Murdermus the Murloc

Slowtax

Hey guys! I'm updating my portfolio so I decided to make a loveable Murloc named Murdermus! Heres the base mesh and the Zbrush I'm painting now, please hook me up with any crits you can!

Thanks
-Slow

Slowtax

Quick update!

Slowtax

Another update, I'm going to start adding weapons and armor, as well as doodads

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zakhar2

Theyre these guys

Slowtax

Thanks! Heres the Reference I'm using

Slowtax

Heres the start of the helmet, I wanted to give it a Rhino like feel, I'm going to attach it to his body using straps and what not, but let me know what youguys think.

Edit: Durrrr, The helmet it is a Ramosus shell

Slowtax

Added more spines to the shell, and added some shell charms off the front which i'll make swing around.

Wiktor

Interesting take on the murloc!
Gonna be watching this.

Steve Schulze

He's a bit more frog-like than the World of Warcraft versions. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if you want a really accurate portrayal, the WoW Murlocks have a distinctly fish like jawline - theres a distinct cartilage structure around the mouth like on a real fish, and very little flesh or muscular detail.

Slowtax

Hey thanks alot for the responses! I repainted his lips to look more fish like, let me know if i took it to far:) Thanks!

Taylor Hood

I know it's the polygonal limit of the actual in-game WoW model but I prefer the mouth shape of the original. The zbrush mouth is a bit...droopy? I can see you're going for a more realistic Murloc but perhaps changing the mouth shape would give it that better likeness to the original version.

It is a great work in progress, though. Well done. =]

Wiktor

You should add straps for his helmet if you ask me.

Also, the skull he has on his head as a helmet.. If I understand it right, his eyes look through the eye socket on one side, but on the other side it's been chipped off. Is that right?
If so, maybe you should leave some remnants of the socket to avoid any confusion, such as mine. ^^ Plus I think it'd look cooler!

Keep it up!

Slowtax

Oh I will be adding more to the helmet including straps, the helmet is a spiky shell, its got holes in it so that he can put his spines in it and see out one side:)

Slowtax

quick update, I dont wanna deck him in to much armor, im going to add another piece, a basket of skulls on his back, and his pole arm.

Slowtax

added basket and weapon

BCos

Looks great slowtax.

Love the conch shell helmet, great choice.

The pole arm is looking quite menacing as well, really nice sculpt of the spiral there. Handle could use a little more love though, maybe a seaweed wrap or something.

I feel like the mouth could be alittle more triangular too, it's kinda too rounded out currently. I'd try keeping it pointed and sinister like a barracuda or bluefish or something. its looking alittle too grouper'ish right now.

tanka

I like his head and torso, but there's something fishy (lolpun) going on with the arms and to a lesser extent the legs.. I think the hands and feet might be looking too small, WoW murlocs have pretty large hands and feet in proportion to the rest of their limb. Even if you aren't following blizzards model 100%, I still think theyre looking a little small.

Slowtax

Awesome, thanks for the tips about the hands and feet, I'll have to go back and enlarge them! I baked out my maps lastnight and started texturing, the mesh is about 9k tris.

Slowtax

hahaha

Slowtax

small update

Slowtax

still a long way to go!

nullfed

Is there something going on with the channels in your normal map? it looks like the scaly details are lit from below. Is this in MAX? what did you bake with?

Slowtax

Yeah its in max, I see what ya mean. I been staring at it all day didn't even notice! I used max to bake out the normals, got any advice on any other program Zbrush maybe?

Raider

try flipping your green channel bro

Slowtax

Hey guys, I decided to re UV layout, i thought my normals were terrible, so heres the start of the body with the new normals and new texture

Klumpmeister

threating but still cute!

jeramy79

The hands on this are too human and it really freaks me out.

Slowtax

heres an update, im playing with colors now

Slowtax

heres a pose, i'll do some better ones tomorrow and post my maps

DOG-GY

Flip the green channel on your normals

Slowtax

I did does something look out of place?

Slowtax

heres another pose, my maps and wire frame