CODEX: Neo-Roman Soldier

[torbjorn]

Looks nice so far! I guess you, aswell as I know that the lower body needs work right? Perhaps it's not done yet?! Thatäs what I thought ;-)

Keep on rockin! I'll check back to see what's happening!

[LuWeeWu]

It looks good so far but the face mask and shoulder pads are similar to the armor in the FinalFantasy: the spirit within.

[rmsmedia]

Thats kind of the look I'm going for, sort of a mesh between Rome and that Final Fantasy style...I'm thinking of getting rid of the goggles and exposing the eyes...

The concept is Rome never fell and is now fighting a new World War (et. 2051). The story is about a captain of a small platoon of men, He is a well read man who loves the arts and whose life was overcome by the war, his only escape now are his books. There are 3 soldiers along with the captain whom are ambushed while the captain of the platoon is lost in a work of classic literature. He is nearly finished with the book when they are attacked, he loses the book in his escape with his men. He resents not finishing the book and sees an opportunity to go for the book and is killed just before he reaches it, his finger tips hold it open against the wind to the last few pages left. His hands curl back as his life leaves him. The book remains unfinished and the wind blows the pages, and the cover closes.

I've just decided that I have to remove the mask and expose the captain's face, else the audience would never welcome his humanity.

[rmsmedia]

A production flyer for the film...
http://www.rmsmedia.com/img/codexCard.jpg

[LuWeeWu]

Wow. Nice...

I was thinkin about what you said about the goggles and I agree that you should expose the face so that you can show emotion with his exspresions, but I also think that a mask for his face would be important for his armor to have. Here's my suggestion...
Try a design for the mask more like the ones with two side peices for the cheeks and leave a T shaped opening for his eyes and mouth or maybe the googles could get worked back in to the design some how. It might be cool to see the googles get broke in the ambush fight scene (the butt of a rifle Shatters the glass or something) and he gets rid of them after they escape.

I hope this will give you some fresh inspiration on somethin I can tell you have already put alot of inspiration into.

Cheers

[rmsmedia]

I made a new thread for this painting...
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150156
its from this drawing...

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