[WIP] Hephaestus Pack

Neilson K-S

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this but I'm making a Hephaestus themed pack for the TF2 engineer. I guess this forum might be a little tired of TF2 items though haha

So far I have blocked in the facial hair that I want to add. The next thing to do is sculpt it into beautiful flowing locks.... not sure how to do that at the moment though.

[Edit] I looked around the forums some more, don't mind if I crawl into a hole for the next few years.


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Some reference images:







Thanks for watching

Neilson K-S

Baby steps in sculpting

Neilson K-S

Bam, more detail, any feedback? Yeah I guess it's not very impressive yet.

NeoDement

I love it. But be wary of faceposing. When Engie's mouth opens, your beard won't. It's a pretty huge beard though so you could possibly cover the mouth.

Neilson K-S

@NeoDement: I was hoping I could just cover the whole mouth haha like the camera beard.



I need to smooth out the silhouette a little at this point. Feel free to critique, this is my first time creating normal and diffuse maps, so far so good!

Blu



Red

Neilson K-S

And a turntable...

Neilson K-S

For the next part of the pack I was thinking of creating a corinthian style helmet that will lay on the top of the engineers head like the reference image.

As well a blacksmith's hammer, tongs, maybe a shield for the engineers back.

Neilson K-S

Here's a quick concept of something I think I could add to the engi, I'll start modeling tomorrow.

Neilson K-S

Some progress on the helmet, I chose not to do a corinthian style helmet since there already is one in TF2.

Neilson K-S

Right now I'm figuring how much of the texture I'll sculpt in blender vs. making it in photoshop. Any more feedback? I realize I'm posting a lot...

Neilson K-S

I unwrapped the model and put on some basic colours with some AO.

Neilson K-S

Dohohoho, I merged the hair and the helmet today and created a 512x512 texture map for the whole mesh, it still has some messy seems and awkward spots I need to clean up. The model comes in at 2010 polygons which is a little too many for the TF2 workshop.

*cricket*
*cricket*

Anyway I'll keep working.

Neilson K-S

I started working on a shotgun, it doesn't look very greek at this point but it looks sort of blacksmithy, I'll add more details as go.