[lbelerique]

This warrior is under a serious reboot

The final entry!



Other views of the sculpt:


The dragon:


The dragon slayer:


The dragon slayer weapons



Turntable of the sculpt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwLS6Vvx2c

Turntable of the dragon slayer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKOCZcNKXc


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Hello guys, first post in CGHUB

I've joined the contest because I think this will motivate me to make a cool sculpture in Mudbox in the very least I'll have another piece for my folio, learn more stuff in mudbox and meet fellow artists. I have some experience in zbrush and mudbox, but only the 2010 edition, so I'm looking forward to try out MB 2011

I've been thinking about a concept for this concept, because I just didn't want to depict someone ready to kickass (nothing wrong with that) but I want this sculpture to tell a story, so Ive made some scribbles and come up with an idea of a futuristic female soldier, that has an exoskeleton-like suit, with flight capabilities through the use of metalic wings and a small booster rocket.

She's holding a foot soldier, who's in the brink of death, and trying to rescue him from enemy forces, but one of her wings was destroyed in a blast, so she can't fly anymore. The remaining wing protects the wounded soldier, while she desperately fires at unseen enemies, trying to save them both.





Before starting the sculpt, I want to nail down the pose and look of the sculpture through sketches.

So, what do you guys think?

[lbelerique]

Trying to clean up and work out some details, like the helmet, wings and legs through sketches:

[oglu]

i like that concept..
the combination of mechnical and organic stuff...

go, id like to see this one one in 3d...

[ginseng]

Great Idea. Looking forward to see the execution process.

[lbelerique]

Thanks guys, I'm glad you like it. I hope I'll make justice to the idea inside my brain.
After a month of inactivity on this subject, yesterday I've returned to the contest, by making a basemesh in Blender;



Afterwards I've been sculpting a little in mudbox, trying to better define the shapes of the woman soldier/angel;





Obviously a lot is still missing

Cheers,

[Rutkovsky]

nice progress so far keep it going

[lbelerique]

Thanks Rutkovsky

After some thinking, I decided my previous image lacked energy and pizzazz, so I kept the woman soldier, but this time I want to put her battling a dragon in the skies. Still thinking about the weapon, but maybe some kinde on thermo-nuclear armed dragonlance :P

I think I'll have to retopo the woman soldier sooner than I've antecipated, but first I need to test some more designs.



And here's the dragon, had the chance to try out vector displacement maps, they're really something, and learned a new technique to boot

[lbelerique]

And here's the dragon basemesh, made in Blender.

[lbelerique]

Hello folks, just a quick update on the scene, while I slowly build up the soldier's armor:

[lbelerique]

Antoher update on the woman soldier/slayer. The mesh is becoming slugish, I'll have to optimize the torso area, maybe separate it in two...

[madpoint]

Very nice progress ,I really like the story behind it

[lbelerique]

Thanks madpoint

Anyways, the story has changed quite a bit, because I only read the notes on 3d printing late on the game, so I've changed the scenery to be easily printable.
Some more updates on the armor:

[lbelerique]

Another update, I've been trying out the posing of the dragon. Unfortunately Mudbox crashed a couple of times, guess I'll have to get more RAM. The woman soldier is not posed yet.

[lbelerique]

Decided to change focus, so I started work on the weapon

[lbelerique]

Hello guys,

Here's some more work on the weapon: