Dwarfs W.I.P.

OccultMonk · Jul 2012

Dwarfs Work in Progress. I still have a lot of work to do, but first I will finish my ORCS.

Dwarf Ranger:

Dwarf Fighter:

Dwarf Noble:

Dwarf Thief (Sketch:

Thief Head

Lowpoly Test Head Marmoset:

Neox · Jul 2012

while this is again very nice, and the shapes work really well. I think it doesn't look very dwarfish the proportions are small but somewhat normal. i would assume that dwarves are supposed to look quite a bit different from human proportions, otherwise they would be just small people.

OccultMonk · Jul 2012

They are about 5.5 heads high. A generic normal person is somewhere around 8 heads or even 9 for tall people. Maybe the perspective gives the wrong impression.

ScudzAlmighty · Jul 2012

Great work so far, and nice fit with the orcs. gotta agree with Neox though, they look a little tall for Dwarves. They're very close, but like the Hobbit Dwarves they look more like regular people in odd-sizzed clothes. It might just be a matter of proportion distribution between arm length, head size, etc.

Reale · Jul 2012

this is better than your typical cliche rpg dwarf that is extremely short and overly wide... I couldn't remember if it was a dwarf or a midget that had relative body size or not so I googled it to check

Dwarf - An abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed.

Midget - An extremely small person who is otherwise normally proportioned.
(I knew a girl that was under 4 foot 9 which I believe is the hight limit for the term and she looked like a "normal" person but shrunk down)

the thing is with your standard game dwarf, they always seem to be fat/muscular and wide but arnt accurate to the actual dwarf term either...

random idea, take a look at Peter Dinklage (tyrion lannister)http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/22900000/Tyrion-Lannister-tyrion-lannister-22907620-1397-2100.jpg

the head size of a dwarf is typically larger than normal for the body size, this is a distinct characteristic of a dwarf... you could just change the name to midget and be done with it lol :P

RogerP · Jul 2012

I like these better than the "regular" dwarfs we are custom to. great details like on the orcs, keep them coming!!!

Azkur · Jul 2012

man once again really good work. i also prefer this kinda dwarfs i always disliked the usual ones. i think the reason why they seem taller is because of the armor and not necessarily the proportions but i might be wrong anyway really good work. might i ask if you were inspired by gears of war on some parts of the armor i notice you have the same kind of stitching connecting plates same with your orc and i was just curious!

guhhh · Aug 2012

amazing details!!! I'm following this for sure!

Texelion · Aug 2012

Yeah, really awesome, everyhting looks so... perfect. Even maybe too perfect, everything looks clean and new, could be cool to do some worn parts.

For the proportions, "real" dwarfs and classical fantasy dwarfs are not the same, and yours don't look like anyone of them, but it' not a problem. At least they look better than the ones in The Hobbit movie ^^.

Neox · Aug 2012

Texelion wrote: »

Yeah, really awesome, everyhting looks so... perfect. Even maybe too perfect, everything looks clean and new, could be cool to do some worn parts.

For the proportions, "real" dwarfs and classical fantasy dwarfs are not the same, and yours don't look like anyone of them, but it' not a problem. At least they look better than the ones in The Hobbit movie ^^.

its just the "basemesh" i would assume, the clean highpoly, no sculpting done so far

Kiranor · Aug 2012

detailing is gorgeous

SimonT · Aug 2012

Looks cool but for a dwarf pretty big

woogity · Aug 2012

these are really fantastic man love the gear, feels very Epic Games to me, stitching on every edge, and lots of layered forms. Would love to see what you are doing for your render setup.

wolver · Aug 2012

those sculpts are godly! very inspiring man : ] how long did they take you?

Rob Macko · Aug 2012

Very nice details, subbed to check out the progress

Fred2303 · Aug 2012

holy crap! great job!

Fred2303 · Aug 2012

maybe just put smaller pictures lol took me 5 minutes to load

MainManiac · Aug 2012

Wow.. While this looks amazing rendered bare, it would be too busy to appreciate in an actual game. Would look excellent in a movie

Great work though.

kotter · Aug 2012

this is looking really cool! great amount of detail :thumbup:

ScudzAlmighty · Aug 2012

frell wrote: »

Wow.. While this looks amazing rendered bare, it would be too busy to appreciate in an actual game. Would look excellent in a movie

Great work though.

With the wrong lighting maybe, but it's no more detailed than the Gears3 guys and they look pretty damn sweet in-game.

dirigible · Aug 2012

OccultMonk wrote: »

They are about 5.5 heads high. A generic normal person is somewhere around 8 heads or even 9 for tall people. Maybe the perspective gives the wrong impression.

I just want to clarify a common misconception, here. Average people aren't 8 heads tall, and nowhere near 9 heads tall. Most people are 7.5 heads tall, with 8 being 'tall' and 8.5 being 'real damn tall'.

5.5 heads tall is pretty dwarfy (around 4 ft 4 in), so it's probably just the perspective throwing people off.

OccultMonk · Aug 2012

Thanks for all the comments. I agree with you, there should be more worn parts. Basically everything is Polymodeling excluding the head and torso. There is already a lot of Zbrush detailing though, but it's rather subtle (not very visible in the renders) and I learned that I have to do more visible details in ZBrush. I Don't mind them being tall dwarfs though. Does anyone have some tips on good clayrenders, these are just scanline renders without AO (one simple skylight and lighttracer). An other problem is that I have imported the detail at a very high resolution in 170 XREF files and proxies with total: 3.27 GB. It takes forever to open the file in max, and makes it almost unworkable. Anyone have any tips?

sipher3325 · Aug 2012

wow...simply amazing detail work here.

Lando_Mange · Aug 2012

Really nice work man, for my personal taste they're a little to long, but hey, variation is great

The detailsm are really well done! More damage and battle scars would be my only constructive feeedback

dii · Aug 2012

These threads of yours just blow my mind, I love how much variety there is in the shapes in your work and for having so much detail the designs still seem well balanced and readable.

I do agree with some of the other posters here that their limbs seem a bit long to be dwarves (at least in the typical fantasy sense, or reality.) They mostly just look like artistically stylized short humans. That's not necessarily a bad thing though...

Keep up the good work, its very inspiring.

dirigible · Aug 2012

Occult, why not render in zbrush?
http://www.pixologic.com/blog/2009/08/tutorial-on-rendering-with-zbrush-and-photoshop/

Dwarfs W.I.P.

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