HD Models

[talisa]

good to hear from you again S13n1 !

sucks to hear about your crashing probs but good to hear you got them fixed.

and its great to hear you're still working on the ogre again!
cant wait to see any progress you make on it, your early version looked really good


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btw, I saw the doom models you been working on on your flickr stream!

they all look absolutely amazing, especially the hellknight you made looks epic!
totally love the fur-effect you added to the hellknights legs, and the head just looks awesum

hope you'll actually animate them some day for doomsday
once new version of doomsday comes out which supports MD3-models <3

[ezzetabi]

I'm trying to capture the original characters and not make them too realistic. I want to retain that fantasy design and make them immediately feel like modern 3D recreations. This will include some of the more bright and loud colours of the original game.

I am in love, I cannot understand the modern trend of making everything brown/gray.
A great example are the enemies of Serious Sam against Serious Sam III, in the latter everything is brown and gray; in the former they are nice and colorful.

It might be more verisimilar, but heck! Who needs that when we are speaking of a zombie like entity with two chain-guns against a undefined spacefuture marine who can carry dozen of weapons and run?

[s13n1]

I am in love, I cannot understand the modern trend of making everything brown/gray.

Agreed. I have no idea why there is such a strong push towards total realism in games, no matter the subject matter. Its like colours are now reserved for kids games.

If you want to play colourful games these days, you have to buy a wii.

An exaggeration of course, but it feel that way sometimes.

Anyway, here is how Ogre boy is looking.

Just bare in mind that its still a low poly sculpt, there is no high detail other than perhaps around the face. Also, the texture is just the low res original skin projected over top to give him some colour.

And there is a turntable here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doomhd...n/photostream/

Quake Ogre WIP by Doom 64 HD, on Flickr

[xaGe]

Nice Ogre! Really like your Doom monster sculps on Flickr.

[talisa]

ogre is looking great so far

[s13n1]

ogre wip by Doom 64 HD, on Flickr

ogre wip by Doom 64 HD, on Flickr

[s13n1]

The above shots look crap!

Dunno what happened there. I got a lot done this afternoon and hes actually starting to look really cool. A hell of a lot better then the last shots anyway!

I'll show a turntable soon.

Im working on another blog for my Quake stuff, but will probably end up combining the Doom and Quake stuff into one blog.

Got any ideas for a name for the blog?

[R00k]

if u are making a blog about your work, usually artist just name it their name

like bobs blog of art...

or u can just call it blobs of art for short

or blart...

either way, nice work on the ogre.

[talisa]

that is one absolutely epic looking mean motherfucker face <3

i totally love it!

[gdiddy62]

Awesome work!!

[s13n1]

Ha, kinda surprised you like it. These pics make it look crappy.

I've updated the blog and merged it with my Quake stuff.

I've also uploaded a turntable of the Ogre.

qdhd.tumblr.com

[talisa]

very cool!

cant wait till we can one day hopefully see your bad-ass ogre in-game <3

[ezzetabi]

I don't know, while I loved the heavy weapon dude model for doom I find this one less exciting.

Probably the mouth is too big; I see the point of showing the teeth, but something feels off...

Of course still a great job!

[s13n1]

I think the Ogre is more accurate and overall is already a better model.

It's really hard to take an iconic character and increase detail without losing touch with the original design. The ogres square head makes the face seem quite narrow on certain angles, so I've tried to keep the jaw line aggressive to maintain that shape.

The more I work on this stuff the greater appreciation I have for Adrian Carmack and Kevin Cloud. Those guys did an incredible job with the limitations they had.

[s13n1]

Added warts and other skin blemishes.

A lot more detail everywhere, feet are looking really good with ratty nails and cracked skin.

Leather armor has lots of battle scars, but nothing too over the top, so its not too repetitive.

Skin is actually still the original low res texture just painted over top.

I'm going to try and use the original skin textures to see how far i can take the model before it looks like total ass. The blurriness hides the low res a little, but you can still see the low-resiness quite easily in places, but i dont care.

My priority will be how it looks in game and while your playing. If you wanna stop and study the models you will see it, but while playing they'll look as good as they do in these screens.

Dont interpret the above that you are able to use skins made for the original model That's a big no.

As far as overall detail goes, im trying to keep things a little bit grungy and muddy. I dont want super high detail, i want quite chunky details that are picked up by the light better. The finer the detail, the less likely you are to see it in game anyway. Exaggeration of certain details in games is important for it to stand out.

Any suggestions for the next model?

I'm thinking shambler.

I've uploaded a new turntable to dropbox, less compression and looks nice:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1f6u7q0eya...le_03.mov?dl=0

ogre wip by Doom 64 HD, on Flickr

ogre wip by Doom 64 HD, on Flickr