Starcraft Marine

zachcalhoun · August 10, 2010, 6:27am

Yesterday i started working on the most kickass underapreciated unit in starcraft,the Marine.

Open GL render,hands not yet done

Finished model render

First test of the rig

Basic salute

Rock and roll

The visor is also animateable but there is no head inside yet,also there are no textures nor decals,i will add them in time. Please tell me what you think

ptbbastos · August 10, 2010, 1:08pm

Looking good. Are you thinking of smoothing it? Also, fingers could be improved…

DDD · August 10, 2010, 1:37pm

Lol, i like the rock and roll one

zachcalhoun · August 10, 2010, 1:43pm

what do you mean exactly by smootihing it?

Lwerewolf · August 10, 2010, 3:25pm

Subsurf and the likes. Otherwise the hands IMO deff need some work

ptbbastos · August 11, 2010, 12:52am

Some areas need refinement. Even for gaming purposes, the chest buttons, or the knee caps could have some more polys. Could you post a wireframe shot?

zachcalhoun · August 11, 2010, 7:11am

as requested: (i haven’t done any work on it yet,i was not home)

ptbbastos · August 11, 2010, 7:33am

Ok, based on the wireframes, here are some tips:

avoid the triangles (for rendering or gaming purposes they can produce akward results and don’t smooth the model ver well) so keep your mesh with quads
the chest area: definetely those tubes need more faces, subdividing them to the double won’t be a bad idea
the shoulders are modeled with half spheres, resulting in triangles and high poly count which is unnecessary in that area

Hope this helps.

zachcalhoun · August 11, 2010, 7:52am

thanks,i will get to it

zachcalhoun · August 11, 2010, 9:31am

So how is this?
I’m thinking next to sculpt some detail on a higher res version and do bumps

edit: a bonus