DWIII - 3D - Jukumari - TBA Pandora?

[jukumari]

Hello everyone, starting my thread with the first sketch and idea I have for WAR!, the artifact is pandora´s box turned into an armor, hence PANDORAS ARMOR, it would fall into the DARKNESS/VOID category, and hold in itself many spirits and tentacles and a ghost helmet and Pandora´s Box itself. This armor works like a simbiot, kinda like Spider Man´s Carnage, generating blades and what not. I´ll be posting more refined sketches during the week....

[Firehazurd]

That might fall under some wacky summoning magic. It could simply call forth the spirits that escaped and turn them into weapons.

[jukumari]

OK, I have landed more and more on the concept, so I guess the summoning or darkness/void magic will be decided later after the concept is clearer. For now what I have and decided to keep is that the armor is actually a demon holding pandora´s box in front of the user, so the armor itself is the skeleton of this demon. with the spine and the rib cage or "rib box" as it is called in spanish, at the back of the user, the demon´s skull will serves as helmet for the user, but it will look as a ghost, retaining the demon´s escence. According to greek mythology pandora was not an evil girl, but what came out of the box was, so I have used these cool shapes of the atlas and axis bones at the top of the spine to resemble a cross, representing pandora´s inocence, covered by what she let out of the box in this case represented by the demon.

[jukumari]

Now for the box itself, it will have two parts, first the "rib box" on the back of the user, from which the evil spirits will come out, out from dark smoke, hopefully, I´d like to do this with a particle system but I don´t know if it would be allowed. Now the box itself, which has already been opened, still retains power, it is being held in front of the armor by the arms of the demon, it will open and let out a huge power, like a finish combo or something like that. Now that I have a clear concept, I´ll start working on the overall silhouette and designing each part of the model.

[setschaos]

that's a great idea! I think I'm going to really dig this entry. It kind of reminds me of that character from Star Ocean for the playstation. I forget his name. Awesome stuff so far, keep it up.

[Jido]

Yeah, this will be interesting. The character looks somewhat witchdoctor-ish, tribal like.

[jukumari]

Ok a little update, this is the demon holding the box..... and used the logo for the box.... or sort of....

[Vitaly Bulgarov]

The last update looks really badass, keep it up man!. Are you going to keep the head of the character inside the scull?

[PhxFire]

Really like your idea man....it's fresh in a sea of similarity. Keep it up :P

[kicksachi]

Unique concept. Great sketches...Waiting to see the model.

[jukumari]

Hello again, I´ve moved from Mexico to Bolivia so I haven´t had much time for updates, here is one, I made a little line up for four of the coolest thumbs I drew, I think nuber 3 looks pretty good but it is kynda conventional, the skirt type thing that number 2 and 4 have looks cooler so I think I´m gonna take that path. The armor itself, being a type of simbiot actually will try to replicate stuff from Pandora´s memories, hence, it would be trying to replicate hi-tech stuff, space suits, laser beams, etc, nevertheless, they wouldn´t be hi-tech, only wierd lumpy organic pulpy stuff, maybe like they were made out of the guts of the demon that holds the box, the left arm transformed into a cannon type thing, that will "fire" something organic, inside this concept of replicating hi-tech, tentacles or arpoony tentacles or so. The box wil detach or disarm from the chest to be used as a weapon also.

Thanks for all the coments, the head of the character will be inside the demons skull Vitaly, but the skull will be semitransparent, like a ghost, as well as the big tentacles with heads that come out of the demon´s ribcage

[BiG ToE-3DT]

its a fight to the death between 1 and 3. I think 3 may take the cake, it looks to have more mass which gives him a more powerfull look, which is whats needed in a war.

[Josiah]

I'm diggin the designs man...good stuff there...I like #1's mask...but yeah, #3 would win in a fight

[Buzzy]

I like #1 better....its a little more elegant and not so bulky as #3

[jukumari]

Yeah I agree with you guys, although I really liked the skirt type thing, I think also that number 1 has all 3 cualities, a skirt type thing, good mass, and elegance, I don´t want the skirt type thing to get in the way of her ass kicking abilities....