Beast WIP

    that lamp... i thought it was a great idea when i looked the first version. but the way you made it to the final version, i think its kinda lame

    maybe its because the lamp is too huge, and it sticks too mouch out ontop.. make it closer to his back, and abit smaller

    like the first pic! (or 2nd)

    Because it's step 1/4 big mistakes should be corrected right away. And i think the dog in the picture does look balanced. I think the main problem is that the dog now has a body and the legs look like they were put on later.

    As I said stage 1 is just blocking out. I have just about finished stage 2 which is adding the detail...but even at this stage things are still mirrored and unattached. Still...I'm not a confident modeller so any tips reguarding my geometry/topology would be appreaciated.

    Not sure if to either add some detail with a extra 1000-2000 so polys or just to use a high poly version I'm also working on as a normal map (I have had bad experiences with NM in the past). This model here has about 6100 tri.

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    Just make a high and low poly version and use the highpoly one to render those normalmaps. Personally i like the beat, but i really don't like how those legs are attached. It lost everything organic about it and has the feeling of a robot. What i liked about the drawings was the combination of both.

    Even in other forums people just don't understand the unattached thing...they will be attached soon and modelled INTO the center piece so it becomes organic like the concept. Them being unattached is just the way I like to work up the piece

    I don't mean unattached in a technical way, but i was talking more about the basic shape, those legs just don't look like they could carry all the weight or something. Well, i'll wait for the next wip's then

    man normal map that shit. Get some awesome mapping of scratches and shit on the armor and really just deck it out so a simple diffuse map is all you need. Than you'd have a bad ass model.

    I don't quite understand what you mean, I don't have much experience with NM and was going to 'bake' the high onto the low?...is that what you meant or is there another way?, thanks

    He just ment that there should be a lot of scratches and other details on the normal map, which would make it look great even with a weak diffuse map.

    "baking" the high poly version onto the low poly is one way of doing it. Things like scratches as ferret mentioned are probably among the things you could just as easy just PS onto the normalmap.

    For that model I strongly would recommend ZBrush. You can make a kickass highpoly model out of the lowpoly one and then make a normal map.

    That would really be great and ZBrush isn't that hard to learn

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