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[dunkejudas]

Ok, time to start a new character thread to get some more progress in that department

This time it's the longarm. It's basically a spearman/archer type with ranged attacks. It's replacing the spearman from the enemies thread (http://forums.revora...showtopic=76680)

Here's the concept so far!

[Gen.Kenobi]

He looks too thin ...

I guess it's a good contrast betwen him and the normal viking soldier


Nice job!

[Botjer]

he's perfect give him that overhand throw, when throwing spears ^^

[Boomerang Python]

I see where he got his name

Good job mate, keep it up!

[duke_Qa]

If anything, our enemies will be pretty easy to read in the silhouette on what their skills will be

[Námo]

The bow seems pretty short. Why not a longbow to go with the long arms?

some references:
http://www.buewesth....ndex_start.html (>Holmegårdbuen) [english resume: http://www.buewesth....ard_buen_e.html]
http://www.strongbow...ik.asp?WikID=38

[dunkejudas]

Thanks for feedback!

I agree the longer bow would be more appropriate! I'll definitely fix that when modeling! Thanks for the references!

Again, I'm drowning in more work. Seems like crunch time is just around the corner when you're making personal stuff.. Sigh.. I got a couple of hours of work done sunday night, but I don't reckon that enough to show yet.

[Námo]

[on feedback] ... being busy searching those links on bows, I forgot the most important:

You guys make some beautiful and great artistic work ... really professional quality! Thanks.

[... bedre sent end aldrig ]

[Boomerang Python]

To be fair, these guys won't be using their bows from too far away.. but whatever looks better i guess

[dunkejudas]

Okay.. First: The deepest and most sincere apologies for not making any progress nor posting for way too long. If it's any consoltion, I've been having the most exhausting month of my life ;P

And so.. I've been making some progress on the longarm since last time. I consider myself done with the lowpoly and the uv's, while the highpoly is about 90% done.
Here's a non-realtime spin of the character with some compositing (I couldn't help myself!)


And a closeup of the head with variations



Okaai.. Well, Baking and highpoly of the helmet is still in progress.. Oh, and the weapons, of course! I'll probably get to work much more now that I'm over the project from hell and all alone in the aparment (there was somewhat of a couchsurfer here for a month, but that's a bit off topic, I guess..)

[duke_Qa]

Loving it, nothing more to be said. he looks perfect imo

[Gen.Kenobi]

Your art is superb!

Can't wait to see it textured!

[Boomerang Python]

Well ridonculous. Just ridonculous!

In a good way, obviously..

[dunkejudas]

Thanks guys!
I finished baking all maps few hours ago.. Here's the result! (now with awesome logo in the corner!)


Specs are roughly the same as the guard (1024x1024 textures, ~3970 tris)
Texture is in progress! (as well as fixing some normal map bugs and stuff)

[Boomerang Python]

Man... your normal maps never seize to amaze me, mate
Good job!

[dunkejudas]

Normal maps are cool I think that was the reason I got into game-stuff in the first place.

Anyway! Texture update! I'm about to finish the color map, which I think turned out kinda cool. Alot of obvious seams left.. I'll get those in the morining! Here's a gif-spin!

I guess I should mention that this spin had about 50% ambient illumination to give some GI'ish impressions. As the texture matches the normal map, it should work under most other lighting circumstances.
Also, the actual texture sheet looked a bit cool, so I'll post it here if anyone's interested or anything..


(may be a tad bit green. I've got two screens here producing very different results)

And I have not forgotten the armguard nor the quiver! Well, actually, I did forget them, but when I remembered it I had just finished packing the uv's for all the other objects.. So I'll do them when I get to the weapons instead!
And both the charcter and normal map will probably "pop" alot more once the spec-map is in place

[duke_Qa]

Having those elements outside the base model is just a happy accident IMO, It makes more sense to have them there after all

Anyway, looking very good. Have you taken a few days off work?