For the September Challenge I'm going to try to do a scene from the American Revolution. I'm not sure which battle to do yet. Here is the English Regiment in progress. Still need to make the horses (dreading that). I still need some caisons for the guns too. Need to find some links to pictures of the Continental Army uniforms, hopefully they are somewhat close to the British ones except color. I decided to not use any Poser figs to try to keep the poly count down. So far the Regiment is at about 300K polys. Let me know what you think or any ideas for which battle.

wow!! this is really looking incredible! the figures look perfect so far, and their outfits (from here) look awesome. 300,000 isnt bad at all for that many figures. cant wait to see the finished image!!

I'm sure this is a silly question, but...if they aren't poser figures, what are they? Tres

yea inquiring minds want to know!! I was planing to do a scene with similar amounts of people on another personal project of mine,and I got nowhere near that amount without the layering and post work.PLEASE tell us!BTW awesome job so far!!

Wow! Doing a large-scale battle scene sans Poser! This is looking great and my hat is off to you! Good luck with the horses and such.

Truely impressive! What are the men if not Poser? Or are you doing them in a modeling app.

Whatever they are they look great. Can't wait to see your entry.

Cool :) Extrememly lo-poly figures. I know this isn't what you want to use them for, but what do they look like up close? The battle of Monmouth. From the little I've read (and I've got some info around here somewhere on it - I think), it sounded like it was more of a pitched field battle than a lot of the battles in that war.

Ok mac you've got to tell us how you made the troops? It looks amazing so far and I'm interested in where you place the battle. 8) Catlin

Sorry folks...I posted the WIP late and had to sleep. The troops are very lo-poly models made in Wings. There are different material groups set for their parts so colors can be set. They average 3000-5000 polys for each stick of 10 men. (I did a recount and there are 360 so far) Up close they look like toy soldiers as I made them for epic(distant) battle scenes. I will be glad to share them after the Challenge. ;) If there is interest I'll make some lo-rez units from other eras also.
By the way Flak... I have wanted to do an epic scene ever since I saw your awesome castle siege. That still blows me away everytime I look at it! I was trying not to do any postwork for this challenge since Zhann mentioned that in the outline for this month. Thanks for the tip on the Battle of Monmouth, I'll check that out.

I'll post a close up tonight if you all won't laugh! You will though! I have started on the horses...who needs sleep anyway?

Bill

No laughing here - ages ago, when I was making Siege, Moebius87 (one of the LW moderators) suggested I make some really lo res figures, so I'm interested in seeing what sort of detail you can actually get in comparitively only a few polys.

If you want refernce material for uniforms, try the Imperial War Museum http://www.iwm.org.uk/

Great work mac! Can the models be colored individually?, I'm thinking of crowd scenes using your models rather than battle scenes. You see you've got me planning already what to do with your low poly models and the months only just started. lol 8) Catlin

Yes, I agree with everyone, this is just amazing! Great job so far and can't wait to see the finish.

Attached Link: http://www.fast3d.co.uk

Well here is a look at some of the models up close. They are really meant for distance shots. They are not posable. I save blank manikins and twist them about to pose them. They are pretty small though. One trooper's .obj file and texture template(512x) is 72k. I should only have to map the flags I hope.

I put the Bob on there for Catlin. He has seven material zones and is about the same size as the Trooper. I have not started Betty yet.

I got started on little people after looking at Gerald Day's page(attached link). There is a lot of excellent lo-rez stuff there.

Well back to the horse (version 3). The first two had to be put out of their misery. :(

Cool stuff. Thanks for the up close shots.

Thanks for the close ups. This would be so useful especially for Flak. 8)