Modeling Contest #15 - Colossus

[Mulgrim]

sorry guys, my modelling laptop is fucked, i have to withdraw from the contest, sorry if i disappointed anyone (probably not...) maybe I can continue if it's fixed on time (hopefully within 3 weeks...).

oh but don't worry about the model, i'll finish it (her?) and upload when laptop is fixed

 

[Mr. Bob]

It's possible to tint it darker via Geoset Animations.

The trouble with that is, as seen in the last model I made for this contest, it doesn't just change gamma. It actually removes detail. The reason is because it is transforming from one texture to another. It isn't just darkening one.


And, HT, we should have a UVWrapping challenge some time. Where we each get one model and a texture. Then we have to UVW it. Nothing else, just UVW it. Just for the heck of it.

Because I love to UVW. Almost as much as I love to model.

 

[RED BARON]

Main problem I have with #3 after I thought about it is that it's really bright. If the rest of your model is that dark blueish color, the bright yellow skirt is going to stand out a lot.

Thats why I preferred number 4.. It is more "special" statue like, but it is also dark toned.

 

[tee.dubs]

hey all, i've almost finished my entry, how do i submit it?

 

[HappyCockroach]

hey all, i've almost finished my entry, how do i submit it?

Attach your mdx to your next post along with the textures and in-game screenshot(s). Oh, and make something fancy as a description, it increases the voting desirability in polls.

 

[tee.dubs]

oh wew whew thanks! and do we upload them in the resources too? or is that forbidden/lame or something, sorry to pester

 

[Pyritie]

That's optional

 

[jojomondag]

I shall be joining this one

hi all new to this forum but this contest sounds fun soo i shall take part in it going too put down some concepts right now!

Might i ask what is the polycont limit?

Greets/jojo

 

[Pyritie]

hi all new to this forum but this contest sounds fun soo i shall take part in it going too put down some concepts right now!

Might i ask what is the polycont limit?

Greets/jojo

10k triangles, but that's an absolute maximum ;P Ideally it should be 1-3 thousand.

 

[jojomondag]

wooot!

Are you kidding me? i thought about 550 triangles at max or something like that. These models are supposed to go into warcraft arent they?

 

[Slaydon]

i dont think this contest is for warcraft use , but maybe campaigns in warcraft, but i wont think so. Maybe if the size and it gives some use.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Yes but they are 'Colossal' Very big and epic... but you don't have to use all of the polys

 

[Pyritie]

Yep!

Keep in mind the theme is colossus so that's why the triangle limit is so high. Huge models with few polies tend to look kinda silly.

Excess poly use will reflect negatively in judging though.

 

[ike_ike]

And, HT, we should have a UVWrapping challenge some time. Where we each get one model and a texture. Then we have to UVW it. Nothing else, just UVW it. Just for the heck of it.

Because I love to UVW. Almost as much as I love to model.

Ahem, modelling minicontest #2

 

[tee.dubs]

MEGAPOD


This is my entry, I call it the Megapod. It's a huge crab-like tripod, inspired by the Half-Life Gonarch and turtles.



Triangle Count: 1894
Vertex Count: 1352

Stand - 1: Standing normally
Stand - 2: Stretches/Flaunts his muscles
Walk: Walks using his three legs, Reference Animation
Attack: hits foe with acid
Spell Slam: Devour spell
Portrait: His portrait
Portrait Talk: Talks to us
Death: Falls to the ground
Decay: Sinks into the ground






Thanks to everyone for the kind support.

 

[RED BARON]

MEGAPOD

Damn you! That thing is so nasty that I lost my appetite , well made it is indeed... When that thingy comes out you will fear it! Mainly due to how nasty it is.. Damn so nasty.

I would really fear a colossus like that.. just imagine that thingy chrasing down in ones house or units - ARGH! Too nasty

 

[HappyCockroach]

MEGAPOD

Awesome model! 5/5 for creativity! That thing coming out of it looks just amazing and unexpected. That's what a boss should be like. Good job.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Fixed the neck to make him look more intimidating.
Oh and the abs and muscle structures will be textured. I tend to keep this model low poly (kiss my ass if you don't like it), which is currently at 1671 tris.

Next, UV Mapping.



EDIT:
UV Mapping done.

 

[jojomondag]

Uglug the ugly

The tired Giant Uglug. He is mostly asleep and sleeps for years that's why humans ,elf's, undead, and the orcs alike often mix him up with a big mountain,with willowtrees growing everywhere. When he is awake he walks around the earth tired and angry. looking for anything that he can eat. He cant stand people cutting down trees on his back trying too build homes on his body, but even worse he dislikes the undead making his sleepingrounds hard and cold. As Uglug is very old the earth has started taking over his body. Dirt and stones, as well as trees and veins covers and have started too take over his body. You can mostly find Uglug near a wells were the ground is moist and soft and where he can drink water from the soil.

My drawing table stoped working soo i hade too use ppen and papper but i think i have the rought concept down atm. Modelling is about too begin!


Your character is looking great Dan Van! i somehow dislike his weapons though.

Greets Jojo

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

The tired Giant Uglug. He is mostly asleep and sleeps for years that's why humans ,elf's, undead, and the orcs alike often mix him up with a big mountain,with willowtrees growing everywhere. When he is awake he walks around the earth tired and angry. looking for anything that he can eat. He cant stand people cutting down trees on his back trying too build homes on his body, but even worse he dislikes the undead making his sleepingrounds hard and cold. As Uglug is very old the earth has started taking over his body. Dirt and stones, as well as trees and veins covers and have started too take over his body. You can mostly find Uglug near a wells were the ground is moist and soft and where he can drink water from the soil.

My drawing table stoped working soo i hade too use ppen and papper but i think i have the rought concept down atm. Modelling is about too begin!



Your character is looking great Dan Van! i somehow dislike his weapons though.

Greets Jojo

dude... get that image off of here before you get banned or derepped

 

[D a w n]

....why should he??
penis ≠ porn

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

It is.
1) no one wants to see that
2) Its nudity = porn
3) its offensive

 

[HappyCockroach]

It is.
1) no one wants to see that
2) Its nudity = porn
3) its offensive

What kind of mental disorder do you have? This is just some concept art, it isn't offensive at all.

@jojomondag: looks creative and cool. I hope your model turns out as good as your concept for it.

 

[jojomondag]

Dident know we had that sensitive person´s here hope i dident damge your brain there Forgotten_Warlord! nudity is serious and should not be taken lightly! i mean what would happen if a child saw that picture? probably he would get mentaly ill and grow up in the future as a sick individuall!!!! omg some people .

Greets/Jojo

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

Ok. Its fine, leave it up. I guess I just don't enjoy looking at penises.

 

[Time-to-die]

I don't see what is so bad about a penis. I mean them guys on diablo 2 LoD had penis's, not only that but they were sticking straight forward like they were erect hahaha. Interesting concept tho.

 

[RED BARON]

My drawing table stoped working soo i hade too use ppen and papper but i think i have the rought concept down atm. Modelling is about too begin!

Greets Jojo

Going to get a little hard to make - But good luck. Would be awesome if created

 

[jojomondag]

Thx

Thanks Redbaron! ya it will probably not be easy but if it was easy, where would the challange be? The only problem i think is time. As i have none, moving to another apartment atm and soo on but hey might be finished totady if i work hard

anyhow here some progress. Ive put in a animation showing of alittle of my workflow yay!



Greets/jojo

As a weapon im thinking of a large couldron for now. I thought his weapon should be peeing and farting at first as im going too animate him dumb and clumsy and nasty.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

i realize that this is a colossus contest, and im all for a high poly limit.. but there still IS a limit. :/ how many polys is that thing sportin? >.> i dont know if zbrush is the best tool to use for wc3 modeling

 

[Pyritie]

Heh, you're gonna have a fun time reducing the poly count on that thing

 

[jojomondag]

Wee

Haha yeah i can see how you might think im crazy but i have a plan I dont have any illusions of making this to a extreme highpoly model. Im planing on making this 3000 tris a max polycont of 5000 tris. I think i might do a bit unecessary work in my workflow but not that much.

Greets/jojo

 

[jojomondag]

Uglug modelling process

I know its not much but its something. Started too sculpt. Any C&c are welcome.

 

[Pyritie]

Are you gonna use the sculpt detail for the diffuse map then or what?

 

[jojomondag]

Uglug

Yeah i will use what i can but that will only be bump for the diffuse map, maybe some lightning info too for the diffuse map, if i can get that out into the texture. But im testing alot of stuff with this one, so dont really know yet what i can do texture wise. As my model is going too go between som major transformation so the uws wont match that good i presume. Anyhow im estemating i have about 2 hours left in zbrush, then its time for the next major step.

Greets/jojo

 

[RED BARON]

I know its not much but its something. Started too sculpt. Any C&c are welcome.

Neat - But I wouldn't want that to run free around on my wc3 engine

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah i will use what i can but that will only be bump for the diffuse map, maybe some lightning info too for the diffuse map, if i can get that out into the texture. But im testing alot of stuff with this one, so dont really know yet what i can do texture wise.

I know people usually use zbrush for normal/bump maps but since wc3 doesn't have either of those, all you have to work with are diffuse maps. :/

 

[jojomondag]

Wasen planning on using any bump normal in 2c3 i know it restrictions

Yeah that what I said. I never said anything else. But im going too create a bumpmap maybe even a normalmap. Too use too make my diffusemap more realistic.

Greets/jojo

 

[Mulgrim]

my god, a model like that would turn my wc3 into ash. i wish you didn't have to import the things to wc3 for judging

 

[Mechanical Man]

More like wc3 would turn this model into ash.

 

[jojomondag]

Uglug the ugly

Im about fininshed with zbrush, about max 1 hour left.

I did a quick turnaround sorry for crappy quality.
http://www.vimeo.com/7756658

assymetry on the face. More detail on nails and fingers aswell as nails on his toes. Some more deffenition. And modelling of the teeth then done.

 

[Mulgrim]

More like wc3 would turn this model into ash.

both, it will be a pain in the ass to reduce polycount too

 

[jojomondag]

UGluggg!!

i dont think it will. It will be prettystraight forward in my opinion, but ey i might be wrong well see wont we

 

[HappyCockroach]

jojomondag, I can't lie that this model is pretty good and very promising. But that's not the way to go to make your wc3 model. You should really get rid of that polies.
"Modelling teeth" as you said, usually is like creating a pair of planes with alpha'ed textures.
The thing is that details don't rely on the mesh, but on the texture.

I don't even know how would wc3 engine react to such a detailed model.

 

[jojomondag]

Thank you for your concern appyCockroach im going too start reducing the polys soon, you know about the program topogun? it can work wonders on a high deatiled mesh and reduce it too nuthin. And im planing on doing the trees on his back with alpha mapped planes. Ive used Wc3 viewer and stdied the models made from blizzard and they are indeed very low poly about 400 polys at max. My goal for this creature as i said before is too have something like 1500 polys for the whole thing.

Greets/jojo

 

[Pyritie]

jojomondag, I can't lie that this model is pretty good and very promising. But that's not the way to go to make your wc3 model. You should really get rid of that polies.
"Modelling teeth" as you said, usually is like creating a pair of planes with alpha'ed textures.
The thing is that details don't rely on the mesh, but on the texture.

I don't even know how would wc3 engine react to such a detailed model.

Lol, he already said he's not going to export the mesh directly xD

@jojo: Personally before you submit that thing I'd get rid of its pen0r, since technically we don't allow nudity on this site so I'd prefer if you didn't get other people yelling at you because of it.

 

[jojomondag]

ok

Guess ill be making too versions then

 

[Mulgrim]

Lol, he already said he's not going to export the mesh directly xD

@jojo: Personally before you submit that thing I'd get rid of its pen0r, since technically we don't allow nudity on this site so I'd prefer if you didn't get other people yelling at you because of it.

controversy is a powerful tool. but the model is still great, looking forward for next update

 

[jojomondag]

Challeging!

This was way harder then i anticipated! im already at 1000 triangles im gonna have too rethink alot of stuff now. I still think it wasent a waste doing the model in zbrush though as im going too use some maps when i paint my diffuse texture. Put im going too go Plane ballistic now

 

[Burning_Dragoon5]

There's a bunch of great stuff in here !

Anyway, here's another WIP.



I'm currently unfortunately overbooked, and I wonder if I'll be able to finish the model before the deadline.

For now, I just have to add some planar polys for the branches and the leaves.
Then, the UVWrap, the texture and eventually the animations.

Time for explanations: This is a corrupted form of a nature element, Ivy one probably.
It is using all nearby nature things (trees, woods, roots, rocks, ivy) to "transform" into a huge and impressive Nature elemental. As it is magical and natural, it's using both magic and ramification to get a coherency appearrance. Fortunately, its "heart" (we should say the Ivy elemental itself) is defenseless, but its size and its abilities are enough to get rid of weaklings.

 

[The World Is Flat]

You know what? that could be a cool summons ability unit. have it start out as a pile of rocks, dirt and ivy and have it suddenly throw itself toghther...