under siege yet, next order of biz will be zombie-proofing.

Rated Rrr

Looks really solid, but you can't have a ruined book depository without some of the bookcases domino-ing on each other. Excited to see where this goes.

cptincognito

Thanks Rated, definitely gonna have some tipped and busted shelves in there. Landwhale passes along some sketches for the survivor- and the un-survivors.

hawken

wow I like that Library "as is"!

cptincognito

Model for zombie base- i'm modeling, so direct any topology crit this way.

http://a.parsons.edu/~evan/l2d/zkidspin2.mov

ah_lex

That's looking great - very 50's. I like the zombie concept with the missing top half of his head

cptincognito

ah_lex wrote: »

That's looking great - very 50's. I like the zombie concept with the missing top half of his head

Thanks, I like how his buddy has a flat-top haircut, that cracked me up.

cptincognito

Good ways into the librarian, still fiddling with both of em.

butt_sahib

You have a very consistent style with everything right now and im loving it
Whats the count on the librarian?I was going to say that the librarian to be more top-heavy, but i think it looks better right now.Though i think she is just a WEE bit too flat.
More love to the hands!!

Rick Stirling

You've got some lovely shapes there.

cptincognito

@Rick, thanks! I had one eye on your thread while doing the modeling, them's some awesome meshes.

Landwhale whipped up the base zombie texture:

bounchfx

I love what you have so far, but if you don't mind me asking - why are all the books on the shelves separate polys?

ploon

Really nice characters, lots of personality and style. I was thinking the same
thing about the books, lots of polys but I guess you intend to be crafty with
the texturing and keep the repetition down? Love it all!

cptincognito

The first couple images of the library were my initial block-out. I can work pretty fast with polys to suss out proportions and rough ideas for props, without worrying about UV's and photoshop. That card catalog is 100% flatshaded cubes so, it'll drop triangles drastically once i put textures in.

cptincognito

Managed to get the zkid's polycount down to 670...

nkoste

Are you doing this as a black&white universe? You could render it out like a scratched frame of film. Even the slightly tinted greys work. Great job and really nice style.

cptincognito

Thanks- Landwhale is actually doing all the textures in color, so we'll probably play around with letting some spot color come through. Still gotta get the lighting and env textures all worked out and jiving with the chars.

Film grain'd be fun but i think a fullscreen post process like that is against the rules- but there might be a way to work a sort of uniform noise into the world textures, we'll see.

Color:

cptincognito

jeremy price

i really like the style of these characters... the facial proportions and shading are reminiscent of Maurice Sendak illustrations...the one's in 'outside over there' specifically.
http://cdn.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/7/9780060255237.jpg

cool stuff.

butt_sahib

I really want to tell you to ad "life" to the character by adding reds and yellows, but i don want to.It looks real nice and im with jeremy on this on aswell, it fits

Wendy de Boer

I think the noise on the skirt looks really unpleasant. I would take that out and just do some general shading on it, and indicate folds, seams and waistband to make it look like an actual piece of clothing. After you have all of that, you could try an overlay with a subtle pattern. It should definitely the last step, not the first.