Face texture is courtesy of BlackBoe (I can never thanks him enough !)
And now… I have to learn ANIMASHUN !
EDIT : @Wereaser How could I forget to mention Hellgate: London and Flagship Studios :)… Yup, I really dig the concept of armored knight in a modern world
Great textures and great concept, you got any conept art, wires or early sketches that I can drool over? I really love her silouette too. Reminds me a little bit of the starcraft ghost.
She looks great (no, I’m not talking about the part I did. :P), and yes, she should be in a scene, but I’ll say it again, the lights definitely need to cast shadows, a character of that detail really needs the extra depth provided by them.
Ooo, nice! I agree she definitely needs a scene made for her.
As far as giving her more armor, yes it would be more practical if she were real. However, since she is not real, I think she looks better exposed around that area. (Probably why a lot of fantasy characters have a lot of armor everywhere, but little or none in the area you have exposed.)
i would still stab her in the liver, or the stomach, or up into the heart. the armor if fasionable, but not functional, like nazi afrika corps uniforms.
it looks like she has a jet pack and i would surely want at least my ass protected from the heat. personally i would take my shoulder armor and strap it to my hips.
looks great though, make her dance, fight, or make bacon or somthing. it would be even cooler that way.
While yes–hey–a short-cut, high escarcela on each hip would not detract from the form particularly, etc, it must be admitted, in the sake of fairness that:
This is fantasy,
the body-suit could be anything from leather to an extremely dense, tightly woven spider-silk-like polymer, so no-one¹ has any reason to judge–or indeed, has any way of knowing–how protective it might be, and
she is far better guarded than probably any number of female warriors–in and out of manga-style–you might find elsewhere on the internet.I must add, though, that–though I have not attempted to gain any experience on the subject, it would probably be unwise to type “bikini armour” or “half-naked warrior babes” onto Google Image Search; or, indeed, to type “world of warcraft females.”
wow, you take eveything the wrong way BlackBoe. i was just trying to be productive, everyone knows this is fantasy and no one would really carry this kind of armor into combat.
(spider silk poymer? please… if you got shot a few times in the hips with armor that tight to your body, it would damage all your organs, no matter how dense it is. armor must stand off and be able to distribute the force of impact, it has to almost “catch” the round to be effective. she is exposed at the hips so dont act like you know what your talking about)
You were talking about stabs in your post, not crushing. Also, It’s very hard to explain, but you’ve made me dislike you already in a lot of your other posts, and something about the way you worded stuff didn’t give me the impression you were trying to be particularly helpful. I’m a very cynical person, though, and I might be biased against you already, so I’m prepared to admit I was wrong, if it arises.
Also: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1389. I’m not pretending to know everything. Maybe I shouldn’t have stated my stuff so deadpan, but I do try to keep some idea of what I’m talking about in the background.