Beast of Burden

[baglunch]

Your lighting is a little preliminary, but I think the modeling and texturing is awesome... eeeexcept the toenails. Looks like little green starfish attacked them.

[LordPhobos]

Here's the guy that made the original drawing. He's one of my favorite concept artists. :)

http://www.hawkprey.com/mainpage.htm

[Hexodam]

this is fantastic :buttrock:

too bad you missed the beast of burden contest, you could have been in the top 10 at least :bounce:

[db23]

thanks for that link and your feedback. The lighting is definately very prelimary, and I'll look again at the starfish seiged toenails.

[KingofDaveness]

Animate it! Animate it!

:bounce:

[Tim Deneau]

Looking awesome :thumbsup:

The texturing (esp near the text) looks a bit blurry.

[manutara]

Think I saw a 360 rotation on the PVR...that was looking awesome too.
What about a little more dirt for the textures...probably is the lighting but it look to clean and flat, specially in some parts of the armor...

[smellovision]

Man do I ever love this!!!! Very cool. do you do everything yourself? Texturing, modelling?

Coop.

[Naz]

when looking at it, it did take me some time to figure out how the head looks like. maybe not covering his eyes with the strap and make it visible would help so the head is more distinct from the rest of the body.
other than that, looks cool and nice feel of weight!

[(Courtney.H)]

Really great model. This piece of work should have definitly been in the Beast of Burden Contest.:love:

[FranSaa]

That´s big!!... Awesome, man!!... :applause: Animate it asap!. I also love James Hawkins concepts... :bounce:
.f.

[Darius43321]

only one problem isee is that the legs dont blend with the rest of the image too well..but its still a great model

[db23]

Yes, I did everything but design it. Hawkins did that for me ;) I would have submitted him had I known about the beast of burden contest :wip:

Thanks for the feedback, I'll be posting some final renders out in the next week or so

[Pixel_Pisher_]

:xtreme:Great job Dan, It looks very close to your refrence. This is the first time i have seen any of your project work and it looks great. I don't realy have any coments other than i was wondering what happened to the feather things in the back. Keep up the good work. :xtreme:

[db23]

I have been getting requests for information on how I do my textures, so instead of replying to each person I thought I'd just post my answer.

"well I mostly paint the detail of my textures myself using a Wacom pen. I wouldn't be able to do it without one.

Often though with materials like leather or metal I start with a very light picture or two of a photographed surface as an overlay in photoshop. I then add my own color and detail to it. once I get a good look that I like I go in and paint in soft shadows using a very light pressured black brush in photoshop. I start with the big shadows, then do the big highlights, and eventually work down to painting shadows and highlights sometimes with a brush that is only 3 pixels big.

Painting a detailed map is a time consuming process though. It took me about a day to paint the face map, and the same to paint the guys legs.

As much as I like to say I painted all textures myself, I find using a photograph base gives me a much more interesting look especially when painting organic surfaces like the fine wrinkles in skin. or the rough surface of bone.

You don't have to be a painter to do any of this, I have no fine arts history, and have rarely painted anything in my life - just follow the mesh in ways that would make sense.

I hope this answers some of your questions -

Oh yes, and I'm working on getting some animation done for him now.

[S_3D_A]

I think I've seen that guys work in a mag somewhere cant remember the name. Maybe it was heavy metal or a gaming mag but I could be wrong his style is so damn familiar. May I add it is very wicked.

Oh yeah luved the beast of burden:)

[michelleblue]

Great job!:buttrock:
You should put this on the finished gallery!
:bounce:

[erik2003]

cool creature! :beer:

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