Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Damon Shelton

#21

okay here is the image I wanted to post last night, this is the idea for the Plegian race. alright time to model.

#22

nice concept!! and really cool idea!!

looking foward to see more! :smiley:

good luck!

#23

thanks , I started modeling the corinthe alien last night should be able to finish the head out tonight, will post some images later on.

#24

c’mon … time to post your first pass on the 3d object !! the maya head is looking sweet …
how about the space ship ? can we see some concept ?

#25

hey u got soem really cure aliends over there… i liked all of them… keep it up buddy… and post some more drawings of ur main concept… i’ll b waitin for those… c ya

#26

thanks guys, yeah I will be mosting more early on next week, I am going out of town today and won’t be able to work on this for a couple of days, but after that I will be posting some more concepts and some models I have been working on

#27

haven’t gotten too far, but here is what I got modeled on thursday night, I had to go out of town this weekend.

#28

quick update, haven’t gotten to work on it much, pretty busy at work

#29

and yet another angle

#30

I really like your character design. They look so much like friendly villager types, and the wide eyes make them look vulnerable too! Brilliant… and can’t wait to see the final model.

How are you going to portray the attack? I mean are you going to go for disturbingly realistic, with maimings and gore? or more of a suggestion of violence?

Looking forward to more stuff

#31

thanks, lardbros, actually I am capturing the moment of the first shot from one of the smaller ships, not going to show any gore, but I am thinking of putting in 3 little inset images at the bottom corner of the image, one is a close up of one of the farmers, another is a shot of a woman and child villager at a well, looking up, and the last is a frontal shot of the other alien inside his ship, adn will use some reflections of what is going on showing in their eyes. I hope it plays out as well as I hope it will.

BTW, everyone, when the contest is over I am going to have the alien characters available for download for personal use, been a while since I have put out any free models for people to use and it is hard to find good models out there for study and practice. I am going to try and have the first alien villager rigged with facial morphs for Maya 6 as well but that will take a little while, I am going to rig them for this shot but will revisit them and make more complex rigs for animating purposes. I know there are some really talented animators out there, that need some help when it comes to good models to animate. I will keep you all informed of the progress on that.

Cheers!!

#32

dshelton,
You’re character definitely has character , you just want to feel sorry for them. Nice modeling so far too.
Mike

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=180886

#33

WOW, free model of your alien??? Put my name at the top of the list!! :slight_smile:

Wish i was generous to give away my models! But then, i don’t think anyone would have them anyway.

Sounds like a good idea having a single image split into a few substory type things. Hope it works out!

#34

BTW, everyone, when the contest is over I am going to have the alien characters available for download for personal use, been a while since I have put out any free models for people to use and it is hard to find good models out there for study and practice. I am going to try and have the first alien villager rigged with facial morphs for Maya 6 as well but that will take a little while, I am going to rig them for this shot but will revisit them and make more complex rigs for animating purposes. I know there are some really talented animators out there, that need some help when it comes to good models to animate. I will keep you all informed of the progress on that

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nice to see how your small world is developing ,
show us more … more … more… mooooooooooorrrrr

can we see some attack space ship design ?

#35

lardbros: first off I really dig your signature, makes me laugh. I will keep everyone up to date on the releases of the models, I just want to help out the community, I see it grow stronger every day.

Christophe: I will be putting up ship designs , hopefully, this weekend, I am working out some final details for them before I post, want some stuff that will be as original as humanly possible especially when designing ships. BTW, you can have the models as well, not like you need them, but you can if you want them, anyone can.

#36

here is a wireframe, I finished out the ears, now I am going to work on the eyeballs themselves, only have placeholders in right now

#37

finished the ears, woohoo, I have the ears straightened out to make rigging them easier

#38

a little closer shot of the face to show off the details

#39

here are the eyeballs, let me know what you think, trying to keep the sad eyes going without having solid black spheres

#40

and the eyes again, now on to modeling the body and clothes, still wondering about skin color, going to do some color passes before finally texturing him, the pinkish skin color is not final.