[DOTA2] - Naga Siren - TBD

ENODMI · Oct 2012

Howdy:)

Small start from this evening:

Comments most welcome:)

Clyptic · Oct 2012

Looking good!

Spudnik · Oct 2012

Wow, those look badass!

kalgaras · Oct 2012

really like the sorta high priestess look on the far left, battle worthy and regal

BoBo_the_seal · Oct 2012

Love that middle one.

oDD · Oct 2012

don't know if the black one fits the color scheme but it looks bad ass ! i would make the shapes on her torso more curvy to make her look more sexy

Pierate · Oct 2012

The black one is definately really cool, but like oDD said the colors doesn't fit too well, nice shapes though.

jwest · Oct 2012

The middle one is really cool, would love to see a 3qrtr view.

peppi · Oct 2012

Very cool. I think the middle one would translate into 3d quite nicely, and the contrast makes it more interesting than the one on the left. Looking forward to this!

00Lotus · Oct 2012

looks cool!

ENODMI · Oct 2012

Thanks for the feedback:) Moving forward with the second one. Im thinking this will be a variant where Naga Siren has embraced her banishment and taken on a darker and more sinister set of armor...

8-Bit · Oct 2012

Wow! These are both looking excellent! It looks like you could really go either way (good or evil). I'm favoring the shape of the lighter design, however the darker one is very interesting. I like that the dark helmet is a little crooked at the top. It still needs something though. Perhaps you could create more of an S-curve from the side view? Could look more interesting in that perspective.

Danglebob · Oct 2012

You've got some excellent shapes and colors going on there. I can't wait to see what else you come up with!

BoBo_the_seal · Oct 2012

Love this and the colors are great!

- BoBo

BrontoThunder · Oct 2012

Beautiful concepts, I think the colours are great but I think it could benefit from some of the original colour-scheme bleeding in somewhere just so that it's not a mass of black and orange. It's hard to tell how it will come across until its in-game though.

Anuxinamoon · Oct 2012

Oh wow I LOVE that helm!! Very sexy!

Managor · Oct 2012

As a personal opinion I don't like the idea of a helmet. More "hair" styles would be wonderful though

Coridium · Oct 2012

nice idea, like the design and the colours.

rorozilla · Oct 2012

your concepts are amazing! and I absolutely love the level of details in them! but i would have to go with BrontoThunder about the colors pallet, maybe a dark blue, instead of the black?

it looks killer! i love that darker twist to her character! it fits her very well!
Cant wait to see more!

ENODMI · Oct 2012

Thanks for the feedback guys:) I agree, and Im going to try to blend towards the original color scheme using the spec and rim light. Its not very prominent in the concept, but the spec is relating back to the hue in the mid torso. The orange is a shift from that found in her head, but i pushed it a bit too far to see the relation. Hopefully Ill have more up soon

Ivory · Oct 2012

You know who this is...Love the "head piece" or helmet for this character and like the dark side to character. I know you will continue to use highlights and lowlights in your textures to make it all work together. Takes time and patience. Lovin it!

EVIL · Oct 2012

ENODMI wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback guys:) I agree, and I'm going to try to blend towards the original color scheme using the spec and rim light. Its not very prominent in the concept, but the spec is relating back to the hue in the mid torso. The orange is a shift from that found in her head, but i pushed it a bit too far to see the relation. Hopefully Ill have more up soon

I am wondering how you want to achieve this since you can't use specular colours. (all the special map are in gray scale).

agentfx · Oct 2012

I love how you came to this design concept and kept in the silhouette of the original and made something new. Looking forward to the new color scheme.

Re what EVIL said, yeah thats a bit confusing in the material explanation, that its a color mask to another file that we don't have access too, and some characters don't have anything in those files. You can bend the color back to the base color in the spec thats about it.

ENODMI · Oct 2012

yeah, the spec can be colored based off of the diffuse by using the second mask and the third channel. As long as the spec is strong and I have a saturated green hue in the diffuse, I may be able to pull it off...if not, Ill just come up with some new colors:)

ENODMI · Oct 2012

stuffs

Naso · Oct 2012

I like stuffs, keep it coming!

EVIL · Oct 2012

Nice blockin! looking really good!

BoBo_the_seal · Oct 2012

Easily one of my favorites. Again the colors are perfect and the 3d blank is looking great on the character.

- BoBo

ENODMI · Nov 2012

small update.

Ill probably have the sculpt fished tonight after work, along with a few color ideas. Im still thinking of keeping the set a dark value, but with some light color gradients...

Naso · Nov 2012

I hope you keep the black and red honestly, well done!

Skiffy · Nov 2012

I will be curious to see if this gets accepted with the drastic new color changes. It would show us how much Valve allows for changing the designs and adding new colors instead of just keeping to the exact colors from the original model. Hope it gets accepted!

Cheers

Anuxinamoon · Nov 2012

YES! I was hoping for some sexy updates on this! Really look forward to seeing your colours

JacqueChoi · Nov 2012

This looks just awesome!

ENODMI · Nov 2012

The most important beauty shot in all of game production:

Mstankow · Nov 2012

That is the most beautiful unwrap I have ever seen. I would honestly keep that checker texture as the final. It would be pretty sweet.

ENODMI · Nov 2012

Fresh from the oven

breakneck · Nov 2012

this is gonna be hot!

ENODMI · Nov 2012

Center armor piece is going to have to change:( I skinned it all up and her animations are so dramatic that is going to crash through no matter what. Im thinking Ill replace it tomorrow with something smaller and higher up on her waist...

Anuxinamoon · Nov 2012

I know what you mean! I totally had that same issue with mine, Luckily it was low enough for me to finesse the weighting.

Looking good though mate!

ENODMI · Nov 2012

Anuxinamoon: yeah, I probably should have studied her animations before designing that front armor plate. Not sure if you noticed, but she also has a strange contrapposto in her animations that make attaching things to hips just painful

No fun Sunday...I deleted my work from yesterday by accident and had to relayout the uv's and rebake eveything:(

I did ,however, start texturing tonight:

stumania · Nov 2012

Good work bro...liking what i'm seeing!

Coridium · Nov 2012

awesome to see this progress, I still love the colours, my only crit would be that the orange in the last image seems red'er than the concept, could just be the lighting but I personally preferred the more orangey orange, lol, hope that makes sense.

ENODMI · Nov 2012

So do the normal maps actually do anything in this engine!? They seem to affect the rim light the most... but are just so subtle besides that:(

wip:

BrontoThunder · Nov 2012

Did you try flipping the green channel?

Anuxinamoon · Nov 2012

^ this. The half lambert they use looks amazing but softens the normals quite a bit. Make it pop by playing with the masks to get different variations in the spec and Fresnel.

Download Xoliul shader 2.0 to have a look at how the half lambert effects your normals and plus it s a great way to render presentation shots of your model

ENODMI · Nov 2012

Lennyagony · Nov 2012

Awesome work Enodmi!

Anuxinamoon · Nov 2012

Damm that looks so nice in game!

:D:D

Love that wicked weapon!

Gareth_Thomas · Nov 2012

Fantastic work so far. This is definitely my favorite of the Naga sets being made. Great wok, keep it up!

c0ldhands · Nov 2012

Great work man, the swords are kick ass! I see what you meant by that plate in the middle front section of her torso, since its to late for me to change it, im gonna have a shot at re-skining it.

Ivory · Nov 2012

Awesome! Blown away! tj

[DOTA2] - Naga Siren - TBD

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