Alien(s) Warrior CG

[locusta]

Hey my dear Hivers,

I know, it has been a looooooooooooooong time. But life and wife (LOL) takes it times and so many personal projects are allways a bit on hold. That´s how it goes. And everybody knows.... ;)

So, me was a bit bussy lately and I have proceeded working on my CG Alien warrior from Aliens (as allready teasered in my Queen topic end of last year)

without wasting any more words, please take a look and pleas, please be hard on me. I mean, I´m open to any kind of critics and comments, so I can do the best I can and even faster continue the next steps. That means the high details, structures and colors etc.

Enjoy and stay tuned for moooore to come!

cheers

Markus

[dave1978]

WOW!     this is the one i have been waiting for, looks brilliant so far.   It looks absolutley perfect and im really looking forward to seeing this come to life over the next few months. 

What do you use for reference?   the Palisades full body?

Cant wait to see this coloured and posed up.

[ALIENOBSESSION]

Hi Locusta,

No need to be hard on you, this is superb work here, wish i could do that!!! .

Carry on the good work

[Dan]

ok, I'll be hard on you...THIS SUX!

dude, I can't see any flaws here.

I'll take a peek at my Winston Effects book to see if there are any improvements that can be done, but I doubt it

[abake]

Wow!
That looks fantastic!

But I'm going to be real anal and critique it...

There's two things that I (if I had the talent to do something as awesome as that) would do differently.
I think the overall look is too "shapely" and not stick-like enough. I've always viewed aliens as being reed-thin and with no discernible "muscles". And I think the neck is too long. The Aliens xenos had that "hunched" look going on.

Anyway, awesome work man, congrats!

[nostromo84]

Amazing!! Well done dude!

I personally think that the neck is fine, not too long, it only seems shorter in the movies because the actors wearing the costume can never look like the actual design and sketch...Most warrior figures have long necks..Unless if I am wrong...

What makes me quite curious is the colour shade...will you base it on blue, dark brown or close to black?

I am not a big fan of the blue warriors but then again its only an opinion. I think whatever colour you pick will look stunning!
 

[locusta]

Guys, many, many thanks for your kind words. I highly appreciate.

Dave, I really hope to get you fully satisfied with this model ;) As for reference. I never owned the Palisades full warrior. Strange, after collecting all the busts of Pali, I only bought the Predator 2 on the eagel pedestal, as well as the Space Jockey.

So as main reference I used a bit the Halcyon styrin Warrior kit, but mainly a hell of photo reference and screenshots from the movie. As there was never a finite design, because the actors wore only spandexsuits with design elements from the initial drone applied and the animatronic puppet, which was only built as bust without legs, has a bit different neck as well as the Queen´s small arms (very good to be seen in the Stan Winston book. LOL. they just bashed the Fullsize Queen), I tried to go along with Gigers shapes of the main sculpt (making of to be seen on the Quadrilogy DVD) and my own feeling for the proportion.

Abake, as I said, I tried to find the best shapes, to give it an "Alien" look and to avoid to much humanoid feeling. You are so right, that the have to look stick-like and have no defined muscle anatomy. I changed the leg shape a bit (makes more sense in the next update pictures) to get a bit rid of the muscle leg feeling. Many thanks for that advise. Anyway, when I put the model in the next program to define the high details, it will look much more boney and overall sharped out.

As for the neck; yes you are right in this pose it seems to be to long. Remind, that this is the zero-Pose. So the whole mesh has to straitend as possible, to avoid pinching and counter-streching of the textures and the mesh when posed later. You will see, how creepy hunched he will crawl around the corner in the end ;)

Nostromo, I have not decided what color scheme it will get. Anyway, it´s not so much needed, as the Alien has an overall color-scheme, which can allways be adjusted then. But I willl not go for a candy blue 

Again, thanks my fellow Hivers an beware the next transmission....

[CAIN MKII]

  you're magic dude!
I can't wait for the final result but I'm very confident it will be eye popping.
Your 3D sculpting is awesome! keep going.

[locusta]

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

But don´t worry, I will not rest on the laurels which I was given ;)

So me was a bit bussy at the weekend and I have tweaked the mouth and mandibles-tendons area, and I added the inner mouth-tongue.

Enjoy and have a very nice week.

[dave1978]

Keep em coming, really like the look of the Alien in that open pose.

[Sabres21768]

That is just too cool looking!

It's perfect.  I can't see anything that needs improving. 

[Dan]

Reference pic for ya...couldn't scan any good leg shots, but note the neck isn't too long

[abake]

Damn sexy locusta!
Looks awesome.

[dave1978]

Any news on an update
Posted on: June 15, 2009, 10:29:38 AMBump, i need more!

[ALIENOBSESSION]

Damn, I cannot see the work on the page again!!!! But I am sure Locusta that a top job you have done......

[locusta]

Any news on an update
Posted on: June 15, 2009, 10:29:38 AMBump, i need more!

....and I bump back..    

Still alive, and sorry for the loooong waiting time, but still a little bit patience is needed ;)

...just to tease a bit...



And thanks Alienobsession. I appreciate mate 

Cheers

Markus

[altwcre666]

OMFG !!!... just perfect!.

[Dan]

I just wet myself 

[Sabres21768]

 

WOW...just WOW!

Absolutely stunning work on that. 

[CAIN MKII]

  This is AWESOME
You're really good at this bro.
Geez I can see a new wallpaper for my computer.

[locusta]

Guys...many, many thanks for the praises and the flowers     I highly appreciate and happy you like what you see.

Took time again, because of life and wife    and less funny, because of some nice file error recently, what nearly killed the warrior...Yes, CG is fun...and sometimes you age for years in seconds (beside some partial heart failure )....

But guess what, I got it done with victorious hail and blood stained sword (ok, ok. A bit dramatized, but sounds good ;) )

So here a quick test shot to bridge the waiting time for more to come.



Enjoy

Cheers

Markus

[Dan]

Simply beautiful!

[Sabres21768]

Amazing!

It's absolutely perfect!

Brilliant coloring and anatomic design.

Can't wait to see more. 

[Heavy Metal Spike]

Ooooh - purdy! (* and I don't mean the chocolate company! *)

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[kitator]

The test shot looks good.Looking forward to seeing more.And it`s very understandable about life and the wife.Things never go smooth do they?

[sysops]

  That is so cool locusta. I cant wait to see more of your work 

[Danno]

HOO-WOW!!!!!!!!!!! That is wickedly cool!!!!!
I love the new pose!!! Have you given any thought to printing this into 3-D?

[Guyver1]

only thing i could spot that wasn't 'right' was the shaping inbetween the ribs that run down the length of the head.

Yours it too 'smooth', theres a very distinct 'shape' inbetween each head rib (the big reference pic of the upper body maquette from the films shows this best.

Other than that... 

[the Reverend]

perfect.... just perfect

[locusta]

Guys, thanks alot and again I´m very happy that I got your attention and a few seconds of your lifetime ;)

Danno, a print would be killer. If I got a few $ left I will do one. But I guess, it will be unposed and in several parts. So I can re-detail afterwards and make it kitlike poseable like I want.

Guyver, many thanks and you are right. I think you refer now to the picture which shows the head from the side. I fixed this area allready a bit. It is the pushing of the bumpmap what makes it to "round". Will look there again, so many thanks for the sharp eyes.

Reverend, thans mate but no. If it would be, I wouldn´t continue working on it    But wait what will come ;)