Rat Revival

jeremiah_bigley

So yeah here is a project I started almost 2 years ago... wiping the dust off it and I am hopefully going to take it all the way to lowpoly. Hope you dig it. :P

Shoulders and arms need work, legs a lot of work, and he needs armor and fur... Hips need a rework.
Concept is by Fred Rambaud
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=732606&stc=1&d=1248496895

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Oniram

oh man i remember this back on 3dtotal. ill be following this. cant wait to see it finished.

Jessica Dinh

wow! nice! he looks pretty scary haha please finish the rest of the body i can't wait to see xD

seth.

gutter runner?....great start even if it is two years old. Looking forward to seeing how you tackle the fur so that I can learn vicariously through your exploits

dang87

Master Splinter! You'll be doing the turtles as well, right?

jeremiah_bigley

Thanks guys! Turtles to come! :P
And the fur I plan on sculpting... We will see... it is going to be pretty thin.

Close up on the head with some minor details added...
And a revamp on the anatomy.
C&C always welcome!

Alberto Rdrgz

This is looking awesome! The updates you made look really great.

jeremiah_bigley

Thanks Alberto!

Got an update... kinda blocking out the armor. His shoulder armor could stand to be a bit wider due to his massive deltoids...
Trying to hurry this project along... I just want to get to lowpoly already!

Everything except the body is in a really rough state so... there are going to be lots of changes.

chrisradsby

I like it, looks really sweet. I really love the bandages or leather straps he has over his mouth. Makes for a really really nice expression, the length of the tail worries me a bit, maybe longer? it's hard to tell without a proper side-view shot

Keep going!

jeremiah_bigley

Glad you like it man! Here is that side view. I think it might have been the perspective in Zbrush. That and keep in mind his feet are pointed down.
Got the arm wraps done... :P

Oniram

it looks like you sculpt those wraps from a cylinder.. is that right?

jeremiah_bigley

yeah... kinda dirty looking up close but I think it will look fine once cast and at a distance. :P

SnaFuBAR

master splinter is that you?

Perfect_Rolemodel

fantastic details. Liking the direction of this. :thumbup:

ZacD

One critique about the warping, it conforms too much to the pits of his muscle, if it was wrapped tight it would be flat over any pits or sunken in parts of the arm

tight cloth--> |) <--- indent in arm, its mainly happening on the inside part by the biceps.

EmAr

Can't wait to see this one posed ZacD is right about the fold comforming issue though.

jeremiah_bigley

I agree as well, though I left it because I wanted to keep some of his definition for when I cast to lowpoy. I will go back and lessen it a bit though.

Here is a shot of him... Pretty much done. Just need to do his swords and maybe some armor scratches. Though I might leave that for the textures...

Chai

Kick ass work !

I'm curious though .. is there any reason why the feet are posed so loose ?

Rens

Very well done man!
Love the attention to detail, comes out really nice.

Only thing so far would be,
-see if you can give the fingers a bit more love, nails can be very cool to add some detail to, fingers look a bit wobbly/blobby,

-the fur can use some light variation, sample some cool pieces out of photos,
might be cool to have some fur sticking out aswell, like on the transition from chest to sholder, drag some very subtile points out?

Looking forward to the finish piece man

jeremiah_bigley

lol Not really. This project was originally my very first character ever done and I am sort of in the process of revamping it. There were a lot of things done that you wouldn't normally do and that was probably one of them. There are also a lot of spots that I was dealing with that didn't have a lot of geometry which was making it extremely difficult to sculpt the fur and the tail.

Glad you like! I will end up posing him in the end so I guess the current pose isn't that big of a deal.


Don't know why I didn't post the full body to begin with...

Ihazard

reminds me of skaven in warhammer, great model though really looking forward to see this one done !

jeremiah_bigley

I used a little bit of reference from those guys when I was sculpting his face and thanks! Me too!

cain3D

wow Jeremiah! from the other day you have made so much progress on this model. the armor and wraps fit him perfectly, i will definitely be watching this post!
one thing, my favorite part of this sculpt is the wraps that hold the jaw together, so i'm guessing that someone did that to him, have you thought about the rest of his body that would have also been bound? maybe broken chains around the wrist or ankles. this is a great model, makes my mind wonder about the background of the rat.

cain3D

oops, just saw that you have a link to the original art! so i guess the chains would just be extra credit your spot on from the reference, keep it up!