[FIGHTER] Soul Calibur, Yoshimitsu, suburbbum

Daven · Mar 2011

I really wanted to recreate a character that I loved and despised. Plus, this seems like it'll be a lot of fun to dissect. Not sure what direction I'll go with, but it'll reveal itself soon enough.

beezul · Mar 2011

good luck! now theres 3 yoshis O__O

Daven · Mar 2011

oh shit!

beezul · Mar 2011

its cool man! one of us is doing military scrapper armor look. he said metal gear solid ish. im doing steampunk western yoshi. theres plenty of other interpretations of this character. medieval? demon? hes a pretty versatile character. has had many different looks in the past. maybe a death like yoshi? grimreaper? just some ideas if you are sticking with it

Daven · Mar 2011

I was thinking more sci-fi and android like. More machine than human; like the wooden puppet interpretation. Except, you know, metal and stuff lol. I don't know if that crosses over the "metal gear", but I'll show progress once I'm done conceptualizing

Emil Mujanovic · Mar 2011

You're not a 3D artist!

Daven · Mar 2011

You're not a 3D artist!

Sean VanGorder · Mar 2011

You can't model in photoshop Max.

Daven · Mar 2011

I'll show you. I'll show all of you.

Emil Mujanovic · Mar 2011

suburbbum wrote: »

You're not an artist!

Fixed.

Thor Sowards · Mar 2011

Daven · Mar 2011

Alright, so here's a first pass as a more futuristic Yoshimitsu. Let me have it.

kouotsu · Mar 2011

Lookin cool. I played Tekken back when Yoshimitsu was just a jumble of dark textures so I don't know his original design well, lol. It might be cool if the flag thing on his back was high tech, like hologram screens instead of cloth.

Daven · Mar 2011

oh, shit yeah haha. i'll add that to the list.

Maph · Mar 2011

Yeah, definitely go with the holograms on the flag.
Not really feeling the lurv on those beads on his left arm though, and his sharp pointy stick needs to be longer (and needs glowy bits).

Totally bitchin' stuff otherwise though!

beezul · Mar 2011

lookin dope as hell. nix those beads on the arm. they are distracting and look silly

beezul · Mar 2011

give him a mega man arm XD

silverflame · Mar 2011

Great redesign, agree with the others though the beads are kind of distracting and holographic flags would look far more futuristic. I really like the head/mask design though!

Digital Cantina · Mar 2011

Holy Mothers....

Mask_Salesman · Mar 2011

Super swish, his shins could be alittle more interesting tho.

Daven · Mar 2011

haha, yeah i haven't really touched that area yet. This was just a first pass to see what I could bring to the table. i'm just trying to focux on silhouette detail at the moment. I'll start blocking in the major details later.

FrozZT · Mar 2011

That's an awesome start for your design! The face in particular looks quite delicious. Yoshimitsu is an awesome character in so many ways, definately my fav. out of fight game characters. I'm doing some concepts of him aswell now even though I can't participate in the comp with 2D. So I've done some research on yoshimitsu and like you've included, his arm is robotic, however I'm quite certain it's his left arm that is robotic and he also holds his sword with his left. Just in case you missed that, of course it's up to you if you want to change things up.

Keep it up!

D4V1DC · Mar 2011

Love the concept, looks kick ass already Yoshimitsu was one of my many choices. I already know I'm going to love this, keep on going!

disanski · Mar 2011

what a start man!!!! I am watching this

Daven · Mar 2011

FrozZT - It's weird, every picture I see of him in SC he holds it with his right hand, but every Tekken version he's a lefty. I also thought it was his right that was wooden, but I could be wrong.

thanks guys for the encouragement, I'll post more updates later.

kouotsu · Mar 2011

Did some wiki-ing, apparently the Yoshimitsu in Tekken and Soul Calibur are not intended to be the same character. Descendant or something. He's left-handed in Tekken, and right-handed in SC. So I guess either way it's not wrong, lol. As for Tekken, his left arm seems to be the wooden one. In SC it's definitely his right arm. So I guess as long as he's holding his sword with his wooden arm, you're doing it right.

Daven · Mar 2011

alright, solid.

Daven · Mar 2011

progressionssssss

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d.hynes · Mar 2011

sweet dood. i feel like the robotic arm is a little too slender compared to the other. makes him feel off balance. maybe reduce the size of his bracer or make the shoulders non-symmetrical with the non robot side being smaller? personally i liked the way you had it before with the prayer beads, it had a nice sort of symbolism especially if you went with a more malicious oni style face (which i think you should do =P). also push the silhouette of the top of the head a bit. he's got a lot going on everywhere else (including his head and face) it might be nice to have something simple go a bit further in breaking the curve of his head.

kouotsu · Mar 2011

haha yoshimitsu is so incredibly difficult to suggest things for since he's gone through so many drastic redesigns. I do think if you're going in the samurai direction, some sort of ornamental design that makes his head more top-heavy would work well. You could play off of the designs you have coming out of his shoulders, for instance.

DR01D · Mar 2011

i like where this is going, still got the sinister look going on..

YBourykina · Mar 2011

I think he’s looking pretty good so far, loving the face in his chest armour, always a nice way to add creepiness to something

Love the polycount flag too

JacqueChoi · Mar 2011

super sweet!

Keep going with it.

Digital Cantina · Mar 2011

Love it, dont forget about the feet and make him too top heavy

Heavyj · Mar 2011

Amazing, I agree with @Endr though, he needs some leg stuff/armor to go with all the cool detail you did for the top (you just might have not given that a pass yet). Maybe make one of those robotic also?

Daven · Mar 2011

As far as the legs go I'm pushing for cybernetic joints and sort of mechanical tabi for the feet. I haven't touched it yet really. I'm trying to get the upper body silhouette settled before i move on to the feet. Don't worry, it will be spectacular.

Jeremi Eldridge · Mar 2011

Loving where this concept is going. The face in the armor is reeeally awesome.

Stinger88 · Mar 2011

Awesome so far dude. Just poped in to subscribe. Keep it coming.

devilshands · Mar 2011

I can't rmember wether it was tekken or when he showed up in souledge(I think!), he had an awsome mechanical wooden arm that actually animated - Brilliant char though. good luck

Daven · Mar 2011

that was in Soul Calibur. Yeah, freaking wonderful. I want to emulate something like that in h ere.

MissMaddyTaylor · Mar 2011

Really great! Looking forward to this

Daven · Mar 2011

Alright, another update. Deciding to forgo my school work (not that i'm any good at unreal script anyway) and working on this more.

Most of the upper body is finalized. Wanted to go with a sleeker feeling instead of the last one; it felt too clunky. Lower body, abdomen, flag, and arms are still WIP. hoping to get this finished soon so I can start modeling.

Also, needs more crits. fire away girls.

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onelunglewis · Mar 2011

Can't wait to see more.

Daven · Mar 2011

oh but you will mister

ENODMI · Mar 2011

Awesome start, i like:)

Sean VanGorder · Mar 2011

I remember back to when I first taught you how to use photoshop...

*sheds tear*

My little Max is growing up so fast.

wimb.

Dan! · Mar 2011

he's a good choice- i like the direction- legs feel a little thin at the thigh area- could use more bulk.

Daven · Mar 2011

Did a rough blockout in max tonight. Just an hour or two's work (most of it spend on the mask haha). Trying to adjust proportion in 3d space instead of eyeing everything up from my concept. I'll probably be switching back and forth between 2d and 3d until I've got my final design down. Anyway, here's what I have so far.

PBarbalios · Mar 2011

SOOOOOO cool Max. Just out of curiosity, since I drool over texture-work (yours especially,) are you going for clean and new looking metal work, or will it be battle-worn & scorched from his crazy badass space-tech warfare?

Daven · Mar 2011

I want to do a moderate number of metal scratches. Keep it clean but still provide enough detail. I'm also going to paint the metal with some cool japanese inscription stuff. Not sure what yet, but it's gonna be awesome.

jackrabbit · Mar 2011

I really like you're concept! this is going to be a badass Yoshi! Keep up the good work!

[FIGHTER] Soul Calibur, Yoshimitsu, suburbbum

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