[FIGHTER] Soul Blade, TAKI, Stinger88
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I decided to change my idea due to the fact that CJE is doing MK's Scorpion as a Gun Slinger. So to keep things simple I'll do something else. I've looked through the pages and hopefully no one is doing this idea.
Taki Futuristic
I decided to change my idea due to the fact that CJE is doing MK's Scorpion as a Gun Slinger. So to keep things simple I'll do something else. I've looked through the pages and hopefully no one is doing this idea.
Taki Futuristic
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OK. Mood board time.
Anyhoo. Update time. If you recognise the shoes. Thats because I have pinched them from an older concept of mine. But I've changed the image more than 75%, so like copyright law...Its a whole new piece of art...Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
Not sure I like the tron glow lines. So I might drop them.
C&C welcome
CJE: yep. The cloth will defo have a tech feel to it. And the cloth panels will be of differing materials to break it up a bit. Also will be adding some more seams, etc.
Haikai: Yeah the glowing bits were kind of slapped on just to give me a feel of how it'll look. Will experiment with them some more.
Ok. Little reference update. Later versions of Taki have Demon armour which i'll try and incorporate. But I'll keep the design very sleek. Very like Batman. Also I'll be keeping it Mat black.
Actually. This might turn out to be a BaTaki (maybe that sounds a bit to much like bukaki....If you are unsure what that is, I advise against looking it up)
Endr: I'm not sure i'm going the Tron route just yet. Although if I do, thanks for reminding me of the discs. I will defo include one or two replacing her swords if I do go that way.
Quick armour sketchs to give a feeling of the direction this might go. I'm thinking number 2.
Yeah the second shoulder pad looks best, first one looks too much like a beard, and last one is cool in a aerodynamic kind of way, but will probably make for a less interesting silhouette overall.
Small update:
Update: Ok, Its been a few months since I used Maya 8.5 so i'm a bit rusty and I'd totally forgotten how friggin annoying it is. After wrestling for about 1hour against probabaly the worst case of Non manifold geometry that I've seen. In the past when this has happened it would usually be 1 or 2 polys which is an easy fix really, but it seemed to be about 95% of the model and I couldnt get rid of it without checking every single polys (about 4K). Anyway. After crying in the corner for a few minutes I had a eureka moment....ZBRUSH! Zbrush how I love thee!. Quick story short.
Import mesh> append zsphere> select topology> make adaptive skin> Export new clean mesh. Done!
2 minutes...problem solved. Had a couple of mesh holes which was a quick fix.
I friggin Love ZBrush! ANyway. Here's the full basemesh.
Just to let you know. My GPU broke down and i'm waiting for a new "super" computer to be delivered. So updates for this might not be for a while. I might not hit the deadline either but I WILL complete this character. I WILL, I WILL, I WILL!
When I do get back to it I'm going to add an extra element to the design because I think just "futurefying" her outfit doesnt seem like enough.
I'm going to make her into a Bio Weapon. So i'll be adding a small backpack with chemical canisters with tubes running through her suit and into her skin. Where the tubes enter the skin there'll be highly visible vein damage. Might change the long ponytail as well.
Think, femme fatale style Bane
Not much progress really. Just been blocking out the base mesh some more and messing about with my new rig. I'll probably do a paintover next to refine the character a bit.
Here she is...
p.s. New rig..... Maya 2012.... Still crashes as much (if not more) than Maya 8.5 WTF!