I've decided to post some shots of my new monster for Doom3. I had alot of fun creating the Shambler and had to make one of my other favourite monsters from Quake, the Demon. It's also pink.. hehee. I'm pretty sure most people will recognise this little critter. I actually wanted to make him first but decided on the Shambler because he could be used as a boss, the Demon can't.

As you can see it's still early days for the model. The gray part of course being my place holder for shape purpose. I'm taking a very different approuch with this model in the sense of creating detail as I go along. Usually I would create a full character before doing any details. This way I don't get tired of just having to do one thing or another and can balance out the detail with less frustration, working on smaller parts at a time.



Any comments or critique is wellcome.

I dont see any pic!

Wee, that looks like fun. I love how everyone's learning how to do everything now- we're going to have to market ourselves as scripters/animators/mappers/2d artists/modelers/level designers.

It's hard to tell what it'll look like posed. But judging by these two renders, I think its head needs to be a bit lower. Perhaps the shoulder blades should be rotated forwards towards the chest, as well. That way it'll be nicely hump-backed and tortured looking. I also wonder if the hips shouldn't be narrower.


Are you going to do a creepy, lipless grin?

Nice work so far!

We have some truly talented people in this community.

Is that demon wearing pants?

Sparky: The grin is cool, I'll probably try keep it but he'll be able to move his jaw. His posture will change of course based on the pose after I've skinned it. The modelling position is sortof stretched out for skinning purpose.

Daniel Schimmer: Thanks!.

evilartist: Thanks. He's not wearing pants.. The gray portion is just a temp mesh for me to model after to get the shape right.

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Some new screens with a more complete mesh. I'm still in tweak mode with this mesh so stuff might change a little or alot depending. I've also included the high poly wireframe for interest sake. It's definately fun making another monster for a change..

Obihb i still dont see any of yer pics i saw sparky's but i dont see yours

Enforcer: I'm sorry, I don't know what to do about it. The images are posted on Imageshack and I can see them. I don't know if it could be a browser thing or what. What do you see?.. it should be a thumbnail and click o it for the full size pic.

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I've setup a very quick bone structure and very quick skin just for a little pose test. Deformation is obviously not that great but does the job for this test.



I think the posture should be fine for the final model based on this test. I did model it originally off an import from the model from Quake so the shape should be very similar and so I should be able to get the right body posture and so on.

Looking good so far. Although you used some references, the glenohumeral joint and deltoid seem too low in relation to other parts. Consider moving the shoulder joint higher from the ground. It's also hard to tell from this angle, but check how she looks with thinner horns or claws.

That little stumpy neck is more mobile than I thought! It really can get low enough when you pose it. I like it. The lack of neck is part of the demon's charm.

You're far enough into the modeling process that I can't think of anything constructive to say that won't require major reworking. I'm curious, how heavily to you rely on sketches when you model? What's your workflow like?

MBolus: I've moved the shoulder down on purpose for this pose. Unless you mean something else. I made it look like he hangs the shoulder sortof. I didn't really use reference much so stuff could be wrong. The only type of ref I used was a basic form of the creature's shape and some muscle ref for some stuff.

I'll give the horms a tweak and see what it looks like. Don't know about the claws, maybe I'll check that aswell.

Sparky: For this model I used no sketches. In general I don't use them. First time I ever did my own sketch for a model was for the Shambler. Usually I would just do it from my head or look at pictures if I wanna get something spesific right.

I had some muscle reference for the arms, a bit for the back and chest. The rest I sucked from my thumb.. To get the shape right overall I had a model I imported a long time ago from Quake to base it from. The gray mesh you see in the first shots is from a very simple model from that imported one.

If you had anything to say even if it needs reworking it would still be good to hear. Of course I might not actually do it but if it's worth the effort then, why not?..

thats one ugly looking demon, it belongs in a zoo. any plans for releasing this deformed freak?

thats one cool looking demon, excellent work, keep it up

Taffmaster: Yes, I hope to release it as a new monster for Doom.

whatthe: Thanks!..

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Playing around with the vertex painter. It's the first time I really used it for this type of thing. It's pretty cool and can do layers and blend them with the same type of blend modes as in Photoshop can.

I did this to see what a bit of color would look like. Just having some fun. My idea in the end is to make the high poly model look as good as I can then render to texture for the low poly so I spend very little time on texturing the low poly. A great feature in Max to have.. render to texture..

Dude, awesome. I've only played the oringinal Quake a few times, so I'm rusty on that guy, but that model looking great, I can't wait to see the thing charge at me through a dark hallway.

CSR 1963: Thanks.

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Started to unwrap this sucker. This isn't a huge update, just more to show what I'm working towards. This has some texture on the body and I'm using my original vertex colors to do the shading for me. Works pretty well. This is the basic idea I have for the look of it. Obviously still lots to do texture wise but it's getting somewhere I think.

Body is now UV mapped.. finally. Still got to do the horns, mouth and teeth. Also have to work on the texture some more but it's taking shape.

Whoa, that looks way kickass now!, keep up the awesome work!

i have never played quake, so i dont know this creatures source, but it is one messed up looking creature from the screenshots.
well done, and keep the fun little creatures coming

that looks awesome, how do you get such seamless texturing between bits that i presume have been segmented in the uv map? (i.e. flowing from the back on to the shoulder, im assuming the its seperate as you showed the back segment textured as a wip)