Races of Middle Earth - character - lildragon

#129

Well it’s nice to see you have arrived at the texture stage. A very fierce creature fully armored,truely belongs to the World of LOTR.
I like the Rhino and Elephant skins DimitrisLiatsos suggested as well,they just seem to belong on your creature.Perhaps some wispy type fur to go along with it and some extra fun with Photoshop too would be nice additions.

          I think a rust of almost a Black nature belongs on him.This creature looks to be very battle hardened,Not much time for polishing and care of his armor.Chips,scrapes,maybe a broken piece or two in the geometry of the armor.

          Well I hope to see him in living color soon.Very nice thus far indeed.:beer: :thumbsup:
#130

flamedevil major kudos for those textures bud :thumbsup: I’ll try them out. Thx everyone for your input thus far it definitely got me thinking :slight_smile:

here’s where I’m at with the uv texturing right now. Now to rid all those stretch marks :stuck_out_tongue:

salud

#131

elephant skin sounds like a great idea!! whats it gonna be??
:buttrock: :wip: :wip:
go go go!!! go!! :slight_smile:

:beer:

#132

It’s looking very cool, which program is that with all those numbers on the UV’s?

#133

Good modelling Lil D - your guy’s a bruiser.:airguitar
I’m interested in seeing the texturing…:arteest:

#134

[shamelessplug] Hey Tito, what about the RANSOMACTIVE texture CDs I sent you?! [/shamelessplug]

:wink:

Looks great! I wish I had more time to work on my 3D skillz! One day I will. Keep it up, bud.

-Ashley

#135

really super man! I havent replied to this thread yet, but IM glad to see im not the only one who uses the colored checkerboard thing for uv’s…hoorah for circus colors :slight_smile:

cant wait to see the textures man. :buttrock:

#136

Fetus23 Actually I found the perfect texture :wink:

Dreamwave not the program just a uv sheet you can grab here :wink: http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Tmpl/Maya/html/index.jhtml;$sessionid$VUX0FEIAAR1NDQCLCVBRT4Q?page=/en/Community/Download/source_images/utility_markers/utility_markers_m.html

Edge3343 LOL!! :stuck_out_tongue: you’re right though, I took an in-depth look through the cd’s today, and low and behold I didn’t know you had skins, well leather, so I took the binder leather texture and it was just what I was looking for seriously. I found everything I needed from the CD’s except for the skin, now I found it :stuck_out_tongue: you gotta make a directory for creature skins next time heheh. But yeah its all there now
KingMob lol yeah… do… doo…do. doo… doo. doo

Back to it :wip:

#137

number UV images all the way WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

you go tito, you GO . . .

#138

:bounce: lildragon …Just wanted to say that i like your character very much . He has gravity and strength that shows on the model…i hope u finish him by Friday, if not surely finish him for the gallery section and definitely pose him.:beer:

#139

Nice model

#140

THe bump for the face completed. Moving on :wip:

salud

#141

Looks good.

When you finnish this one, I’ll vote for it. This is my favorite race from this challenge.

#142

You’ve got to hurry up to get this finished in time Lil’
The bump looks nice keep on working on the rest!!

greetz Willem

#143

Thx gents, once I get the bumps down painting will be easy :slight_smile:

going :wip: Don’t worry about the shoulder seam, it’ll be covered with armor :wink:

Too bad the fulltime job gets in the way :stuck_out_tongue:

salud

#144

bah what good are full time jobs anyways…they just get in the way :wink:

lookin good man! only thng is the bump on the lips seems a little thick…but with color it might make more sense.

nice updates! I like his wrinkles and bumps a lot, can’t wait to see it finished… :wip:

#145

hey lil d
i tried to post after you put the image of the bumped face up but i used so many smilies that my post got rejected and i couldnt bring myself to write it all again…
i just said that it was looking very nice: ive been watching yours from before i even entered. he has excellent presence: you have great contrast going on with the organic vs goemetric shapes. cool.
only one little crit was the lips (as king has now said)
i think you might improve it if you invert the bump map at the lips: i think the issue is that you have large concave shapes and little convex ones: it should be the other way around: so that the lips have form rather than looking so ‘cut into’. shouldnt be a big fix and i think it will improve him greatly
your texture on his back is spendid. it looks very professional.
keep going mate. looking very nice!!:beer: :wip: :wip:

#146

DAG! that is hot lil dragon! I do think however that he could whup krals butt! You should get yourself that program they used on lord of the rings to do the croud simulation and make an army of both your characters. See what happens;)

HEhe looking great, but i think your gonna be pullin an all nighter here:D

WWeeeeeee!

:wip: :buttrock: :bounce:

#147

Bah! There’s no possible way I can finish :shrug: ah well my model on the challenge site will be my voting model, (I can’t win anyhoo :)) but I will continue to texture this beast afterwards.

Great challenge everyone, and here’s some quickly applied maps

till next challenge salud!

#148

hey looking good…kinda reminds me of the mangalores from the movie “the 5th element”, but only in a slight way…anyway can’t wait to see him fully textured…:beer: