The Villain - Highpoly Challenge #1 - Lachlan I

im making a little rapscallion gollum sized (not so skinny) character. started modelling.
fantasy ofcourse.

well, thats what i have planned. by then end he may very well be quite different.

ill get some pics and concept art up soon....

[update]

here is my progress so far. so much for the original idea of a skinny gollum sized creature.......
* the colour map is just proceedural. makes it a little more interesting to work with that just a grey blinn texture.

i do have a little sketch of what im going for but dont have a scanner here..ill get it up when i can.

Interesting anatomy there...me waits to see more.
oh, do you use Max or Maya?

max

what do u mean interesting anatomy? something really odd?

Well, his neck muscles are quite large compared to the other areas, but since I cant see the rest of the character it may look fine.

yeah the neck, it should all come into place when i put a head on there.

looking nice man!!! the guy is gonna be a tank with a neck like that.
'spose he could get a job as a bouncer... Then there is a high possibility he could run into Mr.McKeg! hehehe

Cool looking torso man, I think it's coming along great. I agree that the neck muscles are very large. Also the back muscles seem very large too. It might all make sense when you stick a head on it though, so I'll reserve judgement.

Just like to say your modelling style rocks! If you don't mind, what method of modelling do you use, and what package are you using? Also, are you using displacement maps for the finer details?

Thanks

I too would be interested to know how you have achieved such fine detail on his/her skin. Displacement, bump, or (hail or lord and master), actual polys? I dont see any point passing comment on the neck as you dont even have a head on there yet. There really isnt too much point making the neck perfect if you have nothing to connect it to. Going by the pic so far, Im sure that it will look very cool.

i have modelled the lowerbody now (including feet), will get some images up soon.
ive wipped off most the neck and am going to build a new one, the head i made doesnt suit. the neck would have worked if he had a big fat cavetroll like build. so i will be making anoter head, the first head i made i am happy with and will be using it in my demoreel anyway so its not a complete waste.
no hands yet.

on another note i am back working on my orc as well. i have managed to find a save that isnt too far back that isnt corrupt.
just have to uvwmap it again. so im just detailing that mesh and creating armour at the moment as well.

so i have this villain, orc and that beastie currently in the works...and a few other things i havent shown you guys.

looking forward to seeing updated pics. as well as the other projects you currently have going.

Although youve stated that your going to remake the neck,.. i reckon that neck would go well with a young minotaurs head or something with a massive heavy skull.

post some updates !!! your work is unreal!!

thanks hazard.
sorry i havent posted any updates ive been working on a different model for the past week and a bit and havent opened it up to render some out.

where the hell is everyone elses progress...come on guys.
lot of people seemed keen - i hope you all come out of the woodwood before the end :)

update:

[img]http://effectism.com/sumea/inglis_sumeahighpolycomp1_wip02.jpg[/img]

inglis that is freakin awesome !!!! nice use of displacement mapping and bump mapping!!! cant wait to see the whole proportion of the character.

nice work as usual [:D]

chris..

WOW. Very nice. The only fault I can see may not even be a fault. In that pic, the inside if his knees seems to have a little pointy bit. It may just be in the shadows and angle though.

Beautiful otherwise.

thanks guys-

aven: i just checked that out and it was a vein displacement causing that. just fixed it so the vein now runs down the inside of the knee. i replaced the image with the changes.

small update:

[img]http://effectism.com/sumea/inglis_sumeahighpolycomp1_wip03.jpg[/img]

the area between the upper and lowerbody will be modelled :) i just got bored and started playing around with the front cloth.

Looks great. Very nice modelling Inglis. The legs are great and I love the vein work you've done. The calves especially look very convincing.

Something about the chest seems strange though. It does look awesome, but perhaps the muscles seem a bit taught. They seems like he is in mid flex, but then again, it will probably make more sense when you pose him.

Anyway, good job.

looking great Inglis. I would agree with Ionized that the chest muscles are a little bit too flexed.
looking forward to the finish.
oh and will you be rendering it colour with a diffuse map or whatever they are called?

dude that mole near his belly button is exactly the same place mine is..... *freaky* although my friends used to call it cindy cos she was a model and she had one on her lip so we'd joke about mine being cindy mole.

looking very nice though, i suggest a really soft (touchable) looking skin for it too offset how buff and taught he looks that way it'll give it a tough but real/skin soft feel to it. but that's my opinion do whatever u like :)