Sumea Challenge #7- popawheelie - Challenger #8

OK , sorry ive been slack with some screenies.. so here ya go

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Heres one of the helmet that the rider wears, I havent stuck it together,so excuse the line down the center. Did it this afternoon.

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The model is at 3422 tris, any crits, nows a good time :)
pop

Hey cool stuff! I really like those silver/chrome bands on the side of the helmet. They looks really shiny and reflective. Nice painting there.

realy nice work looking real good.

Neat work popa. The helmet looks really good but the lion looks a bit too monotone for me.

Thanks for the feed back guys.

lechy- I suppose it is a little monochrome, I tried to paint the tiger with a more dynamic palette, but it looks like a toy, and not a military machine. Im gunna use a few shaders (glowy bits) underneath, near the engine to but some colour in.

Man that looks awesome, how the hell do you do that? those details like fans and that mesh stuff? And how did you do those shiny pipe things on the back of the helmet? I?m stressing about not having enough time finishing my texture, I guess it?s my fault for leaving it to the last week.

Thanks goodgod, I use ALOT of layers in Photoshop. I think i had over 150 layers for the tiger, gets tricky as u can get lost without labeling them properly. I usually work in corel painter then goto photoshop for finer detail, but for this, i just when straight into PShop. Things like fans and mesh are just layers, there arent all fully drawn out, just a suggestion.

As far as time goes, im pushing it too, Ive been workin on other stuff, (im working on a demo reel) It would have been good to have worked on this more solidly throughtout the 3 months, but sadly that wasnt an option.

very nice.

nice work pop!!!! still got to the end of the week to do abit more... clean it up a little and umm do some really cool stuff to it OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAHHHHHHHHHH

DarkAngel :P

nice one wheelie popa... the helmet looks awsome. i think not coming to school is helping your process a bit :p

Thanks for ya feedback, here's some more renders, this one is the back of the model. The bit down the middle of the back is a spine protector, also helps the armor move, i guess.

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Heres a render of the chest armor,Im not happy with it, and im gunna revamp it, I think i changed styles when i was texturing, i seems outer place. Anyways its a bit too busy for the model, Ill do it agian. (and that copper colar thingy.../shiver)

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Crits & comments, welcome

Oh and skriptures, ill cya on friday, been in the studio during the day, got a exhibition, (not digital thou , just artwork)

pop[:D]

great work, its got a ver flowing design, i particularly like the helmet. unless your going for a perfect look, it might be worth adding in some scratches and dents (mainly on the body) here and there. other than that its really good. i'm looking forward to seeing it finished

that is really cool, very brooding.

OK heres an update, Im finsihed the texturing, although there will be a few spots that i'll need to polish a bit. I revamped the armor.

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Heres a side profile
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Gunna rig it tomorrow..

Hahah thats looking really cool! I love the shininess [:D] You could probably go over the texture again and add one more detail pass, perhaps a few sharp nicks and scratches (if that is what you want) But it does look pretty nice now anyway :)

faaaaancy, but i agree another detail pass would help

The detail is amazing popa, 150 layers? Whoa!!!!, the file size must have been getting out of control.

Heres a render. Just playing around with some lights today.

I touched up some details on the armor and the cat.

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The level of detail on these models is brilliant. They look terrific posed. Good job :)

looking really good, nothing to crit at all, i posted ages ago that a mount would be cool so its awesome to see that you managed to pull one off. especially such a high quality one.

I love the latest render of your character and cat posed. I agree with the others too, amazing detail level and a high quality of work.

Thanks for the feedback guys, Re-rigged it last night. My max file corupted after i initially rigged it for the pose above, tried all the usual tricks to get it back, but alas no luck. (it looked like parts of the model where melting >:-0 ) I was aiming to have it in the engine but I'm working all weekend (actually at work at the moment) The initial rig wasnt really complex but assigning verts and naming takes time. The new rig is really bare bones, built for posing. Glad we dont have to do run cycles, etc, for the comp. I would have liked to concerntrate on one character than sharing the requirements (polies, textures etc) over basically 2 characters. Anywho, all done now.

ANyways, thanks again for your feedback!
Ill post up the final soon.

Ok here we go,

Model name: Tiger scout

Covert class, hit and run (fast)tactics.

3458 tri's, 2 x1024 72dpi texture sheets. Rendered on white background.

**note i had a problem fitting the default lit model on a 512x1024, The dimensions of the model don't fit well at all, for any viewing purposes, on that size image.(damn tiger)**
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[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/popawheelie/200572135226_Texture…]
Money Shot.
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Thanks goes out to all who frequented the forums and gave feedback/crits, and to Sumea, for organising the comp (oh and sponsors).
Its 4am, work starts soon, so its bedtime for me.
[|)]

pop

You're challenger #8!

congrats popawheelie, awesome work, the moneyshot kicks ass! definate potential to win the comp!

Thanks man!
doh, i forgot to add the glowy bits unda the engine!

pop

awesome work popa, love the detail on the texture and the look of the model. its also a great effort to divide that number of polys between two characters. thanks for all the encouragement as well. you're certainly in with a shot, so good luck

Awesome man. Really nice with the textures and money shot! I'm sure you wont have any prob finding work next year hey. Did anyone else from AIE submit? I don't recognise the nics. Anyway.. will see you guys when I get back in August I guess ;)

Alex

Hey Alex, Good to hear from u. Hows the mobile games job goin? Some of the other AIE guys where going to go in it, but I think because of the workload, didn't have time. (although I think Tony was trying to get a really late entry in.) Hows zbrush goin? Im giving a demo on highpoly zbush for normal mapping in a month or so in class.(if u are around, i could use your input.) Im trying to push for normal mapping in the game. The version of Renderware we are using suports it. I will post up some of the new stuff im doing in the 'WIP exhibition' forum. Im working on my demo reel, so it be great if u could post some feedback/crits.

seeya soon
pop

Hey pop, great work man. You really pulled this model off well, especially the texture. God damn it looks good. Best of luck for the challenge man, see you back at the AIE next week.