pylon

Protoss Pylon and Warpgate

Hey Federico, I am starting up a page for my WIP so that you can guage my progress

here is a snapshot of my old scene

an AO of my old scene

old Zmodel of my scene

and another

above is the Pylon from game footage. As you can see I took a lot of liberties.

I am starting from scratch on this one. I added more intricacy to my shell forms. My idea behind the Protoss architecture, is an opposite to the human aesthetic of functional space marine durability. I want the Protoss architecture to be fluid and delicate, relying on their forcefields for protection, When the force fields are gone, the delicate machinery is easily destroyed.

I wanted to start from scratch because I didn't really fulfill any requirements for the scene. It needs to be a scene of destruction... So I need to create a cloudier sky, with comet like things falling from the sky in the background, smoke in the distance, cracks on the ground, a broken pylon with a shattered crystal, etc....

I have no clue how to do destruction though...hopefully you know a way to break things with rigid body simulations.

Here I resculpted the ring and shells. Not UV'ed and no HiFreq. I just slapped on a MiaXpass for the crystal and car phen for the shell. I haven't had a chance to work on the crystal except to change the overall shape. Ideally it would have a honeycomb cleave...or pattern as the protoss has a distinct honeycomb pattern in blizzard art.

For the crystal, here are some photos I took at London's natural history museum. The quality is terrible.