Need medieval character

[Josh]

I'm looking for an animated knight character, something like this:

[Marleys Ghost]

Steve's got something like it over at Arteria3D

 

 

http://www.arteria3d...s/Crusader.html

 

http://www.leadwerks...e__hl__crusader

[Josh]

I'd like a little bit more of a fantasy style.

[Marleys Ghost]

Maybe Steve could make a special version for you?

 

EDIT: Or mix and match?

 

http://www.arteria3d.com/Medieval-BASE-Customisable-Character/Medieval-Male-Core-Character-Pack.html

[tjheldna]

I can't see the image it appears broken, however I may be able to create something for you. I'd need to see what you are after before I can say I can do it though. That's of course if you don't need it right away and you are interested. I'd estimate a 3 - 4 week time maybe a little more depending on the detail/animations you need. If not though that's cool!

[Josh]

That's nice of you to offer. Do you have a portfolio online? The URL in your profile doesn't lead to anything.

 

I bought Steve's medieval customizable pack. I don't know if we will only use it for testing, or make full use of it, but we need something to at least fill in the blanks.

[tjheldna]

Yeah I've recently stopped my web hosting as I'm going to change host as I realised I was getting ripped blind. I'm also doing a redesign of my site in the process and hasn't been my priority. I can send you some screens when I get home from work. I did the LECP zombie/animations and pretty much all of the art/animations for the FPS arms side of things too (not the baseball bat).

 

My recent blog has some images of some of the artwork I have created for my project (down below).

http://www.leadwerks...-mages-alchemy/

 

I'll get back to you later tonight with some more.

[Road Kill Kenny]

I can vouch for TJ. He is probably the best sculptor/artist I've ever seen on these forums.

[Josh]

Oh yeah, the zombie was very good. I'm going to test with some models tomorrow, and then we will have a better idea of what we need.

[gamecreator]

And of course there's always Turbosquid

http://www.turbosqui...itional_specs=1

(This search link is limited to animated characters only but you can change the options.)

[tjheldna]

Hi Josh, I can see the image now. I can create something like that no probs. Do you still need me to send you some images of previous work?

[Clackdor]

TJ, how many man hours does it take you to sculpt something like that? Add rigging? Add animations?

[tjheldna]

hmm really hard to say as I can't do it all in one hit due to work etc. I'm guessing about 20-30 hours on the sculpt + poly painting (no weapons). 90% of the work is in zbrush as I just bake the normals + diffuse + ambient occlusion to the low poly.

 

Base mesh + UVW mapping 6 hours approx.

 

Animations is too hard to say as it depends what is needed a guess.

 

Initial rigging doesn't take too long, maybe an hour or so, however I always need to revisit this when I start animating. I do the two in parallel with each other.

 

Hope that helps, I could be a bit off with the numbers. There are a number of factors that would influence the time to do create it i.e. how much zbrush detail, animation count, errors exporting and how many energy drinks I've had =).

 

I have to do a female character for my game which I'll start soon which is of a similar nature. I'll make an effort to time myself.