Viking Batman - Comicon Entry
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Feels good to finally finish some personal work! I'm not 100% happy with my original concept, but I'm happy enough with the execution. Although it's already submitted, any C&C is still more than welcome!
Some wip stuff
Thanks for looking
Some wip stuff
Thanks for looking
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Well done.
only advice is that everything is a bit to clean
The helmet is the perfect combination of the two ideas and is just about perfect.
The vest seem too stock viking. I say you make a bat sword hilt and dye some of his clothing black.
I think I see what you mean about the concept. You did a great job with the helmet, by taking elements from that time period and batmanifying them perfectly. However the rest of the outfit seems more like a generic viking. As if today's batman would just wear a kickass batman mask ... but a mere pair of blue jeans, and a white tshirt :P
I'd say (if you ever plan to go back to it in the future), try to explore all the ressources a viking could use in order the convey the bat theme.
For instance you could have parts of the costume made of real bats parts (taxidermy). I know this is a bit against the Batman code (he never really hurts a bat huh?) but you could very well take some of the leather parts of your design, and turn them into stitched bat wings. Also a good portion of the fabric and leather straps could be dyed black to give a nice stealth feel. Maybe "jungle" facepaint on his skin, shaped as a realistic silhouette of a bat. To top it off you could also give him finger armor plates matching the forearm pads, for an added sense of a batsuit.
I also wish that the little yellow ornaments on the helmet were following the design of the Adam West TV costume :P With the square on the nose!
Great job man!
i'd say its fine the way it is now. if a viking made something out of batwing leather, they'd layer it up until there was a decent thickness of leather, and tan the shit out of it.
imo, the bat brooch could get some more ornamentation, and the chainmail on the helmet is somewhat fine-masked and flat. oh yeah, and the sword.
I was a little worried about the posing you were working out over on GA, but I think your final poses are perfect now. I like how he is sort of walking away in the back shot, and how he is sort of slowly going for his sword in the front shot. Imo It's more interesting this way, than simply having the same pose in both screen shots. So again, nice job bringing it all together.
I do sort of agree that exploring more options in future projects might be something to consider. But on the same note, I think a lot of the appeal of this particular character is in its simplicity, and how everything is so well executed.
Anyways, you know I'm a fan man, and I look forward to seeing more work from you.
I have seen it.
MALicivs: Thanks, I'm not crazy about them either, should've spent more time on it.
stimpack: Thanks! It's a pretty weak pose, doesn't really work from the front, that's why I'm hiding it
Belias: I thought about that, but ran out of time. That and alpha fur drives me crazy
Kaburan: You're right, I could've done more with the sword.
FAT_CAP: Thanks! Yeah it was hard covering the face up, but as you said it's not Batman without the helmet.
PureWall: Thanks, and good point.
Sauron: I used 3ds Max with a standard shader. For the first image I used mental ray, still in 3ds max.
GugloPWN: I'm using the color pallet of the classic batman, the light grey,blue and gold, not the black from the film. Agreed about the vest being to stock batman though.
pior: Thanks for taking the time to write that up man, that's a great point you make with the jeans and t-shirt comparison. I definitely need to spend more time exploring my options, and thinking about the character's environment/resources.I wish I had some of those suggestions when I was starting out
dejawolf: Yeah I should've done more with the bat brooch, but the deadline was rearing it's ugly head. I actually wanted to go back to the chain mail and increase the size of the links, but didn't for some reason, think it was laziness.
BradMyers82: Thanks!That walking away pose is actually the drunken walk I was posting at GA, worked fine from the back haha
P442: Haha I thought about a beard, but dropped it because it would make him even less recognizable.
psychoticprankster: Thanks!
psychoticprankster: Thanks!
And maybe push the blue more in the lighting.
Pior makes some good points about trying to go a bit more "batman" with it, it does seem 90% viking and 10% batman but I don't think it really detracts too much.
I also agree with a few of the points about the textures being very clean - definitely the cloth could do with some more dirt / stains / rips etc. just to make it feel more "lived in" - right now it's as if he just washed some brand new tunics! Doesn't feel like he's ever been in a fight right now.
Oh and for some reason I keep thinking his feet seem too "long".
Still I think it's great work, a fine portfolio piece.