Gears of War 3 - Character Stuffs
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Gears 3 char models I did. Art Direction by Chris Perna. Concepts by James Hawkins. Parts and pieces are from the great team here at Epic. Too much to point out in entirety. I.E bottom half of Commando Dom is mostly Lanning (salvaged). Bottom of Digger Boomer is original boomer. Butcher Boomer was originally done by Mark Morgan etc....
Constructed over Kantus. Fingernails and teeth are Kantus.
Ice T!! I gave em the pimp nail. Also gave him a broken clock around his neck stuck at "6am". Yeah i'm a fan
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Pants/Boots mostly by Lanning. Head based off original Dom. Sculpted it to be young Dom (I looked at Chino Moreno a lot. lol) edit: Gloves by Lanning too. And hair was originally from tons of other peoples work on Doms hair then I reworked to look like Commando dom based off him being young/bandana look and sort of Chino Moreno because, yeah. I thought it would be coo.
Based on Butcher Boomer (Mark Morgan)
Head started from Mark Morgan sculpt of Prescott
Based on Lannings Boomer. Bottom half is boomer (Lanning) verbatim.
Constructed over Kantus. Fingernails and teeth are Kantus.
Ice T!! I gave em the pimp nail. Also gave him a broken clock around his neck stuck at "6am". Yeah i'm a fan
.Pants/Boots mostly by Lanning. Head based off original Dom. Sculpted it to be young Dom (I looked at Chino Moreno a lot. lol) edit: Gloves by Lanning too. And hair was originally from tons of other peoples work on Doms hair then I reworked to look like Commando dom based off him being young/bandana look and sort of Chino Moreno because, yeah. I thought it would be coo.
Based on Butcher Boomer (Mark Morgan)
Head started from Mark Morgan sculpt of Prescott
Based on Lannings Boomer. Bottom half is boomer (Lanning) verbatim.
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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!
so much awesome Mike
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you sir... are a BEAST! So inspirational. Well done!
How long do you usually get for these guys?
thank you so much for sharing these!
- BoBo
For the first character: the trim around the plates on his arm and the rope binding on his pants did you have some way to do that sort of quickly? Do you have a brush in Zbrush? Insert mesh brush or an alpha with some sort of repeat? How did you do that? Thanks!
first image and i'm truly blown away
All around great work, man. Curious though, do you do the textures for the low polys too? I'd love to see some of your texture work, especially a flat or two.
i've had the pleasure of seeing most of these characters in-game, and it's a real testament to the quality here that so much of this detail survives the bake, and then (more tellingly) the chaos of gameplay. the spiny armor boss in particular, all of that "reads" very well in the game, so nice work.
This is the new Hoffman for Gears of War 3. The Head is from Kevin Lannings Hoffman. I started out with the Hoffman from Gears of War 2 (done by Lanning) and then sculpted on him and did stuff from there. I only kept the head since we started a new base at the time. I can't remember where the arms started. It may be from Kevins (at that time) Marcus arms at like division 1 or 2. I thinned them up so they wouldn't be marcus-status thick. Divided it. And then did an old-buff-man pass on them. That is always fun reference. I like that type of work.
Hoffman is a cool character. Dunno how happy I was with my execution of him though
The emblem on his breast plate was modeled out. (ooyee)
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seriously. coming from an enviro guy who's not that easily impressed with characters. This is ridiculously good. Great job, man.