Cinematic Game Icons - character - Nicodemia

[Nicodemia]

Sorry about the quality of the drawing. Just sort of brainstorming ideas and motifs. I promise i'll post a nice (not headache inducing;) ) pic soon. C yas 4 now.

[Nicodemia]

Good God this is hard work. As a newbie i just want to say nuff respect to all u guys (n gals) who do this every month. Heres a pic of the front mask. Let me know what you think.

N.B. My Scanner is broke at the mo :thumbsdow so i can't post the final sketch. Will do soon tho.

[Nicodemia]

Just realised how badly i explained my idea. Basically my pic will be a frame from the intro to the game showing one of the bosses, (possibly THE boss) - an evil military robotic assasin insect type thang. See, easily explained ;)

BTW- Good luck to one and all - and congats to the moderators 4 thinking up such a great subject.

[Clanger]

Looking very nice, keep going

[eirenicon]

This sounds interesting, but your picture is awfully dark and hard to make out. Looks like a cool pair of eyes or something, though :p

[Nicodemia]

Ah, could any1 else let me know if that seemed too dark cos i mite have to recalibrate my monitor. :sad:

Originally posted by timothyD
awfully dark and hard to make out. Looks like a cool pair of eyes or something, though :p

This better?

[eirenicon]

That's perfect. Now that I can see it, it looks pretty cool! Very Fallout-ish; if that's what you're aiming for you hit it right on the head :)

[Nicodemia]

Just a little mandible update :rolleyes:

[Nicodemia]

Its hardly worth posting but i've got nothing else to do so heres a decal i made for the skull casing in photoshop. Got ideas from barcodes, aztec and african tatoos and warpaint etc. 3D version soon.

[Nicodemia]

More of the skull, some more mandibles and sum groovy LCD displays. Let me know how you think its goin. :hmm:

[Nicodemia]

And a side view:

[Hellwolve]

Sorry to say, but I don't like the display. he's an assasin, he's supposed to be unoticabel. With that display, well.....it just screams: "I'm over here!"

The rest, I do like :thumbsup:

[spirogyro]

just a thought, what if you placed the display over one of his eyes. But have it somewhat transparent. Kinda cliche' ish, but like I said just a thought. Keep it up though!!

[Nicodemia]

Indeed it does scream. I'll have to adjust the brightness there. Possibly make it smaller with a tinted screen?

I haven't made it very clear but he's only goin to be about 1 and a half feet tall, so the display will only be about 0.5cm anyway. But thanks for the tip. Theres quite a major rework in progress so i'll change that too. Cheers.

[Nicodemia]

Game name: THE DAWN
FPS
Very dark, broody
Post apocalyptic (approx. 2080)
Always night / nuclear dust cloud blocking out sun
Player must learn to survive / 2-3tutorial missions / using medi-kits, night vision, weapons etc.
Player then encounters various challenges / rescuing trapped people(classic hero) / finding supplies / combating robotic 'anomalies' (robots gone haywire) + local wildlife / most testing mission (last) is when about to find out reason for blackout - confronted by swarms of assasin robots (defense systems).

[Nicodemia]

How this all started no-one really knows. They said the darkness was an accident, the result of some nuclear weapon cock-up. They said it was no-ones fault. They said it was someone elses fault. They said it was an act of war. They said it was an act of God. They said it was the end of the world, and that we were being punished for our sins. They said the darkness was the embodiement of all of mankinds sins, and that the sun would never shine again. But then again they said a lot of things.

There's one thing I know though; when the wounded or insane stop wailing, and the sightless birds stop their kamikaze descents earthward. When the darkness pierces your soul and the night begins to swallow you. When the pounding of your own heart resounds in your skull, and the scuttling and chittering starts, whether you believe in God, Allah, Vishnu, or a giant chicken in the sky, you WILL pray! Not for redemption, salvation or any of that crap. Purely and simply, you will pray for,


THE DAWN

[Nicodemia]

AN EVER-LASTING NIGHT
A DARKNESS THAT PERVADES ALL
AN UNIMAGINABLE LONLINESS
A FEAR THAT WILL MAKE YOU SCREAM

YOU WILL PRAY

FOR

THE DAWN

[akocan]

Uhhhh. Breezy ;) Got goosebumps all over ;)

Quite nice modelling so far and a great poem about THE DAWN.

Nice name choice by the way.

Sincerely

[hypercube]

Cool concept..I'm digging the ongoing 'trailer' for it..hehe :scream:

Why do I hear some of that read by the "In A World..." guy? :D


I think little lights and indicators should be fine, everything sounds like it'll be dim and foggy anyway, as long as they make sense..kinda wonder about some of the clashing or bright colors though..have to see the whole scheme when it's done, and how lighting brings it out or down.

keep the death comin' :thumbsup:


P.S. "An ever-lasting night..a darkness that pervades all..an unimaginable loneliness..a fear that will make you scream" - sounds like my life already! :)

[Nicodemia]

:beer: Yeah happy topic isn't it. Cheers akocan.:beer:

[schmu_20mol]

cool idea Nicodemia...lookin forward to see more of your work....just one point your overall look in terms of darkness sticks to the mood but for recognizing your wip it's abit a pain....plz make it generally brighter so we can see your efforts better

[Nicodemia]

Consider them brightened. :thumbsup:

[Nicodemia]

Now as far as randomness goes this is up there with the best of them, but how do you change the little sentence under the name but above the avatar on posts? hope that makes sense. Just wonderin cos mine says veteran and that i certainly am not!

[dominicqwek]

Nico. firstly, thats one helluva story u got there.:D

Secondly, theres this button on your browser now that says "my profile"..thats where u go to have your title changed from veteran to whatever u want.:thumbsup:

[Nicodemia]

:beer: Cheers dom. How come i couldn't see that!:annoyed: :beer: ah well. Back to the Polys.:)

[Nicodemia]

I thought that the very hardcore time i had last nite (too much ouzo! ;) ) would have ruined my chances of getting anything done today but i managed to do quite a bit. Heres some updates for ya all. A rather extensive change of colour scheme and some minor modelling changes to the head. Comment and Crit Please:wavey:

[Aearon]

this thing actually scares me :rolleyes:

no criticizing possible ;)

*edit* oh i forgot to say stuff that might actually be useful ;)

you're doing great, and i like the new color scheme better.

*edit2* that 3/4 view tops it all! awesome! :eek:

[Nicodemia]

3/4 view

[Hellwolve]

Woohah! :surprised

I really thought it was an major model change, but this new color scheme is waaaay cool :thumbsup:

What happend to that LCD display?

[Nicodemia]

Early legs. Lots more to do.

[akocan]

hi nicodemia..

I've not been to your thread since a long time and I see that this is having an extremely fast and good progress. Your new texturing is great.
Keep up this good work!!!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Hellwolve]

Ah, now I've seen what has become of that display.

It's still at his temple :hmm:

That means I still dislike it :p

I mean, what's it's use? For the enemy to check how much ammo he has left?

[Nicodemia]

Thanks Akocan and Fist. I appreciate your comments.
And specially for you Hellwolve (and because i don't think it uploaded earlier), a nice Side view to show off the lovely temple display!:p

[Hellwolve]

Originally posted by Nicodemia
Thanks Akocan and Fist. I appreciate your comments.
And specially for you Hellwolve (and because i don't think it uploaded earlier), a nice Side view to show off the lovely temple display!:p

AAAHHHH!

:scream:

Get it off, get it off!

Nah, It's your char, do what you wanna do.

[Nicodemia]

Seriously though. I think I will change that display. Does look kinda pointless. NOT THAT I'M AGREEING WITH YOU HELLWOLVE!!!! :p :p :p

I'll prob replace it with another armour plate or something. It could have been his kill count. Or his age. Or how much money he had in the bank. Or .....I won't go on. :D :applause:

[Hellwolve]

Originally posted by Nicodemia
Seriously though. I think I will change that display. Does look kinda pointless. NOT THAT I'M AGREEING WITH YOU HELLWOLVE!!!! :p :p :p<SNIP>

That's not a problem, 'caus everything else is so friggin' cool :thumbsup:

[mv]

Hey, you can still keep that counter. But you know a display on his head is not supposed to be seen by himself, but by the people in front of him, eventually his foes. You can place the counter on his forehead... I imagine the scene: your robot is before his target.. the counter displays the number 999.. "you're my last foe.. I will not miss you... then I will be free for ever.."
that's frightening for the guy in front of him, no? (or even a bigger number if you want him to look even more dangerous)
just an idea..
:beer:

[zzzrByte]

Wow! Looking great, I love the head and the legs, and the new color scheme is much better (you went from the Fallout look to the Splinter Cell look).

As for the counter, it looks great... But it does need a purpose, how about changing it to some weird symbolic numbers (like in The Predator's self destruction glove)... That way you can tell us it has a purpose that our puny human intelects simply can not grasp.

[Kozlov]

Hi there thats a modeling a lot of details i like it a lot. The one thing thats bothers me is lightning of the scene. Perhaps you could mke it a bit brighter so we could see more.
Great work , sorry for my languag wich is numb at the moment.
Take care
kamil:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :applause: :beer:

[Aearon]

m@.'s idea is great! :D

[kill count: 999]

[antnik]

Hey man...great job...I Like it..:thumbsup:

[DimitrisLiatsos]

:drool: Oh my God!!!...true game colors and design...i must check more carefully what everybody is posting...Just great!!!!

[eirenicon]

Man, that head is damn cool... it's come a long ways! The color scheme is great too, I can't wait to see how this ends up.

[Nicodemia]

Thanx everyone. I decided to go with zzzrBytes idea. I spoke to my friend Masako and she gave me these Japanese characters to work with. They mean SILENT DEATH. Cool:bounce:

and a special death scene for Hellwolve :buttrock:

[Nicodemia]

Just realised that my concept sketches didn't load. So here's a compositional sketch. Sorry about the quality.:shrug:

[Hellwolve]

Originally posted by Nicodemia
Thanx everyone. I decided to go with zzzrBytes idea. I spoke to my friend Masako and she gave me these Japanese characters to work with. They mean SILENT DEATH. Cool:bounce:

and a special death scene for Hellwolve :buttrock:

ROFL, great, thanks :beer:

And the new display looks sooooo much better :thumbsup:

[cbadger85]

If you pull this off, (and ofcourse you will), it is going to give me nightmares.

[Nicodemia]

Thanks cbadger85 (now thats a mouthful of a name! :p ) In fact thanks to all of you. I love doing these challenges (even though this is only my second).

Now i want you all to brace yourselves for the most incredible update you will ever see!!!!!!!!!

[Nicodemia]

Are you ready?

[Nicodemia]

All excited?:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Nicodemia]

Well here we go!

[Nicodemia]

ITS A COKE CAN AND A BARREL!!!!!!


WOW!!!!!

[Nicodemia]

Just some props for the debris littering the floor.
btw. ROFL?????? Someone please explain to poor mild mannered simpleton me.

I also added some neck tubing. Not really that exciting. but here it is.

[zzzrByte]

Cool! Love the new LCD... :thumbsup:

By the way: ROFL means (Rolling On Floor Laughing)... Or as it is more commonly known - ROTFL (T is for The)

[Virtuoso]

So far so good ..........I like the direction very much.It seems the foundation you have set up is very solid.Great start on the modeling,nice design and clean modeling.It appears he will be sitting in a post Great War type Road Warrior vehichle.

I like the concept/sketch very much,very promising.I think if you follow up with the rest of the modeling as you have with the head thus far you will have something to be proud of for sure.

This is one of the ones to watch,very nice start to a very nice concept/idea.:thumbsup: :beer:

[Nicodemia]

Thanks Virtuoso. Ive been hard at work on the carapace armour for the abdomen etc. Let me know what you think. Early renders:

[Nicodemia]

and another

[Nicodemia]

A ver early textured version

[Nicodemia]

BTW these last couple of renders are the armour viewed from the rear. A detail of the rear web spinner thingy. It'll operate much like the funny scorpion dudes 'get over here' rope from mortal kombat.

[DimitrisLiatsos]

:beer: So game concept...right on the spot....:thumbsup:


p.s : Like the new avatar!

[Nicodemia]

Thanks Dimitris. It was just an old model render of mine that i found.

[Nicodemia]

New improved textures. Still not finished

[Nicodemia]

Been stepped on (wireframe)

[Nicodemia]

An early shot of the combined bodyparts. Please Crit:bounce:

[Hellwolve]

Originally posted by Nicodemia
An early shot of the combined bodyparts. Please Crit:bounce:

Crit? CRIT!?!?

How the Hell should I do that, when there is nothing to crit?

...

Well, from point of view anyway :beer:

[Nicodemia]

:beer: Thanks Hellwolve. errr. I think.:curious:
But seriously there must be something to say about it?

[deathbard]

Hey this is coming along really nice. I know the parts aren't connected yet but maybe when you do you should pull the body downwards and thus hunch the legs more? I think that might be creepier..

[Nicodemia]

Yes indeedy. Hunched with long spindly legs.:D

[mattie]

ooohh! this is soo cool :)
absolutly nothing to crit, just creds!

good luck! :thumbsup:

[iC4]

agree, nothing to crit at the moment, looks pretty good :beer:

[Nicodemia]

Cheers every1:beer:
Started work on the foreground today. Pics coming soon. :D

[antnik]

There no words to say....I LIIIKKKEEEEEEEE IT...:eek: :eek: :bounce: :beer:

[Virtuoso]

It's spot on clean,very well detailed,always a major plus in my book. It's also a new original twist to a older theme,it works, you have somehow maintained originality with an old idea.

Keep giving this and your other planned work this kind of love,and you will have a real nice piece of work.Very well done thus far Nicodemia.:thumbsup: :beer:

[Nicodemia]

:beer: Cheers Antnik. Glad you like it.:D
Thanks for the support Virtuoso. I'm currently in the 'pain barrier' where i'm starting to lose the initial enthusiasm i had for this project. Hopefully i can get past it and continue the project.:shrug: Its a bloody nuisance.:thumbsdow

[Virtuoso]

Just forget the pain barrier,it's mind over matter.Just kick it in the arse,it deserves it.;)

It looks like you have finished up a segment or portion of your plan,it's now on to the next part,it's fresh & new. Yes sometimes things get old after a while,but it's on to new parts from there. After a while deep deep down in my lab under the sand I just go up to the surface kick some waves around and before you know it I want back into my dark dark lab under the beach for some CG fun.;)

Keep it up,it's well worth it,you have an excellent start.See you soon.:thumbsup: :beer:

[cgbinho]

no no no dude don't stop this, i like this spider so far!!

[Chabee]

:eek: Uh :eek: COOL!!!

[Kozlov]

Hi Nicodemia im impressed thats a great mechspider:thumbsup:
Could you though make a bit brighter images co we could see those lovely details? Just a sugestion.
Take care
Kamil:beer:

[Nicodemia]

I know its not much of an update but i've been working on the scene. (Pics soon i promise.:D ) I didn't put in too much detail because very little of the under-side of the body will be seen. C+C welcome.

[Nicodemia]

Rear

[Nicodemia]

very early render

[Nicodemia]

Hey guys! Remember me?

10 days, lots of exams and one broken (and kicked in the arse) pain barrier later.
Exams are finally over!!!!!!!!

Sorry bout the lack of updates but they'll be coming in thick and fast now that i've finished school.

C yas

Nico.

[antnik]

Hey Nicodemia...it's good to hear from you again...:thumbsup: Waiting for updates.:beer:

[Nicodemia]

:beer: antnik
Well here's the start of them.
new body (minus head-obviously)
C+C

Nico

[Nicodemia]

Top view:

[Virtuoso]

Nice to see you back Nicodemia.:wavey:

Looking forward to you adding to your already nice work.Hope Exams went well.See you later for now.:beer:

[Nicodemia]

Just a small compilation update

[Nicodemia]

basic textures. (sorry bout the quality)

[Colin de bink]

that is a creepy looking spyder you got there
I like it!!!
keep going

[Kozlov]

HI there @Nicodemia, i would lowe to c&c on your new creation but i cant see the texture work, forgive me but im blind and need to see bigger images:). Btw the model is great i was watching your progress from the start and the only thing that bothered me was the dark images:) and smal size. Please @Nicodemia give us a chance, or just me since im so blind,to see your fancy textures on a great model.
Take care
Kamil :thumbsup:

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