Tauren Death Knight

[Taylor Mouse]

Hey guys,
some time ago I came across this finished models of a tauren death knight, since there aren't many models for WC3 I was thinking on doing one based on the following concept at GameAtrisans.com

I do need to lower the polys A LOT but hey that's what I do

What do you recon ?

T.

 

[dansaDisco]

fucking awesome sexy?

 

[Darkey]

Three words for ya: Go for it or I'll cry myself to sleep.

 

[bboy-tiger-]

Look epic... I wouldn't call it Death Knigh. more like Notheron Tauren. ^^

 

[Deolrin]

That's fucking epic. Can't wait to see it.

 

[Panda]

I cant wait either.

 

[AIagremm]

OMG! Thats crazy... and awesome!

 

[Somnium]

Yeah, that's well epic. It would be so awesome, if you could make this like a tauren set. Like change the chieftain and the Spirit guy into this northened style aswell. Then you could have northened taurens, soo awesome

Good luck on this, i'll be waitingz..
+rep [later because i have to spread it first appaerntly xD]

 

[Taylor Mouse]

I'll be starting on it right now, progress as soon as possible

T.

 

[syltman]

AWESOME...

Wait, I meant AWESOME!

 

[PsychoNerdial]

*just passed out*

 

[Kwaliti]

Holy shit, that's awesome!

I have only one question though. Are those textures hand made or just WoW pastes? The quality seems A LOT WoW-esque. If they're hand made, you're my new god then.

 

[D a w n]

Holy shit, that's awesome!

I have only one question though. Are those textures hand made or just WoW pastes? The quality seems A LOT WoW-esque. If they're hand made, you're my new god then.

"I was thinking on doing one based on the following concept at GameAtrisans.com"

So I think it is not his concept.
But all the stuff made there is made by the guys themselves and are not rips :>

http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/minis/view_entries_mini3d_19.html

 

[Kwaliti]

Damn, I'm becoming blind. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Yep, that guy from GameArtisans.org did it all by himself, and I'll try something like he did I hope....

T.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Here is my first wip :

polycount : 426 -> still needs lots of detailed stuff, so maybe I'll change the hands back to some blocks instead of the fingers, they do take up a lot of polys :'(

If you guys want I can post the 3DS file for others to use/misuse it. As long as I got mentioned no worries

Some comments plz are always welcome.

T.

 

[dansaDisco]

keep the fingers. 400 polys isn't really that much for a unit model

 

[Kwaliti]

Yeah, it won't be a problem if you went up to ~1000 polies.

 

[Linaze]

No point in keeping the fingers, though. Won't really be noticeable in-game anyways, so it's just wasted polies.

 

[D a w n]

change the fingers to one "big finger" and keep the thumb

 

[Taylor Mouse]

change the fingers to one "big finger" and keep the thumb

If my polys get too high, I will certainly use your advise Don thnx


T.

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Looks Sweet^^

 

[syltman]

Super awesome aswell.

 

[D4RK_G4ND4LF]

fingers are important! everytime I am looking at the archmage or the unmounted archmage in the model sektion I want to facepalm :/

 

[Dionesiist]

Then go play any other game and stop complaining. WoW for example and you'll get plenty of fingers.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Enough with the fingers already, ... you kids

T.

 

[PsychoNerdial]

WIP coming anytime soon ?

 

[BlinkBoy]

man the triangulation is terrible, try doing turning some edges around and add some detail in some areas, specially the chest it looks very optimized.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

@Blinkboy: I know, I was going for a very low poly but didn't know I could go up to 1000 polys

Anyway, I added some details, the armor and the tree thing

next step: uvw unwrapping

Update : poly 662

C&C plz

T.

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Shoulder pads look awesome^^

 

[Taylor Mouse]

man the triangulation is terrible, try doing turning some edges around and add some detail in some areas, specially the chest it looks very optimized.

Btw, I think it is pretty good as far as the triangulation go, this one has no Smoothing groups, but with them, it looks good

T.

 

[Dr. House]

omg this thing is uber plz upload it as mdx model

 

[Taylor Mouse]

update on the tree texture, just a quick paint job nothing fancy ( but that too needs to be done

btw : thnx guys, but it is not finished yet


T.

 

[Dionesiist]

What bugs me, is why do you only recreate other people's stuff instead of making your own? =P I'm not denying your talent, God no, but still.

 

[syltman]

What bugs me, is why do you only recreate other people's stuff instead of making your own? =P I'm not denying your talent, God no, but still.

Maybe he's not very creative?

Oh well, I guess I shouldn't defend him.

edit: Or her

 

[rcshaggy]

I was hoping someone would make a Tauren Death Knight based on the Warcraft Legends on Targ Highmountain when he is in the Death Knight armor.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

You are right, I don't have a lot of imagination, I just started on reading Legends, with Targ Highmouten and all, just got Legends 1,2 and 3.

Anyway, if you don't want me to continue, cause of no imagination and all... I'll stop posting my models and stuff...

and heu, it's a he

T.

 

[madqc]

You are right, I don't have a lot of imagination

Who cares? The only thing that is important for us is that you make good models good luck whit the rest!

 

[Sephalo]

Looks nice! good luck!

 

[rcshaggy]

You are right, I don't have a lot of imagination, I just started on reading Legends, with Targ Highmouten and all, just got Legends 1,2 and 3.

Anyway, if you don't want me to continue, cause of no imagination and all... I'll stop posting my models and stuff...

and heu, it's a he

T.

Man I was just saying.
I really like your models that you make, but when I seen Tauren Death Knight Title I just thought of Targ Highmountain being in that armor from Warcraft Legends. I'm sorry man. It was a mistake I made not you.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Oh, no offence taken, I'll finish it I love modeling and texturing and animating, so no worries

Today, maybe the rest of the trunk thing

T.

 

[syltman]

No don't stop posting your models!

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Man I was just saying.
I really like your models that you make, but when I seen Tauren Death Knight Title I just thought of Targ Highmountain being in that armor from Warcraft Legends. I'm sorry man. It was a mistake I made not you.

I wasn't talking about you anyway so no worries m8

T.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Ok here is another update, damn, texturing wood is more difficult than I thought

anyway here goes :

Some C&C plz

T.

 

[Sephalo]

Ok here is another update, damn, texturing wood is more difficult than I thought

anyway here goes :

Some C&C plz

T.

All I can say is:
Stop working on that damn piece of wood and make the tauren! The wood looks damn good so you gotta stop wasting time on trying to improve since it will be nearly impossible to improve.

C&C enough?

 

[Taylor Mouse]

lol yeah thnx, btw that texture is about 3x 200x200 ( 600x200 in total ) so way too big for WC3, I reduced it and indeed I saw I wasted WAY TOO much time on that

T.

 

[syltman]

Well, it looks awesome

 

[rcshaggy]

Just a suggestion, how about you make the two axed Tauren now with this model.

Oh and this model kinda reminds me of this:

 

[syltman]

Just a suggestion, how about you make the two axed Tauren now with this model.

Oh and this model kinda reminds me of this:

Log is way more awesome

 

[rcshaggy]

Log is way more awesome

Yeah. The Tauren would attract the ladies with that large log.