Beast of Burden - Character - Beroc-LOD

#1

Hi everybody, guess it’s time that I tried my hand at the challenge again… this time, hopefully with more gusto…

The Idea… is for a Beast of Burden… and though I kinda had dreams of some pretty wierd stuff, I finally came up with a piece I guess I am gonna call… The Beer Wagon… Hey, you might as well have some fun while you are doing it…

To start off, I guess I will have to make the most important part… The Beast… I figure it will be a big lumbering creature, being poked and prodded by it’s enslavers… with any good luck, I can put enough emotion into it that will make you feel sorry for it, but first I have to get past the idea I have… so here is the first pic, and hopefully more to come and quick…

Wish me Luck… I’m gonna need it…

#2

Finally had some time to make some progress…

Just starting to get the rough idea out…

#3

the next installment… still working on the body and such…

I think most of the basic detail is there… since it started off as a low poly model, I will go back in with displacemnt maps and make some really kick ass detail… provided of course my machine doesn’t completly choke down… it does tend to get a little slow when you want to put a billion or so polys on the screen at one time… :frowning:

#4

OK… maybe that wasnt it for today… I got to playing around with the eyes, and havin fun… so here is a pretty horrid dyno skin texture on my beast… cheers

#5

Hi Beroc,
Looking great, I love the head and muscle definition. An idea might be to give him thumbs cause for some reason he feels like he needs more support up front, might not be a prob though. Human ears are an interesting idea, I’m still trying to decide whether they suit him or not.

Very cool, can’t wait to see the next instalment.

cheers,
phil.

#6

I really like the beast, nice muscles and face design. I but i dont like the texture. To me i think hed look better w/o it

#7

I love the eyes they look great. But I think the back feet look a bit too much like hands right now though.

#8

Thanks guys…

phil-I will end up tweeking the front feet, but decided the back ones had to go, so I spent a couple more hours redesigning them… I wanted, orignally the fronts to look like a pudgy little set, but it wound up being different somehow… guess I kinda got side tracked… The ears need to be tweeked a bit, the original thumbs I did for it show a small roundish human like ear, but the inner parts just dont seem to do it for me a the moment, it will be revised a bit, but should look pretty cool… I didnt want them to be to obtrusive… large ears would make it look a bit small IMO… when in the end, it should be about the size of an elephant… course, I have nothing for size reference… yet…

Lukashi-Textures are not important, though I am having fun with it, those textures wont be on any finals… course the whole thing is taking me a long time to produce to begin with… either way, thanks for the comments… and I was more interested to see how the light hit it…:smiley:

OK… now here is new rear feet… they took a bit of time, and still need a bit of tweeking… I really want the toes to look more lefty righty type of thing… but that is all tommorrow…

#9

cool, love the new feet. Great work.

#10

I think I started off this whole thing with an idea… not really pics or thumbnails, but an idea… A beerwagon… though it has something to do with a beast of burden… It was the wagon I was really after…

This is part of the original idea…

Everybody loves Beer… Doh!

#11

I love the new feet, they look cool. And as far as the beer:
:buttrock: :beer: :airguitar

#12

mesa like … it will look good when completed.

I would think about either removing the ears or changing them to beast ears (like a donkey, or with holes ala: a snake)

the feet look cool as hell and i like the detail around the eyes and nose… its got a good look.

cheers

#13

zr0 i go to school in nyc so we should meet up and grab a :beer: in september

#14

Well guys, another day, another dollar… well a couple at least if you are gonna get by…

Time for another installment of…“Can he get it done?”, better known as… “Will he quit?”- ala - Beast Contest…:smiley:

Well… actually, I am gettin close on the beast, the new feet/hoves, er… whatever worked out pretty good, I did some tweeking on the ears to make em look more like what I wanted… and yes, I wanted human like, or at least real small ears, cause… well I dont know why, but I did…LOL… Big beast ears or horns would not serve what I want, so that is out of the question…

OK… here is what I did…

Added the new feet
Shrunk the back end, and added hocks and legs to fit, this made him look very powerful…
added the ever lovable penis… (heh… can I say Penis on here?)
repositioned him in a good pose
Built a base(very important to keep it all together… wouldn’t want him looking like he was out in space… plus it added more then it took away…

So here are a couple of updates so you can see what all is going on there…

I am pretty happy thus far, and still have plans on the base and model, not to mention the harnes, leather, flags, and tidbits… I am thinking of making some peircings… for the creatures that own him to hang stuff on… after all… he is big, might as well use the realestate…LOL

#15

:eek: wow! just saw your beast for the first time(so much entries here:blush: )
i really like your beast- especially the muscle definition is pretty cool but also the way you shrunked the back looks awesome. what i suggest you could do is:
show us a more smoothed version.
get rid of the symetrical feeling. e.g. make some tooth bigger and some smaller. that would make him look more realistic. but i guess you were going to do that anyway.
and the surrounding place is not very good. it makes him look like he is about two inches high.:smiley:
but as i said - a really great model you got there.:thumbsup:

ahhh and btw. i’d love to have such a truck, too!!!:drool:

#16

Not as much time as I would have liked today, but I did some important stuff… textures and smoothing are one… I got to work on a “Driver” the other day, but didnt have time to upload a pic of it, either way, I am pretty happy with the hour or so I had to work… on the harness mostly… you know getting the bands to match the skin is pretty tough…

#17

OK… a little prelim of the driver…

#18

OK… got new ideas, and they will be much better then the old ones… sadly, the driver will loose his head, in favor of a more human one… The beer wagon it’self, will be another beast of burden, well almost… I spent some 8 hours modeling this, trying to get it as close to the few pics that I found of it…

Other then that, I intend to have a little bit of drama from some smaller creatures… All in all, it looks like the plan is comming together. Now if I can just finish it all in 2 weeks…:wink:

#19

A “friend” of mine almost accused me of stealing an infographica model for my truck… :argh: Which of course it is not… :smiley: , but that is what you get when a car modeler does a contest… well this time at least… there was a purpose… :smiley:

I have some more done, but haven’t had much time to do renderings… hopefully that will all be done tommorrow

:bounce:

#20

It’s Comming…