Beast of Burden - Character & Contraption - Apt Pupil

#1

If the pictures don’t show, just hit the refresh button. I guarrenty it will work in less then ten tries (I have just got to change hosts sob)

I am going to create a phoenix type bird that is pulling a holy ship through the skies. The sketches you see are of the boat, but I have yet to start on the bird. I will have a more finalized version this weekend for it would be a disaster if I didn’t have a plan before I engaged in creating this model. Anyways, I created the sketches yesterday (Wednesday).

The woman and men (one symmetrical man on each side) are the figureheads of the boat. The men are holding the two chains/anchors to the phoenix. Right now, I am looking towards number 5, 7 and 8. They both meld well with the gothic theme.

Coments and suggestions are more then welcome:wavey:

Otherwise, I am certainly looking forward to participating in this contest.

#2

Now THAT is how a pro makes concept sketches.

Very nice job with the outlines Apt P. I also like 5 and 7, but I also really dig 2 and 4. That sounds like an awesome concept of haveing the pheonix pulling a ship. The ship design IMO is reminding me of that air-ship from Final Fantasy (I think it was 9?) just a little.

This really looks interesting already. It loks like Diseney quality concept stuff. Great work so far! :thumbsup:

#3

hey i was just checkin out what you were doin for the challenge. wow, thats a really great concept drawing, your talented with the pencil. i like the idea, its really original.hope to see your progress soon!

#4

July 20 Well, I finally finished working on my site (which is still not up) so now I have alot of time to devote to this cOoL contest. I started sketching some more and it is still in its rough stages, but gosh, this is going to be fun. . . crazy, but fun:p

Started on the back church and the hanging tower. It’s not really as complicated as it looks because most of the things on the church can be duplicated many, many times. However, I am going to need ALOT of bump maps:p

I’ll post more soon . . .

#5

:eek: O my !!! Apt!!! This is pure architecture!!! Very very nice!!

Is your ship going to be like a flying cathedral? So maybe the owners are kind of misionary men? This is really very cool. I see you did your home work about renaissance style.

Even if you say this gonna have a lot of duplication all this details scare me. I mean so little time and so much to do. Well the truth is that i’m not the one to talk about this, i have to do a tree palace myself :drool:.

Whatever, this is going to be cool, i’m sure to see some regular awesome posting.
So keep going, :thumbsup: .

#6

If your 3d is half has good has your 2d everyone is in for a challenge:eek:

#7

Wow apt_P, annother fantastic drawing. :eek:
The church front and tower detail look incredable. I wouldn’t be supprised if I found this drawing in one of DaVinci’s sketch books. I think its that good.

I’m almost scared to see this in 3D because if it’s 1/4 as beutiful as your drawings it’s going to blow my work out of the water.

Great great drawings. :thumbsup:

#8

July 21 Damm it, I was suppose to have finished the boat by today. . . my brain is hurting . . . Zzzzzzzz

Oh well, I have to go out today and I won’t be back until tomorow, So I’ll finish up the figurehead, boat’s name, and bird on monday.

And then Tuesday, Let the FUN begin!! (it’s more like suicide, but hey . . . )

ZrO-1 -->Thanks for the encouragement. I’ll try my best. However, at this point, I am just as scared as you are . . .

OrestesMantra --> Thanks. That challenge includes me though sob

Fedron --> I’m scared too, but that’s not going to stop me from pushing on ahead with my battle plan. With every sketch, I invision how I am going to proceed with the model, and my hands are just . . . itching to start. Otherwise, yours is gonna be just as complicated as mine:p If only that other contest did not hold us up sob Well, I am sure we will have something … .

Well, I am off to bed . . . Zzzzzzzz

#9

Damn, those are some amazing drawings!!! wow… Remembers me of the airship in Final Fantasy 9…

#10

July 21 Thanks Roman. Ya, I guess mine is kind of similar to FF9 at the moment . . . but only at the moment, the model is going to take on a severe change next week once I finish blocking in all the proportions. I have one trick up my sleeve that I am not going to say anything about because I don’t know if I will have enough time to empliment it. But we’ll see. …

Here is a small update. I know, I am suppose to be sketching, but I couldn’t help myself. I will reshow this image with the bump maps tomorow, I have to get back to sketching now sigh:wip: :wip: :wip:

#11

those sketch are amazing man ,wow ,no critic ,but remember that the time is your enemy …j’ai vraiment hate de voir tout ca en 3d wow ca va etre fabuleux ,aller lache pas .

#12

Oh my friggin god…:surprised
That last drawing is really beyond my comprehension. How the hell do you keep the perspective of each piece so perfect?

Just the clarity and care in those drawings alone shows that you are an amazing artist. The only thing that could keep you from dominating this challenge is if you are weak with your 3D app’s tool set. If not, I’ll be happy with second place :wink: :smiley:

#13

July 22 Well, another update:

I have sketched the bird and now thorowly know how to model her (except for the iffy harness with the banners, I might have to change that:p) At least we still have two weeks. That should be enought to get something done.

I will have to revise my pics slightly for the 2d challenge, but that’s another story.

ZrO-1 --> Thanks :slight_smile: This sketch is one of my best. Since this is my sixth contest, I decided to take her to the max. As to how I keep my perspective so clean, I have a nack for things linear. But I did have to modify the perspective boat in photoshop (distort things into place) and I also had to redraw those darn boats twice because my prilimenaries were such a big mess. Anyways, thanks for your continual support, I really appriciate it. Otherwise, your cowboy is coming along nicely too. it’s been awhile since I saw your scene though, I can’t wait to see the cowboy and beast together. Looking forward to it.

Gabe --> J’espere que j’aurais le temp de fini. En tout cas, je crois que ca vas etre ok. In two weeks, I’ll have something:cool: hey, otherwise, I see that your beast/rhino is coming along very nicely. I can’t wait to see him harnessed and added to your fantastic scene with the van. Keep it up!!

#14

Holy Jeebus! That’s amazing!! Are you entering the 2d challenge as well?

No really, I am amazed. I’ll be telling my freinds to come and look at this post-haste!

Get moving! I want more work now! :wip: :smiley:

#15

Haha :slight_smile: Yeah man, I’m kind of surprised that i’m not dead drunk either… don’t have much booze here anyway. It’s a bitch.

About graphic cards, I’ve got one GeForce 2 GTS now, and I’m getting problems with it :frowning: haven’t got enough power to pull 3dsmax4 around. I will be getting myself a GeForce 4 TI4600, hopefully any day now… my goal is ofcourse the Quadro4 card from nVIDIA :smiley:
Still, I will need a bit more powerful computer to take advantage of the power in it.

By the way… your drawings really ROCK! :slight_smile:
I want to be a bit more innovative with my crits, but… I can’t :smiley:
You’re damn skillful. Take care of that.

:airguitar

#16

Hey Three. Personally, I got a geforce ti-3 at the moment and it only slows down horribly when you hit the million polygons mark (forget about seeing your mesh with four views). I am using a dual athlon so my computer eats through the mundane. But don’t you hate being an artist, the hardware franchise makes sooooo much money off us artists sob I have to update almost every year. I can only wonder in awe to how much power your gonna get from you new card, I’m jealous:drool:

But thanks for the compliments Three and Erilaz. I have one more sketch to finish(the figure head), and then finally, after four days of planning, I can finally commence. I’m all excited,

:bounce: :bounce:

#17

That quick unwrap tut you did in Three’s thread will be really useful! Thanks!:smiley:

#18

HAHA! Nice to see that someone benefits from my thread :rolleyes:

Hey… I actually partly fixed my graphics card now. I turned off my computer and poked a pen right into the fan… now everything is dandy :smiley: [waiting for computer to collapse]… ah well, it seems that my computer actually is able to control all these polys now. Only a bit slow when I’m working with edges with end result on with a meshsmooth on top with iterations 2. :smiley: this is actually a bit cool.

Yeah, graphic cards should be a whole lot cheeper for us poor people working with 3d… I mean, all the money goes for a really good 3dpackage… nothing more to spend on a monster PC :confused:

Man, it’s getting a bit pressed on time now… hope that you’re quick with your 3dsmax pack :smiley: I know that I probably wouldn’t be able to pull it off in such short time… I’m really crossing my fingers for you.

Cheers.
:beer:

#19

Hi Apt Pupil,

Just had to drop you a quick note to say :eek: and :surprised and :thumbsup:

Your personal site has got lots of cool stuff on it as well. Thanks for the link on that. Just like everyone else, I’m amazed with your sketches. The amount of detail is phenomenal! I’ll be anxious to see what comes of this!

Take care!

Steve

#20

Finally finished sketching, so this is the last you will see of these sketches here (I am going to finalyze them for my 2d entry, and this is thanks to ZrO-1 who gave me the idea of trying to make my sketches look like DaVinci’s. Why not:shrug: it’s worth a shot:p)

So Now it’s time to SACRIFICE MY BODY let the modelling BEGIN!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Three --> You got one magical Pen there, I wish I had one of those LOL.

Steve Warner --> Hey there Seve, thanks, it means alot.

Thanks for your continual support, I won’t dissapoint (well. . . we will see^_^)