Legion Artifact Weapons
polycounter lvl 10
I wanted to share some of the artifact weapons I made for World of Warcraft: Legion. I hope everyone's enjoying the game!
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These took 16 - 24 hours each. I start with a base mesh in maya and then import it into zbrush. I use zbrush to make a rough model that I then retopo. For simple designs it's sometimes faster to just do it all in maya, but for complex stuff like skulls it's faster to use zbrush. I don't do any details or texturing in zbrush; that's all done by hand in 3d-coat.
Thanks for the reply! Is 3D coat how you achieved that outline glow effect on some of the weapons such as Scythe of Elune, and the variants of Ashbringer and Blades of the Fallen Prince? I've never used 3D coat before, and don't know much about it besides its basic features. Is Zbrush better at doing retopo than 3D Coat?
Where are the bows?
@Ratchlar
To make the glowly outline I duplicated that part of the mesh, reversed the normals and then did a push modifier in Max. I haven't retopo'd in zbrush but I use dynamesh and zremesher when I'm doing the sculpting part.
@Kogoshi
I haven't done any tutorials, but if you're familiar with painting in photoshop you should be able to pick it up pretty quickly. I used the default circle brush for everything in this thread. I recommend turning on sharp shape (old style) in the brush settings to make the transfer feel a little more like photoshop.
Thanks for the reply! I've been messing around with 3DCoat and I'm going to use it for my next work
I suggest you to try to bake them on a plane and generate a grayscale from the textures (you can do that with Blender Game Tools it's automatic) to paint in overlay on it.
Also i don't understand your inverted normal to do the highlight line of your models, can you post a making of please?
@AntonioNeves
Thanks!
@Linko
@Ratchlar
I made a little tutorial about the glowy stuff. It's a really simple thing that sounds more complicated than it is.