[Krallis]

Well Ive got a laptop to work on and since I lent Freespace 2 to my Uncle for a while I currently cant play it.
No matter, I shall slake the desire with this project.

I have started a few Freespace related projects n the past but never quite got them finished...at all.
But its not been wasted.
Ive been learning and improving, and today I moved on to the challenge of creating a high poly Terran marine.

Im trying to keep the same basic look but add new features and details so that it wouldn't look out of place in a current gen freespace FPS.

I dont have much so far because I only started it today and ive been trying to get the basic shapes to look right.


My two main references are the "Hall Fight" cutscene and a Hi-Res image of the Bastions main hall.

Ive included what I have so far and, to show im not joking around, the project I did before this, a bust of a Sith Lord that I designed myself.

(And dont worry, this time he will have trousers )



PS: Not quite sure where this thread should go as its not strictly Freespace modding nor is it missions and campaigns..etc

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[Krallis]

Heres the Sith Lord bust just to show you that im serious about this model.

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[T-LoW]

The right hands seems a little bit too small. Despite that this model reminds me of Assassins Creed

[Krallis]

Update.
The leg armour needs some work before I can really start detailing this model.

But i think its coming along quite nicely, I may have to tweak some proportions though.

Let me know what you think.

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[-Norbert-]

Yep, coming along nicely. But the hands look really odd. Maybe making them a bit thiker and folding the thumbs a bit inwards will help to make them look more natural.
So that the fingers would look like this :... from the front, only upside-down of course (assuming the hands are held forward, palms down).
Well.... not necessarily full 90°, but at least a bit in that direction.

[Krallis]

The arms are placeholers really at this point.
Most of that will be addressed in ZBrush, where I plan to sculpt the cloth parts like the upper legs and the arms and in between the armour.

I generally move to ZBrush after the armour is finished though.

[Mongoose]

If this comes out anything like your Sith Lord model, it'll be something to drool over for sure.

[Krallis]

I hope it does.
It may not look like much now but even the sith lord started out like this (see attachment)

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[Scourge of Ages]

So... Darth Katan, huh? I can't remember much about him. After the war, where did Katan settle?

[Krallis]

More work is happening.

I noticed that in the hallfight cutscene their "breath masks" had the apparatus fairly visible underneath it (as a lump).
So ive made it a bit more visible by having "breath tubes".

Id have a picture of the whole character but theirs not much to show in the trouser department as its mostly cloth and wont be modelled until I get to the ZBrush phase.

Comments and criticism are (as always) welcome.

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[mjn.mixael]

Nice work! I sent you a PM, did you have any thoughts on that?

[Krallis]

I didnt notice I had a PM from you

But yeah it sounds cool.
I was planning on doing a vasudan anyway and comping him into a scene with the terran.

I am trying to get into this CG Art professionally so ive been working at it A LOT.

[Krallis]

Update on the model.
I think its coming together nicely.
Let me know what you think.

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[sigtau]

Really looking forward to seeing these things shooting the hell out of a Shivan, only to get their ass blasted by another one.

[Thaeris]

There's just something about it that seems... off. The human proportions namely. For putting those to the test, I'd suggest trying MakeHuman, if only to get a good approximation on proportions. Other than that, the design looks quite true to FreeSpace.

[Krallis]

Ive built it around a stock human that comes prepackaged with my modelling package.
According to that the proportions are fine.

I know what you mean though, I noticed it myself, but I checked all the proportions and theyre fine.
SO I dont know what it is.

[Thaeris]

I hate to sound overly critical, but perhaps your base human model is lacking in terms of accuracy?

[Black Wolf]

First impressions of the proportions, I'd say the chest and shoulders probably need to be broader, and the thighs needto be a tad slimmer - that might fix it.

Leaving aside the proportions though, as a pece of detail modelling it's very good.

[Krallis]

I know the thighs are a bit bulging.
They are like that because the marines wear very bulging/baggy trousers. And I wanted to keep that element for my model.

[ReeNoiP]

Maybe this could be used to make a head ani for marines once you get a bit further.