I've been contemplating+sketching a high-poly shambler for literally years. I guess I'm just going to have to take the plunge, upgrade my machine, get a copy of Max and do this myself.


Sigh. 

Most of the models seem well made, but they just don't fit in my opinion, the proportions don't work in most, what's up with the shambler's tiny head and tiny hands? Where are his claws?
Yeah, I'd really like to try modelising a Shambler some day. 

I can't even properly chamfer a cube in GMax to make a crate. 

The Fish? Yeah, I did that ZBrush tutorial too: http://pixologic.com/zbrush/media_links/movies.html

What others said really. Some of the models are competant (Fiend, Shambler), but seem to ignore a lot of the characteristics that made the original Quake versions good. Animations make Baby Jesus cry :( 

me too! Don't have time right now. I was going to have a go at modelling an ogre, and took some screens from Quake to get a good idea of his proportions (he's pretty bloody square, actually) but never got started.

Maybe if we worked together we could make our own series of high poly Quake characters. If we had some time to do it. 

Haha at the zbrush tutorial, that fish did seem familiar. =)

Than, heh that would rock, but bleh, time... T__T 

Have you tried zbrush? I saw that tutorial when I was working in the UK early last year and thought it was pretty cool, but having watched it again, it looks shit hot (for characters at least). Any good? 

It was Kell who said he had been trying to make a high poly Shambler.

HA! 

I haven't tried zbrush so much yet, and well, even if you can pretty much do your complete model in it (like in that tutorial), I'd still prefer making the initial model in max/maya, and then going to zbrush for all the details. It's definatly a very powerful app (I have some Gnomon zbrush vids, there's some impressive stuff). 

in general they look pretty good. As others have said, shambler needs claws (and sharp teeth), wizard/scrag a mouthless kinda face, and the shalrath should get rid of the techy bits, it's a mystical creature.

The fiend is good in the shot shown... the ogre ain't that bad in my opinion, I'd add more fat though.

Hmm. I don't know what the tarbaby will look like when moving if it doesn't blob-droop (if you understand) more but instead has just a thin appendage. We'll see, if it's continued along the line.

The rear end of the rottweiler is kinda small in the rear structure but i don't know if it's a wide angle shot or a badly breeded dog as model. :/

Just my ideas, i'm not a modeler or anything. 

I don't like any of them for Quake monsters, but they're good in their own right. Maybe I need to see them with their skins, but they don't look Quakey to me at all. 

I checked out those QuakeRemix level screenshots, and I have to admit that I was surprised anyone could make a Doom 3 level look so shit. 

It would be nice to see artists and modellers take the approach that they're trying to make textures where the original texture ends up being one of the mipmaps, or models where the original models and up being one of the lower LOD models. 

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can someone tell me if 9702 is spam? it's so badly written i can't tell. 

I sure could use "600000 gold" 

...I'm sure I could use a few citizens daily :) 

mega is copy'n'pasting an email / private message he got about some online game shizzle. 

Thanks for the offer. It would be great, but I really don't need to get drawn into idling. I waste enough time as it is browsing the internet without having people to chat to about stupid things like penises and fizzy peach drinks :) 

[nt] 

Never to drink or eat anything from Blitz, ever. 

than is the one who famously stuck his penis into peach fizzy drink. 

... would have been posted in either food thread or drunk thread guys ;P 

but it's taking too long from this place so it will only be very few for now :( Hope it will work better from school when I get a password to use their computers.

+I'm not really interestes in using irc when I'm here.