Model of a youkudan statuette

Rhymer · Post by **Rhymer** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:40 pm

Yokudan statuette of a bird goddes, based on the concept art from TR.

Hemitheon · Post by **Hemitheon** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:46 pm

Absolutely wonderful. I'm sure you'll be promoted in no time.

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:56 pm

That looks splendid

I can't wait to see the finished product

aro101 · Post by **aro101** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:57 pm

Looks promising

Be sure to upload the mesh in a nice format (preferably nif, 3ds or obj should be ok) when you finish it.

Welcome to the forums

Rhymer · Post by **Rhymer** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:25 pm

Here us a completed model of yokudan bird goddes. However I'm unable to texture it because my skills in texturing is very low. So it will be nice of someone to texture this model.
PS: Where can I put the 3ds file itself?

blackbird · Post by **blackbird** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:32 pm

I think that uploading it with this site is also good. Unless it's way too big.

Rhymer · Post by **Rhymer** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:50 pm

I mean, what I am to do with the model I've just created. I haven't understood the navigation system of this site.

blackbird · Post by **blackbird** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:20 pm

I think you have just to upload it the way you did with your jpg file (the pic).

aro101 · Post by **aro101** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:43 pm

That's it, just pack it to a rar or zip file and upload just like the jpg files.

And I would like to encourage you to try some texturing on this. What software are you using?

And a mesh can't be too big, blackbird.

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:55 am

Nice work Rhymer. I look forward to looking at your file.

Sload · Post by **Sload** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:27 am

Sweet man.

Good choice, the Temple in Rihad (our first city) is to this goddess.

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:28 am

That concept was drawn by Lutemoth. Here is a link to his art thread. It contains many more god statues and other designs:
http://tamriel-rebuilt.org/old_forum/viewtopic.php?t=15158

Here is another depiction of the goddess Tava:
http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/7007/tapestryfr7.jpg

honor01 · Post by **honor01** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:41 am

Great job! It looks so... outlandish.

Elfane · Post by **Elfane** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:27 am

Looking good, really good. But the underarms looks a bit bulky. A bit like Popeye.

Arthmodeus · Post by **Arthmodeus** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:30 am

Looks amazing. It would be great if you could make the eyes a tad larger. Just a tad and it will be perfect.

Rhymer · Post by **Rhymer** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:30 pm

This model is still untextured, because it is rather complicated task for me - UVW unwrap puzzles me greatly. By the way, I've increased the size of model's eyes a bit as Arthmodeus adviced.

aro101 · Post by **aro101** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:52 pm

What software are you using? (3ds format messes up the smoothing and causes the mesh structure to fall apart)

First of all, it is good to finish the mesh before you start to unwrap the uvw. In other case, you're gonna waste a big portion of your time.

I also noticed that you used boolean operations here and there. The effect needs some cleaning, because it produces useless vertices. On this screen the unecessary vertices are marked red:
[url=http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x139/aruncio101/TR/NotMine/Statue01.jpg][img]http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x139/aruncio101/TR/NotMine/th_Statue01.jpg[/img][/url]

Your mesh is only 7k polies, so far

Nice. Make a use of it and add more to smooth out some parts. The target for this should be over 10k.

Rhymer · Post by **Rhymer** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:02 pm

I've fixed up the problem of useless vertices and added some polygons to make the model a bit smoother.

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:11 pm

I thought aro was still working with you; it seems he lost track.

Member Promoted for modeling. Your modeling skills are excellent Rhymer

Lutemoth · Post by **Lutemoth** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:12 pm

I'm ashamed for not checking this out earlier! Ten cases of bottled awesomesauce for you, good sire!

Hemitheon · Post by **Hemitheon** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:22 pm

Congrats on your promotion. Great work on Tava, can't wait to see her in-game. Maybe next you can another statue like Tu'whacca or Morwha.

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Model of a youkudan statuette

Model of a youkudan statuette

finished model

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Finished model

Improved, but still untextured