Tau Firewarrior

[retardedmonkey]

I was just kidding about the rust...I would of killed Ben if he put rust on there.

I do have to say though that the colors go well together imo. I also like the amount of wear and look of the metal armor on there, it helps it come across as a stylized sci-fi character, yet it still has a realistic feel to it. It also seems to me that the armor colors help compliment the face. My eyes automatically work their way up there from the darker legs to the yellow to the head. If that made any sense...

I dunno I think the execution of the model is quite good. Props to ya Ben

[tkaza]

Can we get a shot with just the normals, no diffuse... veiw port cap alch?

[benclark]

here you go mate

[Xoliul]

Originally Posted by Alchemist101

I'll say it again guys - I am not using generic tau colours, I am recreating a painting from the warhammer art book, the colours are lifted straight from the Photoshop swatch of the scanned picture.

Xoliul - fair enough if you dont like the colours, but combining red yellow and blue is truely a no-go on characters??? thats a kinda ridiculous statement

Bart Simpson, Superman, Thor from marvel comics, Cyclops from the X-men, He-man, Mario, Disneys Snow White, Woody from Toy Story, DC comic's Wonder Woman, Cartman from South Park are all designed using red yellow and blue colour schemes

At the risk of being chased by a mob with pitchforks and torches, i'm going to continue
Maybe a no-go is a bit exaggerated, though you really shouldn't pick Bart Simpson or Cartman as design examples
Thing is, there's quite a difference with the painting you show. First of all that was painted traditionally, and the green shadows he has there (which make yellow and blue work a bit better together) are a choice he made to get a feeling like photo's developed in C41 chemicals.
If I just flip between them, the painting blends way better because the yellow obivously has hints of orange, which is completely gone on your texture. Also, the blue only occurs on the skin of the Tau in the painting, while you have it scattered on other parts as well.
Another thing is that, apart from the painting, the saturation of all your colors is quite low (notice how the saturation on all the examples you named is a lot higher, especially for the red).
It's quite a challenge to match the colors of a painting like that, but i think you could do a better job at it than now. And i'm just telling you because I was really expecting a lot from this (as in, perfection, like it was until the very end of your WIP thread ).

[benclark]

the scanned image of the painting is a lot more saturated than the image in the book, thats what you get for using a crappy scanner I guess. Look up Tau firewarrior on google images and every single one will have a different tone of yellow or orangey yellow

Theres no reason why you shouldnt crit, I appreciate your opinions. But being told that I am wrong for making colour choices, and that I have dissapointed you is quite funny tbh. I'm sorry for doing that

[chris89]

nvm,

Looks cool

[tda]

Came out stellar in the end mate, no crits here. Love the normals only shots *droooool*.

[CaptainCock]

wow, 5 stars work dude. no thing really to crit (maybe his head looks a bit to sweaty from the high specular (?)).

Edit: Ok, the star rating feature was put out. So here you go: *****

[Retro-Cow]

Amazing work!
I love how much detail you put into your normal maps.

[Masakari]

Simply awesome!