The Blog of Neptune Imaging

Eternal Champions: Riptide

2010-01-31T06:34:00.001-08:00

Welcome to 2010, and this is my first post for my blog. In this one, I worked on my version of riptide from Eternal Champions, who I will say is my favourite model to have worked on, challenging myself to creating two character models that share the same character skeleton, different costumes.

The challenge for this one was again the female anatomy, and developing both costumes simultaneously, most of it was doing in Zbrush, learning the retopology tools, and bake textures using xNormal. I may end up doing these models in real time to see how they look in an engine.

Concept Art:

And here is some Zbrush renders of Riptide:

Mental Ray progress shots. I ended up tweaking the proportions of the model after I saw that the arms looked too long.

Final Renders

Youtube reel:

Eternal Champions: Slash Is Done :)

2009-09-14T16:49:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, and welcome to another post. In this one, I have finally finished one of my favourite characters in the Eternal Champions series and I am posting some finished renders and progress shots. Enjoy...

And what would it be without the video :) In the end, I chose a very moody lighting for Slash to add to his aggression.

Eternal Champions: Slash (In Progress)

2009-08-11T11:40:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, and here I am again sharing with you some of my latest art work and this time, it is with a character named Slash from Eternal Champions. For this one, I chose to get rid of the original outfit and create something more primal and dangerous.

In these sketches, these were ideas that I had to show the large mass of this man. I could almost imagine him swinging that club upside someone's head and cracking their skull. The hair was probably the coolest thing to make.

Now some renders and screenshots from XSI and Zbrush. I spent most of the time in Zbrush just moulding the character into the shape and form that I desire.

Now here are some captures over time from working in Zbrush. Getting the look I wanted for Slash was very important to me. Since he was prehistoric, his build and strength must have came naturally

Stay tuned there is more to come.

Eternal Champions: Xavier Pendragon

2009-06-26T15:33:00.000-07:00

Hey, everyone, how is everything going? I am going back a little bit and deciding to post some of my old work. This one is for my Xavier Pendragon model which was a joy to work on, and design. In this one, he remained relatively intact except for the addition of a 5 o'clock shadow and a creepier demeanour, which I think got the point across. Also the cane got a nice update to make it look even scarier... all of this was modelled in Softimage and Zbrush.

Enjoy.

Midknight is Here

2009-06-17T10:41:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, and I have finally done it! Midknight is done and out of the gate to be seen. It was over a month of work, but I love how the results came out... and I think the details show for themselves :).

Here are some final renders and a video from Youtube. Enjoy and stay tuned.

Eternal Champions: Midknight (In Progress Part 2

2009-06-12T18:14:00.000-07:00

Hey, what's up? I am back again, adding some new images from this morning on this model. I love how Midknight is coming along especially with the rigging and all of the details that I added. Tonight, I decided to get a little bloody.

Below are some renders of Midknight, covered in blood after feeding on someone. I kind of figured since this is not for a game or anything, what the hell right? Here you go. Still more to come.

Eternal Champions: Midknight (In Progress)

2009-06-02T13:09:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, I'm finally making my first post on my blog, and in this one, I want to share with you a model that I been working on for over a month on my spare time. It is inspired by the 2D fighters on the Sega Genesis called Eternal Champions, which is a game that I sorely miss and just wanted to imagine what it would look like if it were in 3D. Below are some renders from today, which are kind of close to the final results.

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For production, this started off as a concept sketch with me just doodling some ideas and trying to get as close as I can to the original. I ended up, putting him into a labcoat since he was a biochemist, and shredding up the coat. Sure my drawings are not the best in the world, but for me they get the idea across.

Then inside of Softimage, I proceeded to model the character by tracing around the model sheet that I drew. After a while, I stopped using the sketches and continued to mould the character by taking it into Zbrush for tweaks of the proportions.

Here is the final wireframes before I take it into Zbrush

The next parts speak for themselves as I progressively get to the final model. (Note: these were done over a month ago) I must say, sculpting in Zbrush is REALLY fun.

At this point, the model started to come rather gross, but I think I got what I wanted out of the details.

Stay tuned though, I am going to be showing you more craziness with this character, including final textures and attempting to get him into Unreal.