GAC 11 - Rasputin, Gregory Efimovich

[mv]

lol, that's an awesome idea Yves! old Drunken Monkey style Darwin... can't wait to see that .

[Equinoxx]

hehe thx. hope it comes out better then my concept LOL

anyhoo, 1st post updated with concept :D

should be fun.

[thesuit]

This character can also perform well fighting "a la blanca" style from street fighter 2!
damn that game had its times...
ill be keeping an eye on this one.

[keeganb]

Hey Equinoxx you've chosen a great historic person for your entry! This is one of my favourite chocies so far, the pressure is on to do him justice! I'm not too keen on the concept, nice art and all but I think he should have a bit more of the scientist there! Maybe a shredded lab coat and some broken specticales? Anyway top choice I can't wait to see more.
Keegan

[Equinoxx]

yeah you're right there. I was thinking of a shredded coat myself. aso shredded pants.

I don't know... as said, i'm not to good a concept 2D artists, so i'm quite positive the model itself will lok better.

[bentllama]

your sketch sorta looks like Panthro from the Thundercats... ;) cross between Monkian...

[Equinoxx]

lol now that you mention it . . . uch i'm struggling with it. as said, i'm not the best concept artists, but I'd like to think that If i try hard enough even the concept should be cool enough.
Perhaps I need to rethink a thing or two.

Perhaps I should've gone with my 1st idea of either nostradamus and the power of foresight or with Rasputin...

we'll se, plenty of time to rethink.

[keeganb]

Hey Equinoxx please dont change your idea, I think your onto a winner here. Just a bit more thought on the design and it'll be so good!
Keegan

[Equinoxx]

sorry to dissapoint you, but there's a change of plans.

It's gonna be Rasputin.
I'm changing for the main reason that I do not feel inspired by my current idea.
I have nothing with darwin. Rasputing on the other hand is a character that never let go of me since the 1st time i heard about him.

concept is on it's way.

[Equinoxx]

Game (Fictional):

Character: Gregory Efimovich Rasputin

Description:

Story: Poisened, shot, stabbed and drowned {with a weight]. Awaking from this 'murder' rasputin knew he had finally accomplished it. Suspecting that the invitation to a grand dinner was false pretence to his murder, Rasputin layed final hands on his potion that would make him near immortal. His mastery of the black arts did indeed save his life, making him near immortal. His aging halted to a mere crawl, wounds did not Kill him.

Age: immortal
Hair: black
Eyes: Blind. he does not need eyes.
Height: 6'4
Weight: 210 lbs
Fighting style: Mystic Druid
Weapon: Firepods, Weighted Rope, Magic
Special : ?
Concept:
http://equinoxx.cgcommunity.com/challenges/gac11/rasputin.jpg

[Supervlieg]

hmm, red cross. Im interested in the sketch. Id like to see how this one will look.

[Equinoxx]

red cross ? :argh:

how one earth is that possible ?
I NEVER had the cross sneak up on me.
specially since it's hosted on the same servers as cgtalk.

http://equinoxx.cgcommunity.com/challenges/gac11/rasputin.jpg

does that one work ?

[keeganb]

I'm a bit saddened that you have abandoned Darwin but hey you have to do something that holds your interest. In your concept is that knives sticking out of his sides or are they belt straps, it looks a bit unclear? I also think you should play on your idea of potions and animal nails/teeth hanging from his belt. More stuff like that would go really well I think. Also if thats a hangmans noose around his kneck then thats a cool idea, I love it!
Coming together nicely Equinoxx!

[Equinoxx]

yeah they're Knifes, but in the model they're not gonna be so symmetrical. and that indeed is a hangmans noose. the other end with a weight will be his weapon. think ball and chain but then rope and concrete block.

there's more stuff gonna be hanging from his belt as well. I chose to have him in his 'working' outfit rather then his 'social garment'

I'm thinking I'm gonna give him a bleu-ish grey skintone on the account of his drowning with lots of veins from being poisened. He is a living deadman so to speak.
Lots of stab & shotwounds as well.

[Equinoxx]

a little progress :) 1448 faces sofar.

http://equinoxx.cgcommunity.com/challenges/gac11/rasputin_wip01.jpg

[dmonk]

Good work so far! I kind of always saw rasputin with a sort of sunken in skinny face. I love the face so far.:thumbsup:

[Equinoxx]

well, it took a while, but I'd rather show large updates once in a while then a newly added face every day ;)

All hair on the head is temporary, just for the feel.

http://equinoxx.cgcommunity.com/challenges/gac11/rasputin_wip06.jpg
http://equinoxx.cgcommunity.com/challenges/gac11/rasputin_wip07.jpg

[LiquidMetal]

Looks really cool.Are you going for the dead,skinny look?Because his arms and legs look very skinny.Great Job and Good Luck!

[Equinoxx]

skinny and dead it is. i figured being the mystic monk that he is,
he doesn't need 'brute force'to overcome his oponents.
But I don't want to make him so skinny he won't be able to use his Weighted Rope weapon anymore hehe

[terraarc]

Hey nice going! I like a lot the mustic twisted look of the face right now....:thumbsup:

The body is going well too, so what's the polycount so far?

[Equinoxx]

not sure, I'll have to look it up, If Ihave to guesstimate, I'd say it's somewhere between 6-8000 or something ?

I'll have accurate information tonight ;)

[Serul]

Looking good there! :thumbsup: The knives/daggers sticking out of him are a nice touch, although they seem a bit oddly placed.

His head is lookng pretty good too, although I would probably have had his hair haning more loose around his head, in various thick dirty strands... But that's just me :).

[Equinoxx]

yeah I was thinking about that as well, might change that. I understood this challenge runs for 3 :eek: months ? should be well enough to change stuff ;)

[PKD]

Very nice model you have up there. I have a question though, is the mouth wielded, as in it couldn't be open? I certainly hope not. Great fighting chacacter need great facial expressions (i.e, grunting & shouting) to bring out the "lifeliness" in them. Especially so when the character is gonna be so up close. An expressionless face will make the character looks like a dummy & lifeless.

[Equinoxx]

Yeah the mouth is seamed shut. Perhaps I'll update that with an open mouth if time permits.
Still rather new to game-art in the way of low-poly modeling & texturing, but I like to get it right.

Will probably update the hair as well to be excist of strand of hair rather then the current clump.

small update for now, made his eyes [blind eyes]

http://equinoxx.cgcommunity.com/challenges/gac11/rasputin_wip08.jpg

[Ranimus]

I have to tell you that you are doing a great job. The skin looks amazing!!

I love how you can se the veins, KICK ASS!

However I think that you should wrinkle under the eyes more, it looks too clean, as it flows all the way down through his cheeks.

All in all thought, very very good work.

[terraarc]

The eyes surely look pretty blind to me! :)

Maybe adjusting a bit the color on the area around eyes....a bit more saturated red or brown...just an opinion...:shrug:

[Woyman]

This is excellent! Incidentally I got this e-mail a few days back. It's an interesting read and hope it helps. :)

Grigory Yefimovich Novykh (a.k.a. Rasputin) was an unkempt "healer" who wandered into St. Petersburg around 1903 and gave everyone the creeps--everyone except Czarina Alexandra, the empress of Russia.

Friends in High Places

Czarina Alexandra became convinced that only this self-proclaimed holy man from Siberia could improve the health of her sickly son, the heir to the throne. For a decade, she followed Rasputin's advice. Around the czarina, he played the part of a pious monk, but he was actually a notorious carouser. "Rasputin," the surname he adopted, means "debauched one."

The rest of the court despised Rasputin, but the royal family wouldn't listen to a bad word about him. Czar Nicholas ignored reports that his wife's chief adviser was a licentious drunk who kept sidling up to ladies, offering to heal them if they touched him the right way. He even ignored rumors that Rasputin was "healing" the czarina herself. Those who criticized Rasputin found themselves summering in Siberia--and wintering there, too.

Rasputin reached the height of his influence around 1915. With Czar Nicholas away at war, the czarina depended on Rasputin's often bad advice for running the empire. Fed up, the czar's nephew-in-law, Feliks Yusupov, and the czar's cousin, Dmitry Pavlovich, enlisted accomplices and plotted to assassinate the powerful peasant. No one knows exactly what happened the night Rasputin died, but everyone agrees that Rasputin was a hard man to kill. The basic story goes like this.

Strike 1: Cyanide

In December 1916, Yusupov invited Rasputin for a late-night rendezvous at his home, using his pretty young wife as bait. When Rasputin arrived, his host had cyanide-laced wine and teacakes laid out for him. Yusupov told Rasputin that his wife was entertaining some other company elsewhere in the house, but that she would be joining them shortly. As the two men sat waiting in a little dining room, Yusupov urged his intended victim to have a snack and a glass of wine.

Though Rasputin was known as a disgusting guzzler, he imbibed only a little wine that night, and he declined the poisoned pastries--too sweet, he said. Eventually, he had a teacake. Yusupov watched for signs that the poison was taking effect, but two hours after he should have been dead, Rasputin was still waiting politely for the lady of the house.

Yusupov was spooked. He left Rasputin, regrouped with the other conspirators--who were waiting in a nearby room--and explained that their victim wasn't dying very quickly. When he re-entered the dining room, Yusupov carried a gun.

Strike 2: Bullets (and Strikes)

Yusupov shot Rasputin, who fell to the floor, twitched and jerked, and then lay still. The others rushed in and were relieved to see Rasputin dead. Then the gang trouped back upstairs and began to celebrate their daring deed.

Perhaps an hour later, Yusupov went downstairs to check on the body. Rasputin was a little too . . . warm. The next thing the others knew, Yusupov was shrieking that Rasputin was still alive. In fact, the man they had poisoned and shot was trying to escape across the courtyard.

Pavlovich, the czar's cousin, chased Rasputin down and shot him twice--once in the back and once in the head. The gang then dragged the body back into the Yusupov home just as a policeman arrived to ask about all the commotion. The policeman questioned a servant about the noise, seemed satisfied with his answers, and moved on. Meanwhile, in the house, Yusupov lost control. He grabbed a dumbbell and pounded Rasputin's body mercilessly.

Strike 3: He's Drowned

By now, Rasputin had been poisoned, shot him three times, and beaten with a two-pound dumbbell. But his murderers were taking no chances. They tied Rasputin up, carried him out to the car, drove onto a bridge over the Neva River and pitched him in through a hole in the ice. His body was found about a week later.

Yusupov and Pavlovich braced themselves to stand trial, but the czar exiled them instead. Ironically, that punishment ended up saving their lives. Getting kicked out of Russia months before the Bolshevik Revolution was the best thing that could have happened to relatives of the czar. In July 1918, the Bolsheviks killed off most of Russia's royals.

Colleen Kelly
December 14, 2004

[Geta-Ve]

woyman - thanks for the great read :) sounds like it could make a few great finishing attacks :) drowning his victims, a hail of bullets, or giving them the choke hold while forcing cyanide down their throats... im sane :)

anyhoo love the concept and the model so far, but in my opinion the eyes looked 100 percent better when they were pure white, made him more menacing :)

[Pavlovich]

holy resurrected thread not withstanding...i did a search for my username (also my last name) to recheck my personal info and found this.

maybe i came from the loins of someone who shot rasupin in the back (?...!)

totally sweet.

--mike pavlovich

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