Kaliber Knight

CerisierEnFleur · Nov 2009

Hello, this is the last work I've done, wanted to learn a little bit hand painting texture and lowpoly.

Everything are screenshots from the maya persp window

Character: 705 tris. Weapons: 100 tris./ Texture: 512x512
Additional weapons: respectively lance:99, shield:84, one hand sword:94 and two hand sword: 100 tris / Texture: 256x512

It could probably fit in an hack'n slash (looks like the specs of torchlight mobs) or Str, tactical rpg, portable type of games.

with the texture reduced per 256x256 it looks quite decent as well, but i like to work with bigger texture.

Chatbite

woogity · Nov 2009

this came out pretty nice i like it

-Woog

jocose · Nov 2009

I love this, kind of reminds me of Zelda.

Peris · Nov 2009

Cool shit Simon, I really like the windows!

Mazvix · Nov 2009

Sweet stuff, I think you should just render it with the shield and the sword or the lance. Because at the moment all the work you have you are not showing and the pose ends up looking bland. I also noticed the feet are a bit small, balancing out might be a little tough, extend them if it is not too much trouble.

keep them coming

eld · Nov 2009

fabeloux!

brandoom · Nov 2009

straight up ballin. love the sword.

Xaltar · Nov 2009

Great style and textures. Nice work.

man_o_mule · Nov 2009

amazing work. love it. not sure about the greenish face.

CerisierEnFleur · Nov 2009

Chabite

Thanks Bram and Jonatan and the others

Mazvix: I don't really understand what you mean in the first twos sentences :x.
Otherwise for the feet, They are weaker looking than the rest yeah.

But about the proportions it's voluntary, it by no means intended to be realistic balance wise and all (huge sword hu) , I had more Odin Sphere/ medievil looking stuff in mind.

Avanthera · Nov 2009

looks excellent, only comment would be that his fingers look broken/bent
everything else is perfect!

jakelear · Nov 2009

Nice work man, love the style.

Mazvix · Nov 2009

What I meant is the beauty shot would look much better if he had his shield on. As for the feet even if it is stylized or "fantasy" you need the balance, take ffVII. Cloud's proportions are still in tact, or World of warcraft's orcs- big shoulders and hands balances with big feet. I hope you get my point.

man_o_mule · Nov 2009

nevermind about the greenish face....must have been the crappy monitor on my work system.

rollin · Nov 2009

this is really cool!

HAL · Nov 2009

Wow I love it :O nice textures there

TolenX · Nov 2009

This looks sweet, very well done, great textures.

CerisierEnFleur · Nov 2009

Hehe, I'm agree for the hands/fingers Damn it's hard to paint those things. I'm learning to paint actually so it could explain why, also the uvs for this part are not really unwrapped to make the things easy... more experience earned.

http://ui21.gamespot.com/1428/odinsphere10_2.jpg <--- god so small feet, it should be like blizzard ! how dare they have different proportions

(it was one of my reference)

Jon Rush · Nov 2009

Very cool - great texture painting. Kept the saturation up in the mids very nicely.

The javelin is my favorite... reminds me of a character from Joust :P

CerisierEnFleur · Nov 2009

Wow Thanks a lot Jon, it's a pleasure to get good comments by experienced peoples.

Especially because your works and tutorials helped me in the process aha.

Since the beginning I wanted some colorful textures, I'm kind of fed up with the Grey/brown/desaturated look.

butt_sahib · Nov 2009

Excellent.
Love the textures! Great work!

Nizza_waaarg · Nov 2009

*saves to desktop*

really cool stuff man, painted textures look really cool, the enviro looks great as well... especially love all his different weapons.

Great work man ^^

Shogun3d · Nov 2009

Really nice job with the textures. I love the use of the alpha's.

BoBo_the_seal · Nov 2009

I dig it!

- BoBo

DoomiVox · Nov 2009

Reminds me sort of the HUcast from PSO, which is a great thing.

poopinmymouth · Nov 2009

I really like the overall style and color palette, my one complaint would be that the texture looks a little muddy and soft. A few harder highlights, or transitions from a light stroke to a dark stroke would clear it up. Especially on the surfaces that are supposed to be changing directions sharply.

CerisierEnFleur · Nov 2009

Like a pure white or Black outlining ?

poopinmymouth · Nov 2009

The best example I can give is his jaw piece. It looks like it's supposed to be a 90 degree edge from the top plane to the front plane, yet the shading is softer and rounder. That's the perfect area to have a sharp contrast from light facing planes to non light facing planes.

Really it would be solved by using a harder edged brush, and higher opacity, and less smudge or smooth brush. Look at John Singer Sargent's work, it's not in the same style, but it shows what I mean about laying down opaque brush strokes next to each other.

I think that's really the only thing holding back your stuff. Your color palette and design is working fine.

CerisierEnFleur · Nov 2009

I see your point:

thanks for the crit !

poopinmymouth · Nov 2009

More like this. Don't highlight every edge, and don't use the same shadow colors regardless of darkness. Some should be a middle shadow, some a deep. Use deep dark shadow colors only where light would really be occluded. And let your brush strokes meet right up against each other.

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/net/pcount/knight_paintover.jpg

Tillman · Nov 2009

nice character design CerisierEnfluer

CerisierEnFleur · Nov 2009

cerisier en FLEUR !

Kaliber Knight

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