bad ass space marine tapir

BlackulaDZ

(alternate thread titles: tapirs of war, tapir-strike, call of duty modern tapir, tapirzone...and so on)

inspired by the splash damage april fools joke, here's a space marine style tapir.
work in progress concept

still hammering stuff out

HonkyPunch

oh gods yes

Salteh

This is awesome
Great tapir!

Sauron

Nice! may be move shoulders and head back a little?

Revel

Lol so funny! Look at the Tapir's expression, which is no expression..real KILLER!
Its gonna be cool to see a troops of Tapir Soldier at war..Looking forward to this.

Just a thought, don't you think the leg geometry is too dense at the moment? well comparing to the body and hand.

PS: your current knee pad is more likely a skater's knee pad.

_Revel

Calabi

Cant wait to see it clothed, make the gear big, heavy, top heavy.

Moosey_G

Can't wait to see more!

PeterK

I honestly cannot wait to see this finished. I am very excited about it

woogity

fantastic idea, great head base too!

BlackulaDZ

thanks for the kind words everyone!
@revel - you are right about the geometry, but zspheres always seem to give me funky geometry... also the kneepad will be changed
here's an update

the armor will be hard surface modeled but i'm sculpting it just for ideas. I also scaled the head a bit and moved back the shoulders.

bejkon

Niiiiice


Gay barbers, retarded camels and space marine tapir

I Polycount

BlackulaDZ

update, decimated model rendered with mental ray...

im thinking an smg next, or boots

ZacD

awesome work so far, can't wait to see ya start working on the details.

Snader

Looks cool, but needs a bit more to be a spacemarine. Where are the scars and angryface? Overly complex armor pieces and techy bits? RIDONKULOUS GUN?

BlackulaDZ

@Snader theyre on their way!

slowly slowly chippin away at this. he's gonna have a belt with nades on it.

DrunkShaman

Hail.......tis abaout tyime......*smoke*

achillesian

come get some

JohnnySix

Nothing says badass tapir like a big phat smoke!

Love it so far!

HonkyPunch

ahaha, brilliant. It'd be hillarious if he had a massive shotgun, and his stubby little arms couldn't reach thing to pump it.

SHEPEIRO

coming along great......moar crotch armar
+ dont think the tshirt screams space marine id swap for overly complex plated armar with glowwy bits

Muzzoid

Looking awesome !

achillesian

HonkyPunch wrote: »

ahaha, brilliant. It'd be hillarious if he had a massive shotgun, and his stubby little arms couldn't reach thing to pump it.

omfg thats half of a really good idea, i'll cover the second half

AWESOME STIRRUP ON THE BOTTOM OF PUMP SO HE CAN USE HIS FOOT TO PUMP!!

model it, or i will!

JohnnySix

Are you planning to model the Penguin NPCs?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJNTQHF77o[/ame]

Calabi

They sent him into war, he didnt have a clue what war was, but he was going to be bad arse at it.

Josh_Singh

Fantastic! I love this guy already.

BlackulaDZ

thanks for the kind words!
@honkeypunch - yep I went for a shotty. I think i might put a scope on it for no reason also.
@achillesian - ahahahahaha a stirrup, thats an awesome idea! or somekind of foot pedal....lol
@johnny6 - penguins maybe...hm...

gosh dernnit' zbrush saved this out small cuz i was at half view...

ill get a bigger view up soon, everything is basically still in concept sculpt stage except his head.

Swizzle

Don't forget the eye/cheek scar.

achillesian

hell, its about time

D R E A M N T

This is getting better and better!!!