The Tain

FYI, anyone who is lookin at this.

I am busy right now with some paid 3-d work and i have to put the clients first so this project will be on the back burner for a month or two. (more back burner, haha.)

I will get back to work when i am out of work.

Sorry i was a little late this time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKRf_i8DzQ

check it out.

one of them is a little jumpy, that is just an extra frame in the render, not an animation problem, exactly, more me being lazy with Youtube.

will post new animations on youtube tomorrow

haha,

well, the watcher has been pumping out Thrall since he first discovered the drem of un-life. he's probably been having that equipment made for over a thousand years.

There are probably whole land-fills over flowing with pauldrens and axes!

Agreed Pyro.

Maybe you were going off of my statement about the Trow resisting beign turned into Thrall. I am not talking about the dead trow fighting his masters, im talking about all the other Trow the first time they run across a Trow Thrall losing their shit and rebelling against the caster.

My idea was to have the undead versions of the living units show up later in-game, as opposed to seeing them converted on-screen. I am really doing these models as replacement for the single player story. I have heard some statements already about them not being the best choice for online games due ...

VR, for some reason, your Avatar cracks me up.

Change of plans. I will be doing the Thrall unit next instead of the warrior. This way, everytime i create a new human-proportioned unit i can convert it directly to the thrall version and have the living and undead version come out almost at the same time. Quick debate everyone. Units that should h...

I appreciate everyone's comments. I am doing this because it is fun, first and formost, and second i want everyone to get a kick out of them when/if they use them in their own games. As a result i am trying to stay true to the ogirinal unit as much as possible. Some things changed from the unit in-g...

You are right about the swords.

The art i have seen about them has them wielding Shao-lin style chinese swords.

Those are broader swords.

Debating weather i want to change those for a while now. I always liked the samurai sword better for HGs. Seems more lethal somehow

Concentrating on the cheracters on-screen first. I dont think the original head-shots looked bad, so maybe not. Just grabing a screenshot of the model's face wouldnt look as good as the illustrations because i didnt lay any groundwork for animating the faces. They are all stoic -eyes forward. There'...

Pyro. My guy has 3 plates on the arms as well. Upper arm, For-arm and hand. The bungie renders have a bit more overlap than mine. I modeled it off of a concept sketch i found from bungie which had everything looking the way mine did, with the exception of the rally banner. In the concept sketch it l...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixA_Wsya_w8

That is all.

Some test renders. Here's what the animations are looking like right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixA_Wsya_w8 OK, what besides dropping everything to 256 colors do i have to do to prep these for Amber. They need to be .gif They need to be 256 colors will be rendered at 350 by 350 do you need ...

I am trying to do whatever original attacks i have seen from the cheracters, like herons using both swords, then just the rear hand sword, plus new animations that i think would make sense for that cheracter and look like something that kind of cheracter would try to do in the middle of a melee. So,...