Dominance War II: valri

#1

So I know it is very very late but I really wanted to do this so here goes… Unfortunately I havent recently had the time (plus I didnt realize that it started in Feb!). Some of the entries look really awesome and it is intimidating but hey you can only learn from trying.

I played around with a few different concepts but this is what I settled on. I just want the basic shapes, the details are in my head. I can’t afford the time to put them on paper!

Tonight I hope to get the side and front reference then get the base mesh tomorrow. Good luck to everyone else!

FINAL -

#2

Oops I named the thread wrong… does anyone know if I can change that?

#3

good to see you here valri, hope you can finish this in time.
send one of the mods (listed at bottom of page) and they will fix the thread name im sure.
cheers

#4

or can’t you just edit the first post & change the title in the bar above the message box? i thought you could. that way you don’t have to hassle a mod.

does he have like a triceratops’s crest? or is that some sort of horn or ear slicking up off the back of his head?

don’t worry, i’m finding myself starting with only a little time left too lol good luck though!

-J

#5

ill_logic - yeah I think I tried that but it just changed the title of that particular post, not the whole thread. And yep that is a triceratops crest. Good luck with finishing in time… theres not much of it!

and thanks heber… I’ll try the mods… oops

#6

After quite a bit of tweaking I finally have the final base mesh. It’s pretty simple because I’m planning on doing most of the shaping in Zbrush. It’s about 5990 tri’s =)
Hopefully this week I have time to zbrush and next weekend texturing. Doesn’t give me much time! :argh:

#7

Here are my zbrush wips. I have the basics down so now I’m going to work on the posing, then finish up in zbrush… and then on to texturing. We’ll see if this actually gets done! fingers crossed… All I can say is thank goodness for the deadline extension!

#8

Continuing to work on zbrushing. I’m pretty happy with it for now. Don’t mind the wierd collage, just quickly threw something together. Oh and this isn’t the pose he’ll be in… just playing around. I’m going to try to work on posing now. Then I can finalize the zbrush and move on to textures… woohoo!

#9

I’ve got the final mesh and pose down. 5978 tris for the body, and 1000 exactly for everything else. I’m almost done zbrushing for the body, now onto the gear. Hopefully I can get a really good start on texturing today. I have yet to really figure out normal maps so this could be a long weekend.

Edit* Wireframe is below

#10

Small update… gotta work on lighting and rendering as you can see there are quite a few wierd shadows. I’ve never really gotten that down so I better learn fast =) Moving onto armor.

#11

Does anyone know how to plug a normal map and a bump map into maya 8?

#12

Looks neat, hope you’re about finished though ><!

#13

OK so I think this could be my final beauty pose. I’m going to work on putting the rest of it together and then if I have time to play with it I will.

Edit* Beauty Pose is below

#14

hey valri,
nice to see you improve your work,
must of spent many late hours on this , keep it up.
My only suggestions are maybe dirty up his feet a bit (mud/blood etc) and maybe his body and weapons so it looks like hes been thru some rough terrain and fights.
cheers.

#15

So I’ve finally submitted everything with twenty minutes until the end of the contest. Here are my final submissions.

I’m kind of ashamed to put on my concepts but here goes…

#16

Looking really nice and clean :slight_smile: Well done dude, nice model.

#17

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