Egyptian Dark Warrior

[ninjacore]

this looks pretty cool. any chance of a close up of the head..looks like there is an excess of polys on that helmet. whats the overal count?

[franklyn]

"My last model..."

u mean ur latest model?

anyways its a nice char cant wait for the texture update

[SergioSantos]

thank you franklyn,
my apologize for my terrible english
I wanted to say "latest", it was a mistake with my mother tongue.


polycount: about 4500

[SergioSantos]

texture coordinates
and detailed renders

[maxx10]

nice... but if it's an Egyptian as in the Egypt of the pharaohs they didn't have scimitars but a similar shaped weapon called "Kopesh"
http://home.earthlink.net/~kilroy1128/khopesh.jpg

[SergioSantos]

My inspiration is Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark.

[maxx10]

My inspiration is Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark.

then it's fine :thumbsup:

[zortech]

He looks really good. Nice stlye and clean modeling. Looking forward to see him textured. :)

[SergioSantos]

Bump maping and specular

[LeeSalo]

nice one dude. that guy kicks ass. I loved the disposable bad guys in raiders

[AdamAtomic]

awesome! i think his chin extends just a little bit too far down, but it looks really sweet otherwise!

[SergioSantos]

captures of the 3D MAX viewport.

[Hailey_Bop]

very very nice!! this guy rocks! the texturing, modeling, everything! great job!

[NeptuneImaging]

Are those wrinkles bump mapped? I thought that was not really possible...if anything, excellent work...

[TallgeeseIIII]

wow! great work, and that's a normal map, not a bump map, right? oh, and how do you get your viewport to render the effects? i heard that was possible if you have a radeon x800 card, which i do, i just never figured it out. can you tell me?

[danydrunk]

yeah, thats a normal mapp right? and what software did you used for the high res?

[SergioSantos]

Thank you for comments!

I use 3D MAX 7 and Photoshop CS
To check the normal map in viewport you need to activate "metal bump9" (Material Editor / DirectX Manager).

I usually build a high mesh to get the normal map, but some times i haven't got time to build it, so I paint it in Photoshop. I use a black & white document. Black is inside, white is outside and grey (RGB 128,128,128) is neutral. When i've finished I use a Photoshop filter to convert this document into a normal map : FILTER->NVTOOLS->NORMALMAPFILTER.

My computer is an Athlon XP 2GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI RADEON 9800 PRO 128Mb...
Works fine :)

some images showing the process:

[TallgeeseIIII]

whoooa, MUST try this, i heard about that photoshop plugin too, any clue where i can get that? i have max 7 and photoshop 7.

[dtrimble]

This is looking awesome, can you post some 3/4 veiws of this guy posed? The only crit I can see is that the feet look a little flat, could use a little more shaping, but that is just a nitpick, Great job on this character!

[SergioSantos]

Setting up physique/biped

[TallgeeseIIII]

wow... this thing.... is.... AWESOME, may i ask what it's for? is it an independent project, a mod, or are you mkaing it for a game? if you can even tell me that is... oh, and i got the direct x working, i had it on opengl before and my card could anti alias everything, it doesn't do that for direct x, is there a way to force full screen anti aliasing for direct 3d?

[SergioSantos]

This charater is for a job test. I hope to get the job... :)

I know what you tell me, I used OpenGL, but I don't know how to show bump maping in OpenGL or how to anti alias with DirectX.

I would like to do an image with this model, i'll post a preview (for crits...)



(sorry my bad english)

[vancorso]

Great work Sergio! I know that was possible make the normal maps that way, but never try it. Very efective and more cheap than go in zbrush. Thanks to share this tip :)

By the way, I think that your work in Arvirago was great! I hope to see more things from you.

Venga, un saludo!

[danydrunk]

thanks for that photoshop normal mapping tip, thats a really cool thing, is that a filter that comes with photoshop cs? or you have to get it separately?

[SergioSantos]

You can download this plugin from the web of NVidia (http://www.nvidia.com/)
or from here (http://www.quest3d.com/index.php?id=102)


(Gracias por los comentarios, seguiré posteando :) )

[SergioSantos]

I want to do something like this image...

(It's a preview)

[marc001]

The muscle anatomy in the arms can use some tweaking. The bicep forarm connection is sharp. Also the deltoids have a way of flowing into the pectoral muscles. But overall it looks good. I had no idea you could make a normal map from a bump map. It's a cool technique.

For this art test did you get a concept sketch to work from? Can you post it? I'd like to see a comparison.

[SergioSantos]

did you get a concept sketch to work from?

They gave me some frames of movies like "Indiana Jones" and "The Mummy"
And some words about the character likes.

They want I design the character, but with little references.

[nathanielbell]

I really like him. I like the style the colors everything. Very cool.

[SergioSantos]

BTW I've got the job... :)

Thanks to everybody for their comments!

(I'll try to upload the final image, maybe next week...)

[Animation626]

great character...and grats on getting the job, hope you succeed even more in the future :)

[ElfKitty]

The texturing on this guy is awesome! http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif

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