Sumea Challenge #7 - Conundrum - Challenger #19

NIIICE!!

The armor lends itself well to have a jetpack, especially the helmet, that baby's built for speed[8D]

keep up the good work!

decided i may as well complete my entry so i went back and changed some stuff which was annoying me. mainly the protruding pauldrons, i pulled them back into the helmet, i think it looks better and should make for easier deformation. its at 3244 tris right now

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/conundrum/200561162333_Comp1.jpg…]

Nice work! Is that detail on the side of the boot seperate? I think it would be, hard to tell.. Anyways time to paint this baby!
Great work on that Master and savant too, looking forward to this model.

Just a design suggestion, but you probably have tried this, The section around the neck looks quite bulky, just wondering what it looks like if this area was to flair out over the top of the shoulders, incorporating the helmet and a shoulder guard.
Keep up the good work.
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waaahoo! funky looking. That dude is wearing some serious equipment. Small crit - on the profile his bum looks a little small and upper thigh too slim, I think that area should be filled out a bit more. I'm looking forward to seeing it painted.

thanks for the comments, unfortunately i've been busy and have not managed to fix much of the model. so i decided to move onto to texturing tonight. this is probably the worst unwrap i've ever done but it'll have to do for know. i'll start painting tommorow

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/conundrum/2005628111339_UV.jpg[/…]

Yea the unwrap isn't great, but don't worry, I'm still too embarrassed to show my unwrap.

yeah, i enjoy modelling but not texturing so this is pretty much my second unwrap/texture (the other time was the last sumea comp).
anyway here is the wip of the head to give an idea of where i'm going, the blue is where glowy bits will go. i'll have to pick up the pace if i want to finish but i should have a bit more spare time in the mext few days.

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/conundrum/2005629105336_Head.jpg…]

another update, most of the helmet roughed in. i've taken quite a while up to this point but hopefully i'll manage to complete it for the timeline. i liked the yellow rather than blue for the glowy bits as well.

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/conundrum/200563011354_Head2.jpg…]

Hey I really like the design of the model, looks like a fish (sort of) and I like fishies [:D]

Haha nah it really is pretty cool! Can't wait to see it finnished!

looks neat but the texture at the moment is pretty painterly, other then that no complaints :P

I don't mind the painted look of the texture, It has nice bright colours too, which is good.

yeah it does look very painted, but considering the time i've given myself, if i want any consistency i'm probably going to have to stick with the painterly look.

also, here's my attempt at the head (screen grabs and uv), this is only my second head texture so any help will be appreciated, hopefully i'll have time to address any suggestions.

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/conundrum/20057152444_Face.jpg[/…]

Keep on it man, coming along nicely. Maybe consider a few highlights on the nose to bring it out from the lower lip. ( a colour a bit lighter than the chin, use the dodge tool in PS.) Looking forward to seeing it done.. :)

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thanks pop, i fixed up the face

well, i've completed the first map, hopefully if i get enough of the second finished tomorrow i'll be able to come back and refine it a bit more. right now i'm pretty pleased compared to my previous efforts but i'd still like to improve certaint parts.

[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8687/map1wip6ys.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4533/map1ortho5ws.jpg[/img]

Cmon man! work! work! I wanna see this done! :)

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nearly there, i've finiahed it but i'm just preparing the all the images

here it is, thanks a lot to everyone who helped, some great entries this time so good luck to all

[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5676/wiremodel0rx.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6985/colourmodel9gi.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1730/wireflats9rq.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2732/colourflats0wr.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3447/render2js.jpg[/img]

Ok, Conundrum forgot to PM me with this! You're challenger #19.

well done on completing, that money shot actually really suits the style of the model

Good to see this done, Conumdrum. love the style of the textures. Top notch man.

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