Modeling Contest #19 - Water Units

[Direfury]

All I really did was use a 10% 1-px brush and work up those lines. I've got a shaded 3x brush on GIMP that'll do just fine, and it'll only take, say, two minutes.

Also, I might just amp up his musclemass, I've been itching do some L4D2-WC3 models, and with what I have available, this'd make one badass fish-tank-thing.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Here's my progress so far.

So why is that green dude wearing a giant fishnet stocking over his body?

Gonna stop on my diver. I just don't like it anymore, and as TWH creates one anyway, I have better chances doing something else.

Unless you make one better than his ;D

 

[ike_ike]

A daunting task, but you'll probably need to shade each scale individually. Either that, or just leave a couple of strategic areas of scales. If memory serves, nagas in-game don't have evident scales all over...

oh you silly boob. just make a tiling texture and warp it as needed. you really can't tell the difference between automated and manually painted scales at game distance anyway.


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and everyone's gonna be judging these from ingame, right? right?

 

[darkdeathknight]

Yeah totally. THW are not lazy bums.
Oh yeah, Vermillion, those shoulders come out too much.

 

[hakee25]

Wew... How to look at their entries??
Sorry but I'm still a newbie here... heheh...

 

[darkdeathknight]

What entries? What post?

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Wew... How to look at their entries??
Sorry but I'm still a newbie here... heheh...

In a perfect world... people would at least attempt to answer their own dumb questions.

... It's on the first post. of the first page. right in front of everyone's face. Not everyone has an entry yet because the contest just started. Usually if a person is interested in a contest or the results of a contest, they would read the main post. I understand if they dont want to go through all the posts on 7-8 pages... but i mean.... the first post at least.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

its a hover tank

 

[rcshaggy]

The pic is kinda small, but it still looks good regardless.
Which I had some skills to be in this contest.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

umm you click the preview pic to see the big version

 

[anarchianbedlam]

View attachment 97876

its a hover tank

:/ looks cool and all, but i dont see how that's a water unit, if it floats over land and water in the air

 

[Cavman]

:/ looks cool and all, but i dont see how that's a water unit, if it floats over land and water in the air

Kinda looks like an ironclad.

 

[Direfury]

I'll probably take another crack at animating this tomorrow.

Also, I actually really liked the old swimming Death animation I had for this model, where after sinking for a few seconds, he would quickly push his hand out of the water, clench a fist, then die off.

 

[Mr. Bob]

I'll probably take another crack at animating this tomorrow.

Also, I actually really liked the old swimming Death animation I had for this model, where after sinking for a few seconds, he would quickly push his hand out of the water, clench a fist, then die off.

So I have one question.

Will it have chains spewing out of its ass this time?

 

[Deolrin]

That looks very nice, Vermillion! Texture's looking great. And I really like the weapon. I'll be waiting forward for your finished entry. ^^

 

[Direfury]

I'm considering giving him some straps attached to his belt, like on Hellscream's model, aswell as some Seashell decorations, probably around his shoulders/neck.

 

[darkdeathknight]

Hand could use some work, The belt could be a tad bit smaller/or detailed. Tentacles should be longer if thats the main form of transformation (If theres no legs under there)
On a good note, you changed the shoulders! and also I believe your the only person making an organic in this comp. That should be noted by the judges during rating time.
Oh yes. Is it supposed to be a dreugh?

 

[Dionesiist]

You could make his tentacles longer, I think it might give him a 'mightier' appearance.

 

[PROXY]

:/ looks cool and all, but i dont see how that's a water unit, if it floats over land and water in the air

Though, you'll see these kind of ships on the water, I can't remember seeing a hover boat on land. I think, it should be okay.

 

[D a w n]

First model WIP

 

[PROXY]

First model WIP

Looks good
I wonder how you always make that "clean" wrap. I happen to never be able to make it such clean.

 

[D a w n]

I usually search for the vertices that cause ugly wrap deforming and move them around in the editor to see how I should place them instead and then I just move them. Sometimes a few more faces may fix that problem too.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

The Floating Rock


I couldnt decide whether i was making a amphibious tank or a steamer or a hovercraft. so i put them together.

enjoy

this replaces my puffer mine as my entry

 

[Mr. Bob]

I'll judge again.

 

[darkdeathknight]

Ill use my phoenix down again.
Oh yeah. I'm gonna use use that hover-tank in my map. -6/5

 

[D a w n]

time for another WIP

 

[Malcous]

That looks awesome Don :O

 

[HappyCockroach]

time for another WIP

really awesome, although i think the spiral curve of the tail should be continuous... there's a segment that breaks it.

 

[blackhack]

this contest is great, maybe i'll enter, but don't think so don't have the mood :/
theres alot of good contestants here xD i would not even take the 3rd place.

PS: Don't look at number of my posts, i have been in these forums for a while long time(1 year )

 

[Direfury]

This is what I've got so far.

EDIT:
Forgot the texture.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

that skirt is mighty intimidating

 

[Thrikodius]

This is what I've got so far.

Somehow I'm having problems viewing the model without a skin.

 

[Dionesiist]

Your attack animations are all too sudden. Give him some time to recover. Like:
_______ [preparing attack] \\\\\\\\\\ [attack] ___________ [recovery]

 

[Direfury]

Fixed the post.

 

[Thrikodius]

Fixed the post.

There we go.
- Well for starters the model uses Murling.bmp as texture.
- The up-and-down-bobbing in the Stand Swim animation should be reduced in my opinion. I personally prefer Stand animations to be a bit more relaxed.
- The dissipate animations could be longer and the Murling could rise further. In the current state it will quickly rise a distance that's pretty much its double length, stop there and fade away.
- A Stand Ready animation could come handy.
- And finally, I can't really understand the Spell One animation.

Make no mistake, I like the model. It's creative, well made and down right cool. I like the demonic/eredarish look it gets with the eye particles. Just polish those things up and it will be real nice.
Good job so far

 

[PROXY]

Meh, started working on the diver again. Got no other idea, and got new ideas for the diver now ^^

Here's a wip, the texture of the sign is a placeholder.
It's going to be a gnome diver.

I know, the proportitions aren't good right now, but I'll fix them when I add legs and stuff.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

lol, why is the diver's suit explosive?

 

[Cweener]

Here's a wip, the texture of the sign is a placeholder.

That's why.

Noobs these days...

 

[HappyCockroach]

This is what I've got so far.

EDIT:
Forgot the texture.

looks nice. I really like it.
I'm not a big fan of the way it walks on earth though. Shouldn't be all that 'orthogonal'... dunno... maybe if you do one tentacle first each step it would look better.
but about the rest, very good job, i hope people recognize it this time.

 

[Direfury]

With Bob judging? I think not.

As far as the animations go, I can't really see it walking around any other way, and I don't want him dragging himself by his tentacles.

 

[D a w n]

well...the walk animation is more how a snail would walk. It would look much better if he would rather walk on his tentacles. (compareable to the nerubian model)

 

[Mr. Bob]

With Bob judging? I think not.

Gee thanks. Its totally all my fault. Totally. :3

 

[Direfury]

Oh yes, after that little thing where you were laughing with Bedlam about trashing my scores in the last competition.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

:/ all of our objective scoring was rationalized and explained in full in the judges comments. But please, lets not get off topic here.

 

[Direfury]

I'm not trying to get off topic, but from what I know of, you two did hatch that little idea before the judging started.

Anyway, to everyone else, is there anything I could improve on my submission as of yet?

 

[Mr. Bob]

We didn't share our judging till well after we both finished.

As for your model, I cant really tell. You didn't give us the texture file.

Edit: Oh woops. Looks like you updated it. I'll check it in a bit.

 

[HappyCockroach]

I'm not trying to get off topic, but from what I know of, you two did hatch that little idea before the judging started.

Anyway, to everyone else, is there anything I could improve on my submission as of yet?

the texture. I highly recommend you to redo it...
- make the scales bigger and following the topology
- increase the overall scale of the details, those teeth are _{microscopic for instance} the eyes are ugly, opaque and tiny
- the fins don't make a good usage of alpha channels
- the purple bracelets are teamcolor-misleading
- the shells create resolution conflict with the rest of the model, you should give them custom texture in the same patterns...
- many parts lack definition, as the weapon

also, those particles should be more transparent and bigger, they separate from each other too much.

when I said your model has potential, it is because of the mesh, the animations and its concept. the texture still needs a bunch of work though...

 

[Direfury]

Workin' on it.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

We are not going to discuss this further.
you got like 3 votes, our judging was objective, we did not conspire, you lost, deal with it.

the next post better be a wip or a comment about THIS contest

 

[D a w n]

the next post better be a wip or a comment about THIS contest

as you wish sir.

The Seahorse is finished. Next step will be animating it so I'll have at least an entry with suitable animations quality. If there is some time left, I will also add the rider for this contest.