KZ2 characters
Hi polycounters,
Here's couple characters i did for Killzone2 years ago.
All screengrabs from maya viewport.
Soft : 3dsmax 9, Maya 7.0, Photoshop CS, MAXON bodypaint 3d.
Scout: ~9000 tris, dif,nor,spec,illum 2k textures
http://img198.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=64120348.jpg
Radec : ~12000 tris. Dif+nor+spec+opacity+illum 2k textures
http://img5.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=16391629.jpg
Support trooper: 10000 tris dif+nor+spec+illum 2k textures
http://img5.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=57196794.jpg
Here's couple characters i did for Killzone2 years ago.
All screengrabs from maya viewport.
Soft : 3dsmax 9, Maya 7.0, Photoshop CS, MAXON bodypaint 3d.
Scout: ~9000 tris, dif,nor,spec,illum 2k textures
http://img198.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=64120348.jpg
Radec : ~12000 tris. Dif+nor+spec+opacity+illum 2k textures
http://img5.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=16391629.jpg
Support trooper: 10000 tris dif+nor+spec+illum 2k textures
http://img5.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=57196794.jpg
Replies
http://img4.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=95842519.jpg
The only thing that bugs me, and it probably wasn't your decision, is those large plates on the scout's hips. Whenever I think of a scout, I think of someone that can really run fast when he needs to. It feels that those plates would really be awkward to have on at all, let alone when really trying to sprint. That's just my personal opinion
Really dig these though. You should do some beauty renders of them!
Top notch work tho!
Flewda > yes its wasnt mine, all chars were done as close as possible to the concept art from production team.
[HP] > yes i agree, they could look much better in engine and in game, couse they use complex coposit shaders and lighting that gives nice look and feel. There is no shadows and no proper lighting just single light.
Great work Dodge
Don't take me wrong, just my honest opinion...
any chance you're allowed to show the wireframes? I'd love to see them.
Support trooper + templar are my fav's, great stuff man.
And yeah the maya grabs do kinda kill them a bit but they look cool ingame... also wouldn't mind seeing wires (if you're allowed to post of course)
I like how most of the designs are rather dimmed down and feels realistic. Kind of what Half-Life 2 had going for their combine soldiers too.
he looks like this in game
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2223/helghast.jpg
(giant image but shows every multiplayer character)
The High Quality rendering mode in Maya can actually show stuff pretty well, if you have decent material settings and a few lights. Using the defaults is always going to look less impressive, and I don't know why Dodgeas3d didn't spent 5-10 minutes and throw a few lights into the scene.
Since he's showing them here as screengrabs from Maya instead of the game, people are of course only going to critique what they see. That is why you should always try to present stuff as nicely as possible.
That said, I quite like these models, although I have to agree that the texturing does seem quite flat and lacking detail here and there. Fortunately the lighting and postprocessing in the game does a lot to help that.
Out of interest, were the 2048x2048 textures the final in-game resolution for these characters, or were they down-sized for in-game display?
http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/937/937149/killzone-2-20081209055117890.jpg
This was the only one I was sure made it into the game, from comparing the models here with what I found on image search.
Even this character they made major changes to, like the goggles and mask are different on the in-game version, and they did a dirt pass on the textures.
Still, solid work. Thanks for showing. It is interesting to see how the models evolved in the final game.
stimpack > maya viewport is good to get real texture feel and look without the lighting, it pretty good shows normals and specular that was needed for feedbacks.
bounchfx, Nizza_waaarg > ill add wires later and the better quality images too. have to digg them
Mathorne > thanks! yes lots of work took lowres and shillouette of the characters, rather then textures itself, seems to work well. For maya i used it to represent the real look of textures as they were main feedback material.
MoP Ninjas > yes i agree i could do better lighting and so on , i just took screengrabs that i used years ago.
I wasnt allowed to make too much dirt and stuff, since postprocessing did alot dirt and gore stuff in engine.
Anyway thanks all for crits and feedback! and sorry that i was lazy to render with proper lighting...
Anyway it was good experience and I learned alot from this.
KZ3 will be much better
Polycount gets exclusive confirmation on KZ3... yesssss!
Finally able to post those gordeous work in progress screens! nice.
I remember seeing these the first time on de internal progress forums, back in the days of beers and beta fridays at the herengracht. Looking back I do regret leaves the studio before the project was finnished. Keep up the good work! Back in the strike team right?
cheerz,
Nice stuff mate.