DWIII - 3D - Snowfly - Enlil

Snowfly · Feb 2008

LATEST CONCEPT:

LATEST 3D:

struve · Feb 2008

Get ready for Mr Fly to rock your face off!!

Good luck bro!

gauss · Feb 2008

liking it, but i think you've got your own crit right there... gotta make it your own. i think a start would be to try and get away from the LotR-Orc/Klingon form language with the armor and weapons. it's shorthand for evil for good reasons, but not going to get you a contest winner by any means. right now virtually all his shapes echo that kind of language.
your 2d is so strong that i know you can start to carve out a novel approach for "big 'n evil"

Spark · Feb 2008

Snowfly, it's looking great so far, but I agree with Gauss on this one, and your own statement. One thing that bothers me is that everything is sharp, maybe have some smooth elements in there, or round to really push your eye towards certian areas, as now my eye doesn't really know where to look.

Spark

Joseph Silverman · Feb 2008

For some reason i instantly thought of a scorpion or wasp tail when i saw this, idunno, it's probably the harsh angles in the armor that i'm associating with bugs. Helmet/creature design is cool, but i agree with the others on the armor. Really looking forward to updates, always like your work.

Snowfly · Feb 2008

Extremely derivative.

Still trying to figure out how to make the design my own.

Cheers guys, thanks for the great input. In any case I'm glad I did the cliche first pass, the idea's a lot easier to evolve now that it's on paper :-)

Going for an lighting elemental dragon, the sharp shapes were supposed to be conductors but I overdid it. I'm playing around with hollow bones and swooping patterns. He's still cliche,but I'm still hammering away at it.

Belltann · Feb 2008

Your own

Snowfly · Feb 2008

k i've got most of the large shapes sussed out, just need to tweak the proportions a little bit more. i'm gonna redraw him, play up the sparrow elements and work on the details. i'm going for a majestic looking dude. :-)

Steve Schulze · Feb 2008

Ah, the majestic sparrow. Truly a king among bird-kind.

Coming along well, Snowfly. I'll be interested to see where the avian aspects come in.

Davision3D · Feb 2008

That is looking great. Maybe make more difference between his sword blade and the blades on his shoulders.
I cant wait to see the clean concept.

Xaltar · Feb 2008

Snowfly, good to see ya competeing

I prefered the head of your previos sketch and the body of the last one, looks more cool imo.

Good luck dude

Hopefully you get a good position this year, I thought you deserved better last year.

rollin · Feb 2008

human face ftw!!

vahl · Feb 2008

that's awesome snowfly, I kinda like the human face more though, there are going to be so many demons and stuff

I absolutely LOVE the silhouette

Jaco · Feb 2008

Yes! I actually think the fact that the sword blade and shoulders look the same is pretty awesome.
Maybe his torso could be a bit longer?
Oh and I vote human face to, it gives him more nobility/majesty.

pestibug · Feb 2008

I dig this design, first I thought the demon head was more in place. But like Vahl says, there's so many demons and aliens and weirdness already out there.

Indeed, this could ba a regal leader. Strange thing is, for all his evil shapes, I definately getting a 'divine' vibe from this guy.

Great stuff.

struve · Feb 2008

Me likes! good balance and flow.

Spark · Feb 2008

Ok Snow, I am forgetting my direction as now I only want to model yours:P Hahah, awesome piece, and alot better direction, I really love the split sword, the human face kind of bothers me though. Even though I know your going for majestic, I think you can create that with a more dragon face, maybe not having them screaming showing there teeth would help that. Looking forward to the final of this, and keep up the great work.

Spark

sama.van · Feb 2008

Show me your hands... I come back for get my katana...

Renaud Galand · Feb 2008

awesome design as usual man ! I'm with Spark about the human head, I thing that your previous shot was working better.

gauss · Feb 2008

enjoying the new direction. might consider playing with some visual styling like Howl's "bird form" in Howl's Moving Castle... i think that's a great way to sell a hero character corrupted/corrupting magic.

Sri Ram Chandra · Feb 2008

badass design! it would be great if you go with the monster face !

ChaosEidolon · Feb 2008

sweet design man. I like the flow and perspective that you're playing with for all the different elements.

Perhaps you could go for something ala Mimic, with a facial carapace that vaguely resembles a human face but opens up into that vicious set of mandibles.

man_o_mule · Feb 2008

i like it. the shape of the character reminds me of something from gundam or evangelion, but the details make him look like a bad ass dragon.

Snowfly · Feb 2008

New sketch, Zsphere proportion study, and some reference. I'm painting on a laptop, so if you're on a perfectly calibrated desktop monitor, chances are, the colors and contrast look like ass.

I've got a pretty solid idea of how everything will look now, so my next update will probably be the base mesh. Cheers guys :-) Keep pushing those polys!

tremulant · Feb 2008

mouth closed would look more appropriate,really liking the direction though.

Spark · Feb 2008

It's funny Snow, I am on a desktop and it's so far away from being ass it makes me sad:P Really liking this guy, and even the human face is starting to grow on me, though I am still curious how he would look with more of the body style coming into the face. Keep it up!

Spark

kakikukeko · Feb 2008

Apart from the giant fork, everything looks great

can"t wait to see more, and especially that ghosty stuff in his belly

slosh · Feb 2008

this guy is definitely lookin heroic. not sure if thats what u were going with, but i dig it!

Leto · Feb 2008

that is pretty sweet. i love how you resolved the legs and feet.

MoP · Feb 2008

very cool, really interesting concepting as usual

Snowfly · Feb 2008

Just an idea I was playing around with..."The Bard", air elemental who takes down the metal hordes with finely honed magical verses, amplified through his artifact amplified megaphone. Was thinking of designing a clockwork horse to go with him, but for now...meh. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

So now I've got a dragon, flying tribesman, dude with buzzsaws (not shown), and a post-apocalyptic Shakespeare wannabe. Which one to go with...

gavku · Feb 2008

They're all ace mate. I dig the second one the most though.

rooster · Feb 2008

yeah I think you should pick one and develop it, but the bard is a nice and unique concept, ace goggles
the pic before is also very cool. Quite different vibes between them, which mood are you in

Snowfly · Feb 2008

I couldn't choose :-) So I took elements I liked from the bird guy and bard, threw in a lightning blunderbuss, sparrow colors and a hefty helping of Keith Thompson. I'm in love, this should tide me over for the next few weeks. Also trying for a primitive gas mask there, heh.

Name: Enlil
Race: Human
Class: Air/lightning invoker
Weapon: Lightning blunderbuss
Ammo: indisposable and infinitely charged runic battery

Key features:

Constructed wings grant Enlil unparalleled movement around the battlefield. Enclosed runic battery (air type) ensures silent operation.
Airhead with revolving scope provides Enlil with an adequate supply of fresh breathing air at all times, at any altitude.
Insulated wear guards Enlil from unwanted jolts.
Springstep boots allow for cushioned landings, hasty takeoffs, and a bouncy sprint.

onelung · Feb 2008

wow, the first was so solid yet seems like its being done, a lot... this one though. Very nice, and good idea on who to be inspired by

Looking forward to seeing the mechanics behind those wings.

struve · Feb 2008

That guy with the book, i believe, has the most potential. he's got a lot of personality

Joao Sapiro · Feb 2008

agreed, guy with book looks way more interesting !

rooster · Feb 2008

ship it!

Snowfly · Feb 2008

uhhh sorry but I didn't think I could live with doing the bard for six weeks. Glad somebody likes it, but this one's got me more excited. :-)

I did a little work on the sketch mesh, still not in place are his jacket, harness, pouches, dagger, and various other doodads. I knocked out a quick Zsphere doll to test some poses, tweak the proportions, and to use as a base for all the other details. Fun times. :-)

rollin · Feb 2008

this rocks !!

zOffTy · Feb 2008

Nice stuff!

I find he has small hands, no?

Emil Mujanovic · Feb 2008

I'm really liking the new concept, dude. Though the model at this stage is lacking all the things I like so much about the concept. The silhouette and form are really weak, its missing a whole lot of chunkiness! The shoulders and crotch area all seem to have been scaled back, everthing is extra thin and lanky.

-caseyjones

Snowfly · Feb 2008

Yeah that's something I noticed too, but the geometry's too squishy at this point to get anything out of it. I'll go back to it with a fresh eye after work, beef him up, and a LOT of grit will be added back in with the final meshes. This is just a blueprint so I know what goes where and how big, and of course get some much needed crits. :-) Thanks man!

zoffty- yeah, the small hands are something I wanna try, since his gloves are going to be long and droopy. But the proportions aren't working just yet.

vahl · Feb 2008

that' slooking pretty dope man, great concept. will wait until you're done with the sketch mesh before giving any crit on the model itself, but it looks like it's going to be wicked

tacit math · Feb 2008

looks awesome man. and great speed. you're well stomping through it

richkid · Feb 2008

i dont know if someone has already mentioned it on here, but if you havnt seen them yet, check out this guy
http://www.glumbert.com/media/kineticsculpture

amazing

im liking yours a lot, cant wait to see more

Supervlieg · Feb 2008

Looks great. I agree with the hands being a bit small though.

dom · Feb 2008

this is looking really good. i think the arms can be shorter and the thighs as well just like in your amazing concept. also not feeling the puffiness of the cloth parts in the upper arm and thighs.

very original. good stuff!

Belltann · Feb 2008

Looking really good Snowfly

Cant you remove the beach-white-green leatherstrap (with the tubes on it) so that you see his face? At least i would feel more conected with the character. maby putting the book guys face in there?

btw great legs!

Snowfly · Feb 2008

thought I'd slip this in. That is not a man in the suit! :-)

Yeah, the disconnect was something I've been thinking about, so I'll have some organic bits exposed to make him into a character-character. Some gray fingers with black talon like fingernails, and a vulture eye showing threw the glass.

richkid those are awesome, thanks for posting those. I've had to rework the design a bit since people have been getting a very steampunk impression of the character, even though I've been careful about avoiding that. It's all the metal constructs they say

Been busy, girlfriend time. I'll post some updates to the mesh after the weekend. Keep the crits coming, they are invaluable!

Diggy · Feb 2008

wow i really love the design...it's he flow of the char and the play between old and new tech looks really awesome!!! modeling is really solid too i can't wait till to see it finished!!!

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