[FIGHTER] Mortal Kombat, "Jax" Briggs, TheRedFish

TheRedFish

My plan is to re-imagine Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs from Mortal Kombat, but as a Roman gladiator with metal armored arms instead of mechanical arms.

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TheRedFish

akacg

Sounds like a plan and a good idea. Im really interested in seeing how u are gonna make that arm with the metal and such

TheRedFish

thanks akacg.. here are some quick proxys first from zbrush and the other still a wip 3dsmax proxy.

Vegas

Looking good so far mate. Love the idea and can't wait to see more progress. One thing that sticks out for me though, is the hands. I think they need to be larger. Keep up the good work.

The_Onomatopoeia

looking cool im liking were this is going it would be awesome if you could incorporate the whole missing limb story to it somehow. maybe something like this. http://kanhom.com/category/history/page/2/ give him a little more personality maybe.

TheRedFish

Thanks guys, hmm The_Onomatopoeia, thats an interesting idea.. but it might be hard to pull off a convincing roman version of a full mechanical arm.. maybe metal from the elbow on.. freeze the hands as fists with swords?

The_Onomatopoeia

yeah thats what i was thinking not a full metal arm but just the elbow down kinda like Gutts from "Berserk" metal arm that was magnetic to grab his sword.

TheRedFish

a quick paintover of what I am thinking for the final armor design

TheRedFish

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TheRedFish

posting a quick update and conceptual overhaul.. I might abandon this idea.. not sure, anyways here is an update

The_Onomatopoeia

i liked the armor in your previous paintover a little better and maybe the prosthetic could be confined to 1 arm maybe to make the silhouette more interesting? maybe have the other hand in a gauntlet of sorts. either way its still looking sweet and doing this help a lot with reading it as still being jax, ive noticed a lot peoples redesigns are hard to read as the characters they are going after.

TheRedFish

well kind of a last gasb.. but I think I am going to see this model to the end, despite the terrible idea

TheRedFish

another update.. trying to keep messing with proportions, maybe it will lead to something

TheRedFish

one more update.. I am still trying to decide whether or not to chop his arms and give him metal fists

Dan!

I thought I had commented on this earlier but i guess not. The newest iteration is very nice!- love the shoulder piece- keep up the good work!

ZombieWells

I see what your trying to do in making the arms bigger than the rest of the body, (the legs really) but is seems a bit out of touch with actual proportions, too short/squat. Also, he needs more lats, http://www.muscleweights.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/back-muscles.jpg. All the muscles need to be more refined, (right now they look like marshmallows... think stay puff). It would also be nice to know if this is what the final silhouette is going to look like.

The_Onomatopoeia

awesome looking! i think the prosthetic arm(s) really would help sell it as jax otherwise its just some cool looking but generic gladiator.

Erigo

GOW like Jax ! Sounds like very cool char, dude !