I promise to tackle the fur within the next 6 months

Phew! After several aborted paint-over attempts I have finally produced something that isn't quite intolerable. Obviously it is still veeery WsIP (work slowly in progress) but some parts are getting there. The black mass sitting on his shoulders will grow up to be a fine snowy fur cape of sorts when I feel strong enough to paint the damn thing. As he so astutely states, he is actually a good fellow and is in fact one of the royal guards to the Lord of the Karúl; a reclusive yet highly territorial race who dwell on snowy plateaus high up in the mountains. There is more fluff but I won't bore myself by typing it up here.



My inspirations here consisted mainly of the Space Wolves (of Warhammer 40k), most depictions of fantasy dwarfs and my Scottish ancestry of course. A helmet is currently in the works, and will be suitably elite and flashy and may even be feathery. The skull is a maybe; i liked the idea of the royal guards being allowed to wear evidence of their former kills, and this chap obviously killed a massive, sharp-toothed goat at some point in the past (maybe even a neon goat?). Next up is....swords! Long, sharp, shiny and with tiny little wolves sitting on the hilts.



Finally, some of the worse-than-the-above paint-overs. Yay!

Not made out of mud

Please witness the new topology on the base mesh. I'll have to re-topo again at some point I'm sure but this was just a fast one to even out the p'gons. Despite convincing myself that the face was temporary I'm starting to like the current direction its taking but I'll play around with the head a bit more before settling on a design. Oh, and maybe come up with an actual concept for this guy, I find it sometimes helps.

Grubbing around in the dirt

I've been digging ditches. With a digger! It's almost sculpting..

I call him wipface

Just throwing down muscle mass, very rough at the moment. I'll retopo this sucker next as the topology in some areas is downright scandalous (namely the fingers and toes) which is my excuse for not having touched those areas. I plead innocent gov'.

Hitting up the gym, monster style

Must...sculpt

Shiny things

Braiding metal

Just playing really, but how great is it that I can be learning and enjoying it? Decided that knowing how to make a braided steel tube was essential for my continued existence, and after much trial and error here we are. Sadly my laptop can't handle turbo-smoothing more than a small section so please excuse the length of said tubing.



Oh, and this too. Yep, its a block with a groove and a hole; haven't you just always wanted one?!

Not dead!

After some time away visiting family in America and several computer related disasters (one very dead external hard drive with all the normal data loss included) I am finally getting back into the way of things. I've taken it upon myself to brush up my hard-body modeling skills (quiet at the back there!) and this is the result so far. A big thanks to the fantastic Grant Warwick for his great hard-surface tutorials!

Somebody stop me!

Logo

And there was much joy and celebrating

No, no, I haven't finished all my project work but I have finally finished these 2 blighters! Home straight now.

Dog Fashion

Finally, I can sleep!

Now is a bad time to have design issues

It was all going so well. Ironically I have been undone by the rope and it's silly knots and twists. It just looks rubbish! I'm still pondering the best way to sort the damn thing out. Here's the render anyhow.

Keep moving!

Name suggestions?

On display here we can see the height of 'dag fashun'; underbelly lighting. All the rage on the dog walks.

Marmoset renders

Faster, faster!

Just the shoes and a bit of specular tweaking to go now.

Battenburgler

Im not convinced by this t-shirt. Can't help feeling he might be mistaken for a jocky who fancied a career change.

Lacking hair