Union Soldier

[Shawn Stewart]

Introducing, the fat zombie!

This is part of a collab project with Jason.

[bmilos420]

boomer!!!!!

[DrEvizan]

I like this guys a lot. Really wacky and cartoony while still being very undead and creepy. I think you should design and model maybe a skinny counterpart, or an average build zombie. This way, when they clump together, they'll look like a mixed up group of soldiers.

[Shawn Stewart]

okay here's my fat redcoat drawing. Jason Nguyen will be doing the tall and skinny versions of both redcoats and union soldiers.

[jnguyen3d]

Sweet man, I'll get my guys in pretty soon.

[jnguyen3d]

Here are my guys..

[dabu]

those are pretty great. I might swap out the glowing eyes for actual eyes, but they work.

orthos?

[jnguyen3d]

going to try to get orthos in by tomorrow.

Daniel, should I post these concepts in the class forums, or should I just post in here?

[dabu]

both, if you could.

Also, correct me if I'm mistaken, but looks like you have 2 sides of different wars going on.

union soldiers were civil war, red coats were american revolution.

I think it would be stronger set if they came from the same war...

[jnguyen3d]

Oh crap, you are right. I guess for some reason I thought we were supposed to do red coats.. Shall I replace them with Confederates then?

[dabu]

sure, doing the foot soldiers for confederates works. I also have a pretty good base mesh for cavalry, if you would rather just do that to do some union cavalry as well...

[Scott_TallChair]

Nice work here. I especially like the guy with the bottom half of his face missing and doing "jazz hands" - silly and creepy at the same time, perfect! These are all four solid concepts - it doesn't bother me too much that they're from different wars since at the end of the day we're going to mix and match anyway, but as far as getting a set going Dabu does have a point - it's important to make sure that you research time period and setting when you're concepting something. In this case it's not a show stopper but usually you would get nailed on that.

As far as getting these guys in the same period, are there some simple changes you can make to a couple of these guys to give you some southern soldiers? Then you'd have a couple from the north and a couple from the south.

I do like those redcoats as well - great concept work with these guys.

[jnguyen3d]

Thanks Scott, I will have the Confederate concepts up by tonight.

[jnguyen3d]

Here is the set minus the redcoats.

[dabu]

jazz hands.

[jnguyen3d]

Union UVs... i'll wait for a good to go, and i'll model the Confeddies and a variation of each one.

[dabu]

you could straighten some of those, like the belt, but should work fine....

easier to tell if you post with checkerboard, but I trust you.

colored ao, and rock texture...

[jnguyen3d]

Still working away!!!

edit: i forgot to mention. These should be going hand and hand with Dabu's cavalry

[spurn]

i don't think the bandages are reading that well. seems too mummy-esque than gauss, maybe try something else, even bare skin or some transition from skin to bone

[jnguyen3d]

Hmm, i will rework them.. you're right about the mummy thing though.