ART WAR | 3D | Exoskeleton Alien Militia | Mateusz Wojtas

[matys103]

Hi Everyone!

I am extremely excited by this competition, big thanks to the organisers for this opportunity!

I will be joining the Sci-Fi team. Here is my research sheet, some concept sketches and rough sculpt to follow soon.

[matys103]

I am not much of a 2d artist and everything I sketched I was getting frustrated with, therefore I jumped straight into 3d. I was recently introduced to Fusion 360 and I really wanted to try it out for making a hard surface stuff to use in Zbrush. I've made a set of parts that I can use for joints and for kit bashing. I had a vague idea that I would need some joint parts, hydraulics and caps, so after scouring pinterest for inspiration I just let myself loose in Fusion 360.

I really liked my parts so I began assembling it as a test into some sort of robot, which wasn't relevant to this challenge. Pieces I made looked the part and I was delighted. I went back to model for the challenge and I came up with an alien body type that I also found acceptable.

Then just for fun I decided to see what will happen if I put my robot on my alien body.

Next stage - secondary detail sketching in Zbrush!

[dariotraza]

I like the concept and what I see so far! Keep going!

[matys103]

Sketching progress. I beging to like the look of the exoskeleton, yet I still want to do some more exploring of the shapes. Now major blockout is done, I will proceed to sculpting and refining the design.

[matys103]

I've blocked out some anatomy, it still needs to be made more subtle, refined and detailed. The back appendages were originally meant to be some sort of finns, then I thought they could be arms or something like spider legs, but I have been researching lizards and I like the frill-necked lizard sort of fan around his neck. Just like the lizards frill, the back appendages will be for intimidation aka representing the battle colours.

I think I will rework the head to look more humanoid rather than a lizard.

Any opinions or feedback are greatly appreciated!

[matys103]

Changed the head.

[zyp]

Cool looking head nice work, i don't feel the backside is doing him any justice.
I made something like that back in the day and it wasn't accepted very well. lol
So I speak from experience, it is up to you but it is still in the "early" stages you can still come up with something cool if you decide to change it. (the backside that is)

The exo suit looks good and nice work on the fusion 360 pieces.

[bloody_boswell]

Great anatomy. Maybe further define the muscles on the back arms, they don't quite have the same excellent texture and definition as the rest of the body.

[matys103]

First off, thanks zyp and bloody_boswell for the comments and advice!

I finished the body of my alien militia. I decided his back should be folded down, reminding me of a Slig from Oddworld games, while he would run, the arms would flap in a smiliar fashion. I further defined the anatomy and worked on the textures. I think it's time to move on to the mechanical parts, as most of the body would be covered anyway.

Forgive me the obvious Darth Maul horns, I was rewatching the Star Wars films recently and just couldn't resist adding them