Space marine WIP

[Hulahuga]

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Hia all!

A while ago i begun working on a space marine, I made a WIP for it over at 3dtotal, and now I take it here.
It has been a inactive project for a short while but now I plan on really getting it done.

This is a project which I will sculpt and if needed model. I will also texture it.
It will be a fullbody mesh. With armor and guns. Though I start with the head.
Eventually I plan on rigging and make an animation, though that is very far ahead.
The Marine will be a mixture of 40k and Starcraft styles. I'll also of course add my own too. Usually I do medieval and fantasy models, I'm also not so familiar with hard surface modeling/sculpting so this will be a first. Though I've got a lot of ideas for this one.
Critique, Comments and Ideas etc are very welcome.

I'll start by posting some of the older pictures so that you may see my process. They are all copies of my previous posts, with some things erased (answers and such)


Here is the first post.

Currently working on the head.

Three angles:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2070/beefyscreenshotgif.gif
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1444/beefyscreenshot2jpg.jpg
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2148/beefyscreenshot3jpg.jpg


PS: Sry for the quality of this post's jpgs

[Hulahuga]

My second update:

Reworked the whole mouth and nose. Also parts of the chin

Here is a closeup





Third
Lips - Nose
This is a real headache, I just don't get satisfied with the nose!!!!
Well I've pronounced the lips and reworked the whole nose

[Hulahuga]

Fourth

Proportions!
Changed some proportions, the brows, nose and cheeks have been reworked a lot.

Full head picture


Fifth

Ears
Here is an update of the ears

Just noticed that they are too small. Well it's late, I'll fix that tomorrow.

(I enlarged them a bit in the sixth)

[Hulahuga]

Seventh

Change of plans!

At first I thought of a shotgun looking weapon which fired large slugs.
But I've reconsidered that and decided that he is to have a sniper rifle instead.
I got idea from a friend of mine, thanks dude!
Since my character isn't as mean looking nor as brutish as the type who just runs into the midst of battle slicing through his opposition.

He is sad looking because he has seen too many horrors and battles. He has stared at his victims through his scope, seeing their faces clearly. They haunt his mind and dreams.

Hope this works out
Ideas are very welcome since this is a very crucial part of the process.

Weapon

Thinking of something like this. It will be beefed up and more futuristic looking, but this might be my starting point.

http://www.soldf.com/images/s_ag90_kisn.jpg
http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/5/5e/SRS99D-S2_AM_Sniper_Rifle.jpg

[Hulahuga]

From here and onwards only new updates

PS: Sry mods for the many pictures :P

[Hulahuga]

I've come to a problem in my work now. I'm frantically trying to make the eyes look good, with both shapes and eyelids. So... I need to find out how to make to object in mudbox into two.
Or am I just to take away one eye, sculpt on one and then import that back again or what??
Pls help.

Btw, on the progress part, I've enhanced muscles and bone structure. Also tweaked the ears and the eyebrows.

After this phase I'll continue off to detailing :)

[Hulahuga]

Allright guys, here is an update. I've used a hdri lightning on these two. (thanks wayne)

Btw I'm really really proud over the nose I did. (I suck at doing them usually)

[spybg]

it's going well :D

[Hulahuga]

it's going well :D

Thanks :). Any crits?

[spybg]

ya..his neck mussles :) pop um up little bit :) and ad some skin texture :) pores and stuff like that :D

[x-tazy]

Just add more details to the face... also I would overwork the ears and the eyes... the proportions there are a little bit to small I would say...

[Hulahuga]

Thanks guys. :)
Spot on x-tazy :P
Will do both things guys. I update when done.

[Hulahuga]

I got a bit of a problem here.
I can't find a single stamp that's useful for skin detailing.
Mind giving me a heads up?
This is my stamps: (the usual ones)

[Wayne]

try 8 along on the top with the foamy brush at low opacity. If you play around with the brush scale you can get some nice skin type effects.


Wayne...

[Hulahuga]

aight, I'll try that, thank you very much

[Hulahuga]

I tried the brush and it worked very good :). Thank you very much for the advice.
Well here is what I got now, i reworked the eyes a bit also the ear. But this shot is to show the detailing so far.
Now to bed.

Edit: just realised that the screenshot didn't show off the details that well, but still.
Zzz

[spybg]

it's better ;D

[Wagner]

It's a nice start, but don't be afraid to sculpt :)

Create a new layer and go mad with it, release your fury and sculpt with bigger changes, you might surprise how your model starts to find it's form. And if you don't like the results you can always get rid of the layer and start a new one :) At least it works for me, but maybe because most of the times when I start to sculpt something I'm not 100% sure what I'm after :)

Keep it going!

[Hulahuga]

Thanks for the tip Wagner :).
I worry to much ;P.

Thank you spybg too.

[Hulahuga]

Okay guys, I think I'm done detailing now. All proportions seem all right too. I'm still very proud of the nose :), lips too. ;)
If I don't find anything that needs fixing, or if I'm not coming up with a cool idea. Then I'll probably begin texturing this.
fixes and ideas are as always welcome, especially in this stage before texturing.

[Hulahuga]

Since the file system bugged I'll post the last two here.

[Hulahuga]

A bit off topic, but still.
This weeks sculpting music; Sabaton, especially the song "The price of the mile".
I'll post a progress picture tomorrow, I've been stuck with Empire total war this week ;).

[Hulahuga]

So that there ain't any misunderstandings; I try to make this as natural as it can be. Though there will of course be sci-fi elements later on, but on the head...

[Hulahuga]

Aight, here is my first color test...
I've found it very hard finding right skin color. To often it looks like a 14 year old girl's makeup... :'( :-[
Any crits? It's about 4000x4000 pixel diffuse map, 8 bit tga.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1209/colortest1.jpg

[m,kearney]

nice start :)
this guy going to be kinda like the space marine scouts ?
with the more carapace like armor and the sniper rifle .
will be keeping an eye on this one .

[Hulahuga]

Thanks :).
Yes like a scout :P.
I'm still wondering about the armour layout though :P.
It must be functional ;).

I can't post some updates until Thursday though, except concepts.

[m,kearney]

ya space marines are a bit OTT ;D
cant see them having a great range of movement in all that armor.

i have a few of the codex's for 40K .
if your looking for some ideas maybe i can help you out .
a few of the imperial guard units could be a bit more the style of thing .
esp the forge world stuff very cool models.

Q, i take it its ok to post pictures from other sites ?
or il just post the link and you can go hunting .

[Hulahuga]

Haha!

Pls feel free to post pictures :). That would be really helpful.
Yeah, I thought a bit of imperial guard :). They have cool armour.

[m,kearney]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/PRIMUS2525/ig1.jpg


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/PRIMUS2525/ig3.jpg


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/PRIMUS2525/ig2.jpg

[Hulahuga]

Ooh, thanks dude :). Lot of ideas there :).
He is so going to have one of those bayonets ;).
I might go with the veteran helmet, looks like a flight helmet :P

[spybg]

few more ;) from me that I use as a reference :D ;)
http://fc76.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/279/8/1/Speedpainting_061008_by_torei.jpg
http://fc51.deviantart.com/fs33/f/2008/304/7/4/Shadowrun_Milspec_Armor_by_raben_aas.jpg
http://fc18.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/267/5/3/Tacterrian_Grunt_by_McGibs.jpg
http://fc79.deviantart.com/fs20/f/2007/229/7/6/Fire_warrior_by_Delpheus.jpg
http://fc33.deviantart.com/fs41/f/2009/032/f/f/Armored_Gunner_by_zgul_osr1113.jpg
http://fc19.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/056/e/6/e6d594622fe78894.jpg
http://fc40.deviantart.com/fs26/f/2008/178/1/a/Stealth_Suit_by_Tysho.jpg
and some scene setup like this will be very nice:
http://fc46.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/123/0/0/I_Found_Them_by_SID75.jpg

[Hulahuga]

Awesome, thanks :). They are all helpful.
The coat looks really cool ;).
Did you make any of these yourself? -"from me"-

[spybg]

no not any of them,those are my favorite concepts connected from the net,i'm making one creature right now :)

[Hulahuga]

Okay, enemy ?? :P

[spybg]

haha enemy what enemy :o
wow dude I'm not your enemy I'm your friend :D

[Hulahuga]

Haha, I know that.
I meant, if you make like an alien. That could be my characters enemy, in a battle or something :P. With animations, or just a pose ;)

[spybg]

Haha, I know that.
I meant, if you make like an alien. That could be my characters enemy, in a battle or something :P. With animations, or just a pose ;)

aaa that thingy :D yes afcourse :D
but I have better Idead with my Mental trooper
we can put them one next to each other steped on top of the mudboxhub logo ;) with wayne's picture on the back of the wall :D
;D with autograph and lipstick :D (just kidding) ((FOR THE LIpstick haha))

[Hulahuga]

Haha, I know that.
I meant, if you make like an alien. That could be my characters enemy, in a battle or something :P. With animations, or just a pose ;)

aaa that thingy :D yes afcourse :D
but I have better Idead with my Mental trooper
we can put them one next to each other steped on top of the mudboxhub logo ;) with wayne's picture on the back of the wall :D
;D with autograph and lipstick :D (just kidding) ((FOR THE LIpstick haha))


Haha! :D
Awesome! Perhaps both of our soldiers could be on either side of Wayne's alien, blowing its mind out with their awesomeness :P
PM me with a link to the mental trooper :)

[Hulahuga]

I'm sorry for the lack of updates lately. Time shortage is a pain.
I'll hope to bring some soon

[Hulahuga]

:D SENIOR MEMBER POST :D

All hail me! 8)


Edit: This post is a joke

[Oscar]

no offense....but this is redicilus... U're here for posts? it's called spamming, U know?

[Hulahuga]

Yeah I know. I was just kidding dude ;).
No offense meant to anyone. every post I've done I've meant something with. So don't complain please.

[Zoeres]

How's that marine coming along?

And dude you gotta help me later ^^
Though I gotta fix my comp first. Something is wrong with it so most programs just shut down at random...

[Hulahuga]

Haha ;).

I've had a busy spring break. A lot of school stuff too.

Updates comes next weekend I hope.