ART WAR | 3D | Keres Lupus - Promethian | ooyoo

[Ooyoo]

Hey all, pretty late to the competition but really excited to get started!
Recently came back from Japan so... naturally i am inspired by GUNDAMS!!! Akihabara forever!!!

Since the theme is war, i thought it would be cool to have a fantasy character who was captured and brainwashed to pilot a mech suit to fight against her former allies. Was thinking of like matrix style egg pod tubes on her body or tech suit, plus gundam

not sure exactly how she'll fit in there but... will figure it out as i go XD

[Ooyoo]

figuring out where/how she'll fit, and blocking out the internals of the mech

[fantasymaster]

Nice start! Great idea for sure.

[Ooyoo]

@fantasymaster thank you!

update on the current progress so far, c&c very much welcome and appreciated!

the original character concept is by jesse li, love his work, just really liked the feel of that concept, will change to fit more of what i need

[Ooyoo]

still blocking and figuring out the armor shapes and how they'll fit together, this is where i wish i had a better understanding of mechanical stuff XD

[jeebs]

damn, this looks epic!

[maxloegler]

you're getting somewhere! build a big mechanical reference library, this should help a lot!

[Ooyoo]

@jeebs thanks! i hope i can make it look cool by the end too T.T haha
@maxloegler thanks for the advice!! as you suggested, i just spent today going through pinterest and machinery websites gathering up a crap ton of reference, hopefully it helps me with my lack of knowledge XD

[ceslav.sukstul]

Yes good advice to gather more reference. Model looks very interesting!

[Ooyoo]

@ceslav.sukstul yea all the reference gathering def helped a loooot, and thank you, hopefully it'll stay interesting XD

worked on the arm a bit more, got more detailed on the fingers and i think im starting to get something i like, should prob come up with a concept for the brainwashed pilot girl @.@

[ceslav.sukstul]

Looks better and better

[Ooyoo]

@ceslav.sukstul thank you!

started making the high poly, spent like half the day going back and forth between maya creasing, control loops, and zbrush creasing, trying to figure out which one would better suit me, but after talking with a few friends they convinced me to go and use control loops instead because it looks so much cleaner, and i do agree although it is a bit slower than just creasing but oh well... just need to put in more time XD

this is like the 4th time i did the hi rez for the lower leg X.X gunna give me nightmares...

will be adding extra detail ontop to help it look less empty

[enalya]

Awesome geometry you've got there! Lots of sculpting to do still?

[Ooyoo]

thanks! yup yup XD still need to do the actual character herself, still concepting her out atm

[Ooyoo]

brain feels like its going to explode... so many edge loops shivers edgeloops everywhere!!

[JoseFuentes]

nice, clean geo is always nice to see

[fantasymaster]

Gorgeous mechanical details. Lioking forward to the armor plates. They should bring more depth to it.

[LaniMac]

Lots of cool details. will be interested to see where you end up since you did your own concept but didn't post much else other than that. Nice work so far.

[crazymoon]

Clean hard surface man! Looking forward to seeing more

[Ooyoo]

@JoseFuentes thanks! yea its my first time doing this all in maya, its a pain but its so nice to look at XD
@fantasymaster thank you! i hope so! im dreading how long much time this will take me actually haha
@allanmacdonald-conta thanks! yea i just had a basic idea in my head, just using reference and etc to build it... very non efficient process X.X
@crazymoon thank you! hope to not disappoint XD