BANELING

ENODMI · May 2011

UPDATE:

OLDER:
Messed around with this for the last three days. The lowpoly is garbage, but I mostly just wanted to make a baneling of my own!:) I deviated a bit from the concepts out there, giving it a subtle take of my own. Not a serious piece, but crits and comment are welcome.

High Poly

nordahl154 · May 2011

What's not to be serious about? This little thing is amazing!

MoreDread · May 2011

you spoiled brat =P

looks awesome!

Darkmaster · May 2011

I love it! The only thing that I am seeing is that the specular effect seems to be very evenly spread across the model. I would make the green sacs on his back even more specular so that they come across more slimey. Maybe it is just the lighting setup for these renders, but I'm just not seeing much variation in the specular versus non specular areas. Once that is addressed I think that it will make this an even better looking piece! Great work here.

polozad · May 2011

QUICK, KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!111

Awesome, but it needs a bit more specular.

paulsvoboda · May 2011

Love it. Interesting shapes and contrast in hard/soft forms. I'd say the texture-rez on the green part looks a bit blurry in the renders but that could be addressed in adding some more contrast in the specular. It'd be nice to get a more translucent effect where the skin is being stretched.

Awesome job!

Del · May 2011

~ Real nice, buddy.

As for the polycount, just crank up the focal view and say its supposed to be a boss battle that fills the screen! lol

Seriously man nice stuff

Wahlgren · May 2011

It's a real solid model, stellar stuff but man, I gotta go there. The specular and lighting is totally killing it right now.

Give him a little creep/rock-pedestal base and pose him standing on it and give him some proper lighting and you got one hell of an incredibly awesome piece for the portfolio. Don't give up! Do the last 5% to really make it shine!

Shogun3d · May 2011

Im with Wahlgren on this, definitely looking good but can use that polish. You rendering your textures with the alphas or something?

Dan! · May 2011

i think your emissive map could have a bit more contrast right now(IMO just radial gradients on the nodules would work) Currently, I think the sack is a bit blown out.

ENODMI · May 2011

Thanks guys, I agree completely. Started tweaking the spec and gloss and also better lights...it already heading in a better direction.

Wahlgren, Ill build him a base tomorrow:)

Wahlgren · May 2011

Big improvement right there man. I'm excited about the base.

BadgerBaiter · May 2011

Evil little bugger you have got there

JGcount · May 2011

For some reason I am not buying the green stuff on the back. I believe that the bumps comming out are meant as "acid bubbles" yet the way they the skin is stretching between the bubbles looks odd if the bubbles are in fact bubbles, and not some inner limb pressing out on the skin.

Did that make ANY sense?

letronrael · May 2011

yes it does make sens JGcount, i agree. But again, this is very touchy.

ENODMI · May 2011

Thanks guys, ill keep pushing it until I get there:)
update:

Dan! · May 2011

nice job!- just throwing this out there but, I think it would be sooo cool if you panned and distorted the normals to make the sack pulsate or wiggle in real time. But i guess a pedestal would be cool as well...

Wombatinahat · May 2011

This looks great. you gotta love banelings! Would look sweet on a pedestal next to a pool of acid from a recently exploded collegue and a rapidly dissolving marine!

ENODMI · May 2011

decided i wanted to make a desktop of this, so i started comping it together. Ill be using a combination of realtime and ps for the final image. Im seeing bullets flying, smoke and fire on the horizon, and some silhouettes of other units in the sky...some mutas and maybe some broods:)

LRoy · May 2011

man i hate those guys. the mouth looks awesome. really gross looking.

ENODMI · May 2011

I have my desktop, which is uber dorky...now ill go work on the pedestal:\

gateian · May 2011

I feel repulsed looking at this! That's great. Super job

Wombatinahat · May 2011

Oh yeah! you got them rolling too

nice work

dogzer · May 2011

Hey! So, the low poly, how did you make it look so awesome? My stuff looks really bad when I do the retopo, etc. Any tips?

Slum · May 2011

So cool! I love the grin

Thor Sowards · May 2011

Hahaha these things are super cool, I'd love to see em in a diorama!

Ivory · May 2011

These are creepy...just the idea right? Nice job.

stumania · May 2011

Sick nasty bro, solid work...I foresee killing ample amounts of these buggers in the very near future!

ENODMI · May 2011

Dogzer - by making it not so lowpoly:) I actually need to clean up the lowpoly before i can call it such, right now its sitting way to high. What kind of problems are you having exactly, I may be able to help...maybe:)

got some creep in it now...

Wahlgren · May 2011

I'm gonna fuck that wallpaper.

EDIT: I was personally hoping for a bit chunkier creep but eh! Me gusta!

nordahl154 · May 2011

Saw the wallpaper on Reddit. Good job!

disanski · May 2011

Great work here

Muttt · May 2011

This looks awesome! Motion blur looks nice and I really like the color palette. Great job.

barri allen · May 2011

Great work and interestin concept.
Only, try to composite it better. The first images looks like cuts on a dull background, and the last ones, though somehow improved, are confusing to the eye.
Don't spoil your really good work with a hasty presentation.

sampson · May 2011

the rocks are low-res (noisy) and distract me form the baneling glory

JordanW · May 2011

Hey, saw this on /r/Starcraft

The composition could be much better if you had them moving towards the camera like they're taking over the viewer's position. So instead of you being a bystander watching them move laterally through the scene they would be charging/rolling at you.

ENODMI · May 2011

Thanks guys, I did this just for fun so Im not to worried about the issues it has at this point. Im actually working on a presentation pedestal with higher quality in mind, and should have a new posting in a day or two:)

ENODMI · May 2011

Noxx · May 2011

Great work!

ENODMI · May 2011

Thanks Noxx:)

Well it all went to crap... Im abandoning it! Going to rebuild this base at some point...looks terrible:(

Uly · May 2011

the work you've got in the base is fine man, you just need to mesh it together and make the rock a little more grounded in the creep. (and get rid of the grass blade, cause that's probably the last thing you'd ever see on creep. :])

good work!