Character: Dark knight stills

[jone]

Definetly like it.:
add some scraches and dust in her armor,
it might look more realistic.
: is that Brazil rendered?
BTW: Wery NIce..:airguitar

[Stonepilot]

That' just a cool piece. Specially the 2nd pic it just has allot of feel.

[Joebount]

Less reflexion, more bumps (real one, no mapping) and it will be really coool !

MAX ? if yes, send your shader to Visual Boo iff you want (cf. 3DS area, the sticky post)

[Netvudu]

sorry buds, this is Lightwave.

Thus no Brazil, not even Lw radiosity. Taking into acccount my really crappy system specs I can´t afford such render times. I had to go with my own light setup to fake GI and be able to render the whole animation.
It didn´t work too bad,though.

Personally,I like the surfaces as they are. It should have looked less reflective had I been able to blur the reflections, but my experiments with the off-the-shelf LW plugin for blurring reflections looked quite bad, and my experiments blurring just the reflection buffer in post didn´t look much better. (and I can´t afford buying HyperSmooth). I´ll have to experiment with that for further projects.

By the way, I find it interesting how people still make WIP-like suggestions in a forbidden-WIP zone :rolleyes:
Anyway, I like such comments. I can´t agree with all of them, but any good hint on how to improve my future work will always be very well-received.
So thanks for those comments. :thumbsup:

[Joril]

I wonder... what's so dark about a knight in shining silver armour?

[Najd]

maybe the Axe on the helm ??

It's CoOL man. :beer:

[TheWriter]

I like this one a lot. Very good work. Dont feel too bad about the reflections etc. Hell, I grow up in the blender community and they could only dream of the results from your work.
I think a lot of LW users would love to see a tutorial from you sometime.

[HapZungLam]

nice lighting and textures. However, did you get him a spec/refl map? seems like his armor is too shiny like the car being waxed.

[swampthing]

Looks good with the exception of the helmet. That big crescent on the top just looks plain silly. Especially in the 2nd pic. And the fact that he doesn't have a neck opening sorta throws the image off as well.

[zuhuhu]

Can you give the matterial specialities?? ???????????

[Beastie]

Nice work but theres something that makes me think its not finished. Maybe it's because this model has alot of potential as to be a very cool, intricate model, its kinda plain right now. I think some added small details and a bump map would add some. Maybe an interesting weapon, armor plates, or a crest on his chest? Dont get me wrong it's looking good. :thumbsup:

[Goon]

I've seen a lot of armor, and none of the original stuff has much in the way of reflective properties. Maybe this is just because the pieces are a couple hundred years old, but i hardly think that medieval era steel quality would be up to that par. Look at some examples, and you will find a pretty rough, greyish surface that only has a dull sheen.
BTW, what's the pattern/artifact right beneath his shield arm in the second pic.

[Valkyrien]

hey NV! welcome to this other little insane corner of the 'net!:D

awesome job, as I know i've said before at least once on this project!:D

[Netvudu]

hi Valk, you lord of the boards ;)

To those of you who added compliments lot of thanks.
To the rest of you: foeeee...heh,heh..just kiddin. Seriously, I have quite a personal way of reading criticisms which consists on not paying attention to them..heheh. Mainly because most of the time people aren´t aware of what goes behind a project. What has been hurried or what has been simplified for all kind of different reasons: time constrais, low hardware specs, etc...

This being said, it is the people´s prerogative not to consider all this situations and just judge the art work. So is mine to question their judgement depending on the reasons for those supposed or real flaws.

All in all, I agree with the armor being a tad too reflective (blurring reflections would have helped a lot to diminish that problem) and that the model could have much more detail.
I just try to improve my previous works, get better at this and eventually find a job in the industry.
My maximum aspiration is to be able to create something like uh...Graphamaximo? :arteest:

[Beastie]

Well yes, we all know of certain possible limitations but this is a critique board. They are going to have suggestions in them which is the point of the site. What else would we write about, nothing but endless praise? Which I'd like to add that I did say it was a good model. Just letting you know what the sites for incase you werent aware. :hmm:

[Netvudu]

endless praise?..hey, that sounds great. Where can I find that? :p

[Beastie]

Try your mothers house

[Valkyrien]

Originally posted by Big D
Try your mothers house

lighten up, he was joking :rolleyes:

[Netvudu]

:surprised
wow...I hope he wasn´t really trying to sound so rough....otherwise I would be tempted to say the guy has no education.
Obviously I was just kiddin with my previous reply...

[Beastie]

Sorry didnt mean to sound rough. I was joking :thumbsup:

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