Prospect, and x-titan - thank you very much for your words… the end is not too far away now!
just another angle here… and i will be doing his legs tomorrow, as well as a bump map for them… look a little too smooth at the moment… im going to be painting the armour black with a golden bronze for the details and buckles, and a really dark brown for the leathers.
Oh man! this is getting better and betterrrrr!
Awesome work! great updates! will be looking forward
to see more! loving the texture! solid model!
-Fabian
I think this is fantastic work, but If you don’t mind my saying, the elven ears really spoil it for me 
This character looks 99% Greek (Achilles perhaps?) and 1% Elven (Just his ears?) They just look out of place.
I think the ears lessen the overall look of this absolutely stunning work.
Just my observation of course mate, hope your not offended 
no… not offended at all man, in fact, i have been feeling the same way about them… and am gonna change the helmet to more of an achilles shape, ie. covering up the ears…
cheers mate!
That’s great news mate I look forward to seeing the new version. Nothing stopping you having two versions though. A fantasy and a historical version? 
the new corinthian styled helmet… gonna get into some hardcore texturing now!
Christ, yeah man! That’s truly awesome. Makes him look much meaner and deadly serious. Nobody will be hacking his pointy ears off anytime soon! :lol:
I agree about the ears. But hell you have a great model here. I will follow the thread for some juice texturing. 
He looks VERY hard. I love it. You will get top row for sure. He has a look of Liam Neesom! (facially)
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Yeah, your right, he does doesn’t he. No bad thing, as Liam is a giant of a man, and looks like someone you wouldn’t mess with.
Very nice modeling baker17! Nice start with the skin texture as well.
Where I think you can improve more is in anatomy and character. His upper arms, from the shoulder to the elbow is too short and his shins, knee to ankle, too long. Even when going for more of a comic book sort of physique proportion should still be maintained. Judging by the quality of work you probably already know a good deal of anatomy but since we get so engrossed in the details of our work, we tend to overlook the bigger picture.
The character also looks more human than elvish and that the only thing differentiating human from elf is his ears…which you’ve covered :o. The armor also looks very human. Of course if you decide to remove your finger off the fence and go human then you’re mostly there, but if jumping the fence and going elf, you’ve got some work to do. Sorry about the long crit. And I wonder why I don’t crit often.
Good Work. Looking forward to seeing more .
RaDraw - thank you for your crit… generally for a guy this big… i think its left to interpretation, as a lot of the body builders reference that ive used, the areas you mentioned are always looking of proportion due to the muscle mass… generally if you extend your arms to your side, your fingers should reach hald way down your quads, and elbow, just touching the bottom of the rib cage, which this guy does… but i guess the muscle mass size, gives a shorter impression… but i will look into this… thanks again for your comment…
I think the thickness of the arms gives them a stubby appearance, but in my opinion the arms fine. Also the shinguard armour also gives the appearance of elongated shins, especially as the armour also covers the knees. If anything is out of proportion (slightly) it’s the gigantic upper leg muscles, that’s not to say they couldn’t get that big, they just look a little oversized. Maybe arse kicking gives you leg muscles that big!?
good crits + awesome modeling goin on here
exciting and coming along very good!!
props + keep it up!!!
Nice work here, only I think this guy looks very human. He could look a lot more elf-like with some longer proportions, depending on the type of elf you’re looking to do.
I really like the detailing on the armor.
hey guys,
thanks for the comments… ive definitly changed him to 100% human… greek to be sure! lol
wish i could change the thread name to just soldier 
small update… just started the texturing… there are just shaders on a lot of the objects in this render… testing out the metal on the breastplate to see how the rest will come. tried some fur too,… but needs more work.
Damn man it’s amazing 
small progress shot again… we’ve had leave the last two weeks, and i’ve also started my other character for my reel…
im still messing around with the textures and shaders here, so im pretty happy with the shoulder straps, and breastplate, but everything else is a bit sloppy at the mo. gonna tighten it up now… the leather on the skirt seems plasticy at the moment and the helmet needs its bump map too.
Hi all…
long time no post on this guy… took a break from him for a while, to start another character for my reel… and now getting back to this guy… need to decide on a background for the reel, and also what he’s standing on… got a few ideas… but any suggestions?
still got some work on the fine tuning of everything… but nearly there!
