Nature Warrior

[Control Freak]

Started with LW 3 weeks ago and having a blast. I work my best when under pressure so I decided to enter the CGTalk 3D contest they are running (Machineflesh).

I posted my WIP in a thread under the PC section but thought I should make one here and keep this updated :)

http://www.darkonus.com/scaely/catapult

Testing the Texture waters :) My first UV Maps try outs so far. Having some trouble lineing the pics I made in Photoshop up with the uv maps but working on it by using some tutorials found here.
http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/1836/1836_1083634932_medium.jpg

Here are my original sketches

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/1836/1836_1079992229_medium.jpg

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/1836/1836_1079992598_medium.jpg

Her left arm will be a sort of catapult where an automatic (organic) stone feeder on her back will reload it.

Her right arm will be a combination of a auto feeding crossbow (bolts feed by vines pertruding from her skin) and a weapon for a hand (not sure if going for sword or jus a spear).

Any suggestions or opinions are always welcomed :)

[somnambulance]

If you do these it will help you get better results.

http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/index.html

These will help you too:

http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/videos/index.html

[Control Freak]

Thank you for the suggestions somnambulance.

I have been using the tutorials regularly and they have helped me step by step. I am currently on "Texturing for Dummies" part 3 hehe

The movie Tutorials won't load for me here at work so I will check them out when i get home tonight :) Thanks again for the links :)

[Control Freak]

Here is a quick update.

Just started on the stone loader on her back. Also added the joint for the catapult. Having some problems working with rail etrude and the corners atm :(

http://www.darkonus.com/scaely/back002

The textures are temp I just added them real quick without mapping them for some flavor while modeling :)

[Control Freak]

Playing with some texture settings atm (still stuck on the vine problem :( ) Not liking the brown bark so going to change to something lighter like birch or similar.

http://www.darkonus.com/scaely/texture001

[Control Freak]

I did some tweaking to the eyes and other areas but mostly played with textures last night

http://www.darkonus.com/scaely/tt001


I would love to model out the body vines but I am still having a slight problem with making them :( So because time is short I just threw on a texture. Modeling the armor now and should have most of that done before the weekend.