Gunslinger

[catstyle]

hey guys!

finally finished this guy, hope you like him

all screengrabbed with xoliul viewport shader (couple of them with the post-shader stuff too, but most aren't)



http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/1_MainPose.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/2_FirstPoses.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/3_ActionPoses.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/4_FaceExpression.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/5_Breakdown.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/6_Head.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/7_Shoes.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/8_BodyTextures.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/9_Colts.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/10_UpperBodySculpt.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/11_BodySculpt.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/12_BootSculpt.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/13_HeadSculpt.jpg

he was inspired by The Dark Tower, although I certainly wouldn't say he is Roland for anyone who read the books... but perhaps there is a little of him in there, I hope :P

oh yeah, and hopefully gonna have a nice video of him in max comin soon!

[vcool]

First thing that came to mind: Gunslinger?!

Looks really good. I remember you posting the revolver in the WAYWO thread some time ago.

EDIT: Would be cool to get this in L4D2. :D

[Flava-Fly]

Absolutely ridiculously good! Really no crit I can give, character has weight and attitude that supports the pose. Love it!

[BradMyers82]

This is fantastic work!

No crits at all, Thanks a lot for sharing. All saved to my inspiration folder.

[frell]

holy shit

[jocose]

holy crap!, that's awesome!

[Makkon]

Your level of detail and realism far surpasses anything I can hope to do at this time. It's inspiring!

[Massbot]

Instant inspiration folder. Sexual fold work.

Edit - Think this would be good in the polycount showcase :)

[Neox]

very nice clothwork!

[MattLichy]

yeah... can;t say anything bad about this. You did some amazing cloth/wrinkle work... that shits hard to do...

[SasoDuck]

Dude! You make a really nice likeness of me! Good job.

holy shit

[Thor Sowards]

Is it just me or does his neck seem really long? But anyways nice work, good job with all of the folds and wrinkles in the clothes

[shotgun]

gea gr8 modelling n texturing, esp. the micro details
anatomy-wise the face feels a little cramped, like u concentrated on sculpting the features on the front without relating to the rest of the skull and its structure. the brow/sockets kinda need to recede deeper into the skull. the head as a whole feels just a little too high sitting on the neck
the forearms are also too short, wrist should reach lower towards the hip bones

[HonkyPunch]

To me it looks like a mix between Clint Eastwood and David Bowie.
Dirty Bowie ?
(It's really nicely done, btw)

[JonathanF]

WOW!! amazing... thank you sir for being an inspiration! I look forward to making amazing work like this someday soon! :D

[JonathanF]

and Im assuming Clint Eastwood was the inspiration behind this piece? reminds me of him a lot with his attitude, body type, stance, and the guns....

[ENODMI]

! NICE!

[ghost-d]

holy f*ck! The level of awesomeness is insane, man! The skin texture is incredible, clothes are fantastic. Kudos.

[Cyrael]

simply fantastic work..

[MRico]

Everything about it is just so damn good!

Amazing job!

[catstyle]

thanks for the comments everyone

shotgun great crits, appreciate it, will definitely remember them

because this project was so drawn out and done over a long time, and without any proper concept to begin with, there was a time when i lost a lot of faith in him, particularly on the overall design, and felt I could have done a much better job if i just started from scratch, as my observation skills and experience was growing and improving at work whilst doing this stuff

i did want to stop and just move onto something new, maybe even start him from fresh, but i decided to keep at it and see what else i could learn from the experience to carry on to new characters

i owe some thanks to genc buxheli who helped me bounce ideas around, although i dont think he posts on polycount, maybe ill convert him :P

again, thanks guys

[divi]

spotless. my first thought was that it is a textured highpoly.

[AaronF3D]

A+ work wow!

[ZacD]

Really nice topology, everything looks amazing.

[tesher07]

Probably one of the best character models I have seen thus far. I actually had to come back to this thread a few time this character was so awesome. Do you plan on making a game based around him haha :).

[polygoo]

beautiful

[ScoobyDoofus]

I'm gonna have to agree. Easily one of the best real-time character models I've ever seen. I can only hope the crap I'm working on now comes out 1/2 as nice.

[bounchfx]

dude, fuck yes. give us a making of on your next thing OK?

thanks for sharing!!

[Zelenkov]

catstyle (http://www.polycount.com/forum/member.php?u=27827)..... this is amazing! Likeness is superb! Super Mega Work!

[Pedro Amorim]

damn. this shit is top notch!

[d1ver]

You, sir, are amazing!
snatched to my cool picutres folder! Thanks alot for sharing.)

[conte]

quality work, man, thumbs up!

[Tyler]

I instantly wanted this as a wallpaper, so i made a little something, thought i'd share it with you guys. Thanks for posting this amazing character Micheal! :D (hope you dont mind me making this and posting it either :p)

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9458/wildwestmkwp.jpg

[build.]

Wonderful work! *saves to inspiration folder*
The clothing is really great, very believable sense of weight and folding.

[southhilbily]

Great work, love the dark tower don't think he's old enough for Roland but does put me in mind of Eddie

[Noren]

Wow! Saved.

[imb3nt]

I'm weeping uncontrollably... its just so gosh-darn beautiful.
...in a totally heterosexual way.

Stellar work!

[boyluya]

I love his shirt! I wish I could dress like that.

[Froyok]

Houch, beautiful.
I cry.

Amazing and very well done work man !

[Alberto Rdrgz]

FUCKING bad. Ass. Love it.

[SnowInChina]

wow

really nice
the belt is awesome

[FAT_CAP]

Looks really nice now that you have finished Mike :)

Did you end up going for Xoliul's shader for the hair in the end? It lookss great whatever you ended up doing with it, and there doesn't seem to be any sorting problems with the alpha which is always a bonus!

[Lonewolf]

O_O

[bejkon]

Dude, ive read the books and this is very close how I pictured Roland.

[doc rob]

Very nice, man. Much better than my old 2000 poly Roland from way back.

[Yozora]

very nice work!
Something about his eyes seem a bit off to me... maybe a bit too shiny? Where's the texture for the eyes anyway? Is that on a separate texture sheet?

By the way have you found a game art job yet?

[Snipergen]

I just have to drop in and say that this is fantastic.

[butt_sahib]

Looking superb!

Would you mind posting a detailed break down of the hair and how you made them? I always have trouble making hair that works.
Thanks!


ps.
Man that shader is looking crazy

[Rojo]

Damn. Those cloth sculpts in particular are fantastic.

[Snefer]

Damn, that is some hot stuff right there.

[catstyle]

skulburn - thanks! cool wallpaper

fat_cap - thanks man, yeah I used xoliul on the hair too, was nice to be able to add a subtle fresnel effect to it that could mix with the alpha

bejkon - haha best comment of all, made me smile. although I was initially aiming to make roland, I didn't think he ended up how I imagined him in the books, but I think there is a little of him in there :)

yozora - yeah I did experiment with the eyes, it's probably just the cubemap reflections that I could tone down. eye texture is here with the teeth and tongue. i was gonna spend some time trying to make a good quality facial pose where he had his mouth wide open for whatever reason... but bailed on it, was taking too much time and wanted to wrap it all.

been working at frontier developments in cambridge for the last 11 months

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/EyeTongueTeeth_Dif.jpg

butt_sahib - it's made of a few chunks of polys, with quite a lot being mirrored. whilst positioning the polys I unwrapped them early, and set down some quick large flow strokes to further help figure out how it would work, then when I was happy, just unwrapped it all properly and painted it all in PS. then used crazybump for some very slight normal map effects

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/hair.jpg

everyone else - thanks! <3

[Sandro]

One of the coolest gameart characters I've seen! Everything is awesome!

Btw, how did you achieve such clean bake/retopo? Is it topogun or xnormal?

[3D-209]

You are insane. I love it, completely love it.

[MoP]

BANNER'D.

Nice work, sir :)

My main crit would be that the shirt colour/texture is very... boring. He's a pretty monochrome guy right now, and I guess that's the style you were aiming for, but I think a splash more saturation and colour in the shirt would really help make him pop.

[BrendtheCow]

Damn dude. Just... damn. Saved for inspiration ^_^

[Frump]

This is really sick. It's the first thing I've saved instantly to my inspiration folder in a while. Great job man!:)

[ironbearxl]

Those jeans are awesome; wranglers?

[PogoP]

Wow, nice to see somebody from Staffs uni really doing well!

I'm hoping to be as good as this some day :D

[Krypteia]

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/2_FirstPoses.jpg

I agree - this model is incredible in it's realism and everything.

My one crit is that the back of the jeans seem way too wrinkled - namely around the backs of the knees. You might have some loose wrinkles up the leg, but would someone's jeans really get that wrinkled normally?

[roosterMAP]

freaking amazing!

[r_fletch_r]

Thats damn awesome.
It could just be me but his neck looks very very long.

[woogity]

unbelievable work, fantastic stuff you have here man great execution, and your texture technique is excellent. Great work!:poly142::thumbup::thumbup:

[Snight]

Beautiful work!! The attention to detail is just insane.

[DarkStar]

Is this Clint eastwood 50 years younger?

Great model, good job :thumbup:

[Oniram]

looks absolutely fantastic! very inspirational

[00Zero]

very nice. i stared at those pics for like half an hour

[JFletcher]

Amazing work, thank you for the inspiration. :)

[Quill Voy]

Impossible to have any complaint about it... one moment, why the heck is that right hand five fingered??? very dissapointing man... :(

No, seriously, just the ice-eyed Roland (that in the first book at least xD) himself.

Pd: sorry for my probably bad english :poly122:

[Blaizer]

One of the best characters i have seen in a long time. With some angles i feel a Clint Eastwood :D

My unique critic woul be the fingernails, but that's something small. It's a pleasure for the eyes to see such piece of work, really brilliant man, i'm speechlees.

Keep up the good work!

[[HP]]

What an amazing character, one of the best I've seen around.

[StefanH]

What an awesome character. nice work man! I noticed you put quite a lot of cavity in your diffuse ( I might be wrong on that ). Is that a cavity map generated in Crazybump? What are your layer settings for it?

[cloakingturtle]

Wow That's really good. I love it.

[Del]

~ Dude. Get on msn now. I have about 100 virtual Hi-5's to send you.

Incredible

[Thegodzero]

How the fuck did i miss this!? Well done!

[catstyle]

haha thanks everyone

yeah, i agree with every crit people have given this so far. there are probably a hundred things that I would like to have done differently looking back at it now, and there will certainly be many more as time goes on, but that's just the way it is

sandro - i used max for the retop and bake

quill voy - i was actually going to at one point! but when I started to think that he wasn't really how i imagined roland i decided not to, and thought it would be better just to let him go his own way

stefanH - yeah i used crazybump to milk all the normal map info. i basically go through crazybump and save out like 5 or so different maps with varying intensity and detail, then mix them up in photoshop until eventually it looks nice ontop of the diffuse... then i just collapse em all into one overlay layer

[tda]

Well deserved banner plug mate, saw this on CGhub's banner today as well! Undoubtably the most awesome character i've seen in a long time, both in art quality+style as well as execution.

Envy

[rollin]

fantastic work as I'd said before. (even if I still think blurring the folds would make the material read more like thicker fabric)

But could you tell us a bit about how you handled the model in zbrush?
Is this all part of one zbrush file?

[Psyk0]

Just saw this up top, ridiculously awesome work dude, grats!

[Spitfire]

Very defining art, great work!

[sama.van]

Yeah amazing, this is rare I like next gen stuff but that one really has something.
I really like the work on the clothes.

[BigErn]

Its already been said too many times :) Amazing!

[EricV]

awesome

[J-kid]

This Is Amazing It Is One Of Best Character Models I've Seen

[seth.]

just stunning stuff man.....was it a concious choice to make him a lefty...or is there a hint of ambedexterousity...(i think I made a word :D ) to his character

[Spatz]

I´m happy :) when i see artwork like this...great job!

[mr_ace]

fucking spectacular mike, nice one

[smiljan66]

good model base oviously in cleent eastwood , love the leather that the best oyu have done , but whats up with the hair and the skin shader , the fornt head when it foolows the hair? , i dont knwo looks weird the head skin and texture and the eyes too not too realistic to me , but i really like th emodleing you have done .

[fenderbender]

wow!!! nice work man

[Xoliul]

Hey Catstyle, I'm logging in from on my holiday just to reply to this. Don't think I need to repeat the praise, as I think it's all justified :)
Thanks for using my work in such a fantastic manner. It's great to see that this proves it's all about the artist and what he does with the tool!

[Jon Rush]

This is rediculously good - very inspiring!

[Torch]

I commented on your work on Zcentral but thought I'd do it on here too, since I think you deserve a lot of kudos, nice one :)

[RiotForQuiet]

Thanks for the inspiration Catstyle. Your textures truly rock.

[bbob]

Holy carp fish, this is waay awesome.

Apologies for the useless praise, but sometimes, it's just due..

[achillesian]

perfection

[Guedin]

Incredible !

This is a masterpiece, definitely inspiring work.

[polozad]

Inspired by RDR/John Marston? Awesome work!

[catstyle]

thanks again everyone! i'm really glad people like him, although i actually hate it now after looking at it for so long and wanting to have done things differently haha

rollin - i started out with a body sculpt, and then made different subtools for the jeans, shirt and boots. once i was happy with the general shape I split the body mesh into the arms and head, so I could divide them higher.

for the gunbelts, I planned them out in max first, unwrapped them and did the pattern work in photoshop. when all that was ready, I took them into zbrush and just did some subtle surface details to give a worn leather look. this got baked onto the low poly belts, and then I overlayed my PS pattern work that i tested out in advance.

for the holster though, I just did it all in Zbrush, as the pattern work design I wanted for it was a lot more organic


polozad - although I loved the RDR stuff, it was actually inspired by the dark tower series by stephen king, which is about the last true gunslinger in a post-apocalyptic world

[PatrickL]

Roland has never looked so good.

[ICESPADE]

Dam good modeling my friend
Dam good~

[Kuki]

God, this character has balls ;)

[Jon Rush]

Dark Tower is awesome! I would love to see your take on a Lobstrosity :P

[polozad]

Tell me please, how you worked with diffuse map?

[catstyle]

Jon - yeah I'd love to make a lobstrosity sometime :P the crimson king too.. in fact.. just about anything from DT!

polozad - first thing step is to get a nice clean normal map, then run it through crazybump to get different height map layers. then I take these and overlay them in the diffuse, along with an ambient occlusion pass baked in max.

this serves as a guide and base to start painting colour tones and any extra lighting. then I gradually detail it using various different brushes, and also photos. it's quite a gradual process and one of a lot of experimentation, but very easy once you get going

[polozad]

Which soft are you using for it? Photoshop?

[TylerKinkade]

Nice job! Love revolver holster!

[Rock Bottom]

kinda looks like Clint Eastwood lol great stuff mate

[KenBrown3DArtist]

Wow Just WOW that is some amazing work

[coochaki]

amazing work man

[Ruz]

loving it though the cheek bone area bugs me a bit. not sure what it is

[ScudzAlmighty]

Been loving this guy for a while now... (the model not the guy); how many different materials are you using for him?
Obviously you've got diffuse, normal and spec, but is there anything else going on, like emmisive or schmancy sss-related stuff?

[A R K A I K O]

Fantastic model,10 stars!

[dgozmo]

sweet jesus tasty

[catstyle]

thanks again ! still wanna put together that video of him, will get around to it eventually

scudz - i used different settings of the xoliul shader for various parts, like the gun belts, hair and skin, nothing particularly fancy

uhh and photobucket has screwed me over and reduced the image quality so it's been blurred to shit, you can see the proper res ones on ZBC, and i'll upload them back onto here again in a bit

[Aran Anderson]

Such amazing work!

[2_k]

catstyle, great work! Intresting to know, what kind of uvw unwrapper did you used?

[Jonathan Marshall]

Most artistic game model I've seen. A lot of zbrush modelers do more detail, but they don't ever seem to be making them with the intention to animate, let alone run in real-time. Good job.

[catstyle]

2_k - I use the max default

here's a quick vid of him in the viewport

http://vimeo.com/15437689

[MoP]

Bloody hell, that video is gorgeous. Love this model more every time I see it. Top work.

[conte]

agree with mop, very cool to see it in motion.
and damn great setup, man! would love to play for him in some shooter.

[darbeenbo]

First comes smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire.

We are well met, sai catstyle. Long days and pleasant nights.

[Paladion]

nice one :D

[Dimfist]

Great work! Looks like you spent a lot of time on textures.

[dilpreet]

awsum ..,.,just awsum

[OutOfInspiration]

damn that looks fabulous, saved to my hard drive :)

[k0c0s]

Wow, great work!

[bisenberger]

amazing!!!

[!1Realjunior]

amuzing!!!

[Treacharous]

Wow, what an intense amount of detail :)

[SSquir33]

love it! setting the benchmark for high quality models like this keeps me focused on my work =p

[polythemus]

Man, the clothing is especially amazing!
Nice work.

[kevorkio]

GOWORK FOR ROCKSTAR NOW AND MAKE THE NEXT REDDEAD IF THERE IS ONE

[big40]

Hey i am new here your character models is awesome.

[jadin]

and Im assuming Clint Eastwood was the inspiration behind this piece? reminds me of him a lot with his attitude, body type, stance, and the guns....

My first thought as well lol. Face is a dead ringer for him.

Don't think I could ever touch that in a million years.... still haven't given a shot to anything but low poly modeling yet.

[martynball]

That's amazing, lecturer told me that you went Staffs University doing Game Design, I'm doing the same. Seen this before, it is truly amazing. I wish I can do such work one day :)

[Apocryphim]

It's been said before, but I'm sure you won't mind hearing it again... absolutely stunning job. Thank you for posting so many images, as I'll certainly use them as a study for clean, optimised, beautiful realtime character modeling.

[ciaranb]

the absolute best clothes ive seen, con grads

[changiz]

Cool

[mosena]

Really awesome!

[predpaul]

Wow this is an amazing example of why models sometimes don't need to be full colour even your clay character views look awesome, your Fold work is the best I have ever seen. A true inspiration :)

[lordsme]

Really amazing!
Hope to see more soon

[Q Z X]

Amazing work! http://www.polycount.com/forum/images/smilies/pcount/icons/poly112.gif But I think the Clint Eastwood's lips drawn more inward. In any case, looks very professional.

[cr3ativdevil]

Very nice work, I find a bit of clint eastwood on the bold model.

[Pegabrony]

First thing that came to mind: Gunslinger?!

Looks really good. I remember you posting the revolver in the WAYWO thread some time ago.

EDIT: Would be cool to get this in L4D2. :D

My first thought:

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/7/76/Engineer_Update_Gunslinger.png

[8BitEggplant]

This is really great. The realism is strong. I don't know if I just missed it in one of the images, but whats the polygon count on the revolver?

[Mclarke92]

This guys should be placed in the main role for red dead 2
Epic work !

[mindtrap]

amazing standard....gasp at detail !

[AzureXIII]

oh man I love this one. the texture are great. :)

[GragGunslinger]

This is really a phenomenal model, but I must say this forums not big enough for two gunslingers :

[Matt Collins]

It has a Clint Eastward feel, especially in the brow and eyes. A 21st Centuary Dirty Harry and the revolver just says it all, very good.

[SamFisher45]

Awesome piece of work. Can you show how you sculpted the high poly hair? Or did you just paint on the low poly model?

[Blazeking]

This is Great. I especially love your use of texture and painting for this piece. My dad loves the old west, I grew up watching westerns and you definitely captured that. Thank you for your inspiration

[fusedgore]

Really awesome

[Gods_Requiem]

Wish we could get this level of quality in games more often. Looks really good!

[Gods_Requiem]

So clean from the topology to the textures. Looks awesome dude. Wish I could see this inside a game.

[Mineirinho]

very nice. congratulation

[absorbentghost]

i love the dark tower,and i was hoping to make a short film but i have game design work to get done and keeps getting in that way.