Right back at it

So with only a small delay (recover time) I'm back to the model I was starting b4 the4 dominance war. I did the head for it yesterday and I tried a new way of modeling it. I think it cam out pretty good and although its a longer modeling process (or maybe not considering the box modeling method had me restarting about 5 times) I used poly planes and did many....MANY.....edge extrusions. Anyhow here are the results, first the head on its own and then I attached it to the original torso I have done.

Dominance War IV.......Crunch Time is Over

Well It was hard going and I learned alot over the last little while about my work process and where it can be improved.
I also got the hang of a few new apps that are pretty major for the gaming industry, infact they are pretty standard now for most of the industry and its good to know. One of them being Zbrush, the other is the normal mapping genius of an app Xnormal.
I'm not likely going to even place in the top 50, there are some incredible pieces that have been produced by people. I am however very happy with the results considering my expertise level going into this comp. So here are the final Images (not in any particular order)

Text Flavor

Beauty Shot

Presentation Shot

Concept Shot

Construction Shot

Baainling

Well been working away on my entry for the Forum wide Dominance War IV, I finally decided on the name and so this post is its name sake. Here is the link to my working forum that gets plenty of updates...Actually here are the posts for the other guys from 3dtotal also ( I would have put up just mine here but the forum is having issues right now and I can't get on to it.)

http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/view_entries/index_3dtotal_both.html

Two in the Hand

Here are a couple other images that I did for the Dominance War and I ended up going with the top of the two, the lower portion of the torso I changed, I also added tendrils. Hope you like em, will post more soon but I have a lot of Zbrushing to do (that includes learning it).

Two More For the Road

Ok so here are two more Ideas I have for the Dominance War, I'm liking pretty much all of them, only the third one is not as complete as the first two. Might either go for another concept or I might have something chosen so I can start the modeling stage by this weekend. Fingers Crossed.

Demon Concept 2



Demon Concept 3

Dominance War IV

Ok so I'm pretty sure I already said that I was going to try to balance both models at the same time, well it might happen it might not, regardless I have made some progree on the Cygnar Commander, I have also started concepting for my entry to the Dominance War and so far(provided I put pen to paper) this is what I have.

Here is my current demon concept for the War.


So here is the update for the Cygnar model.

Work Has Begun

So here is my first update for this particular project, Not much but I got in a few hours the other day and I gout the staff weapon base mesh done. I plan to hold off on Zbrush until I get at least the upper torso done.

I'm going to use a different method of modeling this time, With fett I just did eveything on the surface, if It was underneath armor or something for the most part I didn't model it, that route gave me a few issues in the rigging department.

This Time I'm doing the whole body as one piece also, rigging an upper and lower torso with the skinning was a bit of a nightmare. It was a chellenge to keep the body from pulling apart in places. A single body should be more uniform. Anyhow this is what I have accomplished thus far. I don't know how quick this model may be as the 12th of this month has Dominance War IV starting and I might throw in my hat on that. We'll see.

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