Dominace War V - 3D - God of Kings - DeadlyFreeze

[DeadlyFreeze]

The day has come at last, guard your loins men.

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[DaddyDoom]

Love it. Looks my uncle António.

[paulius-st]

haha . good one :) . a rival to hitlers blue pony from GA :D .
good luck in this one and guerd your back - its a war after all . :)

[Sathe]

It's only a matter of time before his sack is swolen as a bees nest.

Good luck you juicy *******!

[JHarford]

lol , scary as hell.

[Cordero]

just making sure I get emails when u update :)
Good luck man!

[NinthJake]

The balls need to be bigger :P

Good luck!

[DeadlyFreeze]

Thanks guys, so far I'm just getting warmed up. I figure I'll bust out a couple pages of concepts and see what jumps out at me.

Figuring out how to make something look massive with out any environmental cues is going to be pretty complicated.

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[BiG ToE-3DT]

you will need to give him some dangly objects, something other than his sack, to show scale.

[paulius-st]

nice progres. i like 3'd sketch . as for scale - you will have to give him lots of details that are not small in real world.

[redonix76]

Liking the quadruped and the one coming out of the hole? Coming along nicely, keep it up!!

[Cordero]

I don't know if u know this or not, buuut I'm gonna write it anyway, coz it can't hurt anybody:
If u scale down the head, it will instantly give the feel of a giant, without any environment! Like the bottom left dude.

[Rych]

Yeah the quadraped is nice, but the one coming out of the water is cool, but because of the theme you game him with the buildings coming out of him and stuff.

[liquidbear]

i like 3 cause u can really tell the scale off the god :D

[Warlock 279]

I'm with the general consensus here. Top right is looking very cool. Good luck.

[washka]

3 or 4 (quad).

[DeadlyFreeze]

I'm back and with brand spanking new computer Hazzah! There are more details on this but I didn't come here to draw ****, will post some different weapons later. Going to get my sculpt on.

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[zugok]

Very kool so far. Very alien too, is that intentional?

Cheers

[DeadlyFreeze]

@zugok, mmm alien I guess from the hands and feet? I was just going for something 'other worldly'.

some weapon ideas...
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[TMNI VISION]

lots of nice weapons to choose from . I like the 5th one :).

[BiG ToE-3DT]

well, first allow me to say, they all do look nice, and anyone would be lucky to have a chance to just hold one. BUT, none of those weapons fit the style of your last character sketch. So you either need to redesign your character, or add testicles to your weapon.

[DeadlyFreeze]

hmmmm... balls you say?

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[thefmilyofblood]

Yes.

[Puckducker]

Liking the character design (especially with the 2 eyeballs poking out of the helmet!), but I agree with ToE that the weapons don't quite fit. Particularly the hammer seems too heavy for your characters arm.

I like using the polearm though. Maybe he doesn't need a gigantic menacing weapon to wage war, maybe it's just a simple staff.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

make sure he hits the enemy with the ball side. Hit them in the face.

[paulius-st]

cool design you have here. the hammer is epic :) .

[washka]

An hammer staff maybe?

[DeadlyFreeze]

@Puck, ya I think your right about the weapon. Need to find something that will convey a certain amount of nobility for him.

Quick go at some armor detail, not sure if I will use it or not. These would be circle things on the sketch.

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Ill post the whole enchilada when I get some more finished on him.

[washka]

Like it man, nice style, like the head part. If it's for the armor part, maybe integrate it a bit more.
Would it fit with the rest? It will depend of the rest. :D

[DeadlyFreeze]

who's balls do I have to cup to get my thread title changed?

sculpting start

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[BiG ToE-3DT]

just fondle them, ever so gently.

[miclepickle]

awesome sculpt so far! :D

[washka]

Nice sculpt one.

When I see the shape of your god's head, I think an hammer perfectly fit.
Conceptually wanted or?

[DeadlyFreeze]

Blocking in some armor, might do a different arm guard on the other side to break up the symmetry on this.

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..and a shader test, trying to get a metal to look right is semi complicated with shaders. Having specular highlights on top of reflections is not good a good thing.

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[washka]

When I see the shape of your god's head, I think an hammer perfectly fit.
Conceptually wanted or?

What I wanted to say, it's: head/nail/hammer.

Some tracks:
-Crown
-Crown
-Best crown ever
-Lys symbolic? Or any other cultural one.
http://www.lys-de-france.org/images/fleur_de_lys.jpg
-Decorate armor part, sublime and fine.
-Carried by lackeys (on a transport chair)

Hope your metal shader test are going well, last skull test is already some nice result.
I think the reflection is important, there is some blur in, but the white tones on it have to pop out a lot (light source in general), so I think the specular depends of reflection in this case, even if I'm not 100% sure.
Also think the reflexion varies a bit depending on the light impact/incidence.
There is some crazy knight in animation movie "Chasseur de dragon" (in french sorry) => Dragon hunter
and the metal there sparkles really well, glimmering.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms12ug1t1l4
quality a small bit better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTdrUOtWNI&feature=related
(Can't even imagine render time they used for those scenes)
I would look for the way they did it.

[DeadlyFreeze]

@washka, looks cool but I doubt the used real time shaders, which is kinda of the hard part when it comes to complex reflections.

I changed the armor so many times it's not even funny and in the end came back to what I started with. Detailing pre zbrush pass.

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[DeadlyFreeze]

updizal, started working on my lowpoly since I wont be changing anything radical at this point I hope.

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[washka]

So you've choosen the staff spear, last time I was thinking about an hammer or something like that because head part is some kind of stake/nail for me, but now that I'm thinking about an hammer it would imo, in a certain way, go against the concept (King).

You could have integrated crown to the stake, but it could become quite unreadable.

Really like the idea in your concept, quite brillant, and with crown just there it's very telling, I would have tried to use the weapon to emphasize even more the main idea or with another accesorie, the back part of an hammer won't fit either... a pliers nor. What's the opposite of an hammer?

[BiG ToE-3DT]

I would spread the toes a bit, would help with stability.

[DeadlyFreeze]

@toe, once I get it rigged I'll be doing that

Low poly and norms took forever, hopefully dw will get extended here.

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[ParanoidDomo]

This is the low poly version? If so, thats a very clean bake! And if this is the low poly, could you show us some wireframe shots?

[DeadlyFreeze]

@paranoid, thanks here ya go.

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[pappete1]

great lowpoly and clean normal! cant wait to see it with diffuse map!!! GG!!

[DeadlyFreeze]

With 6~ days to go I'm feeling pretty good, just gotta get this armor spec working right.

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[ParanoidDomo]

Awesome dude! I like your color use, alltho the metal is looking pretty flat to me. You should add some more details on that and give it a little more contrast. But I'm curious how it will turn out with the spec. map onto it.

Nice going dude, keep it up!

[Bulygin]

crazy character)

[DeadlyFreeze]

Pretty much wrapped up this thing, one last shot before I do my finals presentation.

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[capitan_popo]

looking good, the concept is totally diffent, aweosme! I would suggest adding some more wear and tear, dirty him up mostly I mean the armour...glad to see u are going to be able to finish:D

[Pockets]

really excellent work here, i also like the pose it makes him look quite regal

[washka]

Nicez stuff so far, colors?