District 9 Prawn

OpethRockr55

I've been hanging around for a little bit and finally think I've got something decent enough to post, and yes, I realize there is similar thread around.

This here's the near-finished high poly, with the bigger hands left to be detailed and maybe a little better refinement on his ass. After those tweaks, I'll retopo in ZBrush.



Base I made in Max:



Please, comments, critiques, and questions are more than welcome.

Swizzle

MOAR MOUF TENTACLEZ!!

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OpethRockr55

Swizzle wrote: »

MOAR MOUF TENTACLEZ!!

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I was just going to overlay the main tentacle's UV's for those, so I left them off.

mikezoo

With such an awesome movie, it was with out a doubt that we were going to be seeing alot of fan art on the forums.:)

I really dig your prawn. Its coming along nicely. For shits and giggles i think you should include the extra tentacles in the high-res mesh. I understand why you dident, but as you push your high res model it nice to have the complete model for us chew on.

Great start. Keep pushing it.

Taylor Hood

Uh hu I agree with mike!
Theres already been two prawns, I think. And 1 gun from D9.

Keep it rocking.

OpethRockr55

Finished retopology today. Clocks in at 14,248 tris:

Swizzle

Sheckshay. I take it you're going to do some optimization later on?

ZacD

That prawn looks mighty attractive.

vcool

We need to combine everyone's D9 based work into one glorious HL2 mod.

ZacD

vcool wrote: »

We need to combine everyone's D9 based work into one glorious HL2 mod.

I second, we got a gun and a prawn! I feel like I should help...

Ninjas

Nice work! Cool to see you posting around here

achillesian

fookin prawn

c0ldhands

fooking prawn man (just had to type it myself). But nice prawn dude nevertheless, and about that mod, you should play as a prawn making your way out of MNU, shootin MNU soldiers. Not the other way arround...prawns are to adorable to shoot.

Ps: is there much to ask for more shots of the highpoly, with a diffrent shader this time?

OpethRockr55

c0ldhands wrote: »

Ps: is there much to ask for more shots of the highpoly, with a diffrent shader this time?

Sorry, that one was pretty shitty. Updated the OP.

Sauron

Nice job! But you really need to make those hands more agressive look!

Harry

the amount of detail in the back specially, in the low poly, is like ridiculous, you could make it more or less flat and leave it to the normal map, the actual geo detail would barely even be discernable at any normal viewing distance.

frostymoose

Less body polys, more polys in the face!! FAce is exceptionally low-detail compared to the rest of your model, but it should be more dense.

konstruct

Really nice work. I`d be cool to do some clothes variants. wasnt one of the prawns wearing a dress at some point? the low poly is fantastic!

ZacD wrote: »

I second, we got a gun and a prawn! I feel like I should help...

would be really fun- doing the mech would be really awesome!, for anyone interested, this is the blog of one of the concept artists. Not much has been released, but he talks about when, and where it will be-

http://gregbroadmore.blogspot.com/

achmedthesnake

NEXT MINI COMP : district 9....

onionhead_o

holy smokes, that looks so close to the original. ur low poly looks very awesome too.

Gallows

Blomkamp himself would be proud. The difference between the base and the finished is astounding. Is there perhaps a chance you made a timelapse of making it? Or nah.

odium

Awesome model, thanks mate. Now I get to spend Christmas day talking like a South African again... This is goin tu go down well at de christmus table rigth bru? Fook...

feanix

Jy dink jy's so snaaks, ek sal jou bledy bliksem!

Cody

Great work. Can't wait to see the texture work on this one.

A-Train

Great work man!

albino_goldfish

that base mad in max made me chuckle, but I love this so far, cant wait to see that texture job

Archanex

Great work man! I'd love to see your side by side comparison of the re-toppoed model with and without the normal map... it seems like they'd be pretty close to the same no?

BUSYROBOT

Your prawn looks really cool. Can't wait to seem him textured.

OpethRockr55

Whoa. Totally wasn't expecting this thread to come up again. Guess some people got the DVD/Blu-Ray for Christmas.

Gallows wrote: »

Blomkamp himself would be proud. The difference between the base and the finished is astounding. Is there perhaps a chance you made a timelapse of making it? Or nah.

Unless you'd want a video full of mistakes, redos, and botched approaches that's at least a day in length, I'd think that'd be a terrible idea. I'm the world's slowest sculptor.

albino_goldfish wrote: »

that base mad in max made me chuckle, but I love this so far, cant wait to see that texture job

Yeah, bases have never been my strong point. I get something I can get basic proportions and details with, then retopo later.

Archanex wrote: »

Great work man! I'd love to see your side by side comparison of the re-toppoed model with and without the normal map... it seems like they'd be pretty close to the same no?

Unfortunately, yes. The retopo should've stayed just that: a retopo. I should have never used the retopo for a low-poly. It's horribly unoptimized and gave me nothing but terrible bakes.

I dunno. I called this done, but I think I might have to pick this up again and create a decent low-poly. Texturing's far from my strong point, though. I'll have to talk myself into that. :S