Attached Link: The Soldier

Easily load in 20, 30 or even 50 in one scene. Render massively complicated scenes in minutes, not hours, and animate to your hearts content, because this renders FAST!!!

Available now from Vanishing Point.

Attached Link: Content Paradise

Even though this model only has 4000 polygons, it still has the detail needed for Poser, thanks to some really excellent use of displacement and bump maps.

Attached Link: Motion animation

(Please note: This model uses the standard poser animation files and standard BVH files. That does not mean DAZ3D files that use double neck joints, those are non-standard files.)

Impressive work man, everyone should buy one!  :)

I don't support war related items.....

Peace

Wilber, each to his own. This soldier does not represent any particular country or time period. He is a sci-fi character, and the other six characters in the range are all alien or fantasy creatures, and basically he is just the human among the bunch of low poly figures we are working on.

Impressive creativity! Talk about an optimised figure!  4000 polys is really low to look so good.. The facial morphs are impressive,too.  This REALLY needs to be in the product showcase forum, though.

excellent work. unfortunately, the only culturally-encouraged activity (in regard to video games and consumption by underage individuals) is violence-based. cut out violence, and video game sales would drop tremendously IMVHO. I'm also opposed to violence (I've got it blocked in my gallery prefs), but if one doesn't allow youths to engage in violent video games, it's possible they'll use the time they would have spent on the games to engage in actual violence against small animals or other children.

"This REALLY needs to be in the product showcase forum, though."

As far as I know, this is the product showcase forum???

Lol, I see the release of hundreds of violence or violence related items every year, from guns, to monsters, to tanks and warplanes, but strangely enough, this is the only release to trigger a debate on supporting war items and violence in video games. Maybe, when you make your animation, he works for Greenpeace, or he is a member of the Unted Planets Peace Keeping Force. 

Then not supporting him is not supporting peace, lol.

LOL It was in the poser forum where I made the comment. :lol: The mods were quick!

Anyway--$20 for him?  That's a pretty good deal.  You can load 25 of him to every ONE of M3!  Talk about superiority of numbers! ^__^ V,,  I'll have save lunch money to get him.

As far as violence and brutality goes--we are a violent and destructively blood-thirsty species.  We came out of the seas of blood of our forebears and have learned little from history.  Even as advanced as we are, there have been genocides in Rwanda, and we attacked Iraq in a baseless war, and are killing people every day.  Last week, I saw a man get shot to death on my own street.

I'd like to block violence IN MY OWN REALITY!  Good heavens!  Unfortunately, I don't have super-powers or a genie or other such things to change the world.  Putting the violence in renders puts in the artist's control.  We get to shape the results to our inner needs.  Sometimes it's heroic, sometimes it's brutal, but it always causes pain and suffering.

This soldier is just an artist's TOOL to do whatever we want to do with it.  Like a painter's putty knike--it's a knife, but we don't have to stab anyone with it! :lol:

This is an awesome idea.  I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the series.

Are the other characters going to be solders or other types of characters? I've very interested in the concept and I don't mind that the character is a solder, but right now I'm looking for medieval soldiers :)

"LOL It was in the poser forum where I made the comment." - Maybe you followed a link to here from the Poser forum, but this particular thread has been in the product forum from the day I started it, lol.

Looking good and I am interested in the Minotaur more than the soldier (only because my work is normally is more fantasy based.)

I always saw this thread here and Wilber was the last post I saw :)

Holy furball!  Thank you for relenting - that Tauren-looking guy is awesome!  I'm truly going to grab that when it's available.

Mariach,

Lol, if you like that, you will love some of the others too. But I will keep you all in suspenders till they are ready, lol.

Helgard

This is an amazing series! I still can't believe that this degree of realism could be achieved with such a low poly count!!! A real pleasure to work with! And what a great rigging!!!

Suggestion: How about giving this poor, lonely soldier (and so far away from home) a female companion --a soldieress? (or soldierine... or whatever this is called nowadays....lol)

Is that a minotor a peace loving vegatarian with a rubber axe :) 

That Minotaur is actually a member of the Bordite Woodcutters Clan, and he was last seen going out to chop wood for his wife and thirteen little baby minotaurs. He spends his days chopping wood, and his weekends carving toys that he sells to the other Minotaurs at their village market.

He is also a member of the Council For the Betterment of Minotaurs, where he lobbies the United Nations against the negative portrayal of Minotaurs in Hollywood movies. Personally, I think the monitaurs have been victims of a very vicious and co-ordinated racial stereotyping campaign, just because their ancestral lands are so oil rich, and many governments are looking for excuses to invade.

Many Minotaurs are acomplished snipers and urban combat fighter, so an invasion of their lands would cause a prolonged occupation,IMO.

Re minotaur sniper: www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php

*"actually a member of the Bordite Woodcutters Clan"

*I need some sleep -  I read that as Barbie. Now that would make an interesting image :) 

BTW - nice piccy there Joe.

I thought he said, "The Barbie womancutter's clan'.  That's a load offa my mind! :lol:

On the serious side--a herd of Orcs, Goblins or Ogres might be more "Horde-able" than Minotaurs, I'd think.

OMG!!!!11!!  Here's an obvious (in retrospect) idea---howzabout   ***MONGOLS!

They make good hordes.***

Quote - OMG!!!!11!!  Here's an obvious (in retrospect) idea---howzabout   MONGOLS!

If we're doing barbarian tribes, how about the Vandals? After all (as the History Channel said), when someone defaces property, they haven't "Mongolized" it or "Hunnized" it- they've "Vandalized" it. :)
 
But if you're going to make barbarian tribes, why not make the Roman soldiers for them to fight? We could make historic-epic battle scenes in Poser!

Those are pretty good ides, too.  I was trying to come up with ideas that would be good groups of low-poly characters, but John beat me to them.  Roman Legionairies would be very cool.  There are loads of stuff around for them,too.

I'd like to see more toons - a Wallace & Gromit style Shaun like sheep would be fun.

 This is brilliant, any barbarians will be sent marching into my shopping cart. But only the peaceful, sprout eatting ones with flowers in their hair!!!
 

It seems to me that having a lowpoly figure that can appear enmasse in Poser is a great idea....but the strength of this concept is the identical nature of each figure. Roman legionnaires, Star Wars stormtroopers, SWAT teams, hoplites, ninjas, and varous other uniformed soldiers, all of whom have a "uniform" appearance, would work exceptionally well in a large group. Other groups, like the Mongols, Huns, Vikings, and so forth have less of a "uniform" appearance. You would need a small variety of Viking figures, for example, to depict a reasonable Viking horde. Elsewise they would all look identical. That said, if you do indeed have plans to make a variety of "barbarian" figures, will you consider creating variations on figure types (i.e. Viking A, Viking B, Viking C)? And for what its worth, I DO support war related items. But maybe, to appease pacifists (how odd that "fist" appears in that word), you could create some lowpoly conscientious objectors.

Quote - That said, if you do indeed have plans to make a variety of "barbarian" figures, will you consider creating variations on figure types (i.e. Viking A, Viking B, Viking C)?

Great idea; from the group pict above, though, we see at least one character without the helmet. I think it would be possible to have a single Viking with a few different texture maps, helmets, shields and weapons to make up the crowds. I'm very, very eager to see some aliens. This idea has been a long time in coming, but once an alien is out, I'll definately grab all of the low-poly packages. Well done!

Yes, for large mass scenes with something like Vikings, it should be easy to make a few different helmets, a few different sheilds, and some different textures for the tunics, and have a varied army. Some faces with and others without beards. But before we get to the Vikings and Romans, we will have to finish all the aliens and fanatsy creatures first. All in good time.

If anyone has seen a game called Medieval Total War II, you will see a computer game with thousands of soldiers on the battlefield, and each one looks unique, just by a simple process of mixing and matching taxtures. We will work on something like this for some of the future figures.

Please please please for your fantasy models we need skeletons and zombies!

P.S. did I mention please!

actually, i'd have a lot more use for a bunch of peasants than a horde of mongols (faveral's medieval market, or medieval tavern).   have you been to the dystopian construction yard?  there's an audience hall that will need hundreds of drab citizens, tens of peacekeepers, and 20 or 30 gliterati.

there are many types of crowds, and how many "when armies clash" images can one person do?

Lol, we are working on 7 other low polygon figures, but the others will be a bit more detailed and even better rigged than the soldier, and these figures take time. Each one, because they are not built to standard Poser sizes, has to be rigged from scratch. I can't just apply the Soldiers rig to the Minotaur, the Minotaur has to be rigged from the ground up, so it will take a while to get them all done.

Once we have finished the 7 we have already modelled, we will have a giant poll and take requests for what will come next, but patience, man was not built in a day. (I hear it took seven, if you believe a certain Horror Picture Show, lol)

he!  oh, i'm not impatient in the slightest.  take your time, make it great.  i just hope you get done without losing too much hair or sanity.

It's been quite a while since the very first in this series was released.  I hope that the project hasn't been abandoned as I've been really looking forward to the minotaur (and any other fantasy-type characters).  Is there any update on this?

The person who makes these models has had a hard drive crash. I spoke to him a few nights ago and he has bought a new computer, and says he has managed to rescue most of his models and textures from the crashed machine. I will get back to him and find out how far he has progressed in getting the next models ready.

oh, that's too bad!  i hope he gets everything back.  good luck to him.

Oh, my gosh!  What a nightmare - that would just be heartbreaking to lose all that work.  I hope things work out.

Wish him good luck on the recovery!  Lots of potential customers out here, and best wishs,too!

This is one of the best ideas in products to hit the poser hobby in a long time.  Looking forward to the other releases. 

PS I support all war related items - since people feel like injecting politics on the renderosity forum for crying out loud...

Picked him up. I was wondering how to populate a starship bridge without destroying my
computer! :) Now all we need is a female version. Heh.

Any updates on new models within this line?  I would love to grab hordes of fantasy baddies...

The 3DMax version of the Minotaur is available. I am working on the Poser version. Still doing face morphs and rigging. Will take a while, because I am not that fast, but I will do it right.

Thanks for the update.  Take your time - he's worth the wait.

Actually while we are talking about crouds, I would really love a 3d audience. I looked at that azl?asl thingy here in the MP, and it's very good if you want a front on scene, but it's just a texture on a box, so the audience can't really be turned ie they have to face the camera all the time. Love esther

Hi estherau,

Until we get to the stage where we have our own figures, you may consider this for crowd scenes. He is apparently working on a female set as well.

http://www.predatron3da.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=99

I'm thinking of grabbing the predatron modern males, but a female package would be nice. Urban scenes without teeming masses are just....empty.
I do have some scenes where that soldier would have come in handy had I knew about him. I'm definatly looking forward to these!