Hey all, Started a new model. Thought I'd put it up for have a look at, comment/crit and all that good stuff. It's for my demo reel i'm putting together, so i need it to be tight.
Concept.
The model is of a foreign legion deserter, during the later half of WW2. Why is he deserting? To get back to his loved ones I suppose... He was stationed in Africa, and now hes making his way thru the desert, dodging his old comrades and other desert nasties. Hes taken on my of a nomad look for dusguise purposes.
This model has been quite difficult, the modelling itself has been pretty straight forward, but the references have been hard to get a hold of.(my local library sucks and the universities wasn't much better.) I like to research, particulary these type of characters, and my aim to get things historically correct. i don't know why im such a stickler for it, just like to model that way. I've tried making it up or adding additions i see fit, and it bugs the hell outer me when i see something that I have modeled that wasnt in use at the time. Anyways enuf ranting.
I'm sticking to a poly count of 5k tris. (for the character, weapons separate)I'm aiming for the middle ground of todays tech and next gen. For the textures i was going for a 512, then i thought &^%* it, i'll do a 1024. I can always reduce the size. Im goin to add an alpha as well, for giggles.
wire- the head/face looks long because its hard to make the smaller details out of the african turban.
**useless info** I originally modelled a turban from indiana jones, raiders of the lost ark, the scene when hes in the map room.(had a good reference from some Indy fan boys.) Then i found out thats its an egyptian style (very similar), it looked ok, but it bugged me, so i remoddled it, african desert style. ( i know..im nutty)
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/popawheelie/200577115713_frontwi…]
The pants/hands arent joined as yet, and for some reason i forgot to add the water bottles/pouches/holster in the render. The gear makes the model complete, without gear hes pretty plain. Also his eyes aren't bug like from the desert sun, hes wearing goggles.
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/popawheelie/200577115851_pers_re…]
I modelled his weapon and his horse aswell, ill post it up soon. I was thinkin camel, but the foreign legion had horses during their calvery days.(ww2 is a little late for horses, so maybe he stole/traded it from a nomad.) , and horses are cooler than camels. (but then theres motorbikes...pfft not stealthy enuf.)
Anyways crit/comment, go to town on it. Im about 6 hours into the moddling, so theres maybe small mistakes.
ps. sorry for the rambling.
pop
Oh thats so cool. I really dig the mish mash of different animal groups you have there; Half human/bird/squid type thing. Wouldn't really want that thing to be stuck on my arm o_O
cool stuff :)
...wait thats a beak isnt it? or 5 million mashing claws?