My WIP thread

[EVIL]

Well.. I havent had time to start on the drawing yet. but I had tome to make a scene in 3dmax (helps me to find cool camera points and where to pace the characters and make a simple model of the surroundings). I just printed it as a wireframe on A4 format wich will be used as a underlay to draw the caracter "barney with his combine suit and mask in his hand" (desided to change the scene a bit by placing gordon and barney face to face) So now the "camera" point is behind gordon on the floor off the alley/corridor blah! so you will see a bit off gordons leg and shoe and barney from the front.
anyway.. I attached the image so you can kinda see it for yourself :)

I will make the trawing before I go to sleep and start early in the next morning by scanning it in and colouring it.
I will update this thread alot and after the piece is done I wil create a tutorial for it. I am sorry that I dont have any early work to show (exept the doom3 deathrow inmate) wich was a kinda fast peice (thats why its a concept)

anyway. I hope you guys will like the result I am planning. I will do my absolute best to make this cool

[EVIL]

hmm.. whats up with the 15 minute message alteration rule.. fgriggin annoying. make this 30 minutes or so.. anyway now I had to make a new post.

here is the scene. (looks friggin rough and ugly but it gives a impression about how it is going to look)
(forgive me for the gay colours :))

I think I will name it "an old friend appears"

[RabidMeatloaf]

Looks interesting. I bet it'll be really uber-looking when it's done.

[EVIL]

I will also add some hidden stuff in it so you wont see everything the first time you look at it

[SnowBall]

I really like the idea and how this is going. Im really lookin forward to this. Good luck man.

hurrrrrrr good luck.

[SnowBall]

JUST HURRY UP WITH IT! Haha, just kidding, take your time on it. Are the black boxes on the cielling lights?

[EVIL]

currently yes. I dont know if it wll look good. but it is just something to play with

[EVIL]

well.. here is the beginning. off the colouring process. the method is like this:

First I scan the drawing into photoshop and open it offcourse and make sure it is set on the right reso etc. Once that is cmplete I take the pen tool "vector" and outline one part. (boot). Once the outline is finished I rightclick on my mouse and choose fill (filling it with a medium grey colour - yes, grey is a colour ;)). After that is done I choose a nice soft brush. Set opacity to 20 (not flow), and take the colour black. Then I lightly build up a basic gradient off the boot. After that is done I choose white and make a nice highlight. After that I make a new layer for the highlight and a new layer for the darker parts and just fiddle around untill I find it looking good (you need a bit of feel of how it needs to look - if you have character skinning experience then you are settled with the right skills)

anyway. I am now working on the wierd german looking pants as you can see in the attached image

(might look a bit rough - need alot more work, but I am just laying a good base here)

[EVIL]

here's an update

not much done. it aint going to be finished today thats for sure. cuz i have suddeny very little time to work on this cuz a family birthay party and some dumb family trip wich we did yesterday

anyway it needs alot of work. I need to get the whole basic shit finished, after that I need to do all the folds of the cloth etc. after that ther goes a cloth texture ontop and I need to leatherfy teh boots the face needs to be done to make it look like barney and efter that i need to do gordons leggs (not much work cuz it doesnt need alot of detail - will be blurred because it focusses on barney and not on the leggs of teh gordon).

after that is all done i need to color everything, need to 3dmodel a background that is used for the "paint over" and once that is finished I go back to barney and add small details and some details on the background and floor

[RadiuS]

sounds and looks promising!

[Nostradamus]

looks good...his stomache looks kinda wierd though! :)

[BWMASTER]

LOL,

good luck!

[SnowBall]

Looks good, but his shoes look weird.
EDIT- Doubt u can fix this, but his torso looks too long.

[EVIL]

thats because of the perpective. I have put it on hold for today (designing my portfolio site) but i will start again with it tomorrow.

hopefully it will be finished @ the end of this week together woth the portfolio design

[Hudson]

looks good man, keep it up.

[XtAkm4p]

huge bump

this is lookin tight

(sorry for bumping this cuz its so old, but i really wanna see this when its done)

[Wraith]

yeah i agree come on lets finish this evil! :-D

[EVIL]

I put this project aside for a couple of weeks. its not on my top priority list and I dont want to rush things. I will finish my portfolio first. wich should have the basis done by friday

[XtAkm4p]

portfolio? sounds expensive :P

[SilentKilla]

nice work evil, its not looking too bad :)

[XtAkm4p]

bump

awww cmon evil......

you cant show us a really big bomb and not let us blow it up!!!

finish it, man