DWIV - 3D - Bilbana
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So it`s time for domwar again and I`ve decided against better judgement to enter this year as well. Been scribbling away on this demon lord guy for a couple of days now, just been too lazy to post anything. Finding it hard to find more than a couple of hours here and there to work on him with work and the curse called having a life but I`ll give it my best shot.
I had a pretty clear idea this time around that I wanted to make a big black demon lord who has consumed the power of the tree of death. Walking the lands throwing up black death-mucus-tar being an ecological nightmare and sucking the life out of his opponents with black-death-roots bursting out from his spine and lims deforming the demon itself in it`s lust for life to devour. You see, the power of the death tree is too powerful of a force and will eventually consume the host but hey that is the downside of being a walking plague. Without further ado, here it is
THE DEATH TREE DEMON!!!.........
I had a pretty clear idea this time around that I wanted to make a big black demon lord who has consumed the power of the tree of death. Walking the lands throwing up black death-mucus-tar being an ecological nightmare and sucking the life out of his opponents with black-death-roots bursting out from his spine and lims deforming the demon itself in it`s lust for life to devour. You see, the power of the death tree is too powerful of a force and will eventually consume the host but hey that is the downside of being a walking plague. Without further ado, here it is
THE DEATH TREE DEMON!!!.........
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I really dig this, keep it up!
i love it!!!!
-Woog
i love the tar dripping out of the eyes, so freaky
i love it, no crit
Good luck modeling the dude!
About the armour. I plan on having one side bare and one side with armour.
The side with armour will however be more torn apart and have more roots clinging to it than whats on the sketch, and oozing black tar pouring out of cracks and so on.
Richkid and Rasmus, about the fingers, you`re right. I`ll bring the roots together to resemble some kind of fingers. Might even have one hand partly visible.
Here are some progress shots. Nothing final and a bit hard to see the details maybe.
I`ve been setting up all the proportions and builing base meshes and stuff to make sure everything works.
Should make for faster progress later on. Found a ok way of doing the roots so thats what I`m doing now.
It`s really hard time to find enough time to work on this thing though.Not sure I`ll make it this year but I`ll try.
Looking hot.
Gav
cheekbones are defined, just hidden by craptastic tar modeling so more tearlike tar, goat-like eye placement, less noisy details and lip curl on its way!
all of those were things that was bothering me although I didn`t see i clearly until you guys pointed it out.
thanks!
Very WIP obviously, some kind of paintover to come with paintscheme and details I need to add etc.
Need a name for this beast if I`m going to sign up on the domwar page. Any suggestions?
you can get the images up on imageshack.us
meat - The roots are made by exporting a lo-version into max and then with snap to face on just clicking away on top of the model with splines.
Them splines are cool because you can have them render with custom thickness in the viewport which you can later export to obj. They also come with automatic uv mapping which you can use in zbrush to displace rough bark geometry to use as a start when detailing.
All the hanging roots are created on flat planes to make for easy extraction to alpha planes, in theory anyway...
kendo - I don`t envy myself either. will check out imageshack thanks.
I think I`ll need to get started on the lowpoly this week so we`ll see how that goes.
I don`t about anyone else but I`m stressed to hell about this deadline. It`s only 3 weeks left and still lowpoly, baking, texturing, posing, podium, lighting, rendering and presentation left!!!!
Am I the only one here pissing my pants right now?
Anyway here is a color scheme. Still have no idea about what to do for the smiling greenie. A flag attached to the horns perhaps could work, need to make a sketch. And name! Anyone have any ideas?
I like all these roots interlaced.
That may be my Celtic heart talking though
So he`s got a name now, registered and all.
Ma'lum
By devouring the entire tree in his lust for knowledge the prince who`s real name is since forgotten became a vessel for evil itself.....yup, there it is..
rasmus - Thanks, Don`t worry about the roots, it`s hard to see from the angle but they are splayed out into 3 directions like fingers. It was just easier to model them this way. When I pose him I will have the hand of the armored side on the ground, roots splaying out in a wider arc.
About the belly, I think it just gets too busy and hard to differentiate the arms from his body if I cover it in roots. However you are right about that it needs something. I will have sick looking skin color like on his neck, not sure if that will be enough though.
An amulet is a good idea.
Podium? I`m happy if I get to a point where I have this guy textured, but thanks for reminding me...and a swampy mound lit by moonlight sounds just about right. Not sure about the scale of this guy yet, I`m thinking around 8m. Human reaches to about his knee. Need something on the podium to emphasize his scale.
loving it! the roots are amazing!
-Woog
Malum is baked, skinned, WIP posed, WIP textured, has a WIP podium and is a Wery Incomplete Person right now so I don`t have anything that cool to show you just yet. In the meantime here are some baked screens from max with the very nice Xoliulshader. Complete with mip map smeg and alpha-sorting artifacts. And HEY! an extension!! who would have guessed?...I would probably have made it in time anyway but now I don`t have to be all stressed out this weekend...now that will happen next week instead.
It is very impressive. So many details!
Congratulations. That's really a great piece.
-Woog
good luck!