secret project - christmas modeling work

Posted By: HeelX

secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 21:12

I improved today and yesterday my modeling skills. You know me as programmer and nerd and .. whatever. For a (yet) silent side-project which I will announce here late november, I did a "christmas gate".. whatever it is! Caitlyn (Jetpack Monkey) did the sketch, I did the textures and the modeling. Here it is:

and here it is in MED:

C&C are welcome!

Posted By: achaziel

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 21:14

santa clause would be proud of you. awesome work.

Posted By: flits

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 21:40

i am not a good moddler so i find it nice but:
i muss the hinges dont know the right word but its wat the transaloter said
hinge

Posted By: rvL_eXile

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 21:43

Looks very good ! The only thing i doesnt like is the Background

cYa Sebastian

Posted By: Captain_Kiyaku

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 21:53

How could i say something negativ about something crooked. Especially about something crooked from you. Cool model, i love the colors and the form

Posted By: achaziel

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 22:08

talking about crooked, this pretty much reminds me on tim burton's style. awesomeness ^^

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 22:36

Quote:

i muss the hinges

The mid-positioned candy canes and the lower wood retainers of the big candy canes are the hinges ^^ Its a gate which opens with christmas magic

Thanks for the positive comments

Posted By: Toast

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 23:29

The sweets look sweet!

Enjoy your meal
Toast

Posted By: Helghast

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/28/07 23:52

great start!!

there is something slightly off though...
seeing all the snow around the level, the rocks and the door are too "clean"
try putting some snow on top, on the rocks a simple alpha map would do, and on top the door you could do a simple model that lies on top.

see what i mean?

anyway, great start! and show us the improvements!

regards,

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 00:02

Added some snow..

I will add animation now for the doors and move to the other objects on my list. Maybe I'll post them here

Posted By: Joozey

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 01:36

Quote:

Maybe I'll post them here

That would be nice

Very nice work!

Posted By: Towelie

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 02:21

Definitely reminds me of the Nightmare before Christmas. Though I do have to say, the cartoon-style to the picture- style rocks doesn't look so good. Overall, I like it.

Posted By: garv3

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 02:33

Looks nice!
What's the polycount?

Posted By: Pappenheimer

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 11:27

Looks fantastic! Both, the sketch from Caitlyn and your model.
But, look at the pic of Caitlyn, she actually draw hings, and your model shouldn't skip it as well!
Its a sort of "realism" that the viewer expects - even in a cartoony magical style environement.
The snow looks marvelous, too. Exeptional work!

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 13:49

Hmmmmmmm

you are right. I will have a look tommorow on that subject.

Posted By: flits

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 15:14

youre right about the hings srry

Posted By: JetpackMonkey

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 17:25

NICE JOB! WOOO!:)

Posted By: frazzle

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 17:50

If your modeling skills come out as good as your programming skills, then you're the perfect nerd

Ermh, did I say nerd, I obviously ment game developer

Keep up the great work Christian

Cheers

Frazzle

Posted By: mpdeveloper_A

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 23:25

It looks like something from a Tim Schafer game. Or some thing like this from Invader Zim.

I really like it.

Posted By: Straight_Heart

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/29/07 23:29

just because it has big candy canes doesnt mean it looks like something from invader zim.

And Heelx, the model looks fantastic, nice and quirky. Will it be animated? Are you putting in little christmas lights? Keep going!

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/30/07 16:51

I added hinges yesterday night and redrawed just now the snow.. it did'nt felt right and I forgot to add it to the backside, because the gate will opened (animated), too.

I'm glad you like it.

Cheers, Christian

Posted By: Poison

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/30/07 17:17

it looks Awesome so far!!!

Cheers

Poison Byte

Posted By: frazzle

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/30/07 17:47

Nice update, looking forward to the animations

Cheers

Frazzle

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/30/07 18:13

The animation is just opening the gate with two bones ^^ if you look forward for ingame footage wait until the end of november

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/30/07 22:40

This is a gingerbread heart with sugar icing on top in two flavors. The right one is super sweet. Don't get a sugar shock!

(rendered in MED)

They are used as 3D HUD elements, so its ok that they have the icing as 3D element (including much polygons).

Cheers!
Christian

Posted By: rvL_eXile

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/30/07 22:45

Looks very Great! Are the Hearts used to show the Player, the Health of the Player Charakter "X"(X=Name

) ?

cYa Sebastian

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/30/07 22:48

sort of..

Posted By: Captain_Kiyaku

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/31/07 07:01

sweet. baked textures? (Shadow/Lightning Map)

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/31/07 18:00

(rendered in the engine)

I reduced the polycount drastically by using a layer mesh instead of a volume mesh. Its now 13% of the old polycount (~500 faces).

For the cookie I preilluminated it, indeed - though the texture is very small. The icing is now a wrapped decal sprite.

Posted By: Xarthor

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/31/07 18:02

Can't help it but I think the latest screenshot look way better than the MED screenshots with the modeled icing.
Or put in a different way: The new icing looks delicious!

Posted By: ShoreVietam

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/31/07 18:57

Ha lol super kitschig amerikanischer Stil!

Posted By: frazzle

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/31/07 19:38

I seems this secret project is turning into a sweet project

Can't wait to play the demo ^^

Cheers

Frazzle

Posted By: HeelX

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/31/07 21:26

Thank you ^^

Actually, we are still seeking people. If we aroused someone's interest, introduce yourself by sending an email to me while telling me where you are proficient in a certain field (e.g. animation, music, soundeffects, effects..). - please do not do this in this thread.

Posted By: Blink

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 10/31/07 21:37

awesome work! i am envious,lol!

Posted By: achaziel

Re: secret project - christmas modeling work - 11/01/07 01:13

oh look, there goes the little bit self esteem i had left... im jealous. goddamn jealous.

means awesome work.