Unit Previews: Pikemen

[Dease]

'fess up... how did you manage to do the smooth shadows? I've only ever managed one shade of shadow...

If anything the dwarf guy looks a bit light round the face. It looks like he has massive white saucer eyes.

that's the shine on his helmet

as for the shadow, use spotlights! just convert your normal lights to spotlights, then fiddle around with the settings for many hours until your eyes go so blurry it looks acceptable and then you'll have soft shadows

 

[mrtn]

Well, as embryodead said, it should be dwarf sized to fit as a dwarf... The small version, please.
And you already know I want trousers on the dwarf.

 

[Plotinus]

As a Viking, this guy could be pretty cool.

Of course, I'm still holding out for the Anglo-Saxon spearman, but I'll take what I can get!

 

[Dease]

Does no one other than mrtn have any opinions on 1.thin sharp shadow, or, wide smooth shadow, and 2. trousers, or, no trousers???

 

[Goldflash]

Give him some Pants, man!

 

[RRnut]

Looks Great!

 

[mrtn]

Give him some Pants, man!

Yeah, Dease, do you feel the trouser press?

 

[Dease]

I did a pretty halfass job on these trousers since I'm kinda rushing but here he is

Good? Bad?

 

[odintheking]

YES!!!! This is awesome

 

[mrtn]

I Think it looks good, but can't really comment without an animated preview.

 

[kevincompton]

Why is the Spanish pikeman low priority? That one is the most useful.

 

[Dease]

Why is the Spanish pikeman low priority? That one is the most useful.

yet I fail to see the difference between the spaniard and the firaxian pikeman

@ mrtn - I'll post an animated prev soon

 

[kevincompton]

Ya i guess your right. But the feather would be dope. In fact, for me, could you make the firaxis one with a big ol feather?

 

[mrtn]

...@ mrtn - ...

Sorry, I was just ribbing ya.

 

[Dease]

Ya i guess your right. But the feather would be dope. In fact, for me, could you make the firaxis one with a big ol feather?

Actually, it would easier and quicker to just C&P a blob of colour onto the top of the pikeman's head

ANYWAY, here's an animated run at both viking size and dwarf size, both with thier respective models.
(ignore the poke-thru, I didn't have time to rerender the fixed anim )
tell me what you think

 

[mrtn]

the dwarf look good, the viking fat (especially the legs).
Maybe too much colour differences in the chain mail?

 

[kevincompton]

Its too bright and cartoony. Features seem like charicatures.

 

[Dease]

Which do you prefer?

 

[kevincompton]

to be honest i think your other pikeman were much better. This seems more like a cartoon, remember Hagar?

 

[odintheking]

What's the difference between the two? Not to be mean or anything, but they look the same. Great, of course,