Tarik the Axe Battler, John Hayes (3D)

[zugok]

Here is the Axe Zbrush sculpt.


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/zugok/AxeSculpt.jpg

[zugok]

Here is the mesh wires. The fur is made via Maya nurbs surfaces converted to polys with a repeating 1 bit alpha texture.


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/zugok/AxeBattlerWire.jpg




I have posted another character that I created for the Golden Axe game here:

The Golden Axe Twins (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=5847879#post5847879)


Cheers

JH

[TuLe]

Simply amazing! 5 star warrior!

[collings]

great work, the shading/rendering of the skin is really cool :)

[illuzionizt]

Awesome...:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[INKMAN002]

really nice!!!

[free3dart]

Amazing work, model and textures top class.

[ajsa51]

One word. Excellent!:bowdown: It seems like we can't rate threads anymore, but if I could, I would give it 5 stars.

[B-Max]

Great work man!
I've seen your interview at the Luxology site:applause:! I have a question for you: Why did you choose to model it with Maya, and just render it with Modo? Are you just used to model in Maya rather than Modo, or is there some advantage with Maya modeling tools? I just use Modo for modeling and I think it's top at it, but seeing your work gives me some doubts... I am pretty curious....

[neroart]

Excellent work!!!:applause:

[turx]

wow! awesome model and render!

[chokata]

Very well done! :)

[PaLantir]

Amazing! I love the pose, textures and illumination.
Can i ask you how you generate the final image? Is pre-rendering? generated in sofware or some engine?

wonderful :)

bravo!

[simyevil2010]

very nice modeling but if u wont added same backgruond ok :buttrock:

good luck 4 ever :applause:

[MindSymbion]

Very Nice John!

[androwjing]

Perty Cool !

[Caedes]

Very cool, character, I'll have to check out the game :D

[Artbot]

Best. Cod-piece. Ever.

[zugok]

Thanks to everyone for all the great feedback, I still hope to improve my skills.

Great work man!
I've seen your interview at the Luxology site:applause:! I have a question for you: Why did you choose to model it with Maya, and just render it with Modo? Are you just used to model in Maya rather than Modo, or is there some advantage with Maya modeling tools? I just use Modo for modeling and I think it's top at it, but seeing your work gives me some doubts... I am pretty curious....

B-Max, At the time I created Axe, I had only been using Modo for UV unwrapping, texture clean-up and detailing as I was still learning the software. However I have found Modo's modeling tools to be far better than Maya so have have recently been using Modo for most of my 3d current 3D work. I still use Maya for real-time shader set-up, rigging and animation.



Amazing! I love the pose, textures and illumination.
Can i ask you how you generate the final image? Is pre-rendering? generated in sofware or some engine?

wonderful :)

bravo!

PaLantir The image is a software render done in Modo. Here is a shot of the character in-game :

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/zugok/axe_in_game.jpg
Cheers

John H

[Crayfish]

very nice ;)

[seanser]

Superb, reminds me a bit of the 2000Ad character Slaine, that is quite a cod piece. Why did you call him the Axe battler when he's carrying a claymore?

[zugok]

Thanks for the comments!

Superb, reminds me a bit of the 2000Ad character Slaine, that is quite a cod piece. Why did you call him the Axe battler when he's carrying a claymore?


Yes, the Art Director on Golden Axe, had Slane in mind when I created it :-). The name is the name of the character in the original Sega Golden Axe game, and he had a sword at that time, as well.

[SciFibrow]

Beautiful work. Agreed on the Slaine similarity - a benchmark for fantasy warriors everywhere!

[direndra]

really nice job...!!!" :buttrock:

[MarcinW]

great texture and sculpt Zbrush

[nightwoodwolf]

cool character :thumbsup:

[captain brainiac]

very very very very impressing work..... but why is Tarik the "Axe Battler" fighting with a sword? :D

[KawaiiYeti]

Veryy coool
Nice Zbrush work, like the armor too ^__^
Will have to check this game out methinks..

[MAN0]

this character is amazing! ...i love it

[NoMoreIX]

Good work..
Keep it up!..
Nice nice nice!

[cgmodel77]

Thanks your kindly share :cool:

[firstsingle]

Out of this world! Great job.

[zugok]

Very cool, character, I'll have to check out the game :D


Thanks your kindly share :cool:


Thanks for the feedback

[DoeSel]

This Warrior was very n1.

[Molier]

Very good detailing. I liked it a lot :bowdown:

[mijaba]

It seems as though Tarik, the AXE battler, should have an AXE. So- what's up with THAT? Hmmmm.

Never mind

Very good modelling and surfacing.

[moonchild]

very good!

but i'm not sure at all about the background ,pixels are visibles by a mile and too much futuristic...

[ThiagoCrawford]

Awesome work man! :buttrock:

How long does it take you to make something like this?

[opera1982]

Excellent work man !!!You work well,Can embody many details,Perfect! But on your Wireframe ,can I ask you how much the model number of surface? Is pre-rendering? generated in sofware or some engine?

Wait reply! wonderful!!

[PavelPetrenko]

Amazing character! I like textures so much! :thumbsup:

[DragoCG]

Excellent Character. Great detail. He looks phenomenal in-game too. I loved the original Golden Axe.

I have to say I don't know why everyone is questioning the name. He isn't the axe-wielder, he is the axe battler. In other words, he kicks the butts of those who are battling with axes.

[Tombery]

Wunderfull.
I love this Style from Barbarian Fantasy work. :)

[mogglin]

Great model. Really impressive!!

Are the stitches sculpted into the trousers, or are they a separate mesh in the high res model?

[abynum]

Truly awesome work.

[zugok]

Thanks for all the great feedback and questions.

Awesome work man! :buttrock:

How long does it take you to make something like this?

The character took about 1 month to complete.


Excellent work man !!!You work well,Can embody many details,Perfect! But on your Wireframe ,can I ask you how much the model number of surface? Is pre-rendering? generated in sofware or some engine?

Wait reply! wonderful!!

The in-game mesh was about 18,000 triangles. I used Modo to render the image.


Great model. Really impressive!!

Are the stitches sculpted into the trousers, or are they a separate mesh in the high res model?

The stitches are normal map details and where created in Zbrush using the inflate tool.


Cheers

JH

[AngelNegro]

Good model, great work :cool:

[GhostDogStudio]

That's so cool. Reminds me of Slaine (that's a good thing!).

[Heshamelshipli]

Great Work

[GrogMcGee]

It's really good I took me a few minutes to find a part of it that looked like cg in the 3d sense - it looks so much like a digital painting - which is totally cool! :arteest:

[mcscher]

very nice character you created there! but i must say i am really confused about your workflow and the tools you used.

so you switched from maya to modo for modelling because of better modeling tools, ok. you created normal maps in mudbox but sculpted the hi-res mesh in zbrush. why not export normal maps from zbrush if you are using it already? last and most confusing, ambient occlusion done in xsi while realtime shading is done in maya. could you have used maya for ambient occlusion also?

don't get me wrong, i don't want to critsise your workflow. i'd just like to understand. there must be a good reason for it.

[trence5]

Great job, he was a fav of mine from the old G. A. games. I was disappointed to hear he wasn't in this past game for the PS3 and such, so its good to see an updated version of him.
You must be an old schooler like myself, because I haven't seen anyone use his name Tarik since the old 8-bit master system release:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[cgmodel77]

Thanks for the feedbackyou are welcome

[Bokaja]

Great character.
Modeling, colors and pose all come together nicely.

Interesting variety of applications you use.

Is 18000 triangles a standard polycount for a hero ingame character?




Cheers!

[Erick_Az]

Excellent job!!!
Congratulations!

[Bokaja]

Great work man - love the character

[zugok]

Thanks to everyone for the great feedback.


very nice character you created there! but i must say i am really confused about your workflow and the tools you used.

so you switched from maya to modo for modelling because of better modeling tools, ok. you created normal maps in mudbox but sculpted the hi-res mesh in zbrush. why not export normal maps from zbrush if you are using it already? last and most confusing, ambient occlusion done in xsi while realtime shading is done in maya. could you have used maya for ambient occlusion also?

don't get me wrong, i don't want to critsise your workflow. i'd just like to understand. there must be a good reason for it.

For this character I used Modo for UV, 3D paint and rendering, however now I use Modo for most of my modeling. As for Normal Maps we did alot of testing and found that the best maps were made in Maya, Modo and Mudbox. Zbrush maps tend to look flat in comparison and it is also not possible to make Normal Maps in Zbrush from several objects combined without subdivision levels. For AO maps, XSI has by far the most detailed AO maps, of all the other software packages. Modo's is the easiest to create, and the closest to XSI in quality in some cases. Maya's AO maps are the most difficult and poorest quality.


Great character.
Modeling, colors and pose all come together nicely.

Interesting variety of applications you use.

Is 18000 triangles a standard polycount for a hero ingame character?

Cheers!


It is a bit on the high-side but still very possible, 15000 is more reasonable.



Great job, he was a fav of mine from the old G. A. games. I was disappointed to hear he wasn't in this past game for the PS3 and such, so its good to see an updated version of him.
You must be an old schooler like myself, because I haven't seen anyone use his name Tarik since the old 8-bit master system release:thumbsup::thumbsup:


Yes I like the original game too. Thanks!

[mcscher]

For this character I used Modo for UV, 3D paint and rendering, however now I use Modo for most of my modeling. As for Normal Maps we did alot of testing and found that the best maps were made in Maya, Modo and Mudbox. Zbrush maps tend to look flat in comparison and it is also not possible to make Normal Maps in Zbrush from several objects combined without subdivision levels. For AO maps, XSI has by far the most detailed AO maps, of all the other software packages. Modo's is the easiest to create, and the closest to XSI in quality in some cases. Maya's AO maps are the most difficult and poorest quality.


wow thanks for the explaination. I never thought there where so many differences in the quality of features from the different software packages. I guess I'll have to get a closer look at different software packages next time I get the chance to.

cheers

[subhendu3d]

Awesome, really nice work

[Al-Kabeer]

Excellent work… Keep it up!

[neeraj987]

Nice Work!

[streetsy]

Conan's half brother?
Awesome work.

[ZIXIONG]

:bounce: nice work,i like the model.

[sedeslav]

Excellent work! I like his face specialy.
Do you know that Tariq was a conqueror of Spain? :) Gibraltar have a name from arabs "Gibr'al Tariq" Tariq's hill.

[pix3lm0nk]

Conan's half brother?
Awesome work.

That's the first thing I thought of... Conan's smaller brother. :)

[MajorGeek]

Stunning work. Very beautiful texture.

[chenyi49]

wow

wonderful

great

[Kanga]

Looks terrific!

I think you captured Frazetta's colour scheme pretty well. I love the gold and the details are pretty super.

I think the thighs are too light for the upper body and too light for Frank's style. The bottom area is looking a tad sad I think :) You need some muscle on down there. Frank was a big bum man, check out his ladies.

Once again top work man.
Cheers.

[Vedanta]

Very powerful piece... and nicely lit

[imageen]

I like this style, the cartoony realistic, pure gold

[Riozaki]

Marvelous character!

[chinos22]

nice work ！！love

[Shadowkath]

Great design, my only problem with the entire thing, is it doesn't appear to have much detail in the abdomen area, when he's posed with the sword, it looks as if there is just a plain spot for his torso. May just be my eyes.

[bj-pandora]

:bounce: Good, if I can keep doing this how well the role of

[Gok-khan]

Awesome job :thumbsup: