Joseph Pomeisl - The Slayer - Orfeo

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Going for a future/old mix for this guy (the seal was broken after a few thousand years - people carried on with their traditions, utilizing technological advances as they developed.)

Planning on some sorta big lance/javelin type of weapon.
Still roughing out the silhoutte.

The name is taken from an old english poem.

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/736/onez.jpg

[pogimonz]

great silhouette! and fast progress!

[chris_solo]

hmm...sounds like as a great project, king :cool:

[Joseph Pomeisl]

thanks, guys. BOUH!!??
I love you, chris:D

[mastein]

huhuh cool
looks like a marine samurai!

[paulius-st]

orfeo or orpheus??? looks promising. something like samuray .

[M_Cederstrom]

looks like a marine samurai!
agree. :)

[Joseph Pomeisl]

mastein, M_Cederstrom: thanks, fellas. Kinda does now don't it?:D
paulius-st: thanks, man. Orfeo. Orpheus isn't bad either but I like the other name...

Kinda slow on this, but lowpoly's done and unwrapped. Some things may be added/removed during high poly phase so it's a rough 9700. Planning on the interior of the cloth being a different texture, more tris coming that way, as well.
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/169/twou.jpg

[chris_solo]

Oo!:xyz::max: good polyflow Jo! love it king!
I hope that you are going to decorate the armour in the good way!
swords appear to me a little short but it's perhaps only an impression of my part...

[Identity3d]

Joseph this look great you have been busy :P keep it up love it

[hellkorgi]

Nice low poly model! Are you planning to sculpt him? His fingers might be too thin for his build. Good job though.

[Warlock 279]

Looks good so far. The skulls are looking a little dense poly wise compared to the rest of the mesh, but if you're on budget you're on budget so, carry on. I like the design of the spear/lance weapon.

[Buzzy]

Looking solid Joe. I agree with Warlock (as usual) about the skulls. They have very little silhouette so they don't need that much detail. I would transfer that detail to the shoulder pads or something.
The buckles could also be done totally with normal maps.
I generally like big meaty hands, so I think yours look a bit small and thin.

Great progress so far! I'm sure this will turn out great in the end.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

chris_solo: thanks, mate; the good way is what I'm hoping for:D
Identity3d: I shall try...
silent_fox: thanks. Planning on using max for highpoly mostly with zbrush for the cloth bits and his head, maybe hands.
Warlock 279/Buzzy: thanks, fellas...
trimmed up the skulls for about 500 tris(yuk...zbrush retopo is nice but I tend to overdo it) -- thickened up the hands, mainly fingers.

- abit jaggy(still some cleanup to do), mainly due to the small amount of texture space given to each, but this is probably closer than they'll ever be seen in a render
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7209/threebu.jpg

- around 9200 tris --
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3324/threea.jpg

[SR_6274]

Looking good man. This should come out nicely.

[pogimonz]

nice bake on the weapons man!.. are those painted normals or sculpted?

anyway nice work, he kinda reminds me of that darksiders guy..

[Buzzy]

Weapons look good. Can we see them without wires?
Did you ever get my shaders to work?

[Joseph Pomeisl]

SR_6274: thanks, man - I hope so.
pogimonz: thanks. Highpolys done in max.
Buzzy: No, I didn't - not on my computer anyway. I had them going on my brother's better comp. but he switched to windows 7 and it wiped out max and I haven't bothered to reinstall... Now that I've got to mess with DX mats I feel a bit like I'm missing a toe.

...wasn't happy with how jagged the bakes came out so I did them all again with much better results.
Just resized the uv chunks to as large as possible then scaled down in PS. Time to move on...
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3258/threec.jpg

[chris_solo]

hey what's up King!?
go > go > go


ps: I love you :D

[BiG ToE-3DT]

updates, thank you.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Here you are, fellas. Haven't had much time to work on this - normals are now done. And back to work.
.... I love you more:D
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5831/constructionsheet.jpg

p.s - anyone know how to get a managed attachment to not look like garbage? The same pic linked from imageshack looks way better...

[redonix76]

Very nice job man!! Get this guy done please!! Top three for sure in my opinion. Good luck!!

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Thanks alot, redonix. It's crunch time for sure...

Figured I should put the highpoly stuff up, as well.
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8391/fourh.jpg

[pogimonz]

nice work on the high poly, crunch time indeed, finish up dood!

should be an awesome piece..

[chris_solo]

nice work as usual! really sweet details!

[Martin_x]

Now that's a Slayer! Great job so far.

[Joseph Pomeisl]

thanks alot, guys. couldn't finish in time...but will eventually complete it. Thanks again for all the comments and/or motivational boosts:D