another baneling

nbac

as a longtime polycount observer, i finally want to show something of my on.
i´m a starcraft fan since the beginning. truly inspired by enodmis thread i decided to do my own rendition of a baneling. i want it to look a bit like a crab and a bug.

here we go ...

references




my firtst draft



sculpting progress



at the moment i retopologize this guy and doing some uv mapping

Zpanzer

Looking good! The only few things I can point are:

1. Your model might a too high distance from the belly to the ground, the blizzard concept and models suggest it's much more close to the surface.
2. Your green sac could use some more pronounced features and a more "bubbly" surface like the concept art, this would help you get a red thread through the entire model since you have the 6 small bubbly sacs on the front.
3. This is just a personal preference, but I think the leg joints are way to curvy at the moment, I think it would look great if you gave it some hard transistions and armored parts like the front of your leg has.

SsSandu_C

Hey! I really like the way u combined the design elements from the other units. Zpanzer pointed out some good things. I'll check back to see how it turns out. Good stuff!

Danger_Sideburns

Your pictures make me feel all itchy. Other than that, really good stuff!

nbac

hey thanks,
you are definitely right zpanzer. i should have posted the concept earlier. so late in the process it is hard to change the design. what do you think about the quick design change anyway - its more oriented to the original design.
i hope to achive the "bubbly" look via shader/textur



and this is the lowpoly version (i still have to optimize the mesh) baked normalmaps and ambientocclusion ... rendered in marmoset

SsSandu_C

It's looking good. In the first pic the first model is more close to the original but personally I like your design over that one, mainly because yours has a more aggressive stance, looks more menacing. In the second pic i thought that the ao was really dark but from the third one i realized that it is not so. I like the bake. I might give it a shot and create one. hehe Anyway looking forward to seeing how u handle the diffuse and the spec and gloss. See ya later!

wizo

Looking really good! Nice bake!

uncle

Me says proceed to texturing.

nbac

my texturing skills are - ehmmm moderate :P any suggestions?

tristamus

Hey man, nice stuff there. nah your texturing skills are fine!

Only things I'd consider touching up, is the very solid green butt portion and giving some more variation to the Brownish red exoskeleton / skin portions. However, even that is stretching, cause the texture is really great anyways.

JGcount

the spine and the frontal claws work especially well as a whole. Other than that, what tristamus said.

nbac

i think i figured out whats bothering me the most - quick ps overpaint

nbac

little update - a little more agressive look!
what do you think

LRoy

This is incredibly sexy.

Whats the polycount? That mouth looks heavy.

nbac

11k triangles for the hole mesh not including the teeth - there is a lot of potential left to optimize the mesh ... the redesign of the teeth isnt lowpoly yet... i have to bake the normalmap an alpha for those...

CaSToRx7

that definitely looks more agressive, good stuff!

mrturtlepaste

This is looking really nice. The more saturated colors when you first started texturing were great it made him look very aggressive. Maybe an in-between with the saturation you originally had and the colors your are going for now could look good? Really nice sculpt and bake btw, looking forward to seeing more.

some food for thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning_colouration

ENODMI

Ooooh, this is looking nice! Much more menacing than mine...but I made mine for cuddling:) Im thinking you could get some more variation in the exoskeleton texture. Visually it feel like it needs some wear towards the ends of the legs, maybe something to pop out those bump like details on the ridges of the legs. I think its a really cool detail thats getting a bit lost. Baneling!

P442

mmmmmm. Delicious!

nbac

finally baked out the teeth... not quit satisfied with the result ...
changing the cameras fov is changing the feeling of the weight a lot
there is still a lot to do but i think i am calling it final...
a little posing and a beauty shot to do ...

re.wind

Very, very, impressive.

I'm not particularly fond of the side mandible things, including the large upward thrusting tusts.

disanski

damn this is hot I would love to see he flats and how did you handle the teeth?

nbac

@disanski for the inner teeth i used a "plane" with alpha, the outer ones are fairly simple geometrie. i think i could use twosided planes instead. what do you mean with flats? (sorry my english ...)

@all thanks for the feedback

i think those "side mandible things" could do very well especially when they are animated

mr_ace

looks great. banelings are so cute!

nbac

yeah indeed ;D
i want to pose this guy but i didnt came up with something interesting.
any ideas?

duncan

Looks ace but I would probably pull the spec out of the darker areas. At the moment he looks a bit wet. Plus if everything has the same amount of spec then nothing stands out and it looses a bit of depth. You could also put in tints of other colours in places like the legs and back to help "separate" the individual parts and add a little more interest. Just my two cents, Looking awesome. keep it up

nbac

i finally managed to upload a turntable

http://vimeo.com/28515998

i suggest you to watch it in hd