That looks positively great - and I love the orange mesh 
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UCAC - CHARACTER 101 - Ambient Arthopod - Hanzo
ckaos
#15
This is really looking very good indeed Hanzo !
I don’t think it pales for nausicas insects at all , and you’ve got quite an impressive mesh !
Keep it up !
hanzo
#16
JamesMK thanks man 
ckaos@om your right I tried to make this entry fit into what ever the challenge was shooting for this time around…
ok my first normal map wip, I’ve completed my Zbrush normal map work, enjoy
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ps: I forgot the rule that states no fliping unwraps when normal maping, so I’m going to have to redo the head mapping completly…
AndyH
#17
Woo! Thats looking hella good!
Im starting to lose faith in my entry now - theres a lotta great models in this comp!
Keep it up lad
d0up
#18
wow! that’s really cool :applause: no crit’s at this time. Only a question: you’ve said that no fliping unwraps when normal maping, what’s the problem on that? I wanted to share the texture space for several parts of my insect…
(sorry, it’s my first time trying to do something serious for real time)
Oldbean
#20
Wow, a lot of detail there considering its only a 512 map.
I don’t think you’ll have to worry about flipping the the UVs as long as your seams are lined up properly and theres no overlapping. Looks good from here anyway :shrug:
Bring on the colour :buttrock:
Serul
#22
Looking great Hanzo! 
The color map will make this critter come alive… are you going to give him a few alpha mapped haires here and there? To give him a bit of a fuzzy look maybe…
As for the flipped UV’s rule with normal maps… usually it gets corrected in the engine if it’s supported (I believe Doom 3 does that…). But if it’s not it’ll make the shading look inverted and will create “shading seams” between the flipped and non-flipped UV’d faces… which will break-up the lighting on the model and create other nasty things sometimes.
hanzo
#23
thanks guys for all your comments 
Andy thanks dude!, but plz keep up with your entry man, I’ve been waiting for an update
Oldbean ah ok, with that in mined you and Serul have saved me some work. For high detail I used overlapping of each body mesh ( shell section ) and sense the seems are quite reasonable in this areas it works unnoticeably saving much more space for a higher res map.
Serul I didn’t think of the fuzz originally, but great idea I’ll see how many tries I have left. Thanks for the info on normal mapping
update soon, I’m pretty much done with the model
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Por1
#24
Hi man, I was wondering where are You hiding:). Nice model and cool concept. I really like it. Now I see that You are using everywhere normals ;). Great work on them, and the blue light create really creepy atmosphere.
Keep it up, I try to look in here more often.
Take care.
hanzo
#25
Por@szek thanks for the kind words dude
ok here’s the latest on my Spidy Maggot, enjoy
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up next is the Fur and drool
Serul
#26
The fuzz and drool will really add to this I think. One other thing… maybe you could give the shell some color patterns… right now it looks a bit monochrome. :shrug:
None the less its looking awesome!
I need to hurry up and get mine finished… fast :argh:
hanzo
#28
Serul good idea man lack of color variation was bothering me, especially from the front 
I’ll do something with that…
ok guys me will update soon
JamesMK
#30
Aye, that is quite an excellent result! I particularly like the furry bits and the the fleshy grossness of the “belly”.
Top notch, hanzo - a really iconic little pest.
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d0up
#31
Wow, u’ve got a really ugly bug there 
really good work.
how u’ve done the uvs? i’m quite interested in that aspect. ah! how does your bug move?? is a ground or acuatic one?
bye!
hanzo
#32
JamesMK: thanks man
d0up: it’s kindof ground traveling, but I was thinking more of lurking about the ceilings of caves…
I’ll post the UV’s later
Supervlieg
#33
This is looking really good hanzo! Compliments on the bug. I think you have a good shot at winning this with this baby.