Machineflesh 2D Challenge Entry: Aaron La'Gere

#15

Heres an update.

#16

oof Sorry for the horrible spelling and grammer before I was temporarily retarded.

#17

Just wanted to come show my support for your entry. :smiley: I think this is looking dope :thumbsup: Your mouse skills still amaze me. Cant wait to see the finished image. Keep it up, Aaron. I look forward to seeing the updates.

GL in the contest.

#18

Thanks Kar0…It’s going pretty slow right now but I have motivation with that cintiq to hurry things up.

#19

I suppose it would be a good thing to have a lower half on the body.

#20

Hey dude, COOL metalic surfaces!

I visit your site, congratulations, very cool!!!

well,

I keep my eyes in your job!:thumbsup:

Keep this good work!

see the TEMPLAR project

#21

whoa nice pic there. I think you should hurry it along :slight_smile: challenge is ending soon.

#22

Yea I know, I just have so much other stuff to do it’s hard to fit time in.

#23

I think it’s about ready for the next step, I may have to go back and change a few things or add some but that isn’t a problem.

I’ve decided to wait until the final image to give the story behind the image.

#24

oO i think it looks much tighter with the added lower part. it’s looking real good. :] i knew you’d wait until the end to give us the story… building up the suspense aren’t ya? lol :stuck_out_tongue:

anyway, looking good. :thumbsup:

#25

Well that plastic render could be very cool if you had details, at this stage it’s a bit blurry.

good luck

#26

Plastic Render? I’m not sure what you mean. The details are there but the image is extremely shrunk down, when I start working on the second layer of custom textures the original details will stand out in contrast.

#27

:hmm: perhaps bonestudio is thinking you used that plastic wrap filter thing that PS has ?? or maybe I’m wrong, and misunderstood what he was talking about. :shrug:

anyway, your mouse airbrushing skills own. so, finish it already! lol.

#28

Maybe, but I doubt it given the context. I have 6 days off work starting now so I should be able to get most of it done by then.

#29

You can’t see from this shot but I have tightened up the areas and have started the coloring process.

I am working on a few highly detailed textures for the skin and mechanical components.

#30

Just figuring out the skins worn look.

#31

:slight_smile: I really like the feel of your sketches and colour WIP .

great style …especially with the addition of the latest skin textures - really compliments the softer feel of your earlier WIP

keep the good work coming:thumbsup:

#32

I have to have the texture and feel of the skin just right.

#33

I don’t want to ruin the final image by making the final color the same since I figure the final image and the final color to be about the same for most.

#34

Ok so here is the story behind this one.

Earth runs across a planet capable of barely supporting human life. Earth puts together a plan on how to colonize the distant planet. Since the planets conditions are too difficult for humans to work in they develop an off breed of human that has several traits that allow them to survive in the new planets harsh environment.

The new species is however deficient in many ways. In the process of creating the creatures no two are created alike and have major mutations over time. In order to keep these mutations under control the military designs a skeletal machine to be surgically installed to help control the creatures but not remove the human aspect of them by just being replaced with machines.

A small group of humans and millions of these worker bee’s are sent to the planet to begin colonization. Somewhere along the line the creatures who have been both used and mistreated realize they are more then just slaves and believe themselves to be the true humans and their masters to be the inaccuracy.

The creatures take over the planet and kill their human masters. The military designed into the mechanical skeletons a method to simply seize control functions and did so in an attempt to stop the creatures. The creatures however are more flesh then they are machine and tore apart their own bodies to escape the skeleton cages.

The military expecting a simple clean up job goes to the planet to find it crawling with part mutant part machine monsters with only two desires. Freedom, and murder.