Protoss Templar

ralusek

WIP Thread.

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Here is basic take at head shape.

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/6507/protosswip.jpg


I'm thinking Dark Templar or High Templar. Hard to envision as a melee though while it's just a floating head. Full body in the works.

iniside

I vote for High Templar. There are lot of Dark Templars around.

Nice start. I won't say anything more, because as I see everybody have it's own intepretation of how Protoss head should look.

Eltrex06

i think you could win doing either one, i'm kinda partial to Dark Templar myself, but that's just me

uncle

As for me it feels more like a skeleton than head, but I like it anyway, interesting design.

PS. i prefer high dudes, but this one is a dark one definitely

Callesw

High templar! I agree with iniside, to many DTs around

Purplepaint

Callesw wrote: »

High templar! I agree with iniside, to many DTs around

I'd normally say DT, but for the above reason id go with high

ralusek

cool. i was honestly going for DT look, but i read up on dark templar lore a bit, and took everyone's comments into account, and have decided to make this a High Templar.

I got some time to model today, and played around with head shapes, and tried to take it from a rough concept to something more concrete. The original concept (left) was more geared towards a Dark Templar, and the new one on the right is slowly shaping towards a High Templar.

Hopefully these changes came through, and I saved the original and a few others for potential concepts for others:

ralusek

(all tendril placement is just theoretical at this point and mainly placeholder)

XenoKratios

Good choice sir, LONG LIVE THE TOSS!

Skillmister

HT's are awesome, will be following this

ralusek

got a little time to sculpt this morning. working on a body, not sure how much of this will be covered with armor or what but we'll see:

uncle

He screams 'feed me'...:polytwitch:

ralusek

but he doesn't have a mouth for screaming or feeding o.o

haiddasalami

FROM THE SHADOWS I COME!

ralusek

sorry for weak update, but i'm also looking for critique. direction is kind of odd but i think i'll be able to flesh something out. kind of a zerg/dark templarish high templar

ralusek

I spent a about an hour resizing and shaping these legs alone. They have had some pretty dramatic shapes but i'm still not happy at all. I can't figure out how to make them look right. =/



I keep going between making them humanish hips and more of a separate socket like district 9ish. I think the side view is almost there, but if anyone has any suggestions about the front view, I'd like help pinpointing exactly what's funky.

something to note is that the weird detail below the chest is a pattern i plan on using again on the model, so it won't be as out of place, and the legs have absolutely no detail atm

iniside

I say this way. As for Protoss from SC is way to tall. Should have more musculature, and be more out-of-human-proportions.

here is an nice concept, that's I've been using while making my own protoss-based character (although never finished, maybe later).

Of course, if you want to make your own vision of protoss go ahead . It's still look cool, and you can keep that direction.

Legs look fine. If you are trying to make them more human it's not going to work. They are not humans afterall.

ralusek

thanks for reference iniside. ya i'm going for a bit of my own twist, but those legs definitely helped me with my legs so far. adjustments:

Clintus Maximus

Why is he SO skinny?

killericon

nice design so far, the top of its legs and hips look kind of mechanical to me some how, what have you been using to make this?

ralusek

Finally back to computer . Here is texture starting and shoulder armor

gibson543

seriously bro, go back into your subdivisions and thicken him up, he's way to thin as people have said before

ralusek

k went back to work on this guy and made him a little more 'traditional.' i was definitely lacking direction before and messing around with some weird concepts but not really sticking to anything. hopefully this looks like it's coming out better. all the armor is very WIP of course

ralusek

ralusek

was able to work on this a little, got some more texturing and a little reimagining of proportion and detail