Technomage - Lets Take It A Step Further

Daven

So, for the pre-DWV competition I did this little piece for PC:


Well, I thought the technomage could use a redesign. I changed a number of things.
-Muscular build
-Changed from seat to leg attachments
-Ethnicity
-Armor and clothing
-Beard length


I'm working on the model now, but I'm having trouble getting the upper torso to look the way i want it to. I'll post some more progress later after i fool around in Zbrush some more. Hopefully that will help. Thanks for reading.

XenoKratios

I cried when I saw that poster art.

ru4it

more muscle yes but not the beard length imo

Purplepaint

My god.

Sean VanGorder

So.....many........obliques.........gaaaaarrrrrrrhgghghgh

Daven

yeah, looking back on that it's just way too fucking much haha. you're just jealous.

also, the print screen function doesn't work on my computer for some reason so i'll have to wait to post in-progress shots.

Rockley Bonner

AWsome, This motivated me to bust out another epic prodject!

moose

awesome wild design on the beard man. Longer beard is definitely more win! Very bayonetta

uncle

Robo familiar? ^^

XRevan23

god of war- the next generation,lol

Daven

Alright, some model progress shots. Here's a basic sculpt I've worked out. I started by plane modeling in max to get a base mesh, but at this point I think it'd be better to retopo after I'm done just to get the important details in.






Any help with paintovers or general tips would be appreciated. Thanks a lot guys.

Daven

Alright, so I took the week and did some anatomy studies for this and there's a lot that I need to fix.

Daven

Holy shit, it's back! Or, rather, I'm back!

I'm turning this into a class project now. Our 3D Scripting class basically, "here's Unreal; learn how to use it yourself and I'll grade you on it." Our teacher told us to do something that will challenge our mental knowledge of Unreal and, I gotta tell you, I'm feeling pretty mentally challenged (so much that I misspelled mentally the first time I wrote this sentence). I decided to create a custom character with a custom animset and weapon and make it all work in UDK.

I've got a little under a month to finish all of the scripting, animation, and texture work. Luckily, I've already got my character modeled, unwrapped and rigged and skinned. I've hit a few items that might give me trouble down the road:

#1
-His larger hands are his weapons. I'm planning on using orientation and rotation constraints with the smaller hands to mimic the overall function and make animation seem smoother (and hopefully cooler). I'm just wondering if I'm going to run into any problems with my animations. Will I be able to put an attack animation in for the body when the gun fires?

#2
-I'm planning on making this a 3rd person character, as in fighting over-the-shoulder. I'm not too familiar with kismet and I'm just wondering if there's any documentation on creating 3rd person views with kismet available?

Oh yeah, here's some test screens in max. Don't worry about the textures for now. Just test maps.