Low-poly Wip: Thief Ii Guard

[Phantom]

I'm trying to get my hands on 3ds max, but in the meantime I'm doing Anim8or stuff for Thief II. I don't know much about doing high-poly stuff, but I hope I can learn so I can do stuff for Doom 3 and other games in the future.

 

This is a WIP of the first AI I'm doing for my current Thief II project. I've done AI before but nothing this detailed. As it stands in this picture there are 684 faces. I'll have to keep it low, the goal is under a thousand, or else Thief II will have serious issues. My concept sketch is there too, for the full size concept sketch click here.

 

 

What do you guys think about the proportions? Sometimes I have to back away from my monitor to tell whether or not he's realistic looking.

[Renzatic]

Hmm...it wouldn't hurt to make the arms a little thicker, they look a little out of proportion with the rest of the body.

[Phantom]

How's this? I made him taller, and thickened the arms.

 

[DeepOmega]

Waist is too low, body is too undefined and rectangular. Looks apronlike. Give him more shape. Not sure why you have all those sharp angles in the arms, as I've never used anim8or, but try to fix that. Shorten the torso, define the waist and chest area. Gimme a side shot to crit, too.

[Phantom]

 

Moved the waist up.

Defined the torso more.

 

The sharp angles in the arms are caused by the lack of polys. The arms are actually round but the cylinder I used was 5 sided, thus the square look. There's not much way around it, I'm already at 725 faces and multiply that by 2 when it gets imported to Thief, it's already a very high-poly model for the Dark Engine. But I did tighten them up and make them look better than they did.

[Springheel]

The back of the shoulders needs to stick out more....it should stick out further than the buttocks to avoid a more feminine look. It is looking much better though.

 

So this is not for our mod, but for something using DromEd?

[Phantom]

So this is not for our mod, but for something using DromEd?

Yes. I don't really have the skillz to make any high-poly stuff yet, this is something for Thief II.

[Phantom]

I think I'm just about ready to texture it now.

 

[DeepOmega]

Looking way better. Make the shoes a bit taller - right now, his feet look like they've been crushed by an anvil. Other than that, not bad at all. :-)

[Phantom]

Looking way better. Make the shoes a bit taller - right now, his feet look like they've been crushed by an anvil. Other than that, not bad at all. :-)

Wow, it's amazing how you can concentrate so hard on something and you don't notice things like that until someone tells you! Thanks!

[Phantom]

I airbrushed a quick texture and it actually wrapped around the AI very well. With some tweqing here and there I should be able to make a final texture and import him into Thief tommorow.