Medieval Grunt Character

BigErn

Hello all. As a long time lurker, I decided that I wanted to finally join the polycount ranks. I have been working on this character in my free time for a couple of weeks. I do have some WIP screenshots around if anyone has any interest, but as you can see it`s nearly done. I might get around to a little base for him, but not decided that just yet. This is based on a random concept I must have had around for years. I will post the concept, I didnt get any permission to make it, or indeed wonder from it, but hopefully no one will mind either way. I had no real concept for the head, just based on random sculpting, ended up looking like a cross between Brian Blessed and a strange Burt Reynolds.

If anyone has crits, hints or tips, please reply! :poly122: Oh, 6945 tri`s.

Oh, many thanks to 8monkeyLabs for the engine to play with. :thumbup::thumbup:


By bigern77 at 2009-09-26

And Concept :

Martin Henriksson

awesome! Welcome to polycount!

CheeseOnToast

Great first post, I can really see the Brain Blessed influence in the face. If I had to nitpick, maybe the cross-belt or at least the buckle could have done with a bit of geometry to define it, but that's a really a very minor crit.

Have you checked out the concept art for Fable 2? Very much a similar style, if you're looking for more projects/inspiration along the same lines.

Disco Stu

Brilliant work altho i cant say that the small head fits that well in the front view.

b1ll

ahahah I like it

Zack Fowler

Love that whimsical style, great stuff.

MoP

Very cool, nice first post

whats_true

Awesome guy man! The hand textures look really blotchy and strange. Is he wearing gloves?

Mark Dygert

Loverly! That is so awesome.

mLink

Nice!
Great style

BigErn

Hey all Many thanks for all the feedback! I am happy with how it turned out, not exactly like concept but just went with what I thought would be good. I never actually intended it to look like anyone, it just went there, and only realised once I did the sculpt.

CheeseOnToast : I heard about the buckle from someone else and should have increased the detail there I agree, will check out Fable because I havent seen much about those games.

whats_true : I guess he just has strange and blotchy hands they arent gloves. Its just I guess I never gave them enough on the uv, or gave it a lot of texture loving.

Glad you guys like it, I was kinda nervous posting as there is a consistently high level here !

Shogun3d

Fantastic, love the style.

Autocon

very whimsical, love it!

eric.

That is really awesome man!
Would love to see some flats!

Welcome to polycount

P442

looks great, but his hood is massive for such a small head

DrillerKiller

nice!

Hazardous

just great man, heaps of character, that 3/4 angled shot is definately the winner for this guy! I think maybe you could have pulled the shoulders closer together - more like the really excellent shape your concept shows. Kind of small head, gradually increasing in size down to waist where the mass peaks and slimming down to his feet. Still a great piece Texture isnt too noisey either awesome

Orgoth02

Good stuff I really like the style

BigErn

Hello again, many thanks for all the nice words. I am very pleased with the feedback of course. I know I have areas to keep improving but I am very happy with the results, I know there are some things which were not exactly thought through, the cape might be bigger than his head yep! heh but I think in the comic world he would inhabit, it wouldn't be a biggie

I have whipped up a screenie with some tex sheets and a closeup of his head. Hope you like. Originally the tex I did at 1k, should have done 2k really, but er.. didnt, for some reason. I am not really that hot in the 2d dept, so my maps might look rather untidy compared with a lot I see. Loads of room for improvement anyway!


By bigern77 at 2009-09-27

OH yes, there is a sword on the map, which I ended up hiding as the pose was not right to have it on, maybe I`ll do another pose to show it also.

Isaiah Sherman

I absolutely LOVE this character! I am curious, though, why you would choose to have the spec on the face be so close to white. If you're using the Marmoset engine you could also get away with using a bit of color in your spec map on the face to make his skin tone a bit more rosy in a few areas.

Spec map question aside... I will probably be using this as reference for my own work in the near future. I love this guy. Great job

BigErn

Ah, I thank you Haiasi, I`m glad you like the character! As for spec, well I`m pretty new to Marmoset, so just working out how it all works was something I did along the way with doing this character. So I`ll take your crit as a good tip in the future

katana

wow wow wow ...with that great walking swagger...he could be retrofitted to the evil forest sheriff...a bit of black armor, an obnoxious gold emblem and a more wicked facial hair...great stuff.

Xaltar

Love the style. Great first post!

soulstice

very fun style, love it!

adam

Wire shots ?

BigErn

Ah, so wire shots. Well I went for doing them in Marmoset also, but I dont know any fancy way to do that, So just used the old trick of a UV on the texture. Its not come out toooo bad, but maybe I`ll redo in Maya at some point.


By bigern77 at 2009-09-28

Need to think about a new project.... or like you said Katana, a Sheriff sounds like a wonderful idea, I would certainly think about making some new clothes in this style for sure!

undoz

Awesome! Very cool style and the texturing looks great in marmoset.

attattattack

It would be fun to see his belly bounces when he walks,
really nice style love it!

obeyurnapster

This is a really cool character

BigErn

:thumbup::thumbup:

Thanks for all the replies. I learnt a lot of things doing this project. I was artistically in a dip and really needed something to encourage me to continue on. Looks like some one was looking over me. I had a few close friend encouraging, and glad I decided to post it.

I have to say one of the best decisions I went with was really to avoid the maya 'high quality' mode and put some time in using Marmoset ! By far the best way to view models in a very nice and surprisingly artist friendly interface! :thumbup::thumbup:

praxedes

Looks cool! Great design and well executed. I prefer my maya wires from the vector renderer, but meh- it's a wire

Inspired me to make my ext piece more stylised to add some variety to my folio- so thanks!

~P~