In order to serve his evil purposes, Djobu, the evil flying chains Master who clamed himself Emperor of the western world, has once more opened the stolen book of the gods to awake Omassa, warrior of the ancient times. Unfortunately for Djobu and the rest of the world, in the slightest excess of self-confidence, he left hold of the book, giving to Omassa the chance to free himself from its cursed existence. Djobu, now the fool, tries to regain control over Omassa, but even his amazing fighting skills are no match against the rage built through thousands of years of servitude that Omassa will release against him.

shame on me for such useless picture... I'll make it up to yo guys some day soon.

sorry again for lousy pic... time's running out big time....

Render Test of the Master's textures with a temporary light set up. Few things need to be tweaked, not too thrilled about the overall finish of my textures, but as that would be my first organic character ever, let's not be too picky, especially as time's running out.

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a default Max Skylight GI test, lots of bump maps and Displacement maps are still missing... just wanted to get an idea of how long it would take to process... and let me tell you something guys... I have no idea whatsoever how I'm gonna render with all textures at the required rez before the dea line. Especially as my computer shuts down pretty much randomly in the middle of the process... which sux balls... but hey, aren't we all having a lot of fun anyway ;O) ...I know some of use who're not gonna sleep much in the coming 7 days AHAH !

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just for the record I'm adding that previously posted sample/tut to my milestones (I was kindly adviced to do so).

I previously uploaded the wrong snapshot... fixed now, here's my facial expression for the Master.

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just thought I'd post something before chillin a bit... although the pic don't show off much... a lot was done today on my side... I deserve a lil flick and a pizza ! :O)

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today I modeled unwrapped and skinned the props of the Master... so no real major nor exciting update now. Kids and wife are away for the week end, so I'll have 2 days to choose the final pose of my characters, do a lil cloth sim, add a few hair here and there... luckely monday I can start havin a lil fun playing around with Zbrush and Photoshop to paint all my textures... pfff... dead line is indeed coming soon... hehe, did I take too easy til now or what ? :O)

Hey guys, I was back to it again this week end, and after a bit of thinking I came to the conclusion that my master sucked balls and didn't serve its purpose here. So I decided to re-design it, I first tried to create some sorta mean old bastard...

[img]http://perso.wanadoo.fr/zanetti/Master_Face.jpg[/img]

but I thought it was crap.

So I went into some more and deeper thinking and started to recall some characters I really like in movies, like Marlon in "Apocalypse now" or even that nasty fat Baro in "Dune"... it then occured to me that the Baro had to be real fat, Which obviously matches in a closer way the idea of a rich powerful master and emphasize the idea of strength of my Servant who does have to carry all that weight up with a single hand. SO I came up with that...

[img]http://perso.wanadoo.fr/zanetti/Master_New_Mod.jpg[/img]

I'm not too disappointed with the result so far, displacement map and texturing will do the end-tweaks fine.

Now I'm having a new issue... and start to be bored by the whole religious conflict my characters are having and I think I'm about to change a bit of the storyline here to give it a lil bit more spice... let's give to that dying Servant hero a lil treat, one more reason to fight and die for... a chick !

am thinking here of a very classical pose, girl sitting/legs laying on the ground next to the servant holding the leg of the servant. I dunno... thinking out loud now... lemme know what you think of the idea please... might be too crowded in the scene in the end, especially with the upcoming 3 tigers, 2 elephants, the whole russian army chorus band and those spaceships I wanted to set in the background... hmmm... have to think of it... I need to consult my personal advisor, lil Mario 4 months old...

[img]http://perso.wanadoo.fr/zanetti/Adriano_Mario.jpg[/img]