Here is what I have on the head so far. I'm not sure if I'm going the right direction or not, so please, please critic, tear it apart, what have you. Paintovers would be awesome. =)

Originally Posted by crazy-g

I'm working on the scout, who is supposedly based off of Billy the Kid...

Ah, alright then. So that leaves what, the medic and sniper? Davy Crockett looks like more fun. I suppose I'd better get started right away this time so I don't get beaten to the punch again.

i really like it actually

i did a paint over, but everything i did was more akin to facial repositioning which could be done with facial pose animation already.

basically it looks good. good job.

edit: one thing i do want to note though is separate the beard from the side burns like in the paint over. makes him look more like abe lincoln

Lincoln has to maintain that creepy soulless smile like in the photo.

That heavy has a belt and braces? That's kinda weird.

Originally Posted by crazy-g

Great job everyone! I just loved looking through the thread (it's a brilliant idea), so much so that it inspired me to try and make a character as well!

I'm working on the scout, who is supposedly based off of Billy the Kid... although if that were true he would be -9 in 1850. Still, I tried make him look young and stay somewhat true to the picture from the comic.

Ya know I am going to guess Wild Bill (James) Hickok. He'd only be 13 in 1850. Wikipedia lists him as a good shot (and a good scout) at a young age, but he didn't move west till 1855. However, since the will was only READ in 1850, 5 years is not that long a time.

Hope that helps in you model design.
(BTW: Hi! I'm new! I'll introduce myself formally elsewhere)

Took a while, but I think I've a look that kinda works. Still need to simplify the planes and do some other tweaking to get him in line with the Team Fortress art style.

Ehh... it could be better but I had no intention on doing the whole medic

in my opinion " oldies demoman " looks pretty low-res compared to others ( Heavy and Soldiers looks amazing )

also

probably Soldier would be better with short hairs, like scout; soldiers in that period usually used to grow up beard but hair were ALWAYS short, and all we know that Soldier is pretty intollerant to hairs ( domination text, heavy military doctrine etc.. )

Originally Posted by CrisM1

In my opinion "oldies demoman" looks pretty low-res compared to others ( Heavy and Soldiers looks amazing )

also

Soldier would probably be better with short hair, like scout. Soldiers in that period sometimes grew beards but their hair was ALWAYS short, and all we know that Soldier is pretty intolerant to hair ( domination text, heavy military doctrine etc.. )

Made by different people.

Also

I'm pretty sure that soldiers were allowed to keep their hair. I mean, this is civil war period.

He also has long hair in the original "photo" so...

It's been great fun keeping up with this thread- excellent jobs all around!

Originally Posted by DKK

One of them is glass Scudz. As far as crazying up the face, and giving him a pose, thats something i'd rather do with morph targets, and a rig, and I don't want to do those, I'll probably come back to it later. Got bigger better plans though, and I want to call this done.

DKK, I know you're done with 1850's Demoman, but if you ever want to go back to him, or if anyone else wants to give him a shot, there's a slightly better reference to be found.

Makani, the artist for the Engineer Loose Canon comic and all the other non-3D art in the update frequents TF2Chan, and she provided a quick sketch of the Demoman's face for those interested in what's going on in that teeny tiny drawing.

no he has not, he got thick hairs but he got no tails or long hairs behind, check it out better.

hey guys, just a heads up that Makani is planning on redoing the picture bigger with more detail as a wallpaper.

Demo does look better in that latest concept cause he has that "I'm crazy" look to him that would suit a demoman perfectly. DKK It'd be cool to see your demo more crazy, he looks way too serious at the moment. His beard should be half singed off too.

Originally Posted by chickenman

hey guys, just a heads up that Makani is planning on redoing the picture bigger with more detail as a wallpaper.

As much of a lurker as I am... THIS^

My mind was blown when the 1800's TF2 was put into the Loose Canon comic... and my mind is blown again with the models being put together in this thread. Awesome awesome stuff folks.

Originally Posted by REKLAS

Demo does look better in that latest concept cause he has that "I'm crazy" look to him that would suit a demoman perfectly. DKK It'd be cool to see your demo more crazy, he looks way too serious at the moment.

Remember that all of these models are in a "neutral" pose for design purposes, so none of them are going to fit their character until they're posed. Even the Valve models of each original TF2 class look pretty serious until they're animated

Amazing work Swizzle, you should at least consider contribute!-ing the soldier's hat, if you're not already planning on it, I really like it

Wow this is greaT! LOL this inspired me to try a model. im not posting it until i think yall wont laugh but heres a hiint about who it is...its called Project Hale...Yup. Thats what the folder on my desktop says.

(the engineer looks like the crack explosives guy from Atlantis the lost empire movie.)

Pretty old images, I hope to update them soon along with newer Tier versions





And yes I see the dimple in the magazine head at the bottom

Think you got the wrong thread there n88tr :P Nice stuff anyway

Hey, remember to do separate first person hands so i can animate with them

this is just a novice talkin, but how would one go about doing the eyes and teeth? I think all the classes share blue eyes but demo...

This is what I got so far. I haven't come down to the face yet (I mean I haven't even worked on the concept yet), but the body is pretty much done.

Hey! I just saw this stuff, you guys are all doing God's work here, that's no doubt. =P I can't wait to see it all finished. I signed up to let you guys know I'm writing some voice responses and recording them tomorrow. Here's a couple themes I'm gunning for. Please Crit them so they can be as good as possible!

Spy: Only KIND of having a sterotypical asian accent, not unlike how spy only sounds kind of French.

Demoman: Since the pyro obviously can talk, I'd like for one character to be inaudible. And after a little thinking, I decided on demoman. He's already a prospector-looking type, so imagine a prospector, doing his little prospector-jig, only with a thick-as-molasses Cajun accent. I'm talking every other word is AU SHAW ZE LA NE WOOOWEE! A good example is boomhauer if you're having trouble picturing it.

Pyro: I'm honestly just going to try to make as many Abe Lincoln puns as I can.

Medic: Since he's (assuming) sigmund freud, I'm going to try and work off the psychology angle. I'd also like to throw in a reference to the song "Frontier Psychiatrist."

Heavy: I don't know what I'm going to have him say. I do, however, know what I want people to say about him. Tesla/Engineer, for one, will have lots of mean things to say about machines winning after all, and I'm thinking someone should mistake him for, among other tall tale-related things, Sasquatch and Paul Bunyan.

Any other ideas before I start recording some of these tomorrow?

Here's a few Examples:

Pyro Domination: Four score and seven years ago, I started TANNIN' YOUR HIDE, BOY.

Pyro Domination on Spy: I've been assassinated once already, you think I don't know how you play, Son?

Pyro Domination: I'll be honest. You're not gonna last much longer.

Pyro Domination: You just got Emancipated...FROM LIFE!

Spy Domination on Pyro: Sig Semper Tyranus, Mr. Plesident.

Thank you chickenman, the paintover helped me a ton. I'm still unsure for when i seperate the sideburns and beard if I should keep his head hair attached to the sideburns then split off at the beard or the other way around, it's hard to tell from that paint over. But otherwise I tried following all you suggested, made the brows more defined, pushed the lower eyelids up, and made the nose bigger. Thanks again.

Heres the low res head and some base colors. Not sure if I want to do pinstripe like the spy or not. Also I'm going to redo the flamethrower so it's not as boring.



Crits welcome and appreciated! =)