9 days later

Dec '16
4

not too happy with a monkey head, playing around with some of the ideas from earlier concepts and thought it would look better to have an alien head, I also have a bigger area for a glowing brain which is something I want to try out.

Making him more ape-y (?)

Decided to make a space chimp rather than an alien, thought it would be better to show I can work from real life reference rather than my own or other peoples concepts.

Here are some updates on the model and armour, progress has been slow but I'm happy how it's turning out.

I started the Armour as a Dynamesh on zbrush to get the shape I wanted and then zremeshed it to a reasonable level and took it into 3Ds Max to add some of the main hard surface details (I intend to add smaller seams and panels in quixel to save time) and then bought the model back into zbrush to resize it to the chimp head and attach the hose IMM that I had in my resource folder.

I referenced a lot of chimps but I looked mainly at Ceaser from planet of the apes, I wanted an intelligent feel to the ape since he is a mercenary. I just need to reshape the head a bit and add the eyes in and then I will move onto the arms and legs.

Playing around with the legs in Marvelous Designer, the pouches around the waist are place holders at the moment since I want some bulk gizmos there at some point.

I'll revisit the legs at some point, I wanted to get a good padding effect on the front of them but I wanted to get them in anyway to see how the baggy style of the trousers would look on the model.