Gladiator Challenge - ironbearxl

ironbearxl · Mar 2010

Looks like it's time to oil up!

ironbearxl · Mar 2010

I have a concept for alternate Hakan i'll scan in later tonight.

BeatKitano · Mar 2010

"Shiny"

ironbearxl · Mar 2010

Ok, here's my concept, hopefully not too hard to read lol:

Beat: Ha, just got the Firefly reference

hijak · Mar 2010

so the olive oil keeps him "shiny" ?

Steve Schulze · Mar 2010

He uses an entire barrel of the stuff in Super Street Fighter 4.

I wonder whether you mightn't be better off taking the concept of the slippery, oiled up wrestler and developing it into your own character rather than slightly modifying an existing character from an unrelated studio. Perhaps you could fuse the two - Have an oiled up Kurt from MDK or something.

ironbearxl · Mar 2010

Jackablade, I thought about that, but I think Hakan would be more fun overall. I'll see if I can squeeze an Earthworm Jim reference in there somewhere (as I never really got into mdk as much as ewj).

Still doodling, but i'm pretty sure he will have some oktoberfest lederhosen and a mohawk for sure.

Oh and researching his hairstyle, it seems to have come from the Flavian era, awesome!

ironbearxl · Mar 2010

closeup on the hair:

ironbearxl · Mar 2010

Here's the start of the head:

ironbearxl · Apr 2010

Lowpoly head is done:

Basesculpting the body next.

ironbearxl · Apr 2010

Roughed out the torso and arms and added to the Lowpoly base:

Building the hands and basesculpting the legs next!

ironbearxl · Apr 2010

Hand lowpoly:

ironbearxl · Apr 2010

Lowpoly body is done, 11736 tris:

Working on the hair and gear next, then get into some more detailed sculpting

cw · Apr 2010

its a solid looking model, I look forward to the sculpting!

ironbearxl · Apr 2010

Thanks cw

Building the hair now:

Vrav · Apr 2010

Impressive, very thorough modeling work for a sculpting challenge. Sort of wish it were a more original character, but your subject is still an amusing play on the company's name - best of luck in wrapping it up.

ironbearxl · Apr 2010

Thanks Vrav, most of the modeling is retopoed from sculpted basemeshes, helps me with direction.

I gave up on the original hair sketch, I wasn't liking the silhouette, and decided to just work on making the costume different.

Final hair lowpoly:

I'm sculpting the body/hair and building the clothing/gear next.

ironbearxl · Apr 2010

Sculpted over most of the body, and i'm building the gear now.

Here's another closeup of the head:

Gladiator Challenge - ironbearxl

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