Desinging a Mech Character Round 2

Fred2303

Hi everyone!

so on this thread ill post some WIP of a 3D concept that i try to acheive.

the reason of the ROUND 2 in the title is because i tried to design one a couple of months ago and it ended up in the trash!

so this time i cheated a little bit. I started up with a concept of a head that is pretty damn cool and im trying to make the rest of the body to match this concept.

The few ideas that i want to keep while im designing it are:

-i want a good mix of Cloth/mech/organic surfaces
-i want here to be a melee fighter
-right now she has some kind of electric boxing glove and i kinda want to keep something like this

im not in love with any pieces of the design so any suggestion will be highly considered and apprecieted

so heres the concepty im using


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and here is me 3D Concept so far:


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thanks !

Update 1:



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nufftalon

Very nice this concept looks promising..will follow

erroldynamic

Looks Killer so far!

TheGoozah

wow, very nice!!!

Fred2303

thanks guys! any suggestions to enhance the design?

TehSplatt

thats awesome! and i think the thinness ads to the look . personelly

Lavitz

Looks awesome so far!
Subscribed and will be following.

Only thing I could suggest is adding seams like in the face of the concept, but to where those circular shapes on her lower rib area are. Loving the cloth mixed with the hard surface metal.

Fred2303

hey thanks guys for the comments and crits ! for the seams i was thinking of adding thewm in the difuse and add some on the body too and for the thinesss of the legs , i did it to match the thin neck. but ill definitly try both!

thanks again guys!

Pancakes

what program are you using? 3d Coat?

Fred2303

its zbrush

Gallows

holy shit, that's purely zbrush? I need to get around to re-learning what's going on with the updates.

Teu

The design looks very cool.

Shoy333

Looking wicked fredshire keep at er!! also the crit about adding the seams like in the concept I would have to agree it adds a lot of character. :thumbup:

Darkleopard

really nice start! Will be watching this

Fred2303

:d thanks alot guys! i will post some updates later today with new ideas!

whw

Very slick design on this one. Keeping an eye on its development.

Ghostman511

Really sweet concept! looking forward to seeing this textured. One thing I might change is the layered armor in the thigh areas. I like how you've broken up the same armor style in the neck with the little notches. I'd try throwing some of those into the thigh armor just to break it up a bit.

crusader

love it

Darkleopard

I was having another look at this and ive decided i dont really like the bagging bits on the arms/legs ( i think its cloth?) Is there a purpose to that? Seems werid for a mech character

Cordell Felix

dude, thats sick. I hope you do the eyes like you did in the 2d concept!

Selaznog

Yeah, I'm with Darkleopard. Those baggy pieces of fabric will only get in the way and tangled with the metal bits during a fight. A good way around this would maybe be to make it tighter on her. Or, if you want to keep the silhouette, you could try bulking up the armour so it makes the shape of the cloth, and then just have cloth pieces elsewhere.

Sebeuroc

Looking really cool so far! I have a couple suggestions: I agree with Ghostman511 about the thigh armor, and I'd also say that the transition from the shin to the foot feels a little abrupt to me. I think you could do something in the ankle area to make the shift from body armor to shoe more visually pleasing.

Finally, something to think about is if you were to bundle some of the tubes on her back together that would help reduce your final polycount by quite a bit.

All in all this is looking sweet so far! Keep up the good work.

Fred2303

Ah man you guys are awesome! all those comments are price less!

so the main thing i tried are:
-The shape of the gloves to make them looke more like boxing gloves.
-The way the fabrics hang and made it less baggy
-also defined more the armor area of the waist.

one of the area that is causing me alot of trouble is the top of the forarm that i keep changing and cant find anything that i like.

anyway tell me what you think about those small changes.

cant wait to start modeling it!!



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Fred2303

tried a couple of different options for the cloth. i think 3 is my favorite, gives a cool silouhette
i want to know what you guys think?



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Lord McMutton

I think three as well. I'm a sucker for those poofy shoulders.

Lavitz

I like the shoulders from 2, and the rest from 3. I just picture poofy silk like cloth that's partially see through almost like a gypsy. If it at all possible you should try and bring the cloth on the shoulders down and have exposed shoulders like this: http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001546993/1918742759_gypsy_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg

Looks awesome how it is, but I just think maybe that might work out.

Darkleopard

Yeah im liking 3 the most. I personally dont like the pants being so 'poofy'(is the word we're using today) But i think that may be more of a personal preference.

I still love her!