Modeling Contest #27 - Colossus\Final Boss

[Misha]

yeah, that is the point, it is simple :|

but the more we talk about it the more it seems like it isn't :v

btw... a few ideas for what i might do...

1

2

3

3b

although i'm inclined to do the female glutton beast thing, i'd like to do a weird insect kind of thing as 2 :v

uuu.. definitely either 2 or 3b :3

 

[MiniMage]

Personally I like 2. The rest are kinda meh to me. 3b looks like a fuse with finn from adventure time and jabba the hut from star wars.

 

[PROXY]

Dem wips though.

progress

Scraped that shredder thing, gonna go in a different direction. The sea giant is a placeholde, going for a humanoid giant thingy equiped with a giant column and edited sea giant animations.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Dem wips though.

progress

Scraped that shredder thing, gonna go in a different direction. The sea giant is a placeholde, going for a humanoid giant thingy equiped with a giant column and edited sea giant animations.

:<

Looks cool.

 

[Ketsuno Anson]

Man I want to see a chimera-ish boss

 

[PROXY]

First real wip, boots. Still looking for a decent texture for the front part.

 

[Blood Raven]

First real wip, boots. Still looking for a decent texture for the front part.

These look awesome There are some wrap issues on the belts though, nothing so noticeable though.
Is it going to be a giant of some sorts? :3

 

[Kyrbi0]

OH I GOT AN IDEA!!!!!!!!!

a cross between a rock giant and a reef elemental!

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...contest-27-colossus-260912/m...ture93279.html

this will still probably not be done in time....

Nonsense! Positive-thinking, man! Besides, that sounds like a schweet idea. Reminds me of a similar attempt from Retera... Anyway, a "Coral Colossus" would be very cool; like a Sunken Ruins-zone come to life. : )

Beware of the great Shreddertron 3000.

The arms are off, but the basic idea can be seen quite good. It's piloted by a goblin.

Ooooooohhh.... Finally, someone making a decent, legitimate, super-Shredder model (dare I say, Hero-ized?). We are gonna have to talk. >: )

Those boots are a good start. I imagine (given the requisite 'epic-ness' of these models) that those skulls are actually full-size dragon skulls? >: )

~all the win~

STAHP

Im making a wyvern that uses he bones of its victims as armor becuase its skin is so soft and without all the bones, its defenseless.

Wips

1. Dragon turtlish texture with a skull helmet

2. Changed the texture, added the rest of the mesh, il be tweaking the texture soon this is just temporary.

Ooh, I like that (thematically); reminds me of the "BoneKnapper" from How To Train Your Dragon. Excellent.

yeah, that is the point, it is simple :|

but the more we talk about it the more it seems like it isn't :v

btw... a few ideas for what i might do...

1

2

3

3b

although i'm inclined to do the female glutton beast thing, i'd like to do a weird insect kind of thing as 2 :v

While I'm not a fan of massively-endowed Jabba women, I can't say that I agree with everyone else about the bug-thing fitting... Just seems really "B-movie" to have a giant bug.
So I like the bottom two best, I s'pose.

Decided to join in, with what I'm calling Amonrath the Unbound, a corrupted Demon Warlord.

I intend to make Amonrath more of a Raid Boss style character, with plenty of flair in his attacks.

Ah, neat. Lookin' cool.

I particularly like the sword; reminds me of Ganondorf's epic COMPLETELY UNUSED & UNDERUTILIZED greatsword.

 

[PROXY]

New Wip. There are many details to be added.

 

[Heinvers]

New Wip. There are many details to be added.

Giant/Vrykul type?

 

[PROXY]

Jeah, never thought about it's resemblance to Vrykuls but you're right. I'm aiming for a more mythological style giant, if that is a thing.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Jeah, never thought about it's resemblance to Vrykuls but you're right. I'm aiming for a more mythological style giant, if that is a thing.

It is now. : ) Great thing about Warcraft.

 

[Edge45]

Through my days of inactiveness, I've done some things on my entry, still the Iron Juggernaught

 

[Direfury]

Decided to keep working on Amonrath. Just about to start animating. Hopefully I won't have to do anymore back-tracking.

WIP 1

WIP 2

WIP 3

 

[ShadowShaman.mn]

Grr!! I will Join

Hell Yeah, I have my Concept Art Ready too mwahahaha

Glacial Bone of the North
(His name is Tim)

Let's see how I lose this Contest xd


Not feeling Well... Cancel

My grandma draws better than you.

 

[HappyCockroach]

My grandma draws better than you.

your post is completely pointless and your grandma must be good with ms paint

Decided to keep working on Amonrath. Just about to start animating. Hopefully I won't have to do anymore back-tracking.

WIP 1

WIP 2

WIP 3

looks pretty cool... me likey

i'm just unsure about the shape of that helmet. kinda too squarish :v

 

[-Grendel]

My grandma draws better than you.

DissMaster2015 reporting for duty.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Through my days of inactiveness, I've done some things on my entry, still the Iron Juggernaught

Images

Hey, good to see you around. So far it's interesting (though hard to tell so early on). I like the sound of a "Juggernaut", though; that and "Dreadnought" should be highly-prized names 'round here. : )

Decided to keep working on Amonrath. Just about to start animating. Hopefully I won't have to do anymore back-tracking.

WIP 1

WIP 2

WIP 3

lol his scar is on the wrong side suxxors
Lookin' good; I rather like that sword, as well as the 'duality' of it (looks like "normal demon" & "super-mecha-demon" ). I'm a little confused as to where his eye-holes would be. But good wrapping, definitely.

You should consider sketching some buildings/people in on those WIP screenies, so as to lend a sense of scale.

Also, unrelated to the model, but nice name choice; combining "Amon" with "Rath" lends both that hierarchical & deific Egyptian air with the homophonic "wrath" lending to anger. Coolio.

 

[Direfury]

Amonrath has no eyes. Just aswell, the helm is simply made of black metal.

If you can see the little axis indicator, Amonrath easily towers over ground units, and can swipe at flying units with his corrupted arm.

 

[stonneash]

Progress

 

[CreatorD3292]

Decided to keep working on Amonrath. Just about to start animating. Hopefully I won't have to do anymore back-tracking.

WIP 1

WIP 2

WIP 3

kind of Sven...

 

[Direfury]

Decided to give Amonrath sweeping basic attacks. Since his other arm is unfit to wield the blade, Amonrath must drag it about. While using basic attacks, Amonrath is basically threshing large swathes of land, as his blade carves through enemies infront of him.

 

[WhiteDeath]

How big, as in warcraft 3 size units, should the model approximately be?

 

[-Grendel]

probably the best size is significantly bigger than ancients.

 

[Deolrin]

As big as you feel is appropriate.

 

[Kyrbi0]

how big, as in warcraft 3 size units, should the model approximately be?

oh!!!

 

[MiniMage]

When I think colossal units, I think like a 20% bigger than a stone giant. But I donno. It's all guesswork as far as I know.

 

[stonneash]

When I think colossal units, I think like a 20% bigger than a stone giant. But I donno. It's all guesswork as far as I know.

I was hoping to see colossal units in this contest as shadow of the colossus colossal not ancient size colossal :/

 

[HappyCockroach]

I was hoping to see colossal units in this contest as shadow of the colossus colossal not ancient size colossal :/

well, that's a shame for you then... :|

ancients are enough to me. if you make a model too enormously huge in wc3 it might look like shit, with the way units walk and the turning speed and all.. (those units generally follow motion techniques so their walk anims happen foot by foot and don't look sloppy or out of context)

maybe there's a way to make them look right anyway, being very precise with the timing and all, but the way it will turn around while walking will always suck a little bit...

anyhow... if anyone goes for that kind of thing it can always be shrinked down in case it works bad

 

[stonneash]

well, that's a shame for you then... :|

ancients are enough to me. if you make a model too enormously huge in wc3 it might look like shit, with the way units walk and the turning speed and all.. (those units generally follow motion techniques so their walk anims happen foot by foot and don't look sloppy or out of context)

maybe there's a way to make them look right anyway, being very precise with the timing and all, but the way it will turn around while walking will always suck a little bit...

anyhow... if anyone goes for that kind of thing it can always be shrinked down in case it works bad

It doesn't need to walk btw

Edit: wips below!

 

[Hantoo]

Mine Have no Walk animation too, And Mine is Stuck in the Sand too.... why u Copy me xd

 

[stonneash]

Mine Have no Walk animation too, And Mine is Stuck in the Sand too.... why u Copy me xd

Maybe because your ideas are just great, I didn't mean to copy you... I guess great minds do think alike XD

 

[Hantoo]

Maybe because your ideas are just great, I didn't mean to copy you... I guess great minds do think alike XD

Im Just Kidding xd My One is JUST AN aRM XD

 

[WhiteDeath]

The problem if it is too big/small is, that it will have to be scaled down/up, if it has to be scaled down/up a lot it will mess with the model's special effects. Additionally if it is too big it will hide stuff that are behind it like smaller units, in game special effects won't look good on it since they will be too small. I was thinking of going for something like 1.5 to 1.8 tree of life size.

 

[Kyrbi0]

The problem if it is too big/small is, that it will have to be scaled down/up, if it has to be scaled down/up a lot it will mess with the model's special effects. Additionally if it is too big it will hide stuff that are behind it like smaller units, in game special effects won't look good on it since they will be too small. I was thinking of going for something like 1.5 to 1.8 tree of life size.

That's true. I think the idea is to make it naturally large, so it doesn't need scaling.

About the "hiding stuff"... I suppose that's kinda the point. : ) This is meant to be sort of a "super-mega-final-boss" Contest, a "colossus" Contest; this thing should appear once and tower over everything and be nearly impossible to defeat. So hiding units is kinda part of the game, IMO. : )

 

[Misha]

ah, let's relax and tinker on :3 I'm sure you folks will make great colossi

 

[Paulus]

Those models look nice people. GL and have fun!

 

[Marcos DAB]

funny concept arts

 

[HappyCockroach]

That's true. I think the idea is to make it naturally large, so it doesn't need scaling.

doing the opposite might be a better idea. if you scale your model in WE the special effects are scaled along... if your model is too huge so that it doesn't need scaling, special effects might end up invisible or "inside" the model, because they'll be too tiny. i.e. bloodlust might hide inside the colossus' hands..

i think what is best is doing your model big as an ancient, maybe not much bigger than the mountain giant, and give it the 'large' animation tag. then scale it up in WE if you want, so the special effects will scale along and look proportional. (depending on the effect this isn't desirable)

or you can always add another animation tag to it and give all the effects you'll use custom models with that animation name.

 

[Deolrin]

You're probably thinking of in-game buffs, whereas WhiteDeath was most likely describing particle effects that you attach on the model. As far as I know, these don't scale with the model.

 

[stonneash]

doing the opposite might be a better idea. if you scale your model in WE the special effects are scaled along... if your model is too huge so that it doesn't need scaling, special effects might end up invisible or "inside" the model, because they'll be too tiny. i.e. bloodlust might hide inside the colossus' hands..

i think what is best is doing your model big as an ancient, maybe not much bigger than the mountain giant, and give it the 'large' animation tag. then scale it up in WE if you want, so the special effects will scale along and look proportional. (depending on the effect this isn't desirable)

or you can always add another animation tag to it and give all the effects you'll use custom models with that animation name.

in 3ds max using neodex, you can scale up the attachment point and it will make the attachments larger ingame (i think)

 

[Misha]

m'yeah, derpy war3 engine

but i'd like to see some more WIPs, if you guys don't mind

 

[stonneash]

Newest update

 

[WhiteFang]

I'm in desperate need of boss models for my SPRPG. Ill be watching.
@participators. Good luck and have fun!

 

[stonneash]

@deolrin I think the entries section should be updated

 

[icewolf055]

Im in *-*, gona make a cyclops-golem-ish thing

 

[stonneash]

Im in *-*, gona make a cyclops-golem-ish thing

Good luck!

 

[PROXY]

Most of the mesh is done by now. And just don't comment the belly warp. Don't.

 

[Deolrin]

I think he looks very thin to be a giant. Also, I'm not sure if the column and lion symbol fit the theme very well. The skull is definitely a nice touch and I think you should try and make the rest of him in that theme. :O

 

[PROXY]

There has been no work done on the proportions at all yet, I just sticked together the different pieces of mesh, should have clarified that.

I'll see where it goes and which theme to stick to.