[WIP] Dark Rider
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Hello,
Been playing a lot of Fire Emblem so I wanted to make a baddie that could fit in that universe, based loosely on Napoleonic cuirassiers.
Had some downtime a few months ago so was able to get rather far with the concept sculpt. Heres a gif of the very early versions:
I wanted to give him a mount so Ive been doing some horse practice. Heres the concept sculpt and a rough blockout of the final pose too. Not too sure on the horse armour yet, will need to come back to it.
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will turn out great for sure!
Cheers carvuliero, something was feeling a bit off and thats really helpful
It's going to be really good!
Lovely work so far !
I was looking at your concept final pose and I was thinking you could push it a bit further. I know this is all wip but here is my input
I feel the horse is lacking the awesome characterization you have given your dark rider. Don't give it a expression but try and push in the noble and snooty direction the rider has in spades.
I tried to cut down as much negative space as possible and I have highlighted what I think the 3 focal points are and you should highlight and focus the composition on.
I think tilting the horses head gives it that sense of motion that it has just been halted as he has riden up to the camera as well as making nice leading lines towards the face. I think that could add to the storytelling you are doing in the shot.
I didn't expect this (Ha.Pa.) texturing.
Zooming out with this guy, makes it a bit tough to read (for me, for all i know i could be going blind.)
Might be all the highlighting (on armor), maybe somehow control the "brightness" in area's guessing a shadow gradient of some kind might help here.
On that single close up shot idk why but to me he looks like he wants to cry.
Nice updates.
(You are pulling a fast one on us aren't you.)
Updates are great fixes it on my end.
I know you have to put lights and darks in these sorts of textures, idk what could be done but i both like and put off slightly at how dark the horse is over all. It is tricky not seeing the environment if there is one, would be the reason for this "thrown off", feeling i am getting from the 'dark horse' textures mostly the darks.
Looks like a lot of work, i am reliving my hand painted learning experience through your work keep on, keeping on.
Also because the colors and shapes are so similar between the horse and the rider armor on some angles it's hard to tell what belongs to the horse and what to the rider. The legs of the horse often "merge" between them or with the rider legs