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Since I sorta made a mess in the Qui-Gon thread with one of my side projects (It's not a side project anymore) KMan asked me to start a new thread.

 

Anyway, for those who haven't seen it yet

 

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/genq3/mace-fin.jpg

http://www.drivingcatstudios.com/images/mace1.jpg

http://www.drivingcatstudios.com/images/mace2.jpg

http://www.drivingcatstudios.com/images/mace3.jpg

http://www.drivingcatstudios.com/images/mace4.jpg

http://www.drivingcatstudios.com/images/mace5.jpg

 

I'm still tweaking the geometry, Arco is doing the skin

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2 crits I have, although they arent that big of a deal, are that his skin *might be a shade too dark but it might just be the pic, and maybe you could smooth out the textures on his robes. Like I said they really arent that important to me and I want to say good work. Looking forward! BTW I know this is off topic but where the pickles are all of the JKII servers these days?

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on those shots i think he is using the old eye texture. apart from the one by me. I'm sorry toonces I forgot to send you teh new one.

 

Toonces is a very busy man... I am surprised he finds time for all this tweekage. But then I have no time whatsoever due to my 10 or so skining projects. I think me an Toonces like to do lots of stuff at once... either that or we are crazy!

 

I will update both this and the obiwan thread today...

 

Arco:deathii:

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ok update. I have done an icon of him and here is a shot of teh finished skin. I am still gonna tweek a few things on his face but I think that to make it look more like him toonces needs to do some more tweeks. Maybe elongate the head a bit to thin it out... make the jaw a little bit pointier. and for sure fix the shape of the head... not to worry toonces I will talk to you later about it.

 

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/genq3/icon_default.jpg

 

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/genq3/mace-body-fin.jpg

 

Arco:deathii:

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u and Toonces make

a godly team.

I'll second that :p

 

I just can't wait for this and the other models to be released. It looks like Mace and Qui-Gon are really close now. Has there been an updated estimate of a release timeframe? Are we looking at days, weeks, or months? No pressure of course, I'd much rather they be done properly (which they obviously are) than rushed out. I'm just wondering if I'm getting my hopes up expecting Mace to be released soon, because it looks really close. Is there much more work that needs to be done?

 

Just wondering. Your awesome models bring out the impatience in me! ;)

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Originally posted by _NinjaGaiden_

Ok I Dont Mean to Pick but The head Shape is a little off and the jedi robes are a tad too light but other than that it looks pretty good .......one question why does Klorels Skins look a lot smoother?

 

Because Arco skinned this version. They're not using Klorel's skins.

 

I do agree the outer robes are a bit too light and the fabric too rough... the inner robe though is a light cream color, but it hardly is seen - perhaps modify it a bit?

 

-Anakin

 

:EDIT: Toonces, I wish you would consider using a different model to base the body on - not trying to knock Tex's work but it's not the most accurate jedi attire...

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Looks great Arco :) I love the icon

 

Anakin_S I'm just wondering how off you think the body is? I remodeled the hips and he belt, as well as make a couple of tweaks for accuracy. I was thinking of using either Kit's body or completely making a new one but I thought with a couple of changes the body is pretty accurate. I still have some proportional changes to make.

 

AKPiggott, I wouldn't release any model without adding the facial bones, so fear not :D

 

Have some tweaks to make still on the head, I would have made them last night but I got sleepy :)

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Here's another couple reference pic's for the face,although i think it's pretty close now.

 

Ref. Pic 1

 

Ref. Pic 2

 

hope these can help in some sorta way.

 

ARCO,great job btw

 

edit:found some more ref pics,mainly for the robe/body :). For these last 3,copy and paste the shortcut,its geo****ies i tellz ya.

 

Ref. Pic 3

 

Ref. Pic 4

 

Ref. Pic 5

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I think the big problem with Tex's model when used with Mace is that his clothing looks too exaggerated. Take the shoulders, for example. On the last body shot, they look very wide and pointed, almost super-hero like. If you look at shots of sam in aotc, you can see that his clothing is really baggy, and it almost melts of his shoulders and hangs over his belt quite a bit. I think that's also a major problem with the sleeves, which look really narrow. Klorel got it about right on his mace(and misterpunch on plo), you just have to resign to the fact that the cuffs point backwards a little when his arms are down. Overall, it just looks too well-fitting and not very comfortable.

Another thing I noticed(but this might be addressed when you reshape the head) is that his neck is waaay too long and thin, and I see this on obi as well. Samuel L Jackson has a very thick and short neck, and the lower part of his head is also much wider.

 

As always, awsome work from both of you. It'll just take a little time to capture such a distinctive likeness. And, I don't mean to sound threatening, but if you mess up Mace I'm going to have to start making threats ;)

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