DWIV - 3D - Bal
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I'm done! Weee, now I can sleep again!
ORIGINAL POST :
Ok, I'm in!
Started throwing some design stuff around, will post in a bit, keeping this post clean for finals.
ORIGINAL POST :
Ok, I'm in!
Started throwing some design stuff around, will post in a bit, keeping this post clean for finals.
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Didn't want to spend too much time concepting as I'm gonna miss 17 days of the challenge (holidays in Japan, w00t!), so I'm trying to decide on something fast and get to modeling asap.
Here's the direction I think I'm going to take :
It's a war machine, so think at least 8 meters high. I want to keep it graceful and a bit mysterious, the face isn't organic, it's just some kind of mask. Various inspirations are Eldars, stuff from the Blame! manga, and I got the idea for weirdo tubular arms from the artist Carlo Arellano.
Gonna try and get some base pieces into zbrush asap to mesh out more defined shapes and find an overall style for the metallic pieces.
One of my greatest worries is colors, by default I'd tend to go towards a very desaturated dark gray-ish look with emissive lights, but I'd actually like to be able to stick some more vibrant colors in somewhere, and maybe even go with something very white and clean... Not sure yet.
Keep up the good works!
I think the arms need some sexy, but I like their simple and curved shape.
wesh
Furthermore, I'm not too keen on these hands. Perhaps if you'd have human-like hands - like the face - but only as a facade for some robotic claw? Something that, like the entire thing, looks more elegant?
Oh, and does that second thumbnail have a face : D ?
2 things quick here. maybe continue the bulk to thin that you have going on in the torso through the rest of it. and the feet seem really bulky and goofy. the whole leg tapers down to this donald duck foot. maybe they are like thin talons spread out or something, but that is just what i am reading off of this
awesome stuff man
keep going man, robot girl rulez the world!
I'll do something about the arms, I want to keep the weird tubular feeling they have though, I'll see about detailing them accordingly.
Zwebbie, not sure about the hands, I kind like the mechanical claws
richkid, yeah the feet aren't defined at all yet, obviously I'll try to go for something more subtle than donald duck feet!
I wanted to take a bit more time with the designs, but the other day I checked how many weekends I had left before may 11th, and what with stupid work and my 17 day vacation in the middle, I realised it's gonna be really tough to get everything done on time.
Here's a quick update to the design :
I've started serious work on the model, I started off by making some really simple base meshes in max, that I then mess around with in zbrush to find the overall shapes I want etc.
Once I'm satisfied with an overall form in zbrush, I reexport it into max (usually have to polycrunch it to make sure my max scene doesn't become too heavy), and do some retopology and cleaner subdivision modeling over my zbrush base.
Still have a shit-load of work to do, lots of extra details, the legs, the more tech-ish joint areas etc...
It's a really nice lady bot. Like it verry much.
Gambatte !
The face and other bits of the armor-ish bits will get some zbrush loving soon.
chest area needs work, should emphasize breast instead of putting tech ontop and pushing them to off to the side.
black little details and white smooth surfaces.
You MUST absolutely manage to finish this nice work on time.
No excuses like "Well you know, I had to fly to Japan" or
other things like that. This could really be a verry nice piece of Art.
Go go go!
like i already told you, i think she can get more threatening if her arms had bigger ends. like smashing those smooth demons and norms bodies on the ground.
I think you should also optimise your time, since you're going to japan, finishing her low in priority and then finish your high according to your time left. I know you want to add a lot more details, but it's better to show something more simple that looks finished than heavy detailed unfinished work.
-Woog
I don't know if you intend to put more details on the front of the thighs but it could be really cool to have something like you've done on the back.
Btw : [DWIV] - P1 Blocker - Feet of your robot intersecting each other
and
[DWIV] - P5 Enhancement - Little hole on the back of the knee.
F4 Love.
Keep up the good work lil' pirat ... Yarrrrrrr !
Keep it Up!
I hope the tubul-arms are flexible like tentacles
r4ptur3, yeah, thanks for pointing that out, I've definitely lost something in those areas when moving to 3D, will see what I can do.
Sephiel, yep they will be tentacular!
culpin, yeah balance might be an issue. I'm hoping the posing will help. I'm imagining it/her in continual motion, always slightly unbalanced, with the tubular arms swinging around and giving her movement credibility... Hope I'll manage that...
GoSsS, get a job you bum.
Still working hard on the high poly, still some more details to finish up, mostly around the leg areas. Also started the lowpoly for certain areas, to check how the nromals bake, and it looks ok for now, gonna be tricky fitting it all into 10k triangles and 2k textures...
Will try to post some more screenshots soon.
It makes them more stylish; don't scale the head!
So anyways, I'm heading off for 2 weeks vacation (yeah bad timing, but this was the only time I could go). Hopefully I'll have time to finish when I get back, took some extra days off work, hopefully it'll be enough.
I've been working away on everything these last few days, here are some shots to prove it.
Tried a quick bake in Xnormal to see how my head normals could look, and to see how low poly I can make my details without the normals going stupid on me cause of lack of clean edges. (This was before the face sculpt, so it's still very simple.)
Still working away more on the hipoly, and also the lowpoly for areas that are about finished, still some proportions to fix though...
Also started fleshing out some of the armor pieces in zbrush, won't go into too much detail here (not enough time) but I'd like to add some little pieces here and there, and grit and scratches maybe later on.
Don't get sick eating to much good food and come back quick
to finish your model.
Have fun in japan!
birubirubiruuuu~~
the normal bake came out pretty awesome if you ask me! how many tris are we looking at?
i'll be sad if you don't finish this!
Overall though I like!!
I know you're here.
Come back to meet us quick
You still have time to enjoy your stay but...
I told you not to spend your time in cybercafe. Growl!
So anyways, yeah I've been back from my vacation for 2 weeks now (was great
I finished up my lowpoly, was friggin hell to go under 10k, but after multiple optimisation passes, I'm at a comfortable 9950.
Did a pass on the larger pieces of my high poly in zbrush, to add some extra details that probably no one but me will notice.
And finally baked out my normal and ambient occlusion maps in Xnormal, which was stupidly long, and had my computer BEEPing like mad cause of over-heating (too much dust in my appartment...) I also placed specific colours all over my hipoly modeling, to bake out a nice base colour map, which should speed up texturing.
Eight more days to finish textures and presentation... MARGH!
but it worth waiting, for sure. Awesome work man!
Can't wait to see colours on it.
Things will probably change around quite a bit...
Rigging is proving trickier than I had anticipated, not sure how to best rig those tubul-arms.
Need more contrast
But, seen from behind the red lines
on the arms make me think of kind of scars
or fresh wounds. Don't pay attention to this;
may be just my great imagination
Hue >> Electric blue? Yeah I know you're fed up with blue.
Great work anyway. You're climbing the stairs hotfoot.
More progress, finished rigging, used some simple spline IK to move the arms around easily, rest is the usual stuff.
Made a quick pose just to show off how she moves, nothing final, have to find some better ones. Actually quite tricky to find good poses with those arms, natural reflexes of what looks good for arms doesn't always work.
Still working away on the textures... Need to make a pedestal too, not too sure what I should have it be, has to show how tall she is (around 8m tall)...
Gah, need more time!
The view of the first pic is better than the one in the second, imho.
Yeah spec map is just 2 different values at the moment, need to work on it more.
Great work man. Don't play L4D too much