[Dota2] - Crystal Maiden - TBD

Avanthera

Hey peeps, I've decided to do a crystal maiden set. I have no set theme yet, though I've been bouncing between 3 ideas:

Queen of the arctic:
lots of cloth, probably a crown or some kind of large collar

Tribal scholar:
Since her history says she was kept as an apprentice to a hermit in an iceberg, I figure some beads in her hair and lots of handmade eskimo-ish equipment.

Powerful Ice-mage:
Lots of directional lines, probably lots of crystals and ice-themed junk.

Concepts aren't final, and I plan on a lot of iterations and may end up in a totally random direction by the end of it.:)
First two sheets:

Avanthera

Some 3/4 sketches of some I'm leaning towards:

Boonta

Looking cool!

I like the thick arms / jacket in the last two designs. and the head piece in the first two designs on thw 3/4 page!

does your char support alpha? even without it might be nice to get some fur shapes maybe sticking out of her head piece so its no such a tube shape. subtle tho.

Avanthera

Hey man,

I don't think she's flagged for alpha, but I plan on moddeling out some bits tho, just to have something to break the 'tube' shape

Thanks for the comments son!

Avanthera

Ok, I'm thinking this is the final 2d bit, I may adjust it when I move to 3d.


Weapon concepts up next

Avanthera

An update! I strayed from the concept a bit with this first one, and I think I'll be going with the second:



Really trying to get that Flumfy feeling

Boonta

Looking cool! <Insert everything we talked about at my desk before you left>

MDSchee

i like the second one too, but the back support on the first gives it some nice construction.

Avanthera

Thanks guys!

Here's some updates:

And some shots from portrait view and from play view:


I'm tired, so there's probably some things I'll want to change in the morning, but it's coming along.

Boonta

I did some super rough notes on a paint over if your interested? Attached to this message. Just some possible ideas. I had color profile issues so the colors are all messed up.

Avanthera

Ah thanks for the paintover Chris! I've been putting those changes in and I'll have an update later tonight. I know your entry is looking pretty solid already, get that thing done son!

Avanthera

Awesome, I got some work done tonight.

Some color ideas:

I colored the cape thinking of fur lining the top bit like this:


But I think there's already enough white fur right now, and I think I'm going to go for an all-cloth cape.

@ Pale-Face: Again, thanks for the paintover! I tried incorporating most of what you suggested, and I just took out things that I couldn't get looking right in 3d.

Boonta

Awesome! The fur sculpting is real nice! I like the colors as well! She's coming together very nicely!

Avanthera

All right! I have some work done on the set, the low poly and Lod is sorted and I have a bake and initial texture painting started.
The outer models are the lod versions:


And here are more in-game kind of shots:


This is with final texture and polycounts, everything is within limits, I just have to paint it up!