General Grievous - Page 2

Skinner3D · 10-19-2009, 11:39 PM

Woot for hotels in Omaha, NE with internet

Here is what I have gotten done so far. I spent the past few days exploring Chicago so I didn't get much done, but I am past the let's quit now stage

Skinner3D · 10-29-2009, 11:59 PM

My park hopping is coming to a close and I am finally getting a chance to work on this again.

I couldn't figure out how the shoulders worked, so I jumped down to the hand and am going to work my way up the arm.

I need to curve the fingers into a more natural position, but I am having trouble doing so because they don't lie along the normal xyz. I tried rotating the fingers using the perspective view, but I can't get that precise enough. I tried taking the object into Layout and rotating the pivot, but when I switched from pivot rotation to normal rotation, the handles weren't the same as what I had just set them at.
Anybody have any ideas? I know this is possible, but I can't get it to work

Skinner3D · 11-03-2009, 03:58 PM

And here is the next update. I started working on the upper arm. I think I will go back and add a little bit more to the lower arms.

Still need

on the rotation thing

probiner · 11-03-2009, 09:49 PM

Lots of detail =)
I wonder if your machine will handle the whole body in subdivision :P

Skinner3D · 11-03-2009, 09:50 PM

Well here is the total arm assembly. I think they look pretty good, but I think they need a bit of tweaking. Anybody have any idea as to what proportion needs to change? I can't quite put my finger on the iffy parts.

Probiner:

it probably will handle it just well enough to be absolutely frustratingly annoying

Skinner3D · 11-05-2009, 04:53 PM

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh. Ok so life partially sucks right now, although it could have been worse.

I was working along and managed to hit Shift+S instead of s. Not a problem except that I managed to delete the original version and the incremental version turned out screwed.

I ended up only losing his shoulders and the base of his hands, but it will still need reconstruction.

Here is the progress I had made up to that point. I resized the arms, made them look more normal, and started creating the lower torso.

Well here goes the reconstruction, wish me luck

probiner · 11-05-2009, 05:35 PM

Hub autosaving can save you from such situations =) stores stuff in temp folder.

i hate to redo stuff. There's always then feeling that the first time was better.

Good Luck

Skinner3D · 11-05-2009, 10:17 PM

LOL dang wish I had known that earlier. Well I have it turned on now. Thanks for the tip at least

about that vague feeling that the first time around was better.

AdamAvenali · 11-06-2009, 11:37 AM

lookin great

Skinner3D · 11-09-2009, 10:18 PM

I managed to redo the hands and shoulders. I also added the inner chest area and the beginnings of the legs.
I am starting to realize that I am a slow modeler

Granted I worked on this mostly last night, and none the day before, but still some of you Lightwave greats could have done this in two sittings, Yes?

I think next up is the back of the shoulders and the top of the legs.

Oh and just for kicks...
I played my little brother in DoW Soulstorm today and realized that the Necron Lord looks rather similar to what I am doing

I think Soulstorm copied from Star Wars.

Skinner3D · 11-13-2009, 12:25 AM

Well I think the modeling portion of this project is coming to a close. I need to make a cape and lightsabers, but those are easy.

I think the next major part of this project is surfacing.

I always get to this point in a model and then realize that I should have kept track of how long it took me to do this. I think I am somewhere between 20 and 30 hours, but I really have no clue.

Skinner3D · 11-19-2009, 11:02 AM

Here is the first of the surfacing pics.
Please let me know what you think.
Eyeballs, scratches, and detail marks made by me the rest is procedural.

Skinner3D · Yesterday, 01:40 PM

And some more surfacing done. I think at this point I am completely done with the head and torso.

probiner · Yesterday, 03:02 PM

Oh wow you finished the modeling. I like it. I don't know the character but it looks ok to me.

Now the bugging question... are you rigging it?

That backdrop is a little

and watchout for the smoothing threshold in the cape.

Good Job

Skinner3D · Today, 11:28 AM

Rigging am I.

Once I get it completely done and surfaced.
The backdrop is crazy, yes, but I needed it crazy to test the surface reflections

The cape hasn't even been touched yet surface-wise, so no smoothing etc. I actually have 2 active capes right now. They are the same shape but one of them is only 1 poly thick. I don't know which is going to be easier for me to use dynamics on.