Yep proper awesome. Nice and packed uv's also

Looks fanfuckingtastic! totally captured the essence of the concept art. the hand painting is phenomenal. He just needs a badass pose now!

Originally Posted by crasong

I love this! Er, noob question, but was the texture painted on the UVflat? or in 3dspace? Not quite sure if i'm phrasing it right ><

I use Maxon BodyPaint 3d for painting so it is mostly in 3d space. I would go crazy painting it flat these days. For old school diffuse painting, I probably do at least 90% of the texture work in BodyPaint and the rest is adjustments/tricks in Photoshop.

I recommend trying a 3d painting program if you haven't used one yet. Aside from making it more convenient to see what you're doing right on the model, I've found that it's helpful to avoid painting unnecessary details. When I used only photoshop for my painting, it was easy to get lost in adding detail that may not be seen. It kind of forces me to think of it more as a painting and less of a sacred system of layers and effects. At least, that's what I believe, but I know many wonderful artists who still paint flat entirely in Photoshop.

awesome model awesome textures!
great job man ;)

awesome!

Sweet work there!

Thanks for the tip!

i need to learn how to paint like that. looks fantastic!

freaking excellent, can you post the 3d next to the concept so i can tell which is which though?

Great stuff haikai!!

Niiiice! Great style transfer. My one immediate crit is that you lost the nice thinness in the feet. Totally badass regardless though.

Wow, that is beautiful. Amazing painting skills. Wonderful painted work on your site as well.

Man that's so awesome

Wow this really reminds me of some WoW-character.. perfect!

lovely work! Great model, great texture love the hand paint style...oldschool for ever

Sorry to bump an old thread, but a good friend and former coworker of mine, Issam Zejly, animated my model and I thought some of you might be interested in seeing it in action. You can see it at:

http://issamz.com/
(3rd clip in the latest demo reel)

Shameless plug: He is also currently looking for work if anyone here needs a great animator. He's an Animation Mentor alumni and worked at Ubisoft.

dammit, i made a thumb. of a character exactly like that. you took it out of my mind. did better than i could have done. awesome

Awesome model,I saw in Cg talk,congratz again!!

GREAT job, also a GREAT concept

Really epic character you have there, thank god you had that superb concept art and awesome skills to make it look even better.

/claps

Also, have you ever heard of Riot Games? They are the company that makes the game League of Legends, there are a lot of custom characters that really remind me of this eagle here.

They have many job openings and looking for "talented, creative individuals". You should definitely talk to them and land your self a awesome job with them unless you already have one. They could probaply make that model into a playable character in League of Legends.

Anyways, this is a really awesome inspirational peace of art, thanks for showing it to everyone and best of luck to you if you actually go for the job!

Wow this looks great. I was looking forward to this game years ago. I'm a big Joe Mad fan.

awesome job Haikai
good skills you got with handpainted textures, /applause

Well done, like this handpaint texture very much.

Hey, I joined this forum just so I could comment on how cool this piece is. Are we going to see him in action any time soon?

I didn't notice this new Showcase section of the forum. I'm surprised and honored to be here, and can only hope that you all don't get too sick of seeing my image on the banner!

Naso - Thanks for the heads up!

slipgatecentral - That's high praise coming from you. Your work has been a big inspiration for me

GninjaGnome - You can see my model in a test animation here by my friend, Issam Zejly: http://issamz.com/ (3rd clip in the latest demo reel).