Here's how I picture the proportions of this character. I think it makes it look grotesque, cartoony, and powerful. Think "giant, fat, buff, midget", and you get what I'm going for. This isn't perfect, but it'll give you an idea of how I'm seeing the character. I still want one of the hands to be a group of vines, but that could just be me.
This is a hi-res model, but the low res could be about 1100 polys with a normal map and look almost as smooth.
I think some where between the two is more what i am thinking. Not quite midget like, when i see this body type, I think small, awkward, and retarded. I want here to be about 4x times larger then the main character.
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I think keeping the length of the arms and some of the proportions.
I like the idea of root for the legs, and tribal painting. jewelery and decoration of the surface. Also the add mouth remindes of a maya frailty gods, of brigets.
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Final poly count is more then likely off, You have not add the eyes to the head,and if we did keep the root ares they would have to be very high polygon to keep them bendy and usable, a mouth, teeth and all the extra edge rings for rigging.
And something funny is going on with the elbows
i really like the butt and the calves-very stylized to fit in with the girl-i think we should keep these-i think they have a great style and look to them. she's awfully short and round, i think it's a bit too cartoony on that end. I think Mike has the stomach and the breasts right on. We need to watch out for the fat woman look-it's very popular as a boss character in many RPGS- think Dragon Age or GOW-we have to watch out we don't take her in that direction and end up looking unoriginal.
ReplyDeleteThe root arm is leaning a bit too close to the tentacle look-which is exactly like a lot of those fat woman characters (brood mother in DA-Origins has this).
I like the size of the hands, i think her hands should be large ("these look like such strong hands, don't they?")
She is an amazon woman, a mother and most of all a woman scorned, poisoned, mistreated, raped, abused, used for her body and loved only for her looks-her children killed and mutilated-she is the creator of hurricanes, of canyons and eathquakes-but she's crazy because of everything that has happened to her. She was once something great and the queen of it all, she should have a wasted look about her, used and haggard but still look as if she has that forgotten latent power about her-
think if wonderwoman had about 50 kids and then just drank a ton of beer and sat around chain smoking all day.
but not quite.
I get what you are both saying. I thought that making her more stout made her look more powerful and mountainous, but it may have come out too dumpy and fat. Giving the skin a rock like texture would have helped. I kind of figured the vine hand would be too much, I just liked it. I hadn't seen the "Brood Mother" character before and we do want to keep it different from that type of character.
ReplyDeleteI like the symbol Bridget has on the stomach of hers, and the root like feet. I'll play some more.