Dominance War II: Shadow God

#21

Looking very sharp and clean man. I cannot wait to see this beast textured. I’m hoping you will be able to portray all of the fine things you have going on in your low res.

#22

Thanks Blupanda - we’re beavering away trying to bring this thing together. We jumped into it without much time for concepting, so we’re refining as we go, but we’re getting close to something we’re happy with. Trying to make the most of this extension…

#23

Okay here are a bunch more renders of the model as it’s getting more refined. Working on lots of nice curves and clean lines. More comments and critiques please!

#24

Proportions look perfect (except maybe the head should be 10% larger?), armor shapes are all great, can’t wait to see this baby finished. This is the high res, right?

#25

wow it looks really great now! :smiley: (yes maybe head is a wee bit small) good speed to you!

#26

very nice, when u get to the normal map part try aplying a relax over the meshmooth makes a nice effect or put a meshmooth without smooth groups over the current already smoothed.
anyway looking very good so hurry up man

#27

I agree with the head, wish you luck getting all that detail into the low poly… Great stuff.

#28

Heh, seems like we might have overdone it when we rescaled the proportions. Getting the scale right for a god is a little bit tricky, but yeah, his head probably needs to be a bit bigger, at least to fit his god-sized brain in there.

We’re making progress - moving on to the low poly and texturing now. Thanks for the input so far, and hopefulyl we’ll have some updates real soon.

#29

Updates - As mentioned in the verse earl, this character is a maker and destroyer of worlds. The Ultimate Domination. Below is a world caught in his grasp:

Low poly is now complete:

Hi Poly Update:

Crits and comments please!

#30

zomg hurry and generate the normal map! :smiley: hope it works out but it looks like I’ll be impressed if you totally succeed. edit: or hang on, no it looks very doable
anyway those things on his back look cool but what are they?
armatures for some energy, protonphoton wings or boosters?
or weapons?
really cool design anyway!

edit: maybe back looks a bit imobile as it’s one big piece… maybe split it into a few sections?
I like the spine design!

#31

Thanks for the comments Erik, hopefully these WIPs explain what those things coming out of his back are for :)… Normal maps in and diffuse on the way. Going to be a late night and busy day Monday.

#32

Finally got the Biped in so we can pose him at last! This is just a test for the time being to make sure the biped is deforming the geometry properly. Not sure yet what the final pose is going to be - got to get the planet in there too…

#33

wow!! stunning! best haste to ye

#34

Finally complete! Talk about close to the line - we uploaded the final images at 11:55pm. Literally.

Here’s the Shadow God entry - we’ll start out with some evocative verse from a previous post to get a feel for the character…

The Shadow God

I am the eons between ages. The void in the vaults of the heavens. I am the gulf between the galaxies.

I come to remake that which was unmade, and to uncreate that which should not be.

I am your ultimate end and your sole salvation.

I am the Dark Matter.

Creation’s Shadow.

Winning Pose:

Beauty Shot:

Texture Sheet:

Construction:

Render of the entire model:

The back of the model:

Well it’s been quite a busy three weeks! Lots of work, lots of late nights, lots of coffee and beer. Time for a bit of relaxation and sleep I think.

Hope you guys like what we’ve done :slight_smile:

#35

nice entry ! cool idea with the planet :).
i didn’t see all the entries but i think CGS has many very good warriors.

-claudiu

#36

Nikudy: Wait till you see Polycount, but with CGS current entry, I say we have a fair chance!

Great work there fellows! Turns out really cool looking, and add a nice twist on the theme “Shadow”. I don’t really like the planet idea though, but it’s still cool. Congrats and good luck in the judging!

#37

Thanks guys. Yeah, Polycount has some amazing entries - I’m thinking the final results will feature a lot of green smileys…

Some great stuff all round though, and lots to get inspired by. Bring on the next Dominance War!

#38

I like this character! It’s a great entry! Congrats and good luck!

#39

I had a chance to create a couple short animations of the model:

The model rotating:
http://www.mattcoombe.com/animation/Shadow_Rotate.mov

And a walk cycle:
http://www.mattcoombe.com/animation/Shadow_Walk.mov

I would love to have made an animated texture or set up a good shader for the fire effect on his wings but time doesn’t allow :frowning:

#40

:eek: That is truly a thing of beauty! The animations really show the quality of this model!