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Jon Fletcher
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Posted: 18th May 2009 20:15 Edited at: 18th May 2009 20:19
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Hi chaps,

finally finished my entry for dominance war 4 and this year, submitted in time!

for those who aren't sure what dominance war is, it's an annual game art competition between many popular art forums such as cgsociety, polycount, 3dtotal and so on, heres the link if you want to know more:

http://www.dominancewar.com

This year i wanted to push myself to do something i had never done before, something i was unfamiliar with, something which required me to stick to a different work flow which i hope to stick with from now on. I learnt an absolutely huge amount from the development of this year's entry, and i'm hoping everyone likes what they see.

Enough chatter, here is the final beauty shot for my character, V'HULCREM-KR



The original thread over at polycount:
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=61632

Entry page including all required images for the character:
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/view_entries/finals_1_387.html

Let me know what you think.

edit:

and yes, back to work on the fantasy pack!

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Well, what can say, you raise the bar even higher as usual, seriously, how long have you been into 3d?

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Sid Sinister
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Absolutely incredible Jon! I would love to see a wire on that if possible. And you should release sub-d modeling tutorial sometime, your work is incredible. Good stuff!

You mentioned you changed your workflow a bit, would you mind outlining what your personal workflow is now?

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Jon Fletcher
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Thank you.

@ Sid,

there is a wire in the construction shot, the construction shot is on the page which i linked in the original post:

http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/view_entries/finals_1_387.html



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Posted: 18th May 2009 20:54 Edited at: 18th May 2009 20:55
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ABSOLUTLY AWESOME!!! i love it^^ thats like.. omgosh! i got no words to express how absolutly awesome it is!


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beautiful!!!

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For some reason it says I "don't have access" to that gameartisians page.

Anyway, I saw the wires and the whole process in the polycount thread. Cool beans.

So when will you know what place you got?

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the wireframs is on this page: http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=61632&page=16 =P


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Dude Jon. That is one heck of a nice model. It looks great and I hope you win or at least get top 3
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Expect a top place mate.


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My favourite entry ! Looks brilliant!
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THAT IS THE STYLE I LIKE....
Nice man..is a hard compo, god luck..
One Year Modeling and Texturing... Dam..this is work..

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This is some VERY nice work you got there, best of luck to you

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Posted: 19th May 2009 02:47 Edited at: 19th May 2009 02:49
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Thanks for the kind words.

@ Sid

the problem was last year i didnt really model everything on the high poly, i was getting away with stuff that i could easily just filter instead of spending the time to model it.

I spent most of the time on this character making the high resolution model, this is how its normally supposed to be done, but last year i just wasn't as confident in my modeling abilities. (looking at any high poly model you can easily get a daunting feeling of the amount of time needed to spend on it)

This got me out of sculpting completely, and forced me to exercise one of my weaker skills, the end result i am very proud of, and now i feel like modeling every little piece, nook and cranny for future normal mapped models.

I'm glad everyone likes it!

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i also learned how damned important ambient occlusion can be, visually.

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john im still astounded by your work.
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Inspiring work as always Jon. I absolutly love it!

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new background set ! Like I said before Top 10 for sure man..


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=O Amazing.

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Incredible work, Jon!

I'm really loving the texture painting style you've settled into. That pic looks almost like an oil painting to me.

You really ought to come stateside and work for Blizzard!
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Agreed with Errant, from just slanting at the first post I thought that was the concept.


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Aah, more work from one of the great artists here...
Wow, this one is so nice, the guy is so detailed . Man I wish I had your skills!

Best.

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Just awesome!

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@Jon- This is not a request, but a demand. You must put all of your Dominance War characters in a video doing their animations, that would be slick and awesome.

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The mesh is awesome, but what has me completely gobsmacked is the texture! I can't even begin to contemplate how you managed that!

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Excellent work Jon! Your work is always outstanding!

Best of luck in the competition.



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Posted: 20th May 2009 17:29 Edited at: 20th May 2009 17:31
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Thanks everyone for the support, alot of people seem to be saying it looks like a concept, im not really seeing this (probably because I've been staring at this model for 2 months so my mind doesn't want me to.) but i'll take it as a compliment, heh.

@ errant

Thanks, yeah that would happen to be my goal, to one day work at blizzard, just love their work. Judging by the amount of fan art they get i'd assume the 'queue' is fairly damn long.

One day, heh.

I'm back to finishing the animations of the weapons for the fantasy pack, got a fair bit left to do but will hopefully be done sometime soon, then i will get a badass video up.

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I think they get the concept idea from it looking slightly like it was painted in photoshop. I can see it, but just a little bit. It's just how the texture's are, but I still think the texture's are awesome and exactly what the model needed. It's just a style, nothing's wrong with it.

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think it looks like a concept becaouse of lightning, texture, backround and the pose it has=P nothing bad=P it is acually coolXD


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Beautiful design all around, and top notch texturing as usual! I don't know how you come up with these designs out of thin air. I love how he still looks powerful, but you resisted the cliche of making him uber bulked-up.

Quote: "That pic looks almost like an oil painting to me. "


And that is the only gripe I can think of. At first I thought I was looking at your concept art. Maybe it's just the render settings and lighting that are flattening things out, but it screams 2D to me. I would love to see a different lighting setup that emphasises the 3D more.

Congratulations on finishing, definitely a contender!

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jon at first glance it really does. but after looking at it a little you can see it isn't. but i still must say its rather incredible that you can do that.
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Incredible work.
I love it.
I might agree with bond about the render though. I went through the entire WIP thread, and seeing how the model gradually came together, I kind of prefered some of the earier renders, where it looked more "real" and less painted.
Just amazing though. Me and my housemate were comparing MP5 with this, and its a truly impressive progression you've made.

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I prefer it the way it looks now; I think it really fits the character and makes the render sort of stand out.


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Quote: "comparing MP5 with this"


I think MP5 was a bit rushed tbh. His standard of work improved from that day.

We've seen epic elites, freakish monsters and awesome Dominance War entries.


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Just contacted Bat Vink about getting this in the newsletter. Your in dude!

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If the word "Quality" would of been made today, it would of been made in your favor Jon, great work. Like how you did the hard surface, and the overall originality of the model, I'm well speechless at the results, I still remember the Rude gun over at polycount.. Um.. Well lets justs say the P*n*s Cannon.



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Jon, this character would be perfect for Nexuiz. Its open source unreal tournament kind of game With nice grapchics.

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...truly an amazing work of art.

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Nice man.


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You've never ceased to astonish me, Jon. Your work is absolutely unbelievable. Love your GC store items, too. Don't really need to tell you to keep up the outstanding work...

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Who won?
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Beautiful Model Jon
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Hey, you got in the top 75. Don't know if it's been mentioned before, but congrats!!

Awesome model Jon.

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Bah 75??!??!?!

should have been in the top 10 at least!

hell of a achivement jon,

good hunting!


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oh snap,

could be some good exposure.

thanks guys!

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I thought the 75 then get cut down into the winners, i could be wrong though.
Well done Jon, awesome model.

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same thing i thought
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Very well done indeed.


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Quote: "I thought the 75 then get cut down into the winners, i could be wrong though.
Well done Jon, awesome model."


Yep, I'm fairly certain that's how it works, especially considering they don't have any top 10, top 3, etc. winners posted yet.

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Results are now up.

I came 7th, im really pleased!

Thanks everyone for the feedback, greatly appreciated!

http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/finals/main1.html

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Congrats man!

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