UPDATE:


OLDER:
Messed around with this for the last three days. The lowpoly is garbage, but I mostly just wanted to make a baneling of my own! I deviated a bit from the concepts out there, giving it a subtle take of my own. Not a serious piece, but crits and comment are welcome.


High Poly

What's not to be serious about? This little thing is amazing!

you spoiled brat =P

looks awesome!

I love it! The only thing that I am seeing is that the specular effect seems to be very evenly spread across the model. I would make the green sacs on his back even more specular so that they come across more slimey. Maybe it is just the lighting setup for these renders, but I'm just not seeing much variation in the specular versus non specular areas. Once that is addressed I think that it will make this an even better looking piece! Great work here.

QUICK, KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!111

Awesome, but it needs a bit more specular.

Love it. Interesting shapes and contrast in hard/soft forms. I'd say the texture-rez on the green part looks a bit blurry in the renders but that could be addressed in adding some more contrast in the specular. It'd be nice to get a more translucent effect where the skin is being stretched.

Awesome job!

~ Real nice, buddy.

As for the polycount, just crank up the focal view and say its supposed to be a boss battle that fills the screen! lol

Seriously man nice stuff

It's a real solid model, stellar stuff but man, I gotta go there. The specular and lighting is totally killing it right now.

Give him a little creep/rock-pedestal base and pose him standing on it and give him some proper lighting and you got one hell of an incredibly awesome piece for the portfolio. Don't give up! Do the last 5% to really make it shine!

Im with Wahlgren on this, definitely looking good but can use that polish. You rendering your textures with the alphas or something?

i think your emissive map could have a bit more contrast right now(IMO just radial gradients on the nodules would work) Currently, I think the sack is a bit blown out.

Thanks guys, I agree completely. Started tweaking the spec and gloss and also better lights...it already heading in a better direction.

Wahlgren, Ill build him a base tomorrow

Big improvement right there man. I'm excited about the base.

Evil little bugger you have got there

For some reason I am not buying the green stuff on the back. I believe that the bumps comming out are meant as "acid bubbles" yet the way they the skin is stretching between the bubbles looks odd if the bubbles are in fact bubbles, and not some inner limb pressing out on the skin.

Did that make ANY sense?

yes it does make sens JGcount, i agree. But again, this is very touchy.

really nice baneling endomi, the change in spec/gloss defiantly adds alot to it!
you need to set him in his rolling pose as well

Thanks guys, ill keep pushing it until I get there
update:

nice job!- just throwing this out there but, I think it would be sooo cool if you panned and distorted the normals to make the sack pulsate or wiggle in real time. But i guess a pedestal would be cool as well...

This looks great. you gotta love banelings! Would look sweet on a pedestal next to a pool of acid from a recently exploded collegue and a rapidly dissolving marine!

decided i wanted to make a desktop of this, so i started comping it together. Ill be using a combination of realtime and ps for the final image. Im seeing bullets flying, smoke and fire on the horizon, and some silhouettes of other units in the sky...some mutas and maybe some broods

man i hate those guys. the mouth looks awesome. really gross looking.

I have my desktop, which is uber dorky...now ill go work on the pedestal

I feel repulsed looking at this! That's great. Super job

Oh yeah! you got them rolling too nice work

Hey! So, the low poly, how did you make it look so awesome? My stuff looks really bad when I do the retopo, etc. Any tips?