Getting my shit together

ivars

Gonna try to finish some old abandoned pieces and get my portfolio back up...

I'll try to do something out of my old wip DW entry....



and my even older, rushed, DW entry :P



then I'd like to do some work on this character I never finished...



And last bu not least I really should finish this first before I do anything else ^^



I always seem to get distracted by more urgent things, like work, and therefore abandon things, but maybe with a little help I could actually finish something :P

daphz

I tend to do the same thing, abandon old stuff then start new stuff, then abandon more stuff...
I hope you finish that latest character though, he's looking really nice.

Apophis3d

yup same here I have an island of misfit models

ivars

daphz: Thanks for the support. Really liking you stuff by the way!

Did the most retarded thing just now! Was working on the texture for the DW-demon, when I accidentally collapsed all layers, saved and closed the PSD !!!

Aah, the stupidity! Never bothered creating a macro that saves to a separate file, like I usually do and then I messed up
Here's what I've got though, but will have to work on top of it now....

JGcount

You coud say your PS incident was a bloody shame > <

chrisradsby

nice work so far, I would really love to see that cloth get some love Maybe some slightly more colors in his skin, at certain areas.

Crash

ivars: done that a bunch of times... sucks. anyways. good stuff!

Thriller Theater

Yeah really cool the last character. Not that the other stuff would be bad either. Reminds me of the monsters of Miyazaki´s movies. Keep at it! Wanna see it finished.

ivars

I never seem to get the time to actually finish these, but I did get some work done today. Rigged the body of the demon, still gotta rig the cloth and chains before posing him. Then I'll finish the textures.

ivars

Done enough rigging to be able to pose him and maybe do some simple animations

lloyd

are the bones for the arrows to keep there position relative to each other when he moves or to be able to animate them too?



also i too wish PS had some type of autosave/back feature

ivars

Yeah, the bones are only for keeping the arrows in place when the shoulder deforms.

Made some progress on the pedestal, nothing fancy, don't wanna spend too much time on it.

ivars

Working on the pose before finishing the textures.

Mike Yevin

looking awesome ivars, really loving this character :thumbup:

ivars

Thanks.

Think I'm getting close to being finished with this one.
Here's a little turn around. Make sure you check the HD version.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfoWKCNKEz8[/ame]

ivars

And here is a screenshot from Maya

tda

I love the little idle animation, kicks it up a notch

HandSandwich

That guy turned out really awesome, ivars! I dig the beefiness of it, especially on the bow and arrows.

Jungsik

nicely done man~ im loving it, cant wait how the others are gonna turn out

n88tr

i would think the chains would pull more of the stomach down, distend it a bit more

Swizzle

This demon guy is looking really good, but he also looks kind of naked and lacking in detail. I think just adding some variation to the diffuse and spec could go a long way.

Here's an example of what you could do to add some color variation:



Also consider giving him a bit of hair on his chest and arms. That will help break up those large areas of solid color with some small, interesting details. Stuff like scars could help as well.

sltrOlsson

I love the presentation and concept of the guy, but i'm with swizzle. It needs something to really pop. The skin is kinda dull right now tbh. Would be cool with some big colored vein and nasty pus and shit.

ivars

Thanks guys! Glad you like it.

n88tr: I agree with you but I'll see if it can be fixed, but it might be too much to redo....

Swizzle: Thank you! Great paintover! I agree with you. I'll try to get some more variation and details in there. I also see you lightened the left shot, which is nice. I see there's a problem with my lighting with the character off-center in the turntable that makes him dark and dull when he's facing forward.

sltrOlsson: Thanks. Good ideas. I don't think I'll be adding shit though....

sltrOlsson

This won't be NOTHING without shit

ivars

Ok! Calling this done. Thanks for the help guys. Still tons of things I could fix, but can't stand the sight of it anymore. And the whole idea is to get a few finished pieces, so I'm calling it ^^

Here's two screen grabs from Maya viewport.

9216 Tris
2048*2048 Textures - diffuse, normal, specular (with reflectivity in alpha)

And here's a turntable with higher quality: http://www.igorbazooka.com/3d/DemonSpin_Half_Comp.avi







Now on to the next one!