LPC #05 - Eclipse - Garrus (Mass Effect)

Eclipse · Jan 2008

This is a place holder, I'm going to give Garrus from Mass Effect a go, maybe more from the crew if I have the time.

Eclipse · Jan 2008

Alright well after a little work I got him blocked out. I have another 20 tris left, any ideas of where I can use them?

RazorBladder · Jan 2008

You could give him the funky tech head set that covers his left eye.

Eclipse · Feb 2008

OK I upped the mesh to 500 on the dot and started to lay out some lines, it's really not much progress, but I thought I might post it up to get some crits. It's really hard to find good references of his final C-Sec suit. It's like they kept changing it all the way up to the ship date. Tomorrow I am going to boot up the game and do some sketches to hopefully nail it down and get back to work....if I don't get sucked into the game and play it all night, haha.

Ferg · Feb 2008

looks solid so far. Only crit is maybe his legs should be a little slimmer? Their crazy spike-sided bird legs can be hard to read sometimes... great start on the texture man, eyepiece looks boss

Eclipse · Feb 2008

Thanks Ferg, your Salarian gives me something to shoot for :P. I have barely started with some details, still blocking out lots of stuff, complicated armor :S. I thinned out the legs a little, hope it looks better.

Japhir · Feb 2008

really nice! i'm sorry i only just found out that you already picked a turian (but a more specific one), so i guess i'll change mine frome a "neutral" turian to saren. is that ok with you?

Uly · Feb 2008

Eclipse: Looking sweet, man. : ) Man, this comp is putting out some good stuff.
Japhir: Saw your model, looked pretty sweet. Just keep in mind that Saren has quite a few significant asymetrical features on his body that are going to demand a good deal of extra texture space. Definitely possible, though.
Saren Character Sheet

Eclipse · Feb 2008

Hey no problem at all man, I hope you do a great job on Saren, he is gonna be tough. There is another awesome Looking Turian at the beginning of the game called Nihlus if you want to stick to the mirrorable design.

Uly, thanks a lot that means a great deal coming from you, I love the little guy you posted up in the P&P section. I'm hoping ot finish him off today, if not then Monday, I'll post some more up as I get further along.

Eclipse · Feb 2008

Ok, sorry for the double post, Here is where I am at. I know I said I would finish him already, but things happen. Mostly just the head left. Any comments?

Enix · Feb 2008

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it, i denno the character well, but I love the amount of detail you fit onto it.

Japhir · Feb 2008

looking great! looks like you put pretty much all the detail in there! but maybe you should try to refine the overal looks of things, make it look more like the materials they're made of, because it looks a little too painterly right now imo. keep it up!

Eclipse · Feb 2008

Thats something I am really struggling with Japhir, any suggestions?

fuxer · Feb 2008

hey Eclipse,to fix that you need to paint some slight shading and highlights.Thats what i do.Think of a pointlight over the character and try to paint the shading it would get from it.
The blue parts need to fade to darker blue on the side for example

Mr Smo · Feb 2008

I'm hooked on mass effect, this is looking good! I agree with everyone about the materials. keep it up

Eclipse · Feb 2008

Thanks so much guys, I am going to try a few more things on the armor, but this is where I am at right now. Please keep the crits coming. Thanks again

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Japhir · Feb 2008

wow you did with the head exactly what i meant for you to do for his entire body! looks great! just work on the armor some more with highlights and shadows as fuxer suggested,and you have created win

Laheen · Feb 2008

omg i just crit my pants

katana · Feb 2008

Outstanding..

Paul_C · Feb 2008

This looks great. One of the best in the competition. The only other crit I would mention would be the colour of his neck. I'd desaturate it just a tad.

And just to show off a bit more, maybe add a slight blue tint to the shadows on his head and possibly add some tiny white highlights so his head looks a bit wet.

Like this:
http://i.gametap.com/web30/eMagazine/emag_masseffect_xbox360_091707_3_87090.jpg

Eclipse · Feb 2008

Thanks so much for the positive feedback and crits. I just finished off his Omni-Tool, aka accessory, which weights in at 145 tris. I tried to address most of the crits, please keep them coming, I'm struggling with getting the armor to look right. Also Paul I just remembered about the neck and kicked down the saturation, but it was after I took these renders, so I did do it. Thanks again

Paul_C · Feb 2008

I love the Omni Tool

One thing a friend of mine pointed out that I'd not noticed, is that his legs could do with being longer.

Eclipse · Feb 2008

Sorry ahead of time for the terrible pics, but they were the best I could get, I took them with a camcorder from the game. I think they match up, but I could be wrong on it. I'm really glad you like the Omni Tool, i didn't want to do a weapon because it would be kinda sameish, but MAN is it hard to figure that thing out i had to do little sketches from the TV and even then I probably messed it all up :P.

Eclipse · Feb 2008

Again another double post, sorry, here are my final's

Funky Bunnies · Feb 2008

I think I might like to see a little more shading on the metal bits, but I really dig the result, man

LPC #05 - Eclipse - Garrus (Mass Effect)

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