DWIV - 3D - solar

solar · Mar 2009

I was thinking this one would be a land dragon clericon. He uses his magic potions on the dragons eggs to do all kinds of magical things :poly124: Has a small winged dragon as a familiar. Not sure if I'll stick with this or not...more sketching to do

Kamui · Mar 2009

cool, nice to see some stylized concepts as well!
maybe he eggs his party and the goo heals them lol.

Zatoichi · Mar 2009

It has that stylized Jax meets Spyro feel. Cant wait to see more.

rats78 · Mar 2009

Nice one dude. i too am digging the stylised route. will be keeping my eye on this one.

solar · Mar 2009

Thanks guys, yeah went for the stylised route, tough competing with all the amazing realistic grotesque entries!

Tumerboy · Mar 2009

ya, very nice!

solar · Apr 2009

Thanks Tummerboy,

Finally an update, first pass on the sculpt and accessories...

Also might change the familiar from a flying dragon to something more interesting.

rats78 · Apr 2009

nice one Solar. He's quality. I love the stylised look you've gone for. The bits around the neck, feet and arms...are these going to glow. I presume the rocks/eggs in his backpack will too? Will he have a weapon. Can't wait to see this bad boy after some ZB action

crazyfingers · Apr 2009

Looks cool, but i'd love to see the accessories play with the unique dragon anatomy in some cool kind of way, rather than just be worn as a generic belt/ backpack. Just an idea.

solar · Apr 2009

Thanks rats, not sure if those bits will glow just yet, probably. I was just messing around with shaders. These probably won't be anything like the final colours.

Thanks crazyfingers, that's a cool idea, I'll try playing around with the accessories some more. :poly121:

Here's a more up to date version of the head.

Chubbydan · Apr 2009

Looking good Solar, i love the style and the idea of the eggs intrigues me to no end. Toobelt is looking ace, carry on!

Parnell · Apr 2009

Ya i really like the subtle surfacing you got going on here.
keep it up!
B

solar · Apr 2009

Thanks chubbydan, yeah he probably wont have a normal weapon, the eggs and potions are kinda meant to be what he uses in place of that.

Thanks Parnell!

Worked a little more on some of the accessories -

Still have to tidy up the scales and the main body. Working on the bag at the minute and next it will be the familiar.

Lord McMutton · Apr 2009

Looking good so far, Solar. The only thing I see is that his feet are wider in the concept.

culpin · Apr 2009

very clean, i like it. my only thought is that hes very similar in size throughout his/her? body. Do we know what sex it is? a-sexual? Im just curious if it would be better if you made either the hips or shoulders a bit wider? idk maybe a paint over to check.

solar · Apr 2009

Thanks Marshal, I went with slightly smaller feet as he's gonna be a stalker in the norm class. But I might scale them up, not decided yet.

Glad you like him culpin, he's male, didn't think a penis was particularly appropriate for this style but theres still time for changes. :poly124:

I'll probably re-adjust proportions if needed after all the accessories n stuff is finished.

culpin · Apr 2009

very cool.I really like the style don't change it..

rats78 · Apr 2009

this is looking tight Solar. The accessories are so cool

look forward to seeing what you come up with pose-wise.

r4ptur3 · Apr 2009

very clean and to the point. nice stuff!

solar · Apr 2009

Thanks r4ptur3!

Here's a quick go at the familiar, not sure if I like him or not. Might go with something completely different...

Valandar · Apr 2009

Hah! I love the Winged Greentooth familiar!

Rick Stirling · Apr 2009

Oh, just caught this dude, it's looking great!

Tumerboy · Apr 2009

This is kicking ass Solar! You were really able to translate the feel of your 2D into your 3D, nice job!

Wells · Apr 2009

oh wow. i love this.

only critique is his little buddy's feet seem too large - even for a cartoony cast, they're not gelling with his greentooth face.

Eclipse · Apr 2009

Love it man, great work!

Killaball · Apr 2009

I love it, the cartoonish style is a very very nice change up from the hyper realistic and super grungy look of about all the other DW entries.

Can't wait to see it textured!

foreverendering · Apr 2009

This is looking super tight - great work and cartoony feel

r4ptur3 · Apr 2009

yeah, fantastic job translating your 2d into 3d. great vision and skill!

it's what I imagine a rebelling Disney character would look like. Cute at first ... then before you know it he's all over you with potions and grenades.

Nice greentooth owl bat thing. I always wondered where greentooth heads came from :P

Davidskiwan · Apr 2009

Love this entry, it just screams attitude!

solar · Apr 2009

Thanks Valander glad you like him
Cheers Rick
Thanks Tummerboy, Its been pretty tough trying to stick to the concept.
Thanks Sectaurs, I'll take a look at his feet, I wanted them big enough so that he could carry the eggs and go on a bombing run, but maybe they are too big.
Thanks Ecplise!
Cheers Killaball, hopefully get it textured soon...ish :poly124:
Thanks foreverending and Davidskiwan
Cheers r4ptur3, I really had disney in mind when I was concepting him, glad to hear I wasn't too far off!

Had insanely good weather this weekend so got no time to work on this, so only a wee update.

Couple of quick skulls from the other races to hang on his backback.

and a super quick polypaint colour test, I'll probabyl change this after I do the lowpoly version.

Rick Stirling · Apr 2009

The graudated paint job works nicely - have you considered an iridescent effect?

Rick Stirling · Apr 2009

Oh, and you are so right about the weather - I lost 3 days of planned artwork.

coldkodiak · Apr 2009

Love it dude.

Makes me want to do stylized work.

MoP · Apr 2009

looking cool, i love his accessories and little buddy!

i feel like his chest plates could probably be more exaggerated or maybe their shape made a tad more interesting just to stop his front feeling quite so flat.

Sephiel · Apr 2009

hey ! really cool character ! I especially like his stuff, bagpack, potionbelt and other !

engelik · Apr 2009

hehe! i just love his cartoony look

Bashomaru · May 2009

Bravo! Good to see someone who isn't doing some huge demon-thing.

M!

solar · May 2009

Thanks everyone, haven't had much time to do work on this, but the low poly is done, and here's how the texture is coming along.

It's pretty rough, lots of tidying still to do....

r4ptur3 · May 2009

go go go!

GoSsS · May 2009

Oh, I missed this one.
This little dragoon is really classy and color scheme is really cool.
Only one crit : the 2 big bat's feet don't fit with the body imo.

nrek · May 2009

Looking great dude, I love everything about this guy especially the style you gave it. I do kinda agree with GoSsS about the bat feet though. Keep going, cant wait to see the final.

Ged · May 2009

that looks great! youve used your polys really well and the colours are just like what people would expect from that art style, lovin it

rollin · May 2009

i love this one so much

rats78 · May 2009

sweet. I thought you'd given up. it's coming together very nicely dude. Love the colours.

woogity · May 2009

WHAT?! this is wonderful!!! coming along beautifully like both characters.

-Woog

rasmus · May 2009

Man, lovely colors on this one... How did it go?

Bal · May 2009

You're fired from polycount if you didn't finish this on time!

BC3D · May 2009

Dude this guy is fun. I hope you finished, Id love to see more. I'm personally a fan of a more stylized approach, just something different to look. Cant wait to see final images if you made it...

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