Elven Scout

[Jet3D]

It all started last weekend with an Elven type helmet play session.
My friends suggested that I make the whole character.

I made this over the last week. Inspired by many ideas and LOTR. Typical fantasy elf......

Thought I would share.

Modelled with LW 2020.

Regards, Jet

[OFF]

Cool work!

[RPSchmidt]

Beautiful work! I really like the texture on the green cloth and the detail work on the metal pieces. Just a really gorgeous piece.

[prometheus]

Absolutely lovely, my style.

[Bill Carey]

These forums need an amazed button, wonderful!

[fishhead]

Really, really beautiful!

[wingzeta]

Great design! Lots of meaningful details, and little superfluous nonsense. The way it should be.

[Ma3rk]

It all started last weekend with an Elven type helmet play session.
My friends suggested that I make the whole character.

I made this over the last week. Inspired by many ideas and LOTR. Typical fantasy elf......

Thought I would share.

Modelled with LW 2020.

Regards, Jet

Wow.

Was this entirely from scratch with LW? Were some assets from prior work is what I'm wondering? If completely from scratch, I want to know where you get your coffee or tea as the case may be.

[Nicolas Jordan]

Very nice work! I really like the painterly backdrops. They give an interesting contrast for depth. It would be nice to see the wires for this as well.

[shrox]

Excellent.

[Jet3D]

Very nice work! I really like the painterly backdrops. They give an interesting contrast for depth. It would be nice to see the wires for this as well.

Hi guys,

Sorry, but as you can see, I have frozen the nurbs resulting in a heavy wire.

[Nicolas Jordan]

Hi guys,

Sorry, but as you can see, I have frozen the nurbs resulting in a heavy wire.

Thanks, I'm curious, is there a particular reason that you freeze the nurbs/subpatch surfaces? Is it because you would normally hand off a finished model as polygons so it keep the mesh accurate when brought into other 3d programs? If I'm keeping things in Lightwave for rendering in Layout I always keep the nurbs/subpatch in modeler to allow for a lighter model that's easier edit later if needed and let Layout do the tessellation to polygons.

[prometheus]

Thanks, I'm curious, is there a particular reason that you freeze the nurbs/subpatch surfaces? Is it because you would normally hand off a finished model as polygons so it keep the mesh accurate when brought into other 3d programs? If I'm keeping things in Lightwave for rendering in Layout I always keep the nurbs/subpatch in modeler to allow for a lighter model that's easier edit later if needed and let Layout do the tessellation to polygons.

Isn´t freezing better for faster rendering than having to deal with the freezing that must take place before rendering in layout anyway?? since this is static rendering..there is no need to animate it either.
But it could be as you say..he also provide it as freezed models for print etc, but then again he could keep a version non freezed...Unless there was a specific need to have it freezed for the actual modeling process.

[Nicolas Jordan]

Isn´t freezing better for faster rendering than having to deal with the freezing that must take place before rendering in layout anyway?? since this is static rendering..there is no need to animate it either.
But it could be as you say..he also provide it as freezed models for print etc, but then again he could keep a version non freezed...Unless there was a specific need to have it freezed for the actual modeling process.

I don't think it would make any difference with rendering speed either way since it's essentially the same thing for the render engine. Using Lightwave since version 6 I have never had a reason to freeze models in modeler unless I needed an accurate model in another 3d program or render engine. I'm guessing there was a time before Lightwave 6 when users would have to manually freeze models in Modeler before loading them into Layout?

[prometheus]

I don't think it would make any difference with rendering speed either way since it's essentially the same thing for the render engine. Using Lightwave since version 6 I have never had a reason to freeze models in modeler unless I needed an accurate model in another 3d program or render engine. I'm guessing there was a time before Lightwave 6 when users would have to manually freeze models in Modeler before loading them into Layout?

You do now that layout has to freeze any subpatch before rendering? and the heavier the subpatch level there is, the longer it takes.
Now ...an already freezed model in layout doesn´t have to freeze again in layout, thus it should be faster to render.
Try with 500 000 landscape that is subpatched to that level in layout, vs a freezed one in that level.

All this may be only be tech trivia though, and not the actual reason for Jet´s approach of it.
I would rather guess that he might have used intricate detailing, booleans and such ..which makes it much harder to work with subpatched non freezed nurbs like surfaces.

All that aside, great work from Jet, and I also like the background painterly look with the cleaner foreground model.