Modeling Competition #8 - Cavalry

[SuPa-]

Here be a WIP of my dragon rider

The dragon so far

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

Oh, that's rather nice, Pyramid.
Might I ask what you'll do for the face?

that thing is the face. its flat because its like a flat one piece of armor, not an actual face. its like one of those medieval knight armor,
kind of like this

this guys meant to be a knight afterall
guess i havent done it great. i will redo it later

 

[Dionesiist]

SuPa, I'd post some renders but it seems I can't render properly. Turns out dark and shit.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

man... compared to u guys, mine looks shit and nooby.
dwarfzealot, that thing looks sweet as.

 

[Dionesiist]

Another WIP, merged the 2 model.

 

[DwarfZealot]

looookin good there dio, alhough the wrap on the bat thing is scetchy

 

[Rizz_Boomer]

Third WIP.
Nothing much changed besides his weapons in the bags in front of him and the colorchange at the "Horsehead".

 

[DwarfZealot]

i think you should move the head thing down to below the drivers nose so it looks like he can actually see

 

[General Frank]

Count me in ! I got a serious idea for both ground and air unit... so gentlemen stay tuned.

 

[Elenai]

Count me in ! I got a serious idea for both ground and air unit... so gentlemen stay tuned.

I just orgasmed..be right back, I need to change my pants.

Back, and I will be competing as well. I also have ideas for a ground/air unit.

 

[SuPa-]

I just need to do the hands, the hand cannon-like things on the dragon, and then the rider

 

[Gilles]

So is that a mech dragon? Or a dragon in armor?

 

[SuPa-]

Dragon in armor

 

[MadseN]

Another Update

Any tip on how to animate it =/

/MadseN

 

[SuPa-]

the rider has no forearm, which makes him look ridiculous. There are also some unnecessary faces on the chest. Another thing would be that his leg, by how your model is, bends sideways. As well, his topology is scrambled in every which direction

 

[DwarfZealot]

progress! unwrapped and i am in the process of skinning it, centered gif this time

 

[Dionesiist]

Ewww, red? I would've thought him some executioner with plain pants and black hood.. :/

 

[Rizz_Boomer]

or teamcolored at least

 

[frostwhisper]

Ewww, red? I would've thought him some executioner with plain pants and black hood.. :/

I second that .

 

[SuPa-]

The model is basically finished. I just need to have the dragon holding some kewl automatic guns

 

[DwarfZealot]

looks cool but why does it have guns? guns don't fit at all!

anyways. RED???? wow I am a lot more colourblind than I thought ,sorry guys, I meant for it to be like black with a tiny bit of red thrown in! is this better? do the clothes look good?

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

looks cool but why does it have guns? guns don't fit at all!

anyways. RED???? wow I am a lot more colourblind than I thought ,sorry guys, I meant for it to be like black with a tiny bit of red thrown in! is this better? do the clothes look good?

Its orange now.. Good model though.

EDIT: Maybe I missunder stood what part you were talking about, upper part is black yes.

 

[DwarfZealot]

the clothes are orange o my gawsh I hate my eyes! it's supposed to be brown, i'll try and change it, do you thing it would be good if i showed some skin on he arms?

 

[frostwhisper]

Hmm... Dwarf, I think, though the clothes are nicely done, that it would look better like so:

Hidden

 

[MadseN]

New Update

Removed some unnecessary vertexes, still some twinking to do. polycount so far is 703, any tip on what to improve ?

/MadseN

 

[HappyTauren]

Polycount is good, though topology on some places isn't. You always add one extra segment, which isnt that good :/ Other than that, chest needs to be indented more, this is wc3.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

the clothes are orange o my gawsh I hate my eyes! it's supposed to be brown, i'll try and change it, do you thing it would be good if i showed some skin on he arms?

Arms + belly orange, the rest isnt.

 

[DwarfZealot]

k thanks.......

 

[MadseN]

Another Update, might be the last before i start to animate it. any tip what i should improve before i start to animate ?

/MadseN

 

[DwarfZealot]

make it all one smoothing group

 

[MadseN]

what you mean ?

/MadseN

 

[blazing-inferno]

Another Update, might be the last before i start to animate it. any tip what i should improve before i start to animate ?

/MadseN

from looking at it, it looks almost too "blocky" if you could go around and delete some edges that are not needed and smooth it out more. i could be wrong but looking at your model you may have difficulty animating it.

 

[SuPa-]

Madsen, cast the magic Smooth modifier on it, is what he means

 

[Pyritie]

One thing though, is that if the legs are directly attached to the model, they're going to be smoothed onto the raptor. Which you don't want.

 

[DwarfZealot]

its a dark elf COLD ONE knight no raptorz involved

 

[MadseN]

It's different meshes so no worries, started to texture the model before i animate it. Still an early stage and im still learning lods of stuff along the way as i work so the pace is a bit slow atm.

Just the Unwrap on the Knight took more then 1 h, the cold one will be pure terror...

Anyway here's a new WIP

/MadseN

 

[DwarfZealot]

nicly done man looks sweet smooth, you just smoothed it once right?

Edit: two new animated gifs of the Bell Toller, one is a pointlessly animated closeup of face without the mask, crits please

 

[frostwhisper]

Face looks pretty good. I like it.

 

[MadseN]

Update,

Soldier almost done with the textures, will improve him a bit later.

DwarfZealot: ye, only smoothed him once, polycount is 856 atm =)

/MadseN

 

[DwarfZealot]

thats a good polycount, mine is like 2k+... oh wait are you working in editable poly? if so double that number and thats your polycount

edit: what is the exporter i should use to export from 3ds max 2008?

 

[skrab]

great models so far

DwarfZealot use dexexporter

 

[DwarfZealot]

when i try and export it it doesnt export the mesh! any ideas?

 

[skrab]

when i try and export it it doesnt export the mesh! any ideas?

Convert all mesh in Editable Mash and with the dexexporter script just export the file to MDL

 

[DwarfZealot]

it didn't work!, i am quite distressed.

 

[MadseN]

Update

The Coldone Texture starts to take some form

Dwarfzealot: You got max 5 ? maybe try to export the meshes from max 2008 and then import them to max 5 ? just an idea.

/MadseN

 

[DwarfZealot]

yeah i guess i'll have to do that.

 

[General Frank]

Here's my entry for the competition.

Draconian (not yet I know) Azure Dragon rider. He always come with mages too...

 

[Pyritie]

The unwrap near the legs looks bad.

And what happened to the eye?

 

[General Frank]

The unwrap near the legs looks bad.

And what happened to the eye?

Nothing happened to the eye... it's not final yet....

EDIT: Advance !

 

[frostwhisper]

Glad to see it having four limbs.
But please don't tell me the rider's gonna be an orc...