Races of Middle Earth - Creature - 3ddy

[Remi]

I like the idea....can't decipher much from the concept sketch although it does look pretty cool....looking forward to seeing your progress...happy contesting...:thumbsup:

[eddy-3ddy]

me neither, I was busy with the eyes, but my girlfriend asked me to leave the computer...

He will get a mouth and some teeth and some eyes, nose and maybe hands, too throw his or her children (I think that's a tiny funny thing)

About the name I'm not quite sure, It will be a simple name, also like ent, "the older names or the most simplistiest names" like bullrog, the new names are more exotic names.

[eddy-3ddy]

oke, here a next update. I'm not quite happy about it, but I will buggle that up in 3d.

Some hand on his back added, eyes and a mouth. The next update will be in 3d...

[Iguiniz.X.]

Funny looking creature
Guess he will be a good swimmer, :p
Maybe we can make a final pic with the both of them, since they are both underewather

[Robbert]

Great concept 3ddy!! (damn i have seen his real face:p)
Can't wait too see the model, i think it will be a cute character, or am wrong?
Good luck with the challence!
:beer:

[eddy-3ddy]

Yo thanks for the replies, 3dhypers are on the move:bounce:

It's gonna be a damn cute character, I hope I can create that...

To Scorpes: I'm sorry, I will cover up my face next time with our meeting of 3dhype.com

It's more difficult then I thought. Create some rock that looks like rock and also a face with hands. But I will try...:wip:

[OZ]

GOOD IDEA! Im very curious about the syle.....will be realistic or cartoon like?

[eddy-3ddy]

-OZ-: My idea was too make it very realistic. I hope that's gona happen.

[nibo]

Hard as a rock!
:)

[Joril]

Let's see some polygons 3ddy!! :p

[eddy-3ddy]

Some changes are made in the concept:

The first thing I remembered was that river stones are mostly round through the splashing water. (It's also easier to model :blush: )

Here just the mouth and chin. There will be a nose and arms etc.

[eddy-3ddy]

A next one, this one has more personality.

Joril: here are your polies

Nibo: And a little bit soft inside

UHM, the stone is styl simetric, but that will change after a while

[BlueCougar]

Just wondering, if its stone and its underwater does he need a nose? It didn't occur to me that he would actually need to breathe. That is the reason I was asking. Just a thought.

[eddy-3ddy]

throw a fish on land, does it breath?:shrug: My createre, is a land and water creature, they live in the river area, at the side of the river or in the river.

It may have been a great idea to create some fish breathing tools (I don't know how you caal that in english, but I hope it's clear), I have to think about that...


Personaly I like a nose on a creature, it's gives him more personality, but oke, it's just peronal
Thanks

[BlueCougar]

Cool, I like the nose as well, and gills would be pretty neat on him. Is he made of stone or does he just look like it?

[eddy-3ddy]

gills What is that?
He is made of stone, flexible stone... but hard.:argh:

[eddy-3ddy]

Another update. This is just a test with texutering... I always do, I don't now why..

[eddy-3ddy]

here some arms, the hands will be big...

[eddy-3ddy]

sorry, image forgotten (i'm a button freak)

[eddy-3ddy]

Added some green eyes

[Robbert]

Looks good sofar, i think you have too add some scratches, dust and more collors... too make it realistic stone.
Keep posting! :beer:

[Robbert]

You can also use displacement mapping for more rougness and variation.

look at this:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6022&perpage=15&highlight=strike&pagenumber=4

[eddy-3ddy]

Oke, here my idea ref > those are his family:

[eddy-3ddy]

Stonehead at war, I just gonna make two versions, one dressed, one undressed or in naturistic clothes. Here is one that's gonna be on war. How it further gonna look like, I don't know yet.

[eddy-3ddy]

here the back of the creature

[Joril]

I think I just remembered something. :D

http://www.teletoon.com/Programs/Pokemon/Gallery/074_N003.gif

[dies-irae]

love the concept, love the face,
big mouth and quiet eyes... kind of "i can smash you whenever i want"

only crits on the "shoulders" try to blend the arms with the body!

really cool model anyway!

[eddy-3ddy]

Joril: Thx joril, I thought I was original...:surprised

The only thing that's different is that my creature gets some feet.

dies-irae: Thx for loving it, and maybe you're right on those arms, but I did it more on purpose. It's easy texturing. If you know an other way...

Thanx for replieng you all:thumbsup:

[toxichimp]

kewl! :thumbsup:

I dunno why, but I think he should have a tail. A small, stumb one just to keep his balance :p

[eddy-3ddy]

Toxichimp > Zo de jus, jij leeft ook nog?

Yeah, maybe a good idea to make a tale, I will think about it

[eddy-3ddy]

What do you think about the hands?

These are just a try for matching with the body...

[eddy-3ddy]

So comments are really welcome here!!

[eddy-3ddy]

Here is the last one

[eddy-3ddy]

Question for this, anyone know how to texture this creature?

[eddy-3ddy]

Some corrections for the thumb

[eddy-3ddy]

other view

[Joril]

The thumb looks alot better than before. :thumbsup:
However, I think you should still use the "stone" theme some more. The nails could be more original. like pebbles lying on the fingers or something.
And maybe the joints of his limbs should be a bit bulkier. They look very smooth now. like rock that's been lying in a stream of water for a very, very long time.

[Iguiniz.X.]

There is Little to crit, except the hand. :p
You have to place the tumb lower on the palm or make the palm higher... check the image I've sent you... hard to tell cos I c it at an angle.

Then I only could give some ideas....
A certain amouth of asymetric in the arms, head and hands would give him a cooler look.....
upcoming feets? or does he walk on his hands?

It might be my taste of style but I wouldn't give him the red head... A rougher stone texture with a bit more bump would do the better I think. Or a big (schelp) Shell cool also look niice... a chell in a special form which would function as armor.

Hope it helps a bit, and get the progress going.:wavey:

[eddy-3ddy]

IguinizX > Super, cool idea iguinizX. "Give him shells as armor." He will have feet, never build it before, even the hands here are my first hands.

Joril > Yeah, that's also a cool thing. I will add it all.

[toxichimp]

Yup :p Duurde ff maar heb eindelijk tijd om een challenge (af) te maken :annoyed:

Hand ziet 'r goed uit! wat gebruik je eigenlijk voor prog? Lightwave toevallig? :D

[eddy-3ddy]

Nope, I use 3dsMax.

He Toxichimp, d'r is nog steeds een plaats vrij voor je op 3dhype, tis allemaal veel meer uitgewerkt en geautomatiseerd enzo.

Ook lightwavers zijn welkom:D

[toxichimp]

Naah, veelste weinig tijd voor :annoyed: Ik loop nu stage en als ik achter m'n eigen pc zit zit ik achter cgtalk, lightwave of overwerken :p Maar zodra ik weer op school zit en waarschijnlijk toch teveel vrije tijd heb zal 'k me zeker aanmelden!

[eddy-3ddy]

here the beginning of some feet!

[eddy-3ddy]

oeps, again

[Error323]

Very cool concept 3ddy, I love the hands let's see more !!!!! :D :D

:buttrock: on

:: Error

[OZ]

AMAZING........AMAZING HANDS!!:eek: :applause: :cool:

[eddy-3ddy]

Here are the feet a bit finished (attached to the body and so)

[eddy-3ddy]

-OZ- > thx man, that give me courage to go further

Error323 > NP, here is more:rolleyes:

I hope you like it, it will have more wrinkles, the arms will be different attached to the body and some rock bumping will be done some overthere en there

[Ayreon]

Hey 3ddy!
That's a very nice creature you've come up with. It has personality. I read somewhere that you liked a nose on the creature, it gives him personality. I agree, but I think the nose is to human like. Maybe just a little modification to make it more fitting. But that's just my opinion.
Oh, one more thing, I think his toe nails could be raised just a little bit.
Are you going to give him some hair? Not fur like, but just some strands or something? Would be nice I think. think of golum, he has a few of those lose strands hanging of his head. Those kind of thinks can really put detail into a model.
Looking forward to seeing your progress. I'll keep my eye on this one :D

Ayreon

PS: LOVE THE HANDS!!

[Fetus23]

What a funny little fellow......good stuff 3ddy!..the hands are very nice. So do these guys hide in tall grass? Just waiting for an unsuspecting foot to come along... :)
lets see some more ..:wip: :wip:

:wavey:
fetus

[eddy-3ddy]

Ayreon > Thx man, Yeah I give him hair and so on, some grass maybe.

Fetus23 > There everywhere you can find the river Anduin. Hide in tall grass, in the river and so on:rolleyes: Thx that you like my creature. Tonight I will be busy to do some changes and more detail. Texturing will be difficult. I hope that it will look nice with that.

[Robbert]

COOL, the character is become too life ;)
But i agree with the nails, I think you should give him claws.
So he can growl hisself trough the rocks and sand. :bounce:

[Dreamwave]

wow, those creatures look very inmobile...:p


I like it, but I would make the eyes darker/greyer
the texture test looked very good :thumbsup:

[eddy-3ddy]

Yoooo

Thx for those replies!!!

Robbert > what do you mean with claws?? Biggerstuff or just lika a raptor, that he can rip flesh apart. Still in remembrance of that he a nice kind little creatur is that's not bigger than 5 litre fust of beer. 25 cm wide and 20 cm high. But maybe it can be sweet claws, I will test some of it

Dreamwave > Did you saw any stones walk before? There not fast oke, god didn't give any "handy" legs and so. But when they want to move fast, they use there arms. Kinda solution to the problem...:blush:

:shrug:

But the eyes is maybe a good idea, but doesn't it give it a grey image, because the stone is also grey and little brown... Darker would be the solution, I will make some examples...

PS for Dreamwave > I have just one creature. (oke, dit is mierengeneuk ;-) )

I will add some more displacement at his back. Hope that gonna be good.

[-CCFly-]

looks like someone put his feet on it ;)

but definately some alternative anatomy :buttrock:

[dies-irae]

WOW!
those hands rock man! :buttrock:

for the feet: the nails were better on the hands. but i like the way he "stands" on his feet!

[eddy-3ddy]

Few, finally...

dies-irae > I'm happy to hear that you love the way he is. Oke the nails and so are on my toDo list.

:bounce:

Oh, about the hands, maybe you all are interested in wireframes, I can post it...

[eddy-3ddy]

Here some samples, I would say, I like the grey one... but aslo the bleu one

[Ayreon]

3ddy,
Keep the original eye. It's very lively, and fits the character more then the blue one's, imho.

Ayreon

[eddy-3ddy]

a pose, texture, and some new adds, like more shoulders...

[Ayreon]

Don't know if I'm to crazy about the new shoulderpads. How will they be connected to his body?
I like the texturing so far, but maybe put a bit more brown into the textures, a bit more dirty. Otherwise it's coming along nicely!

Greetz,

Ayreon

[Willem]

Looking nice so far..

really like the hands..

Don't think this textures is the right one for this creature?

[eddy-3ddy]

A friend of mine, said that the arms were a little too thin. So here a more muscled arms, I hope you like it.:bounce:

[eddy-3ddy]

Originally posted by Willem
Don't think this textures is the right one for this creature?

You're damn right. I never textured before on a creature. This creature is more difficult for me, there are no stops for a new texture, if you know what I mean. This was also just cylindrical UVWed.

Originally posted by Ayreon

Don't know if I'm to crazy about the new shoulderpads. How will they be connected to his body?


Shoulderpads are removed. The shoulders are much wider now. I hope you like this...

It was friday, and I hoped to texture this creature, but he, tomorrow is a next day

[yeroeni]

Nice 3ddy !
Maybe you try the same change on te feet 2.......!

like it

[Konyn]

verry nice 3ddy, :thumbsup:

his feet remind me a bit of E.T.

maybe you can also try giving him another look,
not sure why, but I think a "pissed off" look should fit a stone-creature somewhat better.

[Lukashi]

Nice stuff, its getting quite detailed :)

[Ayreon]

Nice change to the arms! I'm starting to like this little critter more and more :D Good luck on the textures!

Ayreon

[pigwater]

frikken cool creature:thumbsup: :applause: ...don't know how i missed this

[Slot]

Funny anatomy you've got there. I like it.

Can he walk with his feets, or he uses his hands instead? :drool:

It is really nice the modeling, I hope you can find a way for the texturing as well.

Keep it up.

[scam]

Cool, its a boglin!

[scam]

they were very popular in the 80's

[eddy-3ddy]

damn, anyone still believe that I'm still original??

I will work on it. More stoney, i think:surprised

But, all you, thx for those fantastic replies. I go on working on it in the weekend.

[eddy-3ddy]

Oke a new idea to make it more an original thing. (true, never saw those boglin's before)

Here he will be covered by leaves, little rocks, plants, and roots.

Here an little start:

[Rye]

I still think your idea is original! The boglins didnt have feet, kids just stuck 'em on their fingers. Besides they werent really round like yours either, they looked more like little dragons. (atleast when i was 5 they did)

I think this is a clever idea, i like it alot :) You HAVE to do an animation of tons of these guys swimming through the river :)

[Iguiniz.X.]

I do,
I know those boglin but they never came up when I saw your creature:beer:

[Willem]

lookin' nice.
Should work on the textures though.

But remember start on texturing when modelling is done....

Succes!

[scam]

There's some nice modelling here, especially the hands, but the design just doesn't say Lord of the Rings to me. However, the same could be said for about 80% of the entries. Maybe I missed the point of the challenge but I thought the task was to design creatures that would fit into the LOTR style set by the films. So many of the entries have a style all of their own.

Perhaps the changes you make will fix this, but the whole anatomy of this creature seems too far removed.

Just my opinion, no offence.


Stuart.

[eddy-3ddy]

Rye > thx, maybe I will...;)

IquinizX > few, that's a releave

Willem > yes, those damn textures, never been good at it

scam > yeah maybe you are right, but I saw some creatures (like the dragon in LOTR II) that didn't fit. But this stone creature will look like tose ent trees, but then of stone. Stone is thikker...

offence... NP :beer:

[scam]

If its stone you're going for then think about making it sharper. Get some rugged edges and cracks into it. You can model these in or play with the normals to get some hard edges going. This will help to give it a real weathered look. You can then use the geometry as a guide for texturing, getting some moss and dirt into those cracks.

At the moment I think its looks too soft, more like plasticine.

Think back to Treebeard and all the detail he had around his face.

[eddy-3ddy]

yeah, you're right. thx for the tip, I will use that:applause:

:wip: :wip:

I'm working on it :beer:

[Willem]

I don't say I am good at texturing but if you need any help you can always mail me and ask what you want...

maybe I can help you out?!

greetz Willem

[eddy-3ddy]

Wow, well I take that offer. NP, I mail you soon:thumbsup:

[eddy-3ddy]

here some new updates... Here also the idea how that root stuff looks like.

[eddy-3ddy]

Here some colors added, and some leaves, but there will be more spieces

[toxichimp]

keeeeewl! :thumbsup:

Really like the stones between the branches, great detail :)

Is he gonna be coverd up in leaves completly or just a few branches on his back?

[ivo D]

oke voor ju in het nederlands ,omdat je kennelijk toegaf in een ander topic dat je engels niet super is.. hehehe.. ziet er goed uit
je trolletje..als ik hem zo noemen mag..

lijkt wel een evil M&M lol :)

wel vet!!

steek maar veel tijd in het texture..zn character als deze kan je zo F**** mooi maken met textures..en dan plaatsen onder een echte boom.. of iets.. woei..zie het helemaal voor me..:)


GL ,great model..

[Willem]

Maybe some updates?!?!

Didn't see you on msn but My offer still counts!!

See ya.

Greetz Willem

[eddy-3ddy]

wow, yeah. I'm a little busy right now, like school, girlfriend, and so on. Another project also (reprogramming my community).

No problem, about that MSN item. Thx

Greetzz from 3ddy

PS: it will be finished. I promise.

[betooo]

Cool idea...

[rrobert]

Nice concept.

But how do you suggest it walks?? On his hands? Could be... LOL :p

Like it 3ddy.. :thumbsup:

[Kamus]

Guy that´s pretty cool..:bounce:
And will better if you texturize with shadows
in the regions if have branches..:applause:

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