Just marking out my territory - don't touch my stuff! [:p]
I'm almost certainly going with the steampunk inventor concept - kind of a travelling professor/adventurer with a honkin great steam-powered arm and a similarly honkin great sword. Got an exam this week so unless I get lazy with revision I probably won't have a concept up for a few days.
Im a wacom newbie too, a lot of fine sumea folk have been helping me out over here: http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3820
On the actual character concept, i want to be honest and say be carefull of working with too many proven methods. Big sword, big boots and a mechanical arm might make a few people frown. I like the idea of a steam punk inventor though so id suggest to keep at the drawing board for the time being and see what you can come up with
The boots aren't supposed to be that big, my sense of proportion is just crap. [:D] Time permitting I'll do a model sheet with more accurate proportions. Having got this down on paper I'm leaning towards making him a lot finer and skinnier, contrasting with the arm a bit more. I'm still up in the air about the sword, I may give him a rapier or something lighter or even go without and focus on the arm as a weapon. You make a good point about proven methods, but don't draw too much from this sketch, it's pretty poor [;)].
I'm taking a wander through that Wacom thread, good stuff thanks.
Ghaaa! The evil MoonUnit planted his egg deep in my brain and something nasty will soon emerge... [:p]
I'm ditching the sword, colour and dignity, and hopefully giving him a little more character. Probably won't bother with another concept, more likely I will have a WIP model and character description up shortly. But then again, with my brain gestating something gruesome as we speak, who knows?
Great start Bunny, but MoonUnit and yourself have both pointed out all the things I would have suggested. I would definately agree with losing the sword. STEAM POWERED ARM PWNZ TEH SWORD!
I think you could definately push this concept to great heights, you have more than enough time to do so.
Quick suggestion. If he's an inventor, why not dress him up in some inventor style gear. Labcoat, leather apron, gloves, goggles, crazy hair? I just keep getting images of 'Doc' from Back to the Future III in the wild west with a massive steampunk arm attached.
Looking forward to see what you come up with.
-caseyjones
That's one reason I'm messing with the concept - I was having trouble reconciling the 17th century costume with the inventor concept, and the style ended up kinda fuzzy. The Wild West idea is doing things to my brain, not what I had in mind but interesting. I'll let it percolate at work tonight and see what bubbles to the surface...
Quick and nasty concept for ya - forgive the roughness, it's my first Wacom sketch.
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/bunny/200661042123_challenge_con…]
Ignore the colour scheme, just messing around. There's a lot of detail I haven't bothered with, I just wanted to get some progress up for your taunts and jeers. [:)]