The Pawn Gets Some Action

Finally managed to get a model into UT3, after 2 days of messing around with the editor. Unfortunately, the model doesn't exactly fit into the skeleton, hence the weird deformation at the hand. The textures are also screwy because UT3 has restrictions on how the UVs are placed (head area, arms area, etc.). I have yet to solve a problem with the shoulderpads, and the tutorials out there aren't helping much.

Oh yeah, Akhlys MK.IV got into UT too, but i didn't do any proper skinning to it. And FYI, i had to learn to skin the models in Max instead of Maya.


Unreal ® Tournament 3 belongs to Epic Games

Fiddlesticks

Ah, my external HD (which was a replacement for my broken one) got stolen at BlitZone Sri Petaling today due to my carelessness. Hopefully this ends the chain of misfortunes surrounding the HD.

Beauty Shot & Presentation Shot Edits

*Major edit : Fixed a glaring skinning problem at the abdomen, deformations didn't work properly when posed, leaving a large gap in between.

SOMEONE PLEASE STOP ME! I keep looking at the submission images and i just can't stop trying to edit them. The longer i stare at the images the more i wanna tweak them. Gahhhh!


Made a medium closeup for the beauty shot, and added a slight orange overlay for atmosphere. Manually blurred the sword cuz it's too 'in yer face'.


Rerendered the front & back views for the presentation shot, with a more... 'open' pose (the previous one had the sword covering most of the front). The lights were also repositioned, cuz my rig was so sucky i couldn't rotate the whole thing properly.

Beauty Shot Edit

I'm back! And i saw with my fresh eyes that the lens blur on the beauty shot kinda takes away some of the details. Since it's not really necessary, i removed the blur for a crisp look. Not going to post the image again, so i edited the previous post. If there are no other comments or suggestions on anything i should change, i'll be submitting the final images soon (just to get this done and over with). Thanks!

Dominance War 4 - Main Challenge Deadline

Just checked the main page for DW4 which is... HERE, and found out that the new deadline is 18th May! FFFFFUUUU----- and i worked my ass off rushing everything within a week!!! On the bright side, i'll be able to work on it some more when i get back, so feel free to comment on the entry! Calvin out.

DW4 | 3D | Akhlys Mk. IV - Submission Sheets

Okay folks, it's the end of the road for this year's Dominance War. It's been a hell of a ride, and i definitely had a lot of fun. Thanks to all who contributed to this piece! Enough said, here are the final images.

If you're too lazy to open each image, head on to the WIP Thread @ GA.org for full-sized images.

DW4 | 3D | Akhlys Mk. IV - WIP 13

I'm racing against time these few days, i don't have much left to finish up and submit the final image, cuz i'll be going to Guilin, China next week. I'm into the texturing phase at the moment, so here's a teaser for you loyal readers!

*Note : My entry has been renamed to Akhlys Mk. IV, following the results of the poll. Thanks for voting!