Thanks for the responses, sorry I've been slow to to update/respond, work is making it tricky to spare too much time.
Anyway, in response to Syren, I'm using Zbrush. Well 90% zbrush, sometimes I pop into maya for stuff.
I've pretty much finished the unposed high res, which has been a great learning experience in terms of learning about the anatomy of these crazy bugs. Next step pose and texture, and do the add ons.
I've changed my concept a little bit, but haven't sketched it out, hopefully I'll post an update of that soon. He's (actually should be she since I modelled a female...) now gonna fire something from his mouth, but the fuel for it will be fed from the abdomen, so I'll keep that C shape to the design, and a couple of pipes/tubes will feed from the abdomen to his mouth.
I wanted to do a flamethrower but I don't think I can spare the poly/texture space, so I'm open to ideas. Also still considering what colour to go with the texture. I'll probably just go red/green, but any thoughts on that would be interesting. Try googling for "colourful grasshopper", the range of colours that they have is absoloutely mind boggling. Like if I textured it like that people would think I was going over the top...
Anyway here's the progess. I should really upload some pictures of grasshoppers so that there's something to judge it by, maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
