Modeling Competition #10 - Elementals

[Hawkwing]

Ya, an Earthen. But how do we know that's what it is without a texture.

 

[Just_Spectating]

its napoleon.

 

[Dionesiist]

Not so sure what yours is Dionesiist, did you post a concept or something earlier so I can figure out it's weird folds?

It's a really fat dude with radioactive containers stabbed in its back.

 

[Hawkwing]

Here's another WIP. I've added the head and arms. I went for the stalactite crown thing for his head. I'm going to have his arms heavily bent in the anims, so it wont look so stupid later.

 

[Callahan]

I thinkl I'll make another model shit elemental is not serious.

 

[TDR]

well...that was kinda the point

 

[Burning_Dragoon5]

New WIP:

I decided, as Xatoga suggested, to use IG textures. That was not quite easy to find a fittable one, so I used a combined
- Northrend doodads for the overall looking
- Ice texture to lighten the base texture (Additive)

I also added some particles in almost all joins (with a 5p/s diffusion so won't lag the game... i hope)

The head, though, has to be rewrapped, it s**** like hell -_-

It has 580 polies.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

awsome

 

[TDR]

I finished the model & unwrap. Now I'm texturing it.
It doesn't look like much without the texture and particles
I'll have to put the nails in the texture, for already it has too many polygons due to the damned chains.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

New WIP:

I decided, as Xatoga suggested, to use IG textures. That was not quite easy to find a fittable one, so I used a combined
- Northrend doodads for the overall looking
- Ice texture to lighten the base texture (Additive)

Wouldn't have thought of that. Cool.

 

[FamousPker49]

I hope you finish this TDR. It looks awesome.

 

[Mechanical Man]

I'll have to put the nails in the texture, for already it has too many polygons due to the damned chains.

Chains in warcraft are just alphaed texture. I don't get why do you want to model each ring.
You can use ingame texture here

 

[TDR]

I didn't model them, it's just planes and they'll have alpha texture of course. And since I'm going to make a custom texture, there's no reason to use in-game ones.

 

[Dionesiist]

He meant that wc3 chains are a continuous sausage of planes, not separate like you modelled them.

 

[HappyTauren]

But then they don't deform properly. The way TDR did them, he will assign each to a new bone, thus they will "deform" correctly (move actually, not really deform). You are using IK for that?

 

[Dionesiist]

Yet another WIP that shows absolutely nothing!

 

[TDR]

But then they don't deform properly. The way TDR did them, he will assign each to a new bone, thus they will "deform" correctly (move actually, not really deform). You are using IK for that?

Spot on. And yes, I'll be using IK. Animating chain-like objects with FK is guts-boiling, I did it once, will never do it again.
Here's a little progress on the texture.

 

[LiOneSS]

aww :[ i think the chance to win anything was ruined by the last post xP congrats tdr D:

 

[Steel_Stallion]

GG.

TDR wins.

 

[Dionesiist]

Lol, I could've sworn you just wrapped it with the concept art.

 

[TDR]

please stop saying that...

 

[Dionesiist]

It was a compliment, as it follows the concept so closely.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Pain isn't an element... Unless you're emo.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

lets say .. he's an emo for the competition (only for that time)

 

[SeRviLy]

gotta say i agree, when i saw the concept i didnt see how it was an element. To me it seems more like a weird kind of undead ghost like thing? haha. Pain is a feeling? Maybe it'll pass enough for donut though.

 

[Elenai]

After seeing TDR's Pain Elemental....

I QUIT!

 

[D a w n]

After seeing TDR's Pain Elemental....

I QUIT!

2nd.

 

[Hawkwing]

I disagree. Who says that he'll finish, and if he does who says he'll win. (he'll probably win) But that's still no reason to quit.

 

[AirHead]

well, i think tdr's will pass as he at least followed one component and theme for his elemental, as much pain as possible.

off topic: i got bored and made this in roughly 30 minutes even rigged it and made a stand 1 and 2 animation, too bad its not a harry potter compo lol.

 

[Hawkwing]

I thought this was an Elemental Competition?

 

[TDR]

It was a compliment, as it follows the concept so closely.

I wasn't refering to you, I was talking about the "game over, you win" thing. We just posted at the same time.

As stated before, an elemental is a magical thing made mainly out of a specific element/thing. This dude is made out of pain. Does he look like he's feeling particularly comfortable to you?
Also, there was a Pain Elemental in Doom, and that's sacred. Period. And he looked less like an elemental than mine.

If it won't pass through I couldn't care less though.

 

[Callahan]

well...that was kinda the point

Yeah but Xatoga reminded me goatse wich remind me swap.avi ...
Now everytime I work on my shit elemental those images came to my thought.
I's unbearable.

 

[TDR]

haha...yeah

anyway, I finished the texture.

wtf Elenai changed his username!

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I sense a great wc3 FPS mod including that model in the future.

 

[Huurka]

That is pure win.

 

[HINDYhat]

Holy crap TDR that's fantastic. Can't wait to see the animations on those chains.

 

[Masiah]

Incredible! What are the 2 feet for? I doubt they can move on their own...

 

[Hawkwing]

Elementals are magical, they just do these things.

 

[kewlthis]

I wasn't refering to you, I was talking about the "game over, you win" thing. We just posted at the same time.

As stated before, an elemental is a magical thing made mainly out of a specific element/thing. This dude is made out of pain. Does he look like he's feeling particularly comfortable to you?
Also, there was a Pain Elemental in Doom, and that's sacred. Period. And he looked less like an elemental than mine.

If it won't pass through I couldn't care less though.

An elemental is a magical being composed of one element. That thing clearly aint fit to the theme, but it looks cool anyway. If you take some drugs or something the pain goes away, so would it still be pain elemental? I say its pretty hard to define pain for a model.

Well I dont mind if you dont get disqualifed with that model, just felt like saying something.

 

[HINDYhat]

Define element.

 

[TDR]

The feet were mainly for extra gruesomeness, and I was thinking that during the walk animation I might make 2 of the shackles each grap a foot and move it as it walks.

If you take some drugs or something the pain goes away, so would it still be pain elemental?

That's like saying that if you take a bucket of water and pour it on fire, there goes the fire, so there can't be a fire elemental...Irrelevant.

 

[D a w n]

I somehow miss the warcraft style in the texture:/

but looks so awesome <3

 

[kewlthis]

The feet were mainly for extra gruesomeness, and I was thinking that during the walk animation I might make 2 of the shackles each grap a foot and move it as it walks.



That's like saying that if you take a bucket of water and pour it on fire, there goes the fire, so there can't be a fire elemental...Irrelevant.

no it aint...then the fire elemental would die. does the pain elemental die if it feels no pain?

 

[TDR]

why the heck not? He lives from pain after all.

 

[HappyTauren]

kewlthis, stop bitching plz.

TDR, you could make feet move like they do in earth elementals-or whatever in wow, basically, they just SPIN so it looks like they are walking, hard to explain.

 

[Devine]

make the feet get behind on the body when it walks
i really love it +rep

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Question, I notice that all of your guys models have square shaped sections on wireframe. How do you do that? All of them on programs I have used were based on triangle polies which are hard for me to work with, always thought squares would b much easier but didnt know how to do it. Can someone tell me?

 

[donut3.5]

TDR, that looks awfully.. pixelated. Did you use a 128x texture as opposed to a 256?
--donut3.5--

 

[Just_Spectating]

Bloody Particles

 

[TDR]

TDR, that looks awfully.. pixelated. Did you use a 128x texture as opposed to a 256?
--donut3.5--

no, it's 256. I really love the pixelated look on textures though. I love pixels. And it's like this because of the settings I have in my max's viewport, in-game it'll look smooth and clean.