AncientSwarm

#1

Hey everyone, thought I’de give this competition a shot, and rep the CG Society. Heres my first concept.

Still some things I might change about her armor and weapons.

Story:

Summoned to hunt down and dispatch any being that will upset the balance that the CG Society has established throughout the universe. She releases the sight of a million eyes to scour the land for her adversaries. Ancient armor and weapons forged by her insect minions, from which even a small wound from them will expose the victim to fatal venom. Ancient Swarm has arisen.

#2

Hey that’s a really interesting concept jason. I’m wondering though how you are going to model the swarm. As effects?

#3

Thanks…

Dunno yet may, not have the swarm for the model though it would be cool… I might just in clude the larger insects… and depending on the comp. rules, and the polycount dont know if I can include all 4… so We’ll see… gotta get on it tho, I entered kinda late :smiley:

#4

Been a while thought I’de post my additional sketches… gotta get on the modeling, Only 10 days to go!:eek:

#5

I will post all my WIP images to this point crits welcome and appreciated.
initial modeling WIP:
Character and pet construction

#6

This is the wip of her wasp minions…The wasp only has 2 legs modeled because the other 4 will be duplicates, tweaked.

#7

These are screencaps of the textured model. As you can see the wasp is pretty optimized… Since she has 4 of them, I need to keep them under 250 tris each. The one shown is 244 tris.
I was able to keep my character at 4988 tris… So character + 4 minions = 5964 tris. I will probably use the remaining polys for her cape attachments so they arent so Jaggy.

#8

I am so glad the deadline has been extended!:bounce: Now I can fix the things I dont like. Namely the shin plates and some more details on the armor. I will also add some throwing blades since I have only used 200 tris of my alloted 1000 for weapons.

Please give me some crits guys… thanks

#9

Oh yeah almost forgot… Has anybody out there had a problem with crashes using Maya’s hardware renderer with Cgfx shaders?? Everytime I try to do a hardware render I get an endless hourglass… then when I press escape to abort the render the image appears, but if I try to do another render I get a crash, telling me there is a runtime error. Anybody know how to solve this?

#10

Wow that’s amazing progress I’ve make on your model. I’m amazmed at the amount of detail you were able to put into it in a short space of time. It looks almost done, keep it.:thumbsup:

#11

Thanks Roger… Ya I was staying up until 4 & 5 in the morning trying to finish by the 19th… There are a lot of things I want to fix… by the way what is you opinion on the eyes? Do you think she should have pupils? I kind of like her without them. but now I can refine some of the details since we have till the 26th.

Anybody else got crits or suggestions?
Or anybody else had similar probs rendering cgfx with Maya’s hardware rendrer.

#12

Looks awesome to me! I must have completely missed your thread. Instantly one of my favorites though…I have been pretty busy the past couple weeks though I think I probably missed alot of threads heh.

I vote no pupils…I think it looks great the way it is, but I do have to work in 6 hours and have only gotten 5 hours of sleep the past 3 days so…I dunno how much I’d listen to me haha. So keep up the good work!

#13

Heres a viewport screencap od a test for the swarm… I asked at the Dominance War forum… about what would be ok… I initially wanted to use a mesh referenced particles, but they suggested I use 2D sprites for the swarm… So everthing should be kosher as far as the rules go. I think the swarm works pretty well.

#14

I also set up a file for my beauty renders… here are some initial renders… CRITS WELCOME>>>

#15

One more beaty render of the model in a different pose, with the larger pet wasps attached to her body. CRITS WELCOME:)

#16

putting my final images together, will spend tomorrow for the beauty shot, thought I should post everybodies probably busy… but comments are welcome. These images have compression, the finals will be crisper.

#17

here’s my beauty image(with compression) I would post my texture, but i have run out of attachment space(I gotta set up my websit, so I can link images) Anyway…I submittted my finals… so Im calling it done! Long live the CG Society! :thumbsup:

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