Radzyn!
Player skin for Quake 3 Uriel model

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Skin by: BlackCat.9
Model by: id Software
Character created by: Radzyn
Icon by: Sidian Silverhawke
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The main reason for putting this skin out was to play around with the Uriel model before I decided to make a serious skin. (Secondly, and of less consequence, I had just broken up with my boyfriend and needed something to take my mind off it). I decided to try something a bit more close to the original intention of the model, and asked Radzyn, a friend of mine, if I could render his character, a tall, green, dragon-esque gargoyle. He was more than willing to allow me to try. Approximatly 24 hours later, this is what I had come up with. Not too shabby.

The initial problem that I had with doing this model is that the original art by a very good friend of mine, Sidian Silverhawke, of Radzyn's character depicted him as having a dragon shaped face. This wouldn't translate all that well onto a very human-like facial structure that I had with this model. With a bit of trial and error, I came up with something that I thought balanced the two rather well. The second problem was the hat. Radzyn normally has two long, thin horns at the top of his head, but I was stuck with this big beanie looking hood. I had two options, either to alpha transparency it out and risk making it look like total shit, or work with it. I asked Radzyn if he had to wear such a hat, what would it look like. He responded with a request to do a pimp hat (fedora with a feather) and this was the compromise.

I'm pretty proud of the skin, especially for one that I did in under 24 hours. I didn't mean for this to be a long term project, only an experiment, so I'm not too concerned with the flaws. I may decide to later touch it up, possibly and include it as a bonus skin in my upcomming pack, StrikeForce9: The New Breed.

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Skin: Radzyn
Model: Uriel
Species: Gargoyle / Dragon
Estimated time: Approximatly 6 hours (in one day)
Date completed: April 25, 2000
Bot support: Yes
Programs used: Paintshop Pro 6, Photoshop, Xenofex, Q3MDL, BotStudio, Winzip

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I sleep now.

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BlackCat.9
Captain of Starship 9 / Team leader of Magnum Opus
http://starship9.simplenet.com
blakcat9@home.com
