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Post by mrgrotey on Apr 16, 2007 21:58:16 GMT 1
commandingtripod: jeez your name is long to type  cheers, i really hope so. sir clive: haha, believe me ive tried steer clear of that haha. i tried initially but the white cotton scarf and big hair kept getting in the way cheers poyks: ;D steann: oyu calling my soldier are ya?? hehe, thanks dude jonatan: thankyou v much  Update... Update... Ive been on rifle making and texturing duty for the past few days, i made and normal mapped and textured his rifle from photo refs from a great site i found, tons of ref shots for this rifle (not sure if its a strictly historically accurate rifle to use but its going to pretty damn close). heres lots of pics of my past few days work Wireframe  Rendered  Texture sheet  And heres the finished soldier in all his technicolor glory (thumbnailed due to size) 804 x 1024  Texture Sheet  barring any comment from you guys that makes me see critical things ive missed or done wrong, its on to the posing/animating! |
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Post by Lensman on Apr 16, 2007 22:19:15 GMT 1
Speaking as a woodworker, I'm stunned (there's that word again!) at how realistic the woodgrain appears to be. I presume that "skin" was taken from an actual photo of a wooden object?
In fact, if it weren't for the trigger guard being "faceted" instead of rounded, I'd have thought those were actual pictures of real rifles. Well actually I *did* think it was an actual photo at first.
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Post by Anim8tr on Apr 17, 2007 3:15:53 GMT 1
Beautiful looking work on both the soldier and rifle!! The texturing is marvelous!  I look foward to seeing what you have in store for us. You definitely do some kick-ass stuff. A very impressive website you have as well. |
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Post by Commandingtripod on Apr 17, 2007 7:50:08 GMT 1
Wow. Now that is excellent. Your soldiers and rifles look really well done. Long name hey.  Call me CT for short then. A few others do so I don't mind if you do.  |
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Post by Scifishocks on Apr 17, 2007 8:35:14 GMT 1
Again, I've already posted on t'other site, but this is ace!
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Post by richardburton on Apr 17, 2007 10:23:10 GMT 1
Damn good woodgrain effects there and the uniforms are stunning.
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Post by bittersound on Apr 17, 2007 11:52:50 GMT 1
wow, frakkin' excellent!
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Post by thedonal on Apr 17, 2007 19:26:02 GMT 1
Nice work once again. Bloody Showoff! |
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Post by Thunder Child on Apr 18, 2007 17:23:03 GMT 1
Very, VERY impressive!!! |
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Post by mrgrotey on Apr 18, 2007 21:54:11 GMT 1
lensman: wow great compliment! thanks dude! the grain is a bit blurrier (is that a word?) than i would have hoped but the texture is done with the size of image posted so it cant be stretched up too much without losing detail, im pleased though I found a great old weapons site with loads of reference pictures on to do the wood effect and the base was a plain wood grain (as below) then the bumps scratches and dirtyness is painted on over the top by hand in photoshop heres the base wood texture..  thanks for the kind words. anim8tr: well thanks alot, nice to know my work gets noticed CT: there you go cheers for the comments. nerfy: ta again Richy B: cheers matey black mirror: frak you very much!! Todd: haha! Me? NEVER!! hehe. thanks mate Thunder child: *takes breath* wow loads of replies this time!! cheers dude. Small Update: Ive now rigged him up, and just did a little fun pic making him look like a toy soldier. thought id share  the shoulder movement distorts the strap on his back but im not too fussed about that as they'll never be that close in the finals anyhow. also the seams in the texturing are starting to show but again im not to bothered for what its going to end up like. comments welcome anyhow |
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Post by Scifishocks on Apr 19, 2007 0:59:25 GMT 1
Genius, Mr G! Keep at it!
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Post by Commandingtripod on Apr 19, 2007 8:11:33 GMT 1
Looking good there. You could make a chess set. |
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Post by poyks on Apr 19, 2007 8:13:56 GMT 1
That's bloody amazing! Good work!
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Post by Anim8tr on Apr 20, 2007 0:01:20 GMT 1
Looking fantastic!! That's some awesome talent!
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Post by mrgrotey on Apr 22, 2007 1:08:12 GMT 1
nerfy: thanks...again CT: yeah.....ill let you do all the other pieces cheers haha poyks: thankyou a second time anim8tr: cheers matey Yet another update... just messing around seeing how well my PC can handle lots of the little critters all over the place, took the viewport performance down to a crawl :s the problem being i cant use instanced soldiers as there are all in different poses.......  Kinda reminds me of those old Where's Wally(UK)/Waldo(US) books you used to get where there were loads of different things going on although there were obviously tons more going on in them I hope my attempts to cover up myself putting off building an environment are shining through here, hehe, heh :s and im still half way through changing the tripods materials from rusty to dirty and battle scarred. the trouble making it battle scarred is that the heaviest artilliary these soldiers have is a heavy metal ball that get blasted out of a cannon so not to much can be shown especially as the cannon balls are minute compared to the tripod, so im doing my best. The corrosion/dirt on the left leg looks too big and appeared to make the leg look smaller than it should but i will fix it. |
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cheers, i really hope so.
