TonyClifton Battle Chess - Facebookchesshacking Pawn

[TonyClifton]

Cheers!

So I came up with this hacking social media sort of fella that gets connected and chessboxes his way through the game. He might have been captured by aliens and submitted to a brain surgery some moment in his life, but he´ll come around. Watch out!

[TonyClifton]

I have started to block out the base mesh.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/770/baseblockout.jpg

[The Prime]

Aww man that's awesome. Good luck.

[Raul]

i like the little quirks that help sell the story! lets see some modeling!

[TonyClifton]

Thanks The Prime and Raul! I have started to sculpt in some first detail on the mesh.

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1640/detailpass.jpg

[Warlock 279]

Haha, nice idea. Haven't seen a WuTang Clan shirt....in a decade! Head looks like its off to a good start in the sculpt, maybe the lips/mouth could use a little more attention tho, they're looking a "stuck on", not sure they're really flowing quite right yet.

[TonyClifton]

Thanks for your input, Warlock 279! I was just listening again to that Wu-Tang records, so it got into the concept.

Here a little update...

http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/6769/1up.jpg

[TonyClifton]

more details.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4158/2upt.jpg

[AlucardAssassin]

Nice work on the folds! Can't wait to see more.

[Warlock 279]

That looks really nice, mouth looks much better, much more natural. Wrinkles and such look pretty ace.

[Raul]

whats with the eyes being extruded cylinders?

[TonyClifton]

whats with the eyes being extruded cylinders?

Actually right now they are placeholders. In the initial concept the glasses do not show the eyes, kind of like the Kevin character (Elijah Wood) in Frank Miller´s Sin City.
http://images.wikia.com/villains/images/f/f7/KEVIN.jpg
But I like the idea that the eyes could be like a power button.
http://www.alliphonewallpapers.com/images/wallpapers/pwfu0gxpk.jpg

[The Prime]

Thick lenses, big nerd eyes :)

http://www.fancydressmagic.co.uk/itemimage.ashx?name=000762.jpg&width=320&height=350&back=ffffff&pad=true

[TonyClifton]

Thick lenses, big nerd eyes :)



hauhauhauhauhauahuahuahuah

Is this your passport picture?

[The Prime]

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/107/e/8/Oh_No_You_Didn__t_by_daiyanohana03xD.jpg

[TonyClifton]

more details

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/776/shoedetail.jpg

[TonyClifton]

#updating

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5785/3upc.jpg

[AlucardAssassin]

I can't wait to see him textured. Again, the cloth folds are very well done. Keep it up!

[xxxcubanxxx]

looking good, liking his glasses :)

[TonyClifton]

I am testing the normal maps. Still got some work to do. I am new to this procedure, using xNormal (http://www.xnormal.net/1.aspx).

Therefore I made a new topology for the body:

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/503/vptopowire.jpg

and gave it a quick test render:

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3290/maptest.jpg

[AlucardAssassin]

That looks really good, keep it up!

[TonyClifton]

I have started to texture the character, but I am not satisfied with the result so far. Still got to add more details, and I am going to try to add a better overall feel to it.
I am using the Viewportshader by Laurens Corijn (http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader), but just got over the settings really fast and I hope to get more out of it. Now it seems that the normal map sort of disappeared, I mean the lighting is weird. The color map for the arms and heads are still very poor. Any ideas?

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/117/texturewip.jpg

[The Prime]

Looking good. However I don't like the head, as it looks a little too real. Makes me think off a childrens hospital to be frank. I'd make it a little more friendly myself.

Keep up the good stuff.

[TonyClifton]

Thanks for your input, The Prime!

Actually the character should be a little bit creepy (power button eyes). I have added the glasses, so it might have a friendlier touch. Later on I would like to add the glasses with a glow map, so the eyes will be hidden anyway.

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/5008/texturewipii.jpg

and a closer view of the head:

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/1403/texturehead.jpg

[TonyClifton]

Some updating, although not much happened. I put the model into Unity3D.

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/8183/texturewipiii.jpg

[AlucardAssassin]

I like it! The skin looks really good specular wise, too.

[TonyClifton]

Thanks, AlucardAssassin! Here another update...

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5158/texturewipiv.jpg

[SnappedStrings]

Damn looks solid. I can't even think of anything to criticize... which is very unusual for me lol.

Curious though, why Wu Tang? Seems Out-of-character.

Looks great

[TonyClifton]

Damn looks solid. I can't even think of anything to criticize... which is very unusual for me lol.

Curious though, why Wu Tang? Seems Out-of-character.

Looks great

Thanks for your comment, SnappedStrings! Actually when I made the concept I was listening to some Wu-Tang tracks. And there is this song Mystery of Chessboxin´ (http://youtu.be/kl6jwab3HWk). I wanted to give the character an average-kind-of-guy look, too.

[TonyClifton]

I posed the character in a more relaxed way, although the final battle position should be the one where he is sitting on top of the chess-piece.

Right now the model is at 11.166 Tris total.

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8220/vppose.jpg

[TonyClifton]

Getting ready to battle!

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/2449/vpbattlepose.jpg