L3XICON - Snow Creature - Ice Imp

[L3XICON]

Hey guys and gals.

Another fantastic competition, and another chance for me to start and completely fail to finish :D

looking forward to seeing all you crazy, icy and incredible creations!

I'll be having a blast at an Ice Imp (or maybe a group of ice imps....) in a Blizzard / Torchlight style kinda thing.

here's my super speedy, ready for zbrush base mesh. now to dust off the wacom.

Any crits and comments are always welcome

[chris_solo]

love it l3xicon!

[Buzzy]

Yay Lex! Should be another good comp.

[TNTxGRAVE]

love the design on the little guy

[goast666]

i like everything but the flipper finger things he has going on right now, other than that...spot on.

[L3XICON]

thanks for comments guys :D

Goast666 well they're meant to be claws, but I see what ya getting at, I ll give them a pass in zbrush and see if can make them more erm, claw-ish :D

Small update after a few hours in zbrush

[anima3d]

love your imp :) keep it up m8

btw blizzards imps used to do fire damage, i ll keep an eye on this one its very interesting.

[dhin]

Damn Dude. Just damn.

[Buzzy]

looking really awesome so far lex!
the proportions and the character in the face are great!

[DE3MOHD]

Haha... I like it. It looks cool

[L3XICON]

Hey guys,

a speedy update. trying to move forward pretty fast with this (I really want to finish this time around and know I won't have much time after this weekend!) so, cutting some corners, and just trying to push the larger design elements, gonna see if I can get colour doing most of the work for me :P

a few images of where I am at right now.

some more high poly stuff, a low poly (8000 tri's or there abouts) with baked normals, and my start at blocking out colours for diffuse..

whew.

as always crits, comments, suggestions or any randomness is more than welcome.

[DE3MOHD]

WOW! Its amazing! I like your texture

[Martin_x]

Looks great. I think maybe adding some saturation to the color would be good.

[Buzzy]

Yeah definately looking rock-solid. I agree that he might need more saturation to make him "pop" more. And he definately needs to look frostier and crustier (are those even words?)

Maybe some icicles hanging from his horns or something?

[Crevasse]

Looking great, I love the style. I'm kinda new to the whole organic modeling thing but I have a question. For the horns, eyeballs and teeth, were they all part of the same object just different edit poly elements/maybe UV groups or were they separate objects just saved under the same .obj?

[RHedendahl]

Not amazing just yet, but it's looks really good :). Looking forward to seeing the finished model.