[FIGHTER] Gundam: Battle Assault 2 - GOD GUNDAM - MasteroftheFork

MasteroftheFork

OK so what I want to do is reinterpret the God Gundam as a Medieval Knight. I'll draw up some concepts soon.

Daven

oh shit, a gundam finally steps in to the ring! make us proud

R3D

maybe check out some stuff from Escaflowne

Firebert

just to wet your appetite.
http://www.gakgyuchoi.com/gundam.htm

Purplepaint

I was waiting for this!

@Ryswick : i'm not sure if escaflowne had a fighter style game.

MasteroftheFork

I've been playing dragon age, so theres some inspiration comeing from there.

suburbbum: Heh ya I noticed i didn't see any other gundams, and I wasn't feeling too inspired by other fighter characters.

Ryswick: Thats a good idea, they do look medievalish, in a different way than I intended, but still worth a look for some ideas.

Firebert: Oh wow that is awesome!

Purplepaint: I think he means for ideas of how to reinterpret gundam.

Ok so heres a drawing I made today to get my general idea across. I'm going to go more indepth before I start modeling though.

MasteroftheFork

I wanted to make him look a bit more recognizable, especially in the head. I'm not sure if I want a leather mask or not. Also I'm not sure on what to do with the back wing things. I can't think of anything that would be able to spread out and also fould back in. Maybe I will make him more magical (God Gundam does get glowy hands) and make the wings into a type of cape?

MasteroftheFork

I'm liking the middle head with a partial mask the most. I'm going to rethink the ornimental part at the top to look a bit more like something that existed, going to try and find some examples.

I made a base scuplt to start armoring.

MasteroftheFork

got the helmet mostly finished, I'm going to bring it into mudbux and grunge it up later.

MasteroftheFork

I worked on a more defiend concept.

MasteroftheFork

Got to work on the chest piece

MasteroftheFork

The armor is almost finished. I just have the back, gloves and boots to do. Then back to mudbox.

MasteroftheFork

some more

Chandler

If only real medieval knights had this kind of equipment, I'd be a lot more interested in history. I hope you're gonna dirty this guy up some... I know the gundam ref is super clean, but any good knight is bound to have some battle damage.

Bwample1

I am digging all the gear but the top gold part of the helmet the middle of it is too soft and should be more hard and detailed.

just a thought

MasteroftheFork

Chandler: I'm definitely going to add soem grunge and battle scars. Once I'm finished making all the pices I'll bring it over to mudbox and add some finer detail.

Bwample1: Thanks for the reference. I was planning to add more detail to it, but I like those leaf prints, I might try to incorperate that into it as well. I agree that it can be larger also.

d1ver

Great idea, solid progress. Keep it uuuuup!

MasteroftheFork

d1ver: thanks

OK the armor is just about finsihed, just have the sword and scarbard to do. then off to mudbox!

Klumpmeister

Very damn impressive!

Dan!

dude- at first I didn't really like the idea- now you've really got something going here- keeep up the good work!

acc

Sexy.

MasteroftheFork

Klumpmeister, Dan!, Acc, Super Happy Cow: thanks!

OK I started banging it up in mudbox. I still gotta convert the underbody into a mostly cloth and a bit of leather.




Ps. How do I add the link to this thread in my signiture? I'm not sure how to do it without just posting the ugly url.

MasteroftheFork

Did some work on the face.

Shinrahunter

Awesome work on this armor, when I first read the concept I was like, hmm maybe, bu after seeing all the armor shots I'm sold - this looks really good.

MasteroftheFork

Shinrahunter: thanks

OK I made the under cloth. Almost done on the high poly.



EDIT: I just noticed some how the plate on the chest piece andthe strap on the shouldr pad got ballooned...ignore that for now...

MasteroftheFork

Ok I think the high poly is finished, now to start the low poly. Man time is running short...

MasteroftheFork

Running very low on time :[ I'm gonna have to rush a bit. The low poly is just about finished. I have about 1000 tris left so if theres any places you think need some more, please tell. I hope the bake goes easy...

MasteroftheFork

OK I have the normal and AO bakes done. Now just the diffuse, specular, alpha, rigging, posing and presentation left....in 5 hours :[