Feature Film: Heroes, Villians and Everything In Between

[dmonk]

Cool design. I had to.

http://www.dmonk.net/Web_uploads/Spec/brick_sample.jpg/

[Psyk0]

I agree with Dmonk that is an awesome design.

Cool work Dmonk :thumbsup:

[dmonk]

Thanks Psyko!

I worked on it a little more when I got home today.

http://www.dmonk.net/Web_uploads/Spec/brick_sample2.jpg/

I love characters like this.
Flog I hope you don't mind.:D

[BOY1DA]

Nice update dmonk....
He will look kool when you make his belt.

[Flog]

DMonk, this is looking really good. You should put it into a rendering program to see how it looks.

I can't wait to show you all the characters. I'm still in descision making process as I have a partner I have to go through at this time.

I do love what you are doing with the model. Very good capture of the spirit of the character himself, although there are a few areas such as he lacks the girth as the first picture which is really a true representation of the character, he does not seem as massive or heavy as the character needs to be, he has to much neck, and he looks as if he is wearing shoes.

However this model has great muscle tone, is keeping with the clean style of the look I'm going for. Just some thoughts, but it is a very good looking model. You are definately a strong modeller. :)

[dmonk]

Thanks Flog!

Yeah, I got a little carried away, easy fixes though. The feet are just stand in. I thought in the model sheet that they were stone feet. Did a little more tonight. I tried to figure out how to do a rock texture on the stone hands. This was a test, but now that I know how to go about it I can tweak it to spec.


http://www.dmonk.net/Web_uploads/Spec/brick_sample3.jpg/

[dmonk]

Another try at the stone hands.

http://www.dmonk.net/Web_uploads/Spec/brick_sample4.jpg/

[Flog]

Looking pretty good. :) You must be using the newest 2.0 features. Great job! I'm so excited to get to show you the further characters coming out.

[dmonk]

So here are the normal/displacment/color map rendered in xsi, Still need some tweaking.

http://www.dmonk.net/Web_uploads/Spec/brick_sample5.jpg/
http://www.dmonk.net/Web_uploads/Spec/brick_sample6.jpg

[Flog]

Wow DMonk.

I'm going to have to show this to Lysol

I think he'd like it but I think he'd have some critique as well. I'll let you know what he says.

Thanks

[dmonk]

I didn't address your crits from before just yet, I've been trying to get the hands right.

[softdistortion]

Nice work guys. :thumbsup:

[dmonk]

Small update:

http://www.dmonk.net/Web_uploads/Spec/brick_sample7.jpg/

Happy Holidays!

[BOY1DA]

Kool , looks like you should BEEF UP the chain belt a bit....
I'm sure you will also add some wrinkles and rough up the pants a bit.

[TonyEdwards]

Flog, good find on the concept artist. I like this character and can't wait to see the rest!

Great job dmonk! I'd agree with BOY1DA though, bigger chain links would be a worthwhile enhancement to this model. Your have an interesting style that shows in your models.

No disrespect meant to dmonk's model, but I really like the design and would like to give it a shot. Would I be stepping on any toes if I attempted to model this character?

[Flog]

hey take a crack it if you want, on the silo3d forum there are a ton of folks taking a crack at this character. I'm sure we'd all like to see it. :)

[dmonk]

Flog, good find on the concept artist. I like this character and can't wait to see the rest!

Great job dmonk! I'd agree with BOY1DA though, bigger chain links would be a worthwhile enhancement to this model. Your have an interesting style that shows in your models.

No disrespect meant to dmonk's model, but I really like the design and would like to give it a shot. Would I be stepping on any toes if I attempted to model this character?

Go for it dude!

[Flog]

wow DMONK the more I look at your model the better it looks. I would love to see him animated.

[dmonk]

Thanks flog! I'm not an animator though. I could rig him and pose him when I finish him up, but animating isn't really my thing. I 'm glad you like the model though. I kind of took a break from this over the holiday to get a few other things out of my head and worked out in 3d. I can get back to this with some fresh eyes later this week.

[TonyEdwards]

Well, I blocked out the shape...

One of these days I'll finish something I start...

[sculpter21]

Post some more model sheets

[Flog]

You don't know how much I wish I could. The artist I think is going out on me. I haven't heard from him in weeks.

I almost at a loss and looking for another artist right now, so far a lot of good guys have come forward but still in the amateur stage.

If you know anyone with a cool animated style artwork please let me know. I'd love to hire him for my project. Someone reliable.

[Flog]

This is one of the more generic human characters of the film

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1466/picture069qs3.jpg

[dmonk]

I was wondering want happened to you.

[Psyk0]

Yeah, i hope you found another slave...err i mean concept artist! :D

[Flog]

Yeah I'm still around, back in search for an artist.

The artist I'm working with is cool, great and the style is tremendously good, but at the same time I don't hear much from him or see alot of work coming out, so looking to obtain a new artist with an entirely differant style.


I want to get started on modelling and animating.

Yeah, i hope you found another slave...err i mean concept artist!

I wish I had a slave to do my bidding, lol, but nope, paid laborers. :)

[Flog]

After months of planning and going back to the drawing board I'm back. I have not stopped on this project and all that planning was for this project.

I wanted to share some characters and give you an idea of where this is going or might go.

I don't know if many will see it but for those who do I hope you enjoy.

This is by a great artist in the France area name Emanuel. Great artist. Let me know what you think and would you like seeing an animation in this style.

This is actually going to be an online series. We are going to keep it simple animation and aimed more toward IPOD and WEB.

When I say simple animation we are going for simplicity that you see in some of the best Flash cartoons. That way we get done. It will be slightly cell shaded. We are going for a comic book look. Each episode series will start with a cool concept of turning the page. We'll have a great cover for each episode by various artists.

here is a psuedo cover for Episode 1

http://www.flogtales.com/

[Flog]

looking for mb rigger

[softdistortion]

I like the character sketches. :thumbsup:

[Psyk0]

Agreed, they're just oozing with style, very nice :).

[Flog]

Here is the style of the artist that is going to be working with me!


http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/1317/rugbycouleurslowvl1.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/1317/rugbycouleurslowvl1.jpg

http://j.paoletti.free.fr/other/gurrenlagannlt3-1.jpg
http://j.paoletti.free.fr/other/gurrenlagannlt3-1.jpg

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/91/projetggponuixi2.jpg

Hope you all like. I think I'm going to go with this style. I'm not 100% sure yet!

What do you think?

Here is an example of the other style I'm going for
http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=121137http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=121137
I think one thing I want to do is involve the community.

[thebest]

wow amazing work keep going :thumbsup:

[JCAddy]

Looking good Shawn, love the style.

[kap13]

It seems this is turning out to be a very nice project. I really like the character and render style. I wish you the best of luck.

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