Men At Arms - Medieval Crossbowman

As I posted before, I am going to do Lowpoly models for a while, because of technical issues. You can't do Highpoly with about 500 MB RAM -_- ...

I decided to do a medieval english crossbowman with less than 5000 Tris including all props.



After the Diffuse is done, I'll be modelling two more medieval soldiers. And maybe a whole series of variations.


Ah, and maybe you've noticed a little change to the blog's layout and style. I added a banner and a Portfolio page. As a start it's a lot the same as in Eddie Munoz's Blog, because I liked it a lot when I had a look at it today. Took some time to figure out how it works, therefore it still looks very similiar. I'm going to change it as soon as possible, because it's a little ballsy to copy it so obviously.

Deus Ex Machina

Unfortunately, when I started to sculp the highpoly this day, I had to realize that something is not working correctly with driver of the turbo memory of the laptop, which I borrowed of a former fellow student.
I find myself unable to solve this problem through software and hardware. Therefore I decided to ... go back to the roots. If I can't work highpoly, I'm going to work lowpoly only. Something my portfolio is lacking anyway. So it's a good thing in the end anyway. It's all just a matter of your point of view ;)

Maritime Interlude

Well, even though I'm not able to participate for the ArenaNet University Artist Internship Program 2010, I paused working on the hardsurface modeling of the military robot for a while, because it'll be a good practice anyway.





I'm going to start sculpting tomorrow. Texturing should be done on Sunday, because the deadline is exactly in a week.

The Invisible Neighbor

I just recently decided, because the rear side is not shown in the illustration, I could go all crazy. So I looked up the internet for the rear side of tanks and found the image of a british Challenger 2.





The rear is much more detailed than the front, but in my opinion this is a good contrast. With the fuel tanks on its back indicating its Achilles tendon.
Apart from that there's also a tow rope and hook.

After all I've decided the robot to be about 3m tall for there is not a exact measure reference in Mauro's image.