Hi to everyone on the board,
Ive been a spectator on sumea for a while and realised its about time I put my 2 cents in. It might be pushing it to have a final model by the close date but here goes.
My original for my concept for horror is the idea of being invaded by a parasite and eaten from the inside out. Im interested in the hell that the host goes through as the bloodsuckers tenticles crawl under his skin and his insides get slowly sucked out from behind.
He'd be one of the incidental characters you met earlier in the game or perhaps one of your team that became infected, begging desperatly for help.
But in reality theres only one thing thatll save him.
Im not totally happy with the concept as I feel it needs exitemnet, its not that the undead arnt bed wetting enough but he looks to much like a zombie at the mo. I might bring the pariste inside as if the host were worn like a coat or maybe even a hat :)
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Heres a basic early mesh.
Im just having abit of trouble getting the idea on paper so ive kept it fairly loose and until I commit to a final concept sometime this week.
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Blimey, Im sure not winning on the popularity stakes,but I guess posting a human figure isnt exactly goin to have everyone drooling.
Thanks for the love, Con and moon.
Hes a sketch I gave a quick paint up to help refine the idea. Ill do one more after this as I still think its a little boring. More tentalce and bulges under the skin are probably the go.
How it works:
The parasite is ingestet and is incubated in the liver. As it grows its tentacles spread out under the skin to the majour organs so it can use the hosts lungs, heart, blood and bowel etc. The larger it gets the more energy it needs and until the host can no longer produce enough for 2, thats when the parasite must look for food. IT expands, ripping the host two so that mouth/extended stomach is at the surface.
Thats the point when the human loses contol of their body and can only watch in horror as the monster takes over..
Funnything is that there are real life parasites that do eat you from the inside out, so if your in Africa dont eat raw fish.
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Ive refined the basic mesh and thatl do for tonight. The next stage will be to add more tetacles then detail the hands and feet until the poly limits reached. My concept was for scrawny limbs but im gonna have a play with the limbs and see if i can add more weight to the figure.
Then its my favourite part. UV's :(
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Ranny don't worry too much about not getting many replies to your topic, I think everyone's feeling a bit overwhelmed with the number of submissions for this comp and is having trouble keeping track of them all.
My 2 cents, looking at your wires I can see a lot of wasted polys in his shorts which could be better used for adding details such as the straps around his chest and arms. Otherwise looking fine.
Okay. Its abit of a jump since last post but heres afew viewport screengrabs with a slightly higher texture res than final.
After a bit of messing about adding tenticles I decided it would be quiker to remodel the leg and arm rather than continue and cut into a degrading mesh. Ive tried to take over the right hand side of his body leaving the left fairly normal so I can have a contrast in texture and size making him A symetrical.
I still have alot to do but i couldnt resist a quick pose.
Your comments and crits are appreciated.
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The hook things are "in progress" tenticels that have burst throught the skin in the hand. If i have time id like to give them little mouths and have one coming out the brain head but im cutting it fine for final sub as it is.
I had a quick crack at animating him as the rig's all there.
It's literally 5 minutes work just to see what hed look like.
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I thought id post up the textures so far and see if I can get my post to 2 pages.
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While im here....
Id say the textures getting closer, i have to revisit afew areas like the black leg areas and the hand but its coming along. Ive yet to bake lighting from the lighttracer and bump but Ill composite over in PHP once ive finished pixel pushing.
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Blimey, im not used to such flattery. Tell you the truth i was kinda regretting posting it, I was just messing about and wanted to see if I could get a quick animation to work well in 4bit/ 10fps gif, a hadnt even bothered to make the anim loop properly.
But im glad you noticed the 2 sides separating. (small tear runs donw my cheek). :)
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no 7 on its way
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Is that the final shot for #7? Update it when you can if it isn't (if you don't, I can just accept the above)..
Well done, you're challenger #5.
My original money shot was soooo bad, and a real cop out, I was tired and lost the energy for the final push until id had a break.
Then came my epiphany.
Id shoot myself in the foot if i thought id get a laugh, and i may just have.
But to be honest I wasnt ever going to win so I might aswell go for the jokes.
its looking very good at this atage, i think it has got a fair amount of individuality, although i agree as you mentioned that the parasite could do with some more development to really make it stand out. looking forward to the model