BHG Challenge | Frozan | Glarben

[Frozan]

BHG Challenge | Frozan | Glarben
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Frozan has entered the competition!

STORY

The tribe lived on a portion of the world that led itself to many magics and stories of miracles and sources of power. Just resting on the oceans edge they prospered and did trade with other tribes. one day a tribe that had a major trade agreement came and found nothing. the city was gone. no one knows where it had gone.

The city was tired of trade and wanted to work as there own whilst living in peace within themselves as war was old and a sign of weakness to there society. The night of there disappearance they gathered some of there strongest magical holders and began Putting forth life into there great city giving it the ability to live and have a life of its own. not knowing how much this would effect the city when the colossus finally rose hundreds died as a result of unstable grounds. they were now on a haste to get everything tied down.

After rising the colossus made its way into there ocean that they were connected to at the time and proceeded to float into the distance. The tribe quickly devised a plan to rebuild there great city in stream line with there newly created ally. A perfect form of defense some said but most didn't listen as they were to busy trying to make there city able to survive such movements that the colossus could possibly make.

Great and interesting technologies to deal with the new world they called there own would be created.

[Frozan]

Alright now the real work begins!

[george.vas]

I see the environment artist in you can't help but leak out... Great concept :thumb:

[Frozan]

lol true that.... anywho hopefully its still considered a character concept. just going deep into how it works i guess. anywho heres a break down of how the buildings are designed to compensate for the motion of the monster.

[Frozan]

alright so heres the composition im gonna be working with the remainder of this competition.

[FredH]

You really put a lot of thought into this one! Looks pretty cool so far man. It is a good base that, I am sure, will get better and better as you go:)

There is just one tiny note about the legs. They seem a little funny at the moment. Anything that folds both ways looks extremly unatural. What if, instead of raising his legs backwards in water, your curled them up intead? Something like what a spider does when it's hurt or dying. This way, when he is in water, instead of having his feet raised above the water, you can raise his knees instead.

Might be cooler. Either way, nice start man. Looking forward to seeing more:thumb:

_FreD_

[Frozan]

haha just threw this out but is this what u mean?

[Muchomuchacho]

Mmm, delicious. I'm really digging the elevated terrace with the greenery floowing off the sides. Gives a very bonsai feel, as if a city where built around that concept...and forced to walk.
Critique-age: What are its means of propulsion in the water? What kind of feet does it have? Spines? Or like mondo robopads? Scale seems to be an issue as well, with that giant gate and staircase. If there are that many gyro-buildings, than the scale would be enormous. This would make those stairs 2 or 3 stories tall, if not 10 or 20. I love it though, that detail work is rockin' Quit blurring the other portions though, it makes my eyes hurt. As you would say, very cute.

[Frozan]

haha thanks ill work on it best crit ive gotten ever. and how did u get to a comp?

[Frozan]

Just showing what i have been doing. currently in fast painting mode. dont know what will come of it.

[FredH]

I meant something like this. Only did it with one leg. So, basically, his knee would be above the water.

[Frozan]

ahh i see. its a lot more interesting like that. cool!

[Muchomuchacho]

I was at school sobbing on my keyboard with aftereffects open. I got a little distracted by this jazz. How long will it take for it to show I've joined btw? I think I did...

[Muchomuchacho]

haha thanks ill work on it best crit ive gotten ever. and how did u get to a comp?

I was taught by the best. I expect to get my socks rocked off. :uhh:

[Frozan]

Doh :uhh: :confused:

[EVIL]

looking very good, the perspective of the water background + land needs a bit of work because it looks very flat atm, but its a WIP.. anyway, I really like the design.. you got any previews of the type of architecture your going for?

[Frozan]

alright little update. tell me if u can see the poeple. lol trust me they are there

[george.vas]

Can't see them but the concept is looking good.

[Frozan]

roughed in the details a little more. anyone see any problems let me know

[Frozan]

Can't see them but the concept is looking good.


ps there in the bottom right corner haha check it

[george.vas]

Haha.. ok now I see them. I did not even think to look at the beach. ;)

[FredH]

I saw them on my first try. First I looked at the brown body, but then I saw the speckles of dirt on the beach and I figured, yup, those must be them hehe

It's looking pretty cool so far, but I am worried 5000 polies will not be enough to model a city with multiple layers. Perhaps cut back with the buildings on his tail?

[ThatDon]

He doesn't plan on modeling this as far as I know Fred, this is a concept only entry.

[Frozan]

isnt this one cute hahha getting a little tighter.

[george.vas]

looking good I like where your going with this...

[FredH]

Your work is making me want to give this comp a try. Perhaps i will try and make something for this challenge. Lord knows.. I need the practice:brick:

Nice work man. It's shaping up nicely.

[Frozan]

thanks more to come soon. :)

[Vikkie]

Looking forward for your updates:) it's shaping up pretty nicely.

[Frozan]

this concept is getting a huge over work. ill post something eventually

[Frozan]

So ive thought heavy about this and it has come to the point where i dont think that my comp is strong enough. my monster is to much environment and not enough monster... some of u might not agree. so im letting u guys decide.

heres the new idea but if u think the other one is good let me know. but i feel this one more thought through and even more solid on the side of what this comp is all about.

Currently Thatdon insists that i stick with the original and as hes a good very good friend he takes a good amount of votes inside.

[Wahlgren]

That looks very scary. Could be a winner but I don't know if you should go away from your previous idea, It looks quite unique and interesting.

Anyway, I like this one so if you don't do it now, do it later ;D

[Frozan]

alright heres a little update. kind of shaped like a frog and also does the trap spider movements with pray. trust me in my head its not fun haha

[Frozan]

just messin around with some lighting ideas concepts.

[Kus Umok]

I personally think that since the whole point of this contest is to make something huge the first idea is huger. But I like were you are going with the second one.

[Muchomuchacho]

bottom left.

[peter_john]

Hey Frozan, thanks for checking out my thumbs. My bad too, I didn't look through all the other entries before I started my concept and mine was pretty similar to yours, the main difference being mechanical city vs. living island. I thought it would have been nice to see two different takes on a walking city/island but your new frog cave monster looks cool too. If you're still looking for refs you might want to check out the Surinam Toad. It's really gnarly looking, possibly appropriate for a cave dwelling nasty:
http://www.gherp.com/gherp/surinamtoad.jpg
I think the males or females carry their young in these cavities they have in their backs. Weird...

[Socket7]

Oh! I agree that the Surinam Toad will be extremely nice fit for your frogish creature. Make him a gigantic evil! :thumb:

[beelow]

Cool stuff. I am very fond of the idea of the moving living Island city. But, it seems like your swinging your decision to the frog idea. Good luck with it.

[COUPLANDROB]

Hey there, I like your second thought. The only thing I would do is make the canvas wider and a little bit bigger, the creature looks a bit cramped as if I'm looking through a rear view mirror or something. Try some different camera angels. I like the Island idea more if it were from a lower camera angel to show it's massive width and height.

[EVIL]

A wider canvas would indeed be good, it enables the eye to rest a bit on the sides while its checks out the characters on the foreground after they got caught up on the colossus. It makes the image easier to look at

I am not sure yet if I like your second beast, but it has potential.. I am curious to see how it looks like when its finished