Diego

Looks nice!

I'm storing all the feedback, keep them coming. Although I can make tiny tweaks to the eyebrow without protest, the eyebrows and the whole facial expression are intentional. For me, evil eyebrows look cheap and silly, I really prefer a more natural and neutral look, one that would look at home in a wild animal. People fear bears for what we know they can do and they even have a cute face.

I'm trying not to read this thread to avoid spoilers. What seems like a positive point is that it seems different from the book, which most people think is boring. However the first red flag, for me, is the trilogy structure. I don't like trilogies anymore! What's so magic about the number 3 that people are willing to ruin scripts just to round up the number of movies to 3?! I feel bad for matrix, it could be sitting beside star wars and other sci fi classics but no, it had to make two additional movies that could easily be just one, and make them long and "filled with emptiness". I hope Hobbit avoids this fate.

You have a point. You have another point. ok. I won't start rigging right away, instead I'll let it breathe for a couple of days (wine analogy, get it?) and gather more opinions and ideas before tweaking the model.

There are several things bothering me too, the forearms, the hair/skin transitions etc. But I have to call it done some time, or else I would just keep working until 1) it's perfect or 2) I lose my motivation. And the second alternative is much more likely edit: however, I think it deserves at least color on his ear tips! doh

Now, to the animation and beyond! if that doesn't work out at least we got a nice model for missions with a taxidermist. We have a lot of those, right?... right?

Ok, I think the model is pretty much done now. This may well be one of my best texture works so far. Since I'm using Unity to test the model, with a couple of clicks more I could make a model viewer, so there you go: http://dl.dropbox.co.../WebPlayer.html Left and righ (or a and d) to rotate the model. If no one cares about viewing the model there, here's a couple of pics:

I removed the tail in an effort to decrease the werewolf look it had, you want it back? it's no trouble! hehe

Ah.. new energy and motivation with the new tablet! This is the low poly model with normal and occlusion maps. It has 4444 faces (really). I rushed it a bit just to check if the UV seams were ok and rendered in Unity. I'm not terribly happy with the fur and lack of details on the hands and feet. I was planning to fix them on the texturing, but I might continue working the high res model. Anyway, I'm going for a partially hairy thing. I was inspired by a picture of a hairless dog I found on google

Neat stuff! I always wanted to play with engineering things but never had resources to play with. That's why I became a theoretical physicist instead :|

I'd like to encourage Mr Lemon to invest on the werebeast. He seems more enthusiastic about doing something from scratch and I'm not really working day and night on it. My last update is a mere change of proportions: (my tablet ran out of batteries a few days ago and I can only remember that when I sit down to work) I intend to keep working on it though. It's worth noticing that not many people will be willing to work from existing assets, like heads or rigs. Not because of creativity incentive or anything like that, but because it's a lot more work, as unintuitive as that may sound. It brings a broken and unpredictable workflow of importing, understanding how the existing things function and then working around it.

I know, I was kidding

I like it. I've never seen one in real life so I don't know if the antlers are right or not ;P

I'm still working on my version. I think the more people working on it the higher the chances of we having a werebeast! Besides, his concept looks so different that if we both finish we'll have two beasts to chose from. However, maybe one investing on a zombie could be more productive.

Don't forget to inform the player that if something gets stolen he'll be automatically the suspect

Everything from the neck down is much better! I prefer the old face but that doesn't mean the new one is bad either. Good job! another step in making TDM standalone

I was surprised too.. haha

wow, everyone got that wrong lol If I may suggest something, let pre-made maps enter. Finishing maps should be encouraged, in my opinion.

Slightly off topic, but I just want to register the idea for future reference. A contest with free theme, the only demand is to finish something you started. I bet every mapper here has half a dozen unfinished projects and this could be a good motivator to get these released.

There's also the cheetamen 2 polemic. Strangely enough, that didn't ring any alarms for me but a lot of people got suspicious.

http://youtu.be/VzCrjSlb80o

haaa! I had a hard time at that boss <o> By the way, I also have a hard time making youtube videos to display correctly here. I put "media" enclosed by brackets and it automatically edits with url tags, then I have to edit and remove it, then I have to go back to youtube because I have the wrong kind of address! phew... lot of work

Whoever backs these projects should be aware that this is exavtly like funding the creation of a company, it might not work and you might have wasted money.