Medieval/Renaissance Units & Leaderheads Previews

So, for some time I've been working on a certain mod that dates back to 2003... but more on that later. For that purpose I also reinstalled Poser hoping to fill in some gaps. I planned to try leaderheads only but those go terribly slow, while Kinboat's PDM is just awesome and makes unit-making so much easier and faster. Anyway, here are some previews, and my plea for some criticism before I proceed to rendering:

Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania
based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wladyslaw_Jagiello.jpg


Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod
based on various googled pictures


Lorenzo de Medici of Florence
my attempt to make a portrait-like leaderhead, but I think it doesn't work very well as a leaderhead, and 2nd Era Civ3 Ceasar is kinda good enough... especially since it has the peculiar Italian cap which I don't have.


Erik the Victorious of Sweden
I'm not happy with this either, I wanted a medieval/renaissance king instead but I can't find any fitting apparel.


"Yet-another-spearman" but it took one morning to make and animate while following utahjazz's tutorial:


Yes, another spearman an advanced one with some armour:


Spearman animations. There will be at least two more sharing those (eastern variants)

default, fortify, attack, death

Cool, nice work, keep it up

w00t! more great leaderheads and units.
Lorenzo's nose is a tad undefined, but other then that, great stuff!

i can't wait to see what the mod is like!

wowee! i'll surely have use for these, and play the mod if/when its done!

Whoa! Those are cool. Very high quality, I can surely use these. This looks to be an awesome mod!

whoa very nice

Those units look very good quality, impressive. I also particularly like Nevsky's LH, I look forward to getting my hands on these.

YEs I love your wok tons of your units were going to be in my elder scrolls mod.

OMG! OMG! OMG! I think I'm gonna faint! this is awesome!
I'm sorry I never do this but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I had to get it out out of my system...
This is the best new years gift ever (I know its not for me, but still)


PS. are there gonna be more LH's and units? can U make Croatian and a Serbian one. PLEASE!!!! need them for my mod!!!

Your Units and LH will definitely win on the monthly competitions whenever you post them. Believe me!

OK! now the criticism...
Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania - keep him
Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod - keep him
Lorenzo de Medici of Florence - don't like him (looks freaky )
Erik the Victorious of Sweden - definitely keep him!!!
And post the damned units! pls

i agree with partizanac on Lorenzo his eyes are really big

Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod
Erik the Victorious of Sweden

.. wow.. just.. wow..

I like your units too!

If you made the second one with a sword that would be a great Bretonnian Man-at-arms, and a version with the bill weapon or a simple halberd would be really appreciated
To much armor for the sword/spearmen, I think. In the WH mod, not whatever it is that you are planning. That will probably be kickass.


Lorenzo`s eyes are a bit to big, IMO

Very nice detail on all these.

I think all of these are great. Lorenzo definitely looks a bit bug-eyed, but if you tone that down a bit he will look magnificent. Great to see a LH that really looks a lot like the portrait. Jogaila looks a lot like his picture too. Really good work.

Your death animation is excellent. Those are so hard to do.

I think the Lorenzo de Medici and the Jogaila leaderheads are probably the best I've ever seen. The style of them fits in with CivIII amazingly well. I'm really impressed. I think de Medici is my favorite leaderhead ever—even if it's only a preview. He has a lot of personality, which is really nice. He looks like the shady, double-crossing sort . . . no idea if was so in real life though.

The spearman animations are nice too. Great job overall!

Very nice work ED!

Ofcause I've already seen them before... (hint)

Absolutely sensational work !!

Wow!

I love the prince of Novgorod!

Fantastic...! PLEASE tell me those LHs are era-specific!!

Ares de Borg said:

Fantastic...! PLEASE tell me those LHs are era-specific!!

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They aren't supposed to be, so unless ED is in a happy mood they won't be.