[FIGHTER] Street Fighter series, DHALSIM, cw

cw

Ok dhalsim it is.

In this direction, sketches to follow,

Steve Schulze

Fully sikh, mate.

Some real potential in this direction. I'll be looking forward to seeing where you take it.

cw

sikh were a true warrior creed as far as I understand, so it could mesh nicely I think. cheers!

cw

some doodle to whet the whistle

Heavyj

Wow, imagine all the cool things he could hide under that hat.

fearian

...Like a smaller, more elaborate hat!

cw

ok better start to actuall ymake something this weekend.

Jeremy Tabor

Pretty cool aesthetic you have in the concepts. Right now in the sculpt he just seems very... average, with the exception of his gigantic hat. If your going to be playing with proportions, why not do the same for his body? in your third concept, he has very skinny arms, which I think contrasts the large hat well. Dhalsim is this very distinct character, so why not have the sculpt reflect that?

I like this very much tho, and I'm looking forward to see where you go with it! I'm also attempting a Dhalsim, and so far its been good fun.

cw

Well spotted, its my basemesh just jemmied into size, I will post the weekend's progress as it, well, progresses.

Cheers!

cw

couple of overpaints, I am thinking abour the chakrams and the yoga powers, maybe I will make some kind of hovering disc motif..

cw

more noodling



Bit too buff at the moment, but I will keep him meaty for a while, see how the rest of the design goes.

Jason Young

Have you thought about bringing some red body paint into the mix? I know he's only got it on his head normally, but it might help identify him even more.

cw

yeah the paint is a good idea, deffo going to work it in. Another idea is that his fiery yoga blood is visible under the skin as well, I'll make some more overpaints this week. Glowing fiery veins could be cool

cw

more noodling, will do some more tweaking before getting stuck in further



I want to get the chakram motif in as well, I'll have to do a few iterations on that as well.

silhouette is not good also, so some changes will come to create more interest.


Thanks all for your feedback so far! I want to push it more.

Dan!

I love it- could really push the lanky/slightly emaciated look a bit more.

wester

I would say to give him more of the dangling metallic medallion pieces. It would be a great opportunity to have contrasting materials as well as not having everything be organic and soft.

Love where it's going though!

cw

I've had some great feedback from some colleagues as well. The turban thing is and has been bothering me for a while.

With dhalsim's head being so iconic it makes sense that not having that visible puts a dampener on things in terms of recognition. May go back to the drawing board a bit. Again.

cw

here's him with the hat off for a giggle.



I am trying to avoid the temptation of doing a pneumatic or cybernetic dhalsim. Needs more thought,

Norron

Seems to me that you got too close to the original Dhalsim design again. I'm thinking the doodle on the left in post #4 is a lot stronger.

cw

Heu Norron, thanks for the comment, I did that last one for a giggle, was a bit busy so didn't have much time for it the last week or so.

Anyway, starting to finish deisigning now I think, I *MUST* make the hat work, it's getting there a bit more now.

mxdirector

That is one massive hat.

good work, keep it up.

cw

thanks man, I am looking forward to getting onto the low poly soon!

cw

more noodling.

Gazington

Nice, you seem to have resolved a lot of things with this design and it looks the better for it. I like the big skulls on the necklace more than I thought I would as well. Great stuff.

cw

Thanks for the comments, have som progress to post tomorrow. Going to tweak the proportions of the limbs and refine the silhouette before low poly. Hope to get that done tomorrow. Cheers!

cw

tweak on proportions, will tweak his head size tomorrow and tidy up all the loose ends.

3dzeiro

hi man!! it is veeery interesting, bookmarked! congrats

akacg

i really like this so far i cant wait to see more progress in the head dress thing ha. and the gages are awesome

cw

getting a tad behind I think, what with all the festivity and visiting relatives!

ok so here's a small update, hat next.

Baj Singh

Missed this one, pretty cool stuff so far.

NuclearWarrior

I like the exaggeration of proportions - especially the ear lobes!

Bbox85

NuclearWarrior wrote: »

I like the exaggeration of proportions - especially the ear lobes!

What's funny is that these days, that's not even that exaggerated. I swear I see some guys that look like they're wearing a carnival game on their head. Get it through the hoop for a stuffed animal! Hehe...

Anyway, awesome stuff CW. Dhalsim is one of my favorites. Though kinda feeling the chest and rib area the way you had it in your prior post. Right now his chest looks a little to exaggerated and his ribs a little too angular. Just my opinion.

cw

Thanks guys, more updates tomorrow, possibly onto the low poly!

cw

more twiddling, c&c welcome