Dominance War V Entry (WIP) - darukin - To be Titled Soon

[Darukin]

LATEST UPDATE ON TOP:


Heya
I decided to enter DW contest this year for the first time.

I haven't decided on the title yet but will come to one soon as the character is fleshed out but I wanted to create a powerful dominant character of physical and ethereal presence with a frightening yet elegant aura about him which imposes fear and respect etc. I will flesh out more backstory while concepting and the same time

It's completely WIP so far and I was experimenting and concepting in Zbrush and Silo mostly Zbrush of course:

Here's what I have so far, most of upper body essentially

Will keep you guys updated with more WIP images

[Lizzard4000]

i like those shoulders and face already.
what forum are you supporting?

and offtopic:
is that material from the old cgchain matpack? i searching for ages. would you share pls ?
probaply the others from the pack too?

[Darukin]

Thanks Lizzard =)
I decided to roll with CGSociety.

As far as the matcap, I think it's an RS matcap, I'll have to check with stumpf first if I can share it though

Another WIP image for the end of today's session:
I'll take any suggestions guys even if it's this early on in WIP
Cheers =)

[3xtigy]

really looking forward to seeing this complete. it looks awesome so far. nice 1 m8y.

[Darukin]

Hey, thanks 3xtigy much appreciated =) I can't wait till I finish it

Here's today's progress. Very WIP, concept not finalized and some sections not even sculpted yet. I am tweaking concept throughout while I sculpt, it's simply how I roll.

A question: What attributes does this model invoke to you guys so far?

[squidinc]

I think I preferred it when it didn't look like it was going to have legs, I was hoping for tentacles or something, nice work so far though

[Darukin]

Thanks squidic, I actually was thinking hard about the decision of tentacle-like things or legs but chose the latter for some practical reasons I guess.

There are some structures of which I'm not sure whether to keep or remove , such as the cloth around his neck, and the 2 spikes behind his head

Here's an update anyways:

[Lizzard4000]

nice! while looking at the image before, i was about to say that the legs are too short^^ now its better.

keep in mind that u have to retopo all this. a lot parts will be a pain to retopo i think^^

[Darukin]

Hey Lizzard thanks!
Man you're right, retopo will be huge pain especially with curved silhouette in many places and separate compnents, I may well have to make adjustments at the end, possibly remove some elements etc to optimize before retopo. It's just I don't want to have my creativity stifled in creation process in meantime

More progress. Still haven't made arms. Not sure if eye-tentacle things are working, but it's still very WIP and I'm awaiting your ideas on it.

[Lizzard4000]

going the hard retopo route will pay off.

im not a big fan of the tentacles. probaply try again with arms added.
i think knees should look outside, not inside.

you could also start with some different color schemes, give different parts different materials or colors.

[Darukin]

thanks for your input Lizzard4000!

Tentacles were just an experiment, as in these 4 eyes on all sides (I was beginning to think of something along qualities of vision/allseeing/omniscience etc. If it's not working will remove it

I am going to add arms regardless by the way. This is still very WIP as I said, not even arms have been added yet.

I think you're right I need to start color scheme soon to differentiate body and armor etc

I will pose the character so no worries bout legs they will be posed, this is just in T, but if it bothers you I guess I should adjust the T-pose also

Thanks again Lizzard4000,
Cheers

[Darukin]

Didn't get to do much today.
Either way I differentiated materials a bit. They're placeholder colours so by no means are these the color schemes. I might remove tentacles entirely. I am going to add arms next. Knees are outwards now. Many accessories are still very WIP.

Anyhow here's today's progress:



I'll still take any suggestions

[rouncer]

lovely clean work, you planning on detailing the boots later?

[Darukin]

Thanks rouncer! Yes I plan to detail boots later, they are just base / placeholder for now, but so are several elements

Here is today's progress:

Added arms. Haven't finished sculpting them of course. Made some armor adjustments. Sculpted tertiary details in some areas.
Will post more angles when ready





Cheers

[Darukin]

April 13th: More progress / experimentation