DWIV - 3D - Ghost-D - Untitled

[Ghost-D]

Hello!
So, the time has come and I´d like to make some serious damage too. I have some thoughts, some things I´d love to have in my character, and also colours I´d like to use. I´m going to do some paintovers over the silhouette to show what I´m going for a little better, but to get some critics on the idea:

I want the character to be dressed in something like diving/kosmonaut suite in 70´s style, with a little crazy colours (well, 70´s...) almost electric, cool equipment and details and my "magical thing" will be a lava-lamp-relic with threedy colours and logo floating inside. Well, floating logo or some body parts of his enemies (or allies) to "gather" the energy from it...

The character is human so I´m going with Norms. And here I´m deciding between Clericon and Stalker, because so far he could go either way. But I guess healing suits better for his clothing style (70´s - peace) and I might go the "monk" way.

Here´s what I´ve got so far:

-here I´m filling the silhouette with stuff and basemeshes for ZBrush where I´ll put everything together. -

-face sculpting wip-

As you can see I´m going for older person, someone with character, who has seen stuff, no noob. And yes, the ears are wip, the don´t really fit the rest of the face now.

More to come, stay tuned and if you take the time to leave some comment or suggestions, I´d really appreciate it.

[SR_6274]

Nice sculpting on the face so far. He definately has some character to him. He doesn't look too "old" at the moment, but I'm sure you are working on that.

[xelubest]

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well the ideea seems awesome... if you ahve imagination and game art skills you could really do something nice


post updates ... don't abandon the project just cause you don't recive feedbacks....

KEEP GOING !!!!!

[chris_solo]

agree with xelubest keep your right direction because the modeling suggests very good things to the futur! keep it up man!

[Mischi]

Hehe, great idea. It definitely differs from the average Dom War style.

But why don't you make him more like an old war veteran who is a bit braindamaged from all the years of war? It would really suit your 70's design. You know, like getting flashbacks in different situations and won't even take off his suite at home because there could be a new mission any minute. The type of guys that are permanently talking about war and the good old times.
Good examples of this type are Lt. Dan from Forrest Gump or Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.
And when I've seen your first image the funny old man from the Advance Wars games immediately came to my mind (Link)

Just take this as an inspiration. In the end it's your decision but I would really love to see something like that

[Ghost-D]

Thank you guys! I´m not going to give up. Glad you liked it, I was a little unsure about my unusual idea. I didn´t want it to be like "disqualified" because it´s not a killer in the first sight. I´d like to play a little with colours and of course emission map. As for his "personality" - I´d like to make him a person with experience, older person yet athletic, calm at every moment, skilled in silent assasinations and maybe not even regular soldier, but a person you call when it gets serious (infiltrations, murders - weird stuff). I have to admit that I was a little inspired with the assasin in Godfather III (remember the scene at the opera how the older assasin got the young twin "soldiers"? Awesome...).

mischi - thanks for the link. I don´t know the game, but the picture pretty much would fit the colours I´d like to go with. But more equipment and a some more details to the suit.

[jjvdb15]

no doubt this will turn out, you never know what the judges will say so i say go for it! Cool idea, the sculpt is already looking nice.

[Ghost-D]

Thanks jjvdb15. I´m trying to go the "less serious", almost funny way with this character, so I hope the judges won´t get it wrong.

Here´s some "concepting":


I have some nice story for the vinyl record also, so just shortly now:

Nobody knows when and where exactly, but there was this strange item found somewhere in the ruins. Many people considered it to be some kind of relic and believed in its magical powers. Although nobody knew what it was, the relic became a heritage that had to be protected from the hands of the enemies.

And so the years flew by and this mystical item had many holders - brave guardians, best of the best. One day a guardian who was growing old had to find his successor. There was an excelent medician and occasional assasin (my character, no name yet) in the village. He knew him - they´ve met on the battlefield couple of times. It was a brave young man - man with potential. But there was also something strange about him, almost mystical. Like if his mind wasn´t on the same place with his body, but he was very bright and heedful at the same time. Long story short: Doc. got the relic.

Becoming a guardian was a serious thing, so he tried to find something about this relic he was supposed to guard with his life. And finally one day he put all the bits and pieces from the historical records from all the villages together. It was a vinyl record from the 70´s. MESSAGE FROM THE ASCENDANTS! He was fascinated. For the first time in his life, it was like if his spirit found its era. That was also the first time he found his upper-level-magical healing powers, that he later learned to keep in a lava-lamp-like weapon he self-made shortly after finding a blueprint in historical records.

And so his journey continues. But now there is only one task left for him in this land that has been destroyed by three great dominance wars for hundreds of years: Find a vinyl record player. But hey, that´s going to be piece of cake, right..?

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That´s it for now! I believe that there are many mistakes in the text, but it´s not final yet. Although I believe I´ll need your help with correcting the text later.

Now I have to put some hard work into hipoly model and some serious thoughts in what the vinyl title is going to be. ABBA, Simon & Garfunkel, ...? Any ideas to support this recession?

Stay tuned

[Ghostbrush]

This is such a refreshing idea, keep going with it, would like to see more dude

[Ghost-D]

Thank you, Ghostbrush!

Minor update, I´ve been working on couple other things/projects that I´ll post in other sections, but here´s what I´ve got sculpted so far on this guy:


I´m thinking about naming him "meatball surgeon". He´ll get doctor gloves and injection filled with 3d total spirit as a weapon (healing for allies, lethal injection for enemies. I always loved silent assasinations with Spy in Commandos)
Shouldn´t take too long to finish sculpting session, Lowpoly + UVs 2 days max and the rest for texturing. I think I could make it in time...

[Ghost-D]

Update:


Shoes - placeholders for now.The clothes and the straps are not "interacting" yet, because it´s screenshot from early stage. Now I´m going to make those two elements work together.

I was also thinking about giving him a stick, simple wooden stick like he was on a tour. Should give him more of that wise-man look and he could also use it as a weapon. And yeah, that thing on his back will be the lava-lamp-like magical weapon. I´m just trying to figure how I´ll adjust the straps so he could use it as casing for that l-l-l m w.

Await more soon, fellow soldiers!

[BiG ToE-3DT]

2 weeks GHOST, you can do it.

[Ghost-D]

Thanks a lot for support, BigToe! This is going to be tough if I want to make it in time, but finally I moved a bit with the idea of how to continue on this one. I´m not going to give him the big bag on front, I´ll rather make something like a medical hand-bag. Should look better and also make more sense. Now here´s what I´ve got now:

I´m going to put a little more muscles on him, especially on the legs. That was the part that was really holding the whole model down I guess.

[kravo]

cool shoes
c'mon man, you can do it!

[ryvick]

it's really cool, i would have gone with a younger look to give it more edge that way.
it's like "spy who shagged dominance war"