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[Nazgûl]

Fully sculpted... Painting next.

[njm1983]

So pretty...

[Ridder Geel]

Ghehe, nice nice

[Nazgûl]

[njm1983]

Bolg Smash!

[Nazgûl]

 Hehe yeah!

[Bashkuga]

The weapon really reminds me of the Aztec macuahuitl, only they used wood instead of metal.

[Nazgûl]

Yeah, it's not completely unlikely that it served as inspiration to the Weta designers ^^

[Nazgûl]

Here we go... All topologized (manually) and UV mapped (manually) in low poly. Took me all day  But, I'm happy with the result. Gonna finnish Bolg himself tomorrow, slap 'em together and send it to Edain for rigging. If they for some reason don't want it, I'll have to wait until someone else can rig it for me/us... 

 

[Nazgûl]

Video render turntable: https://vid.me/q3jA

Edited by Nazgûl, 03 April 2015 - 11:52 PM.

[Nazgûl]

Manually topologizing this model, is killing me... This is by far the most tedious modeling project I've done. Great Goblin with his soft lines was child play compared to this. So many details that take forever to topologize whilst trying to keep the poly count down. Was hoping that I'd finish this guy tonight, but I must call it a day 

 

Edited by Nazgûl, 06 April 2015 - 01:04 AM.

[njm1983]

LOL. You win Bolg, you win

[Nazgûl]

I tried to cut down on the clusters on his head, but that totally demolosieh hiw caracteristics. Azog was easier as he didn't have all that junk in his face 

 

EDIT: And on his boots... 

 

Edited by Nazgûl, 06 April 2015 - 05:48 PM.

[Nazgûl]

What - a- friggin - nightmare! I hope I never ever have to model something with this much detail again  Take a look at the UV map and I guess you can imagine how fun it was to not only topologize everything by hand, but also to place seams and cut to create all these island - and despite the effort, they're not perfect, but they'll do. I'm really happy with this model, and that I'm finally done with it. Now I just hope it will rig well and look good in anims, so I haven't made this effort in vain   

Body: 5500 polys
Mace: 900 polys

That's ok for a hero.

Any other ideas than Lurtz's SKL for anims?

 

And one shot with good 'ol dad!   

Edited by Nazgûl, 07 April 2015 - 02:05 AM.

[njm1983]

Looks good. No idea what skl to use. An uruk would probably be good. Mayne the berserker? What about the skl for the uruk deathbringers? The elite unit for isengard in rotwk? What do those animations look like?

[Ridder Geel]

Very nice, I like

[Nazgûl]

Yeah we tried the CHSS_UK_U_SKL ("Deathbringer") with Azog. It's pretty much Lurtz anims, minus the bow, and a couple of new ones =/

Edited by Nazgûl, 07 April 2015 - 09:48 AM.

[njm1983]

I have no idea why I thought of this but the rogash skl might work. I don't remember his animations that well but for some reason I can see it working for bolg.

I also remember you hated his animations naz.

[Nazgûl]

hehe that's right. Don't like 'em. Mostly cause they're not motion capture, and they are so few. I think Lurtz is the best after all, since it has the bow switch

[njm1983]

Yeah..that makes sense to me as well. I wish we could differentiate bolg and azog a bit more, though I'm outta ideas