Races of Middle Earth -Character- leif

[Ionized]

Very nice work. The fat rolls in it's arm look great. It has a lot of weight to it.

I also like tha fact that it's very familiar and not too alien. Makes you immediately relate to it.

[leif]

worked on the vessel...
http://www.cgeye.de/cgtalk/merkaba.jpg

[Ionized]

Hell man, your pretty fast.

Thats cool, I actually envisioned it smaller, but now the carriage puts it in perspective.

Looking good, are you going to texture it?

[leif]

Yes, i already started texuring a couple of days ago, but it still needs some tweaking, i will try to post some images tomorrow.
You are right, with the perspective, as you did not have any kind of reference it looked pretty small...

cu soon leif

[Joril]

Very nice indeed, the quadruple horns made me think of the quadruple tusks of the Oliphaunts.
I like the looks of it!! :thumbsup:
Let's see some more :)

[leif]

You are right, about the quadruple horns, the funny part is, my friend Sikk did the concept for this one, and we discovered this fact, when recently watching LOTR2 over. Actuallly, his design was not based on the olifants(as he had not discovered this fact when doing the sketch). It was based on a goat that really has four horns. I will try to scan an image from the book and post it. History repeating...

I already did the texture painting a couple of days ago, so here is one of my first testrenders...

http://www.cgeye.de/cgtalk/textured.jpg
cu soon

[swag]

very nice leif :applause: can u show us the
vessel a little bit closer (what for races stands in the vessel?) and some wire if u can :)

[Iguiniz.X.]

That is a really nice moddel you have there..
Also would fit purfectly in a past challenge valled. Beasts of Burden.:buttrock:
No crit except that it is coming a long really nice

P.S. Your link to neigbors treath was dead when I clicked on it.
:hmm:

[leif]

here we go...
another texture test..
i try to post some more stuff tomorrrow

cheers
http://www.cgeye.de/cgtalk/textured02.jpg

[Dreamwave]

without the vessel, he looks a bit weird without a tail :shrug:

[leigh]

Very nice so far. The only thing that bugs me a bit is that overall the colour scheme seems a bit too uniform. Perhaps you could try adding some more tonal variation to it?

[leif]

@Leigh yes you are right working on it...

@dreamwave
yes i allready did the tail... try to post a new image soon...

cu leif

[Neox]

Hey cool work!
Great man! You guys from the GFS are getting better and better, wow! :beer:
hope to see you on one of ne next berlin community meetings :D

[leif]

hi ,
i worked on the texturing, but i think the greenish tone on the creatures skin was maybe better...
but at first i will texture, the mercenarys...

http://www.cgeye.de/cgtalk/merkaba05.jpg
cu leif

[swag]

looks like a painting - superb look

[AshodT]

WOOOW :drool:
now thats what i call quality work!!!:buttrock:

[leif]

hi,
just did this one, as compositon test...
http://www.cgeye.de/cgtalk/merkaba06.jpg

[Neox]

i don't know but they are looking kinda stiff and boring, please give them better poses, and try to change the poses a bit, the one in the background hase the same pose, thats kinda wierd ;)

[rsalonen]

Wow leif, that is so awsome!

I like how made that pic look like painting.
Could you give some explaination how you did it. You are a Maya user, right?

Keep up the good work!

[Edouard]

I like that beast verry much..where can I buy one, I like it more than a car..:D

[leif]

@neox you are right because its the same rendered picture, this is just a photoshop collage for general compositon, i will try to model some background and work on the poses ;)

i am having serious problems with my maya to mental ray, it crashes quit often. and now it won`t render my scene any more. i really worked on the tesselation and making the textures smaller, but i doesn`t help. maybe any suggestions?

[swag]

try the new MR 1.5.1

[leif]

@Neox Here we go... maybee you like this one better??
I try to model some more background tomorrow.. good night everybody...
cheers leif

http://www.cgeye.de/stills/3d/merkaba07.jpg

[chadlychoo]

This is GREAT! :eek: I love your work man! :love: :thumbsup:

[RockinAkin]

Incredible design and composition!

Keep up the great work,
-DivideByZero-

[kabyll]

wawww
kind of sheep i hope i'll never meet!

Great render, i love!

[swag]

hmmm - tell us a little about ur technik u used to make so nice pics :rolleyes:

[Mangled Poly]

totally awesome man for only 3 days ... did you sleep?

[asela]

:buttrock:

[Ionized]

sensational work...

The last post is great, it looks like a painting, how did you get it to look like this?:eek:

[leif]

hi
this is a rendering with mental ray, and as i have serious problems with it, it`s even no raytracing, and has no shadows.
i used about 10 lights to get the mood.
afterward i did a little color correction and some background painting in photoshop.

i hope to get an even better rendering and i hope to find some time to do some detailing in the foreground.

thanx a lot

cu leif

[leif]

ok i thougt the challlenge would end on sunday, mhh bad luck,
but i did a small animation:
www.cgeye.de/cgtalk/muscron.mov
4MB
www.cgeye.de/cgtalk/muscronsmall.mov
2MB

cu leif

[OZ]

WOOOOHAAA!!.. the skin texture is great!:eek: Very complex scene man!!!

[Frinsklen]

Man, this is awesome.
I simply love the design of that creature as well as the composition and lighing of the final image. Stunning.

I'm just trying to figure out how you've made all this in four days... :eek:

can I have a bigger picture please? thanks.

[LukasSkywalker]

hey guys,
i didn´t do this in 4 days!!!!
it actually took me about 20. i have been working on this for a while before i started my first thread, because i had some problems with my provider...

cheers
cu leif

[Virtuoso]

Leif:I am sorry to have missed your thread to this point.It's been my loss,too many times very nice threads get lost in such a crowd.

I have half a dozen top picks in my mind,but your's has now just entered that elite group.That is very impressive.The little animation really shows more of your efforts very well.I think if you have some spare time you should show a wirerframe and another closer and different angle if possible.The work you have created deserves that,and it would be a shame for everyone not to see more of your very fine work.

Anyways I really think you have a great creation here,very well done in all aspects.Bravo for a great effort.:applause: :thumbsup: :beer:

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