Still trying to flesh this giant out.
I know this so far:
here are some sketches. It goes in order of how he has evolved so far starting with a typical type of character.
Looks good. very greenman-ish. I am like the Face alot especially the mossy soul patch! lol. I also like the root/dredlock/vine like hair. keep on rolling!
haha you noticed the soul patch hey? 
That will definately remain in the end.
here is a speed paint using the concepts above.
haha cool you gave him horse legs, i was gonna say his legs before seemed a little too week but now thats solved 
i really like the golden firey stuff going on inside him, you should play that up more!
a little behind on updates.
here is the head study so far, with a quick speed paint color test.
the tree is not final.
unfortunately I can’t draw at work other than in my sketchbook, which I am…but I can’t post any images.
but, I was thinking of the story line behind Syness (jot / quick note form).
SYNESS : The Earth giant
I like it loads. I think you shoudl scale it down abit more, so that his strength is more important than his mass. Also doing textures for huge objects are dificult.
Great concept man.
my god its been a while and time is ticking. darn it.
anyways, here is a ‘concept sheet’ protoype for ya.
trying to figure out the pose.
also a silhouette for he model sheet. I used the one on the concept sheet, just cleaned it up a bit but adding/removing branches, giving him a neck, fixed chest.
plan is to flesh out the final pose and then do the concept sheet as I figure the CS won’t take as long as the beauty shot. so all day at work my mind fried over what to make him do or pose like. My big issue was to make sure I showed the viewer all the detail that flows behind him (ie: the rooty back and third leg). posing him just at the side was boring to me. He needs to be doing something. I came up with a few ideas like:
1 - him standing on a cliff, birds flying around him (think hippos with the birds on their back) but since he is so huge, they’d be little M’s. That idea also led to the idea of flowing water through his root feet, which still could be cool.
2 - a heard of these tree beast giants. after watching 10000 BC last night (horrible movie BTW and I’m glad I did not pay to see it…great CG though), I got the idea of a herd of these, elders, female?, younger smaller giants, in the middle of a grass land, and in the foreground having a bunch of soldiers of some sort prepare to take them on. But again, I only kept hitting that block of the side view. again, interesting idea.
3 - a battle scene, where again the foreground consits of soldiers but this time scrambling to take Syness out. It would be a huge action shot, so the FG would be blurry. Syness would be kicking or stomping soldiers away (to show scale). this is probably the one I went with, but a little differently.
Changes I made to Syness:
The scene I’m shooting for now:
like I said in #3, Im doing a battle scene. but I did figure out a pose. Just trying to get it right! here is the pose:
i also have a version 2 of the concept sheet.
let me know what ya think!
going with a dynamic pose instead of trying to figure out what to do with the background and foreground. keeping it simple!
update. lots more to come this week as i will be going late into the nights trying to finish.
oooo rah!
Hey Dimitrios, The character its evolving in deed and pretty fast! Great! you really want the war, thats the spirit…
As for your character, the value its going well the bg looks yet a bit weak, but maybe you haven’t get to that layer yet in the posting process? His position its going well is he going to match any army of robots or something alike? … The grass looks a bit too big or small I dont know the reference for his size its hard to tell yet? Keep up the good work; I hope to see some colors later! And hurry up! :arteest:
