Autumn Challenge
 

I’ve decided to enter, and my Hero Character will be a Samurai Hero sort of Character like in the movie the “Last Samurai” and his Name is The Legendary "Lee Mystro"

http://www.hanamiweb.com/the_last_samurai.jpg

I’m aiming for:-
Tons of body armor, that includes face mask, depending on my facial modeling skill I might cover the face or show it. And he will be carrying 2 Katana Swords on his back

I will most likely sketch out my Character design or use loads of online references

Alright then let’s get Busy :ninja:

Welcome - nice Idea if not a little hard but its not called a challenge for nothing- good luck

(Dont let mine put you off in anyway - this is by far the best way to learn)

Thanks "tweetytunes" i will do my best at this challenge and ur right its not called "a challenge for nothing"

Good Luck to u too

been busy to start but im back.

started on the head, lots of things to tweek but its a start

and here is a 45 degree shot

this is looking pretty good so far, i think you are better at modeling than you are letting on.

what are you going to do next?

thanks hammer.horror

im ganna be doing the ears next and the torso, i'll be posting it soon

Update

worked on the head and the most annoying part "THE EAR"

No. 3, smooth

Looking very good indeed.

Update

Rest of the body is pretty much done, i think i still needs lots of touch ups here and there.

here is a wire

and here is a ambient occlusion render

worked on the Lee Mystros "Katana Sword"
at the moment the sword is the avarage Katana Sword, i'll modify it later when i send it to Zbrush

Here is a wire

EDIT:Katana*

amb render

do you mean Katana?

the body geometry is very extreme and quite blocky.

lol typo* yeah Katana :ninja:

your right about it being blocky i still need lots of tweeking to do to the body.

thanks for the heads up hammer.horror

so ive tweeked the body for like an hour, and ive gotten rid of superman's shoulders that i had and other things.

so what do you guyz think?

C&C are welcome

:beer:

the katana looks pretty cool, looks like the hilt needs a bit of work before it looks like the hilt of a katana

i think the biceps are placed in a bizzare position
i tried putting my arms in that position and i'm fairly certain (unless i'm not built properly) the biceps don't connect to the shoulders on top when the forearm is facing that way.
if you change the biceps so that they are facing forward and connect between the flat part of the forearm (i don't know body part names) and under the shoulder it should look better
unless that was done on purpose.. in which case carry on :)

Thanks for the comment Chirone, ur right the biceps are weird and dont worry your built properly lol

i've worked on it so wat do u think is it any better?

C&C welcome

Worked on the helmet for awhile

I’ve got 2 helmets, and it would be nice to get some feedbacks on them, which one do u guys prefer?

here is the one without the metal cover

and here is the other

i think you need some hard edges in it. its too wibbley if you ask me.

Yeah it is too wobbly; I was aiming for a fabric material for the wobbly part. u are talking about the sides and back of the helmet right?

If u are then i cannot disagree with u, it is to wobbly i fix it right away

:beer:

Worked on the helmet and the slippers and put it on the character

lots of parts to get too but i'll be working on the first layer of the body armor next

Coming Soon
:ninja:

i assume he's so awesome that he gives pity to those that want to do him harm and so he gives himself a disability by having something that obscurs part of his vision :p

can't wait to see this finish :)

hahahahaha that was so indirect

alright i'll make that thing infront of his eyes smaller lol

i meant to say handicap...

but you got what I meant :)

If the rest of his armor looks half as intimidating as his helmet is turning out he's going to look AWESOME! Good Work so far!

Thanks for the kind words CGWolfgang and i will try to make him as awesome as possible ;)

anyways ive worked on his arm part of armor

Top View

Back View

One little thing I would change - is the toes.

Unlike fingers toes usually sit on top of each other apart from the big toe. With them apart like you have they just look silly, but very nice work on the rest.

Those damn toes were driving me mad, i've noticed it but i reached a point of giving up on it, but since its pretty obvious and i will get back to it right away

Thanks for the info on how to fix it

:beer:

if he had shoes then you dont need to see the feet :p

if he were real he'd be thinking 'man... whoever made this armour is awesome'
:beer:

I want to see his feet, i know its pretty Tedious modeling toes, but after looking at loads of reference, ive seen pretty much most of the cool samurai's are wearing slippers. I’ll stick with slippers for now but if it goes out of hand I will consider your idea

i hope he won’t be real cuz what ive done to his toes he won’t like it
;)

worked on the rest of the armor, few more body armor left to put till im done

and ive taken time to fix the foot and hands, i think its alot better then before

back view

Loving it - feet look a lot better from this distance (but its hard to see)

Thanks

about the feet, here is a close up.

it’s not my best of work when it comes to feet, but I’ll train into getting some decent feet

I think I’m ganna stop with the modeling part of this character, i still got lots of things to cover till it’s done.

1 more month to go, i better start looking into wat are the colors I’m ganna be using on him.

EDIT: and yeah here is an update, just put in some leg guards, sword holder and other things