Legend of Zu: Garden of Agartha
Here is a new project that I'm starting. Project is a Atlantean Era story based on a mixture of Ancient Mythology.The garden has both the Tree of life and the Fountain of Youth. The garden is guarded by the Lion of Agartha (Agartha:Mythical Underground world) On the tree hangs the Ring of the God Zu. Im trying to keep the scene relatively low ploy and display various parts using Marmoset Toolbag. The concept art is my own and I'm attempting to do a exact copy..but Ill probably throw in extras when I see fit....... Alright I'm waiting for critiques and suggestions..Peace
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what is your visual basis on the fountain? maybe approach it with a more ancient mayan/inca art approach?
( i personally like the whole argartha - hollow earth myth)
In your concept there is a feline in the cave area. Is that a cave drawing of some sort or are you planning on having some animal in there?
Overall good work so far. Hope to see more later on.
also dont use black in your texture, and why are the edges of the fountain regular and low poly when the statue is so high try to make your poly distribution more even
Conceptual story is cool and the concept drawing looks pretty solid. With the ruinous walls in the drawing, and the rather low poly jagged walls in your model, there's quite a big difference. I see you said you want to go lower poly, but I think you could afford to put a few more edges in the contours of your walls and around the main wall section of your fountain, just to give more visual interest.
You've expended a lot of geometry in the facial features of your lion head that could probably be more well spent in giving an interesting silhouette to other parts of your model. Dropping a few of the tri's down in the face and making up for it with a solid normal (possibly sculpted in zbrush) would afford you more geo to work with.
I personally would like to see more variation in the texture. It looks good and the materials look believable, but I think you could benefit by possibly hand painting in some highlight and shadow with dodge and burn (especially if you have CS4) just to make it look more dimensional and less flat. The texture at the bottom of the model could benefit greatly from some specific grunging (dirt from the floo, small chunks of mud caked on, even small pieces of rubble rock cracking off... vines beginning to grow) anyway, more details to help us understand how old this object is besides the 3 large cracks. The materials themselves look great though, just tell more story in it now.
Great start so far, I think you could get this finished before GDC and have another piece to take with you man! Good luck keep posting :P
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But what's up with the smoothing around the caves? is that intended?
Anyways I really like it.
keep it up
YES!!!! I've been staring back and forth at your concept and your render. I finally figured out what your missing.
The Ring of the God Zu on the tree branch!
Score! :nerd:
Spot on. Lighting turned a lot better as well.
Very nice piece overall.
Great work.
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