sweet dude. here’s some suggestions:
make the seed /orb artifact visible but embedded.
An animal is still worth considering - put a squirrel in there somewhere - only a few polys needed. or an empty bird nest with eggs (no bird since it moves around and scares the bird away) as a unique touch.
good luck…
Sorry Rob haven’t had a chance to work on this at all this week. i doubt i’ll finish at this rate. not long to go now.
looks cool man… i really like the arms…
now u should move ahead with the lowpoly and textures… not much time left 
i mydelf i getting screwed due to time…
neways keep up the good work
OK, so i’ve finally textures this guys high res model, I will transfer the normals diffuse and occlusion as soon as i’ve finished the low. Its still in pieces and needs some decent uvs. I’d like to sculpt up this guy a little more but i wont get a chance to do anything further with the low res still needing work. Plus its my other halfs 30th this week and she’ll get mad if i spend that working on DW3! She’s pretty mad today as i haven’t changed a single nappy all day (thats an english diaper btw). hopefully i’ll get this done in time. if not then i’ll still finish it relatively soon.
ey up!
Just the armour and horns to go, shiny metal is my tuppence worth. I know tiz a nightmare when u already work such long hours but you can still just about finish. Great work Darren.
cool dude! the profile with the symbol looks perticularly monsterous! and i like the sqwirl thats funny haha
im not feeling the red light though, makes it look to clutered :-/
Great work darren, he looks realy mean. I realy like his profile, the way his head is part of his torso. Good work on the textures, they’ve added alot of life to him. My favourite part is his big tree hand, I like the way it hangs on the floor, feels heavy. Want to see him posed now.
Its 2.56 am here in old blighty and this is probably the earliest i’ve been off to bed all week. but finally i’m done! my entry has all been submitted to the game artisans site and below are the images i posted.
Thanks for all the great feedback and crits guys, this is actually my first post and i’ve really enjoyed the whole experience although i haven’t enjoyed the lack of sleep.
Jase and Rob you’ve both been a great help with decision making . you both know how bad i am at that and without your input i’d have given up by now or still been at the concept stage. anyway i’m waffeliing on…its late and i really need slepp, so time for bed. here’s the pics. let me know what you think.
Final images:
Name: Nemus Everto
Class: Warlord
Artifact: Nemus crystal
Artifact power: Vegetation
Thanks for the help, I’m gonna give it a shot today now. You’ve done a great job, really like the images, get some sleep for a second and then I believe you still have a family! Definately some of the best stuff I’ve seen and one of the only finished entries I’ve seen.
Good job all round, the squirrel is the bomb. Not literally a bomb. You know what I mean. Let’s all take next week off work as a reward! 
Now this guy looks grounded! and if anyone tries to mess with him they’ll be barking up the wrong tree (my humour is in endless supply).
I love the twist in the horns, nice detail. maaan, he looks about 10,000 years old, really good weight in that tree arm!
He’s also making me hungry, i’m getting some salad.
well done in finishing, i’m off to sleep!
Good luck!
Great job darren, he looks awsome.
You realy got all those details, horns, twigs, leaves and squirrel in there under 9000 tris :applause:
I realy like the pic where he’s walking, scary. And the leaves look wicked.
Good luck dude.
Well Exicuted, I like how you made the logo on his shoulder. I wish I would have done some thing more pronounced with the logo rather then the suble small one i put on …
good work.
Thanks for the comments guys. I’ve been playing around and came up with this which i
I thought it was quite funny. I actually wish i’d done something like this for my beauty shot, too late now tho’.
FIRST SIGHTING:
Good idea that would’ve been cool! I like your bark textures… I did an ent as well and its cool to see the similarities we chose, like the glowing red eyes =) I like your guys feet and one giant arm. Also the foliage which I didnt do any of. Took up a lot of poly’s I see though.
Looks great nice to see the finished product and its an achievement in itself to finish this thing! I know by the end of it I’m so sick of it and can’t wait to get it over with!
