DWIII - 3D - Tetsuya - Reila

[Tetsuya]

Class: Warlord
Artifact: fragments bonded to right side of body and core of sword
Element: tba

Brief: since warlords can not manipulate magic easily, she focuses and stores her energy in her sword, at maximum power if released, has enough power to destroy a city. [horribly storyline none the less =/]

first sketch on paper and pencil, curse my tiny tablet =/ colouring is next
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/windreaver6/Dwsketch.jpg

[markus_omega]

good start :). i like the style of the armor alot. keep it up :)

[Tetsuya]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/windreaver6/iomi1.jpg

bleh i hate my tiny tablet =(

[Tetsuya]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/windreaver6/models/zbrushsketch3.jpg

small update on the concept/zbrush i think?

[lampshadehead]

Very cool looking! Keep working away on it :)

[Tetsuya]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/windreaver6/models/reila3.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/windreaver6/models/reilahair.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/windreaver6/models/reilasword.jpg

some major updates i guess >.<
the armor is a bit too simple in my opinion but oh well >.<, armor is meant to protect, not to decorate. Zbrushing it after i get some base uvmaps and textures

bleh i don't know how to change the thread name =(, i finally found a new name for her ^^;; Reila~

more edits:

thinking of adding this artifact arm but... >.>
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/windreaver6/models/ReiWIP1.jpg

[arathalion]

that arm looks mechanical. perhaps turning it into armor?

[kicksachi]

The zbrush dress is pretty neat...keep it up.

[Tetsuya]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/windreaver6/models/reila-1.jpg

byah!, just done uvmapping her >.<

question: whats the best method for rendering normal maps from zbrush, because currently my sculpture goes right under 1million tris, and my computer specs are:
2.8 ghz Intel Pentium 4
768 ram
64mb videocard (256mb one died on me =/)

[L3XICON]

nice design testsuya :) especially the sword which is awesome. You could try doing the normal maps directly in zbrush using zmapper.

[arathalion]

you can either do the normals in zbrush, assuming it was unwrapped when you took it in, or, as you say your sculpt is under a million polys, import it into max and projection map it... you may just have to set a large page file and be patient when importing... i havent dont that high a poly model on a computer with that little ram.

[miclepickle]

for normal mapping in zbrush pixologic has a series of video tutorials from beginning to end of the process(pretty quick) for max or maya workflow... although i have been having problems with it, dunno if i would want to bake the texture in max or maya with less than a gig of ram, though if you want to there is a good tutorial how to do it on poopinmymouth.com... weird URL but he's got some good tutorials up there.

http://poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/normal_workflow.htm




P.S.

awesome sword

P.S.S

nice sculpting :D

[Tetsuya]

unfortunately I am deeply sorry that i can not finish this competition =/

apparently i believe i overloaded my videocard and it blew out on me, its going to probally take a few weeks to build a new better computer so wish me luck next year