Mclean - Army of One - Sergeant Elena Rose

[Mclean]

Hi! first comp for me here over for 3dtotal, im originally a gameartisan so please dont kill me! :haha:

heres my characters story:

Sergeant Elena Rose, Ex-SWAT member who using her previous expertise and her previous combat kit to stay alive, slightly modded to fit the new conditions of the world. She uses her riot kit from the late 23rd century, equipped with shock/stun weaponry, she believes in avioding a killing blow if she can due to her police background but obviously keeps a loaded gun at all times for those "special" cases. She uses power armour modded with deep underwater kit to protect herself from outdoor dangers and obviously firearms/gas.

heres a paint over of her! original picture from 3dsk! and my main reference for the armour, a concept art painted by the awesome ukitakumuki http://ukitakumuki.deviantart.com/ check his stuff out its bad ass! there will be no helmet so you can see her head! also the suit will show age/damage!

[JGavin]

damn that guy has some sick stuff!! But comon, come up with your own idea. Don't just copy someone elses.

[Mclean]

JGavin - Ill try dude! ill paint something tomorrow, i just wanted to show the direction i was heading!

[JGavin]

k good to hear, sorryy i was kinda harsh. keep it up.

[Martin_x]

Great direction. Good luck with that. Maybe in your concept you'll remake the original hand. It's too small imo.

[Mclean]

Martin_x - well spotted! ill beef up the hands, was thinking of making the hands weapons themselves, sharp finger tips/power fist! cheers dude

JGavin - no worries dude

[Mclean]

11 hours later and i think i maybe coming close to the end of the head sculpt going to bake it off tomorrow morning, wouldnt mind getting some critiques off you guys before i do so! one is a zbrush render with a quick texture, another just a mat cap and finally the low poly! which is around 1,000 tris.

[E4sY]

looks to be coming along nicely. can u post the normal applied to the low poly mesh?

[xxxcubanxxx]

head is looking really good so far, nothing to critique in my opinion. Keep it up.

[Mclean]

cheers guys, currently away from my game art laptop, should be working on it again in a few hours and ill post up the normal map and AO for you to have a look dude!

[Mclean]

heres a quick painting over my head sculpt of how i want the area around the head to look! im posting a model of it very soon, working on her armour as we speak! critique would be great!

[frostsnake]

this is looking realy great! maybe the gasmask could be a upgraded more futuristic type. looking forward to updates:)

[Mclean]

oh yea good idea, ill be sure to try out different gas masks, might even design my own! :), rights thats me done for the night, critiques greatly appreiciated!

[spacetornado]

This is looking awesome so far.

[Mr.fE]

cool!

[Martin_x]

Great start!

[Ihazard]

I love that concept art that you found, really inspiring.

The sculpt that you've done looks good, I like the padded inside of the armour :), however I think that the armour itself (or the neck piece, I don't know how you'd classify it) looks a bit too soft, therefore I think you'd be better hard surface modelling it in max or maya :smug:

[Mclean]

cheers guys, i think ive finished up the bust and will be moving on to the body, times running out!, ill be sure to stick to as much hard surfacing modelling as I can to make things have a harder edge!

[Ihazard]

wow, thats got a lot of character to it! keep it up :D

[dark_maggot]

That is looking pretty bad ass man, keep it up.

Cheers.

[Mr.fE]

wow

[Mclean]

thanks alot guys! heres an update guys, trying to get the sculpt done by the end of the weekend! so i can spend a decent amount of time texturing. man i hope i finish, anyone know about possible extension on the competition?

[xxxcubanxxx]

sweet work man, I wish it was possible to get an extension too, but I don't see that happening...holidays killed this one for me, guess we're gonna have to make it work :D

[Mclean]

yep looks like its a fight to the end, heres some gloves im sculpting based on new set of military gloves in the US army.

[Mr.fE]

Haha i might say that i'm kinda glad that you might make it for this one is a killer !!! I'm totally speechless. You Are amazing!!!!

[E4sY]

very nice work. ur understanding on sculpting cloth is pretty good. R u using zbrush polysphere's for the hi poly or importing a base mesh?

[Mclean]

cheers guys, im honoured! as for the sculpting part i make base meshes in 3dsmax then "shell" modifier them to aviod that wierd tearing that happens in zbrush when theres 1 sided polys, then when im done sculpting i take the lowest sub-d into max and delete unnecessary polys before unwraping and baking, hopes thats helped E4sy!

[Mclean]

finally done it, the hardest sculpt ive done so far, im shattered!, im going to get the low poly finished tonight which gives me 4 days to texture! man i hope i do it! heres the sculpt!

[Fbios]

Very cool concept. Your sculpt and modeling skills are impressive. Good proportions of body. I hope you'll complete texture right in time!

[xxxcubanxxx]

excellent work I really want to see this one finished, one of my fav.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

do whatever you need to do to get this done in time.

[D R E A M N T]

Im soo pumped to see this done.

And thats all!

[Mclean]

thanks alot for the support guys, means alot, im desperatly trying to finish. i managed to complete the low res mesh today and unwrap and bake some of it, heres the wireframe! its around 9500 tris!

[Martin_x]

Looks awesome

[Fbios]

Nice low poly. I want to see it with normal map soon!))

[Mclean]

thanks again for the support guys im really wanting to finish, in fact i promise i will! right finished unwrapping and i have started to bake! heres the head with just normals on!

[D R E A M N T]

Cant wait to see this done.I know you wont let us down man.
YOU GOT THIS!
*Pats on the back*

[Mclean]

cheers dreamnt! i feel the love!
heres the full body bake, took 6 hours to bake the individual pieces lol!, texturing the head as we speak!

[dark_maggot]

I hope you finish before the deadline, she is coming out bad ass.

Cheers.

[Tarik2d]

Looks good what sort of weapon does she have?

[Mclean]

cheers guys!, hmm as for weapons she using IEDs, claymores and C4/satchel charges, reason for her bomb sqaud SWAT look, shes a bomb expert, im going to try and make the detonator before i finish but im not sure ill finish the denonator on time!, heres a flat render of her head!

[BiG ToE-3DT]

if it comes to it, don't worry about weapons and whatnot, just worry about getting the main model done.

[Mclean]

literally an hour from finishing just need to touch up my specular so i thought id give you guys a peep, heres a flat render of the head, soon ill post up my finals so you can see it with normals!

[D R E A M N T]

Cmon man..buss it out!

[Mclean]

WOOOOO I FINISHED YAY, thats was tough, awesome competition guys, one of my favourites, thanks to everyone that commented wouldnt of finished if it wasnt for you guys cheering me on!

[Joseph Pomeisl]

Nice job, man. came out well. the only thing that seems off is the roughness of the normal map on the face. Well done:D

[Fbios]

Congrats on finishing model!!! Great Work!

Good LUCK!!!