NME-Se7eN
12-05-2007, 12:29 AM
I'm entering the GameArtisan's Wii challenge, just thought I would also run a thread here to see if I could get some advice/help in these forums as well. Contest details here. http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/competitions/4/readbrief/index.htm
My entry harkens back to Kid Chameleon...
Dr. Dex
Name is not final. Basically, the gist is this and it's heavily inspired by Kid Chameleon. His mission is to stop the monster uprising but his unique gift is his Zombie ability. This cartoonish character will latch onto various monsters heads and with a quick gulp, ingest their brains. Reason? Well, the monster brains endow him with the monsters abilities and some form of shape changing. Such as? Eat a vampire brain, get batwings and huge fangs. Biting enemies then replenishes health and he gains the ability to fly. Eating a lagoon creatures brain gives him fast swimming and no more dependancy on air. Eating a golem's brains makes him really, really hulk level of strong. Etc, etc, etc.
Color palette isn't finalized. Likewise, hand and feet proportions aren't either. And now the shoes will be wingtipped shoes.
Character Profile
Poindexter Marshalls was used to being picked on and bullied. Hell, it's his life. So he pursued an intellectual career in science only to find he wasn't terribly good with that either. But by some miracle, he found his way into a weapons research program. Biological weapons. Before he knew it, he was making real progress and so far, no one died. But the Major wanted faster results and a resulting explosion changed those few humans in the facility. Now he faces like as an undead mutation and all his creations re running free. To top it off, the Major has undergone changes as well and he's actually LEADING them in their invasion. Now and average joe with extraordinary abilities must rise past his insecurities to save the world.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c237/sheppyboy2000/Dex.jpg
I tried the head four different times. First three were huge failures. But then I went into Zbrush, roughly fleshed out the shape, and used that as a vertex guide as I used Edge Extrude methods. It's nowhere near perfect (next step is throwing on some deformation grids to try and get the shape of the concept art a little better). Here's what I got so far at 896 tris.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c237/sheppyboy2000/HeadshotA.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c237/sheppyboy2000/HeadshotB.jpg
Let me know what you guys think.
My entry harkens back to Kid Chameleon...
Dr. Dex
Name is not final. Basically, the gist is this and it's heavily inspired by Kid Chameleon. His mission is to stop the monster uprising but his unique gift is his Zombie ability. This cartoonish character will latch onto various monsters heads and with a quick gulp, ingest their brains. Reason? Well, the monster brains endow him with the monsters abilities and some form of shape changing. Such as? Eat a vampire brain, get batwings and huge fangs. Biting enemies then replenishes health and he gains the ability to fly. Eating a lagoon creatures brain gives him fast swimming and no more dependancy on air. Eating a golem's brains makes him really, really hulk level of strong. Etc, etc, etc.
Color palette isn't finalized. Likewise, hand and feet proportions aren't either. And now the shoes will be wingtipped shoes.
Character Profile
Poindexter Marshalls was used to being picked on and bullied. Hell, it's his life. So he pursued an intellectual career in science only to find he wasn't terribly good with that either. But by some miracle, he found his way into a weapons research program. Biological weapons. Before he knew it, he was making real progress and so far, no one died. But the Major wanted faster results and a resulting explosion changed those few humans in the facility. Now he faces like as an undead mutation and all his creations re running free. To top it off, the Major has undergone changes as well and he's actually LEADING them in their invasion. Now and average joe with extraordinary abilities must rise past his insecurities to save the world.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c237/sheppyboy2000/Dex.jpg
I tried the head four different times. First three were huge failures. But then I went into Zbrush, roughly fleshed out the shape, and used that as a vertex guide as I used Edge Extrude methods. It's nowhere near perfect (next step is throwing on some deformation grids to try and get the shape of the concept art a little better). Here's what I got so far at 896 tris.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c237/sheppyboy2000/HeadshotA.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c237/sheppyboy2000/HeadshotB.jpg
Let me know what you guys think.