[MUTANT] Tennis, Gilesruscoe

[gilesruscoe]

Woop! Another contest, actually have time to enter this one too.
Here's my initial concept, will probably stick to diffuse/glow/alpha and keep it truly mobile spec :)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutant%20concept.jpg

[Andreas]

Grotesque, me likey! :) Maybe lose the stitched in look to the other arm though? If he's a mutant, surely he could have just been born with that other arm...

[Rick Stirling]

The 3rd arm is too short - try a tentacle?

[Jason Young]

Dude needs a tennis ball launcher arm cannon or something along those lines! :)

[gilesruscoe]

Trying to make it look more mutanty, quick liquify/paint over:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutant%20concept2.jpg

[Jackablade]

Seems like if you were modifying someone to make them beter at tennis you'd want to give them a long er reach, not reduce the length of their arms. How about stitching on an extra arm joint so that he's got two elbows on each arm.

[gilesruscoe]

I like that idea, and it makes sense too! i'l do some more thumbs based around this design and hopefully have something more tennis-useful:p

[gilesruscoe]

Had a rethink of design with my mutant, did a really rough sketch which i won't bother to show, but heres the start on the body mesh, 1.2k tris atm with a hell of alot of optimisation i can still do to it (infact i havnt really optimised it much at all yet):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutant%20mesh.jpg

And here's a paint over to show where im going with the model:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutantpo.jpg

[gilesruscoe]

Not sure if i'm going to be sculpting or hand painting this one, so i've done a quick test sculpt to see what things may end up looking like if i went for the normal maps route...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutant%20test.jpg

[gilesruscoe]

Almost done with the base mesh, still 500 triangles to spare, probably just going to be spent on smoother silhouette:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutantlptt.gif

[gilesruscoe]

started on the high poly, and did a little test bake for fun :)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutanttestbake.jpg

Edit:
Update again
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutant2.jpg

[TonyClifton]

Hey gilesruscoe! This looks like Andre Agassi´s crystal meth years...:P

I liked the idea in the second concept (the grey one) that the head is kind of embedded in the shoulder parts. I mean the shoulder and the head are more or less at the same height.
I was thinking, may be the character does not need two strong arms with the same strength. may be you could exaggerate a little bit more with one of the arms. Like the arm he uses most. What do you think?

[gilesruscoe]

Another update on the lowpoly, just messing with bakes and some texture ideas, HP still not finished.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14324914/mutanttt.gif