Norse God

MrD

Hey all,

my first message in a long time and my first model in 3,5 years. It´s going to be a norse God based upon a nice concept by MitGas. It intentionally has comic superhero- comic proportions (always difficut for me) as the fictional game would use the same style.
I plan to use it for an Nintendo Wii art test (main player char) so that means 4000 tris max for the final model plus one 512 texture. The model is to be ready for facial animationn.

To my regret I do not have much time available for modelling currently so I won´t be able to progress as fast as I would like. So far I invested roughly 5-6 hours (a rainy sunday afternoon ;-) )

After adding the armor the plan is to rig, texture and pose him. Will post updates asap.

cheers

roosterMAP

Norse gods are BADASS!

but somone should make Gaul gods.

MrD

little update

the colored things will be a belt plus a pelt on the back

Next comes the weapon and then unwrap the sucker

butt_sahib

Giving my the amount of polys you have in the boots anf gloves, is say add some loops in the face esp the eyelids
looks like this would be fun painting

Sukotto

I know you say you need a max of 4000 tris for the Wii but as a Norse god, his beard is nowhere near EPIC enough

MrD

update:



I set myself a limit of one roughly one work day for the model (approx. 10 hours) and another 2,5 for unwrapping. Like I said it´s the first time in three years so I´m S L O W. Anyways...It stands at 3215 tris and is fully uvw mapped.

Why only 3200 insetad of 4000? Well, Facial animation beyond basic mimic is not needed for this test and I guess I would add another 300 tris if it was to be optimised for real facial animation. Also this guy would get "updates" in the game - more armor and additional weapons - worth another 500 tris.

Next comes rigging and texturing ;-)

@butt_sahib: you are probably right...it could be further optimized but I tried to keep the workflow smooth and fast with simply doing what i see and calling it quits before I become overly obsessed. Like it was a job ;-)

@sukotto:
I had very nice concept to start with and stayed true to that. Also there is the idea of having other gods with huge beards and each character needs its individual style. I was happy I got a badass hammer.

MrD

update:

started texturing...and found several problems with the uvw map
so back to unwrappping again

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achillesian

pretty nice so far imo

MrD

small update
arms, face, pelts just placeholders atm

MrD

Ok, I am done with most of the texture except for the flesh parts and the hair. There are quite a lot of places where the texture work needs some more love however this model will be used for a Nintendo Wii art test. I hope in 640x480 from some distance away the mistakes won´t be seen

oh this is also why I post small renders...trying to think in tv resolution.

MrD

Phew, I think I´m done. Next I need to make a background for him plus one or two enemies.

D4V1DC

Hi nice work.
You should have made some sort of stitching pattern to the boots as they just seem like pasted on quickly reference material, the seam at the back of the boots is also very noticeable.

You should also probably touch up the back of the head seam.

Otherwise this came out, nice!

n88tr

second the boot stitching

nice big hammer... very bossy