After hearing about this contest last week, it occurred to me in the shower what I'd like to create for it. The theme is centered around the fez-wearing secret agent characters you sometimes see in spy movies. Admittedly, I was totally watching Austin Powers this weekend.

I'm also working on a North African/Turkish styled knife and a new revolver. I think the theme fits for the Spy, as it's fairly grounded in popular culture and the region has a French cultural tie-in through colonization and the Spy may have done some traveling. I haven't started the gun yet, but work in progress art is forthcoming asap. Been busy moving to a new apartment, so my schedule for free time is a little off.

Edited for new stuff.










I want to get these working in-game as soon as possible, to test them out with animations, etc. I'm currently messing around with glossiness/translucency and looking into some alpha sorting issues. I'll worry about hi-poly and textures after the designs are finalized.

Also, real tassle jigglebone physics.

very good...i would wear that hat

keep up the good work

Brilliance. I honestly can't think up any complaints at the moment.

BAM out of no-where with a brilliant entry!

THIS. HAT. IS. AWESOME.

hahaha i love it

I would LOVE to have that hat!

Niiice!
Love the Hat
Love the knife

I love it. Great concept art too, by the way.

I fully endorse this idea

Awesome stuff! Does the tassle move around?

That knife is absolutely fantastic.

Dat knife.

Wow, thanks guys. Glad you enjoy my submission work so far, hopefully I'll have more progress to share this evening. I've been working on the high polys for the normal maps, so nothing too interesting.

Originally Posted by Ruskeydoo

Awesome stuff! Does the tassle move around?

Yes, it moves around. It would be a very sad hat, otherwise! Right now it works smoothly and is constrained to the left side, but I'll probably mess around with the jigglebone constraints more at some point.

If that fez could move around just like how the scout's dogtags do, that hat would be made of pure win. "This wound is beginning to smell a little like almonds!" ~ Mustafa

The rim cuts off far too sharply. It looks really unnatural. Otherwise I'm enjoying your entry so far. Good luck.

Originally Posted by nofacej

The rim cuts off far too sharply. It looks really unnatural. Otherwise I'm enjoying your entry so far. Good luck.

Thanks! You mean, in terms of the contour of the line, or that it could use another chamfer around the bottom edge?

chamfer at the bottom I think. It looks like a paper hat atm. Just a very slight chamfer though.

Originally Posted by fearian

chamfer at the bottom I think. It looks like a paper hat atm. Just a very slight chamfer though.

.01 it is!

For some reason AVG is giving me a false positive malware hit on your images. Just wanted you to know, I'd upload them to photobucket or something otherwise this entry might not get the attention it deserves.

Originally Posted by Locutus.

For some reason AVG is giving me a false positive malware hit on your images. Just wanted you to know, I'd upload them to photobucket or something otherwise this entry might not get the attention it deserves.

^ ditto

Originally Posted by Pogo

^ ditto

Yeah, a few days ago, the site I've been hosting everything on was actually attacked by a bad script. It's since been removed and the main site has been taken down until the joomla version can be updated. It's simply still flagged, but I've just moved the images to another host.

In other words, a huge pain, lol. Let me know if there's still any issues for you.

What are you thinking of doing to make the revolver Middle Eastern/North African themed? The antique pistol angle has been done a few times for the contest, and most antique guns remind folks of Europe rather than the Mid East.

Maybe have the handle resemble a minaret?





Here are some Moroccan design refs-

Will the shades be a misc item?

Originally Posted by Khthon

What are you thinking of doing to make the revolver Middle Eastern/North African themed? The antique pistol angle has been done a few times for the contest, and most antique guns remind folks of Europe rather than the Mid East.

Maybe have the handle resemble a minaret?

I've been contemplating that, and done some research on revolver designs that might work. Right now I'm leaning more towards incorporating the Middle Eastern theme primarily through the texturing as custom changes to the body of the gun, but I still need to spend a little more time solidfying my ideas. In the end it's most important to me that it's still consistent with the cheesy spy theme, but with a Mustafa-esque flair. I just finished moving into a new internet-less apartment (unpacking aside), so hopefully some free time comes my way this evening for some work on the project.

Those patterns are amazing, by the way, thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by Benvil

Will the shades be a misc item?

The shades and fez are part of the same "hat", like the Hound Dog for the Heavy.