Gallery of mixed stuff and WIPs (not warcraft related)

[TDR]

Yeah, I thought I'd share with you some of my stuff. Finished along WIP. It's always nice to see fresh views and different opinions about your work. As I see there's a lot of people here that doesn't frequent wc3c, this is a good source for fresh eyes. So yeah, here they come.

The first 2 things are some abstract stuff that I entered the nVidia and CGtalk challenge "Amazing creations" with.
Next there's a jellyfish thing I made for no apparent reason.
After that there's a sword I made for Oblivion that I ain't going to finish. Just wanted to see if I can get a weapon working fine in the game.
Then there's this thing that looks an awful lot like a penis. Still working on that, it wasn't it's original purpose to be in that still. I'm working with it along with a buddy of mine (he's with the concept, I'm with modeling) and we're planing on making a short animation with it.

Now for the work in progress stuff

First thing was the first version of that phallic creature (his name is Dependel, by the way).
Next there's Dependel in it's current state.
After that there's some sort of cannon I was working on for a while. Will going to finish it, nonetheless.
Then there's this retarded fellow I made quickly to test making creatures for Oblivion. It's a real pain to get them in-game working properly. This is the mesh imported just as as tatic, so I can see how it looks in-game while I'm working on it.

Now for some low poly shit. They're pretty self-explanatory I guess. I limited myself to 128 polygons and 128x128px texture maps. Exceptions were made with the sword and the alien, where I used 512x512 textures 'cause the normals maps looked like shit at 128.

Yeah, that's about it for now, I guess. More to come as I'm working on stuff.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Penis-man looks really cool, as always top notch work from your side.

What are you making the low-poly stuff for?

 

[anetherond]

What software are you using? blender?

 

[TDR]

low poly stuff was made for practice. I use 3ds max.

 

[Kimbo]

awesome stuff as said many times, i dont have any crits..

 

[frostwhisper]

I simply love the first one.
And the jellyfish that kills you until you die is awesome as well. Very realistic.
Good job on all of 'em.

 

[HappyTauren]

Awesome stuff, I like that penis dude (although I already saw it on deviant art and wc3c)
Also, how the hell do you manage to make such a clean lowpoly mesh 0.o

 

[Chaos Overlord]

Lol your modding Oblivion? Very nice.I especially like that wootage sword your characters got on him. Also like your sabiuata sword

 

[TDR]

thanks everyone.
aye, I recently got into modding oblivion. Trust me, it's not hard making the models, it's harder to get them in the game since there are no official tools. Well, static objects are not really hard but creatures are a big pain and so far none of my creature tests succeeded...but I'm getting there.
Oh, and it's actually "săbiuţă", which is the diminutive form of "sabie" (sword) .

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Have seen some of your stuffs at wc3c and DA earlier, but they're still awesome.

I think people could have a use for the low-poly models. That flying ball-demon would be a great summon creature to annoy enemy targets.

 

[DwarfZealot]

is that armour in that oblivion screenshot also made by you?

 

[TDR]

...no, that's the standard glass armor.

 

[TDR]

hey, time for an update! This is very fresh stuff, just finished it. They were made for a very best friend of mine for some projects he had to do for university, a perfume bottle and a chair. The perfume bottle was designed by him, and modeled and rendered by me. The chair was designed and modeled by him, and tweaked and rendered by me. The chair render is the biggest render I have ever done, it's made to be printed on an A2 format at 300dpi so it's 4961x7016 pixels. It's so big my computer couldn't even handle rendering it at one time, I had to divide it into 4 2480x3508 renders and stitch them afterwards. I attached a full res detail of the bigass one.

 

[anetherond]

Simple, but yet impressive. +rep

 

[TDR]

thanks man.
Here's a wip of the HoM&M3 behemoth...I just wanted to make it for a very long time, for no practical reason.

Oh, and speaking of heroes 3, here's my attempts to mod it . It's pretty tricky to mod, but it's possible. And if this isn't the most retarded heroes 3 modding you've ever seen, I don't know what is.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

The castle made me lol big time. X)

 

[Dionesiist]

Good stuff dude.

 

[HappyTauren]

wow very accurate render to get models work in heroes 3 XD
I have to rep you for that castle though.

 

[TDR]

I decided to make a high poly model out of that big dude I initially made for the modeling competition but dropped out. I started working on the face first. First image is what I started from and the rest where I'm at (still some things left to tweak and I have to make the ear sometime soon).

 

[THE_END]

Rawr I have no nose?
Lookin good TDR

 

[Deleted member 126647]

How do you make something like that? Do you subdivide and then move verts around one at a time?

 

[HappyTauren]

Maybe he uses brush feature in max.

 

[Dionesiist]

I wouldn't have given him lips... he looks like Michael Jackson...

 

[TDR]

I don't use the shitty brush thing, I do actually move verts one at a time. After I have enough laid out I go in with soft sellection.
Nose and lips are there to stay. I'd rather have him look like michael jackson than an old teethless lady.

And hey, look who's going into Heroes 3:

 

[anetherond]

I thought you to be cleverer than that, TDR. If you use Zbrush you could have reached to better results with less effort and time. As for the Darkness Efreet, what else I can say than awesome?

 

[Dionesiist]

Impressive.
_________

 

[TDR]

I thought you to be cleverer than that, TDR. If you use Zbrush you could have reached to better results with less effort and time.

I absolutely HATE using ZBrush from the start and I have a bad impression for people who do so. It's because just about anyone can use ZBrush or Mudbox to make something look good. In other words, I find it way too easy (may sound a bit cocky, but that's how I feel about it). It takes much more skill to make things the old school way and it's also more rewarding for me. I'm not implying that I'm a big shot or something, but I hope one day I'll be good enough to make good looking things without sculpting.

I only like ZBrush for making extreme details that are nearly impossible to make with Max and for texture painting. So call me crazy, expired, old fart or anything, I know this ain't the best opinion, but that's how I feel about this. Sure, Zbrush is an amazing application and it sure speeds things up considerably, but I just don't like depending on it.

 

[SuPa-]

GIEF ME UR MOEDLZ N TEXTRZ SKILZ PL0X!

Anyway, the brush in Max sucks. TDR, the whole point of ZBrush and Mudbox is to make things much easier xD Even though it might be cheap-shot or whatever, it's still effective in the right hands. I still think actual modeling is more fun, though. I suck at ZBrush xD

 

[TDR]

ya man, I know Z makes things much easier and I said that's what bothers me most. I mean, it's like chosing fast-food instead of cooking your own food. You have much more satisfaction eating stuff made by yourself. Fast-food makes you fat. Eh? Yeah.

 

[Callahan]

Good it's the same reason why some people use linux instead of windows because double click make you dumb.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Vert by vert must be a tiresome process. What does soft selection do?

 

[DwarfZealot]

i was wondering the same thing

 

[TDR]

...If you would only check "soft selection" and see what it does for yourself, you wouldn't have asked this. It's nothing complicated, but usefull as hell.

I finished the efreet for Heroes3, it's perfectly functional in-game:

If you still have heroes 3 installed, if you like this model, and if you know how to get it in the game I can give it to you.

I started working on another heroes3 creature today. This is the concept sketch:

And what I've done so far:

I really like working with each vertex individually like that, the old school way. It's strangely relaxing for me.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Hmm, can I ask you, how you even make the sprites for those 2D games? Do you make a model and render it with animations, or is everything in 2D?

 

[TDR]

Yes, you make a model and render each frame individually and then make a special type of file from them that Heroes3 can use, which has the .def extension (just like wc3 has .mdx model files). The frames in that def must be in a certain order so the game knows where to get each animation from. The frames must be 8 bit indexed color BMP, with the first 10 colors of the color table fixed (those colors include the transparency, team color etc.). It's not that hard to make, but it's a tedious process.

 

[Callahan]

Nice i like HoMM, i've only played HoMM 1 though...

 

[HappyTauren]

Wow, that effret looks totaly awesome! I like that face, 100% TDR style

 

[Mechanical Man]

I guess is also much harder to create those sprites than 3D models ex. for warcraft, especially because you cannot use nothing as a base. However you do not have to worry about polycount?

 

[HappyTauren]

no, because you just render it I tried doing this for diablo, but I failed.

 

[Kimbo]

Simply amazing, awesome concepts too, iv always liked heroes 3, amazed you can fit stuff in it.

 

[Mechanical Man]

I forgot to ask, if that is the same efreet (or with few modifications) you made it for the contest here?

 

[TDR]

thanks werewulf!
Aye, it's the same thing . I only made the skin black and added the pauldrons. And of course, skinned it to the bones.

 

[Infinitynexus]

wonderful, the heroes3 community did need some new custom creatures ^^

TDR, are you familiar with Wake of the Gods? (h3 mod, quite good)

 

[TDR]

of course I am, I have it since it's first version. I will even be in the team soon .

 

[Daminon]

Hm TDRus, how does that particluar death animation work? I once made something look like it dispersed in particles with an animated opacity map etc, but it only looked good aslong as you couldn't "see above the opacity edge", else you saw that it had no volume. How does your thing here work? :? :3

 

[TDR]

the opacity of the material suddenly turns to 0 . It happens when the largest number of particles covers the body, so it's not that easy to notice.

 

[TDR]

I made the ear. Actually I made it some time ago, but haven't posted it yet. I'm going to make the hands now.

 

[Pyritie]

I think the ear doesn't look like enough of it is connected to the head.

 

[TDR]

it's more than enough, trust me.

 

[DwarfZealot]

your models are so smoooooooooooooootttthhhhhh