[Riot Art Contest] - Owl
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Hey everyone! Lots of good stuff already going! Adding mine to the stew. Been working on a few concept paintovers over the weekend. Got some ideas for the den and one for a turret. Right now I'm mostly favoring the den design with the big tree stump... None of them are finished concepts, just vignettes to get my ideas down. Probably would just flesh the rest out in 3d. Still thinking on the inhibitor design... haven't really started with it yet. Will have more to come soon!
Let me know which strikes your fancy!
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Let me know which strikes your fancy!
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What do you guys think of adding in some Autumn colored trees??? I like the idea, but want to keep the tree the main focal point and don't want to get too much crazy stuff happening in a small space... So I'm not sure if its actually strengthening or weakening the image. What do you think?
Thanks for looking!
I like the details of the first turret although i do think its too similar to what they already have in game (the pose). I prefer the silhouette of the second one, although i don't know if i'm keen on the rock base.
Anyway keep it up, some great stuff
I also like the second turret, because it's different from what's in the game already.
I agree that the way the orange leaves are now, they distract from the trunk/den... so I will keep thinking on them, maybe a smaller less distracting way to incorporate them.
In the meantime... here is another wip of the second turret design.
Obviously super WIPP... Work in Progress Poop
But ya, that concept still needs some work before its working the way it should...
For the screens I did the paintover on with Udyr, it was from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5EMMZZG5Q
I just set it to HD and screen grabbed the dens I thought might be cool to redo.
I've gotta agree with the guys saying the yellow leaves add too much visual noise to the creep den. I really like the idea, but it pulls the attention away from the den itself and I feel like your design is strong enough to stand on its own.
A couple more quick concepts for tonight for the turret... I've got to decide on these soon... I had a couple people crit the one of the dwarvish dude on the rock, saying that they felt my first turret concept was a better "turret" design... So I took that as a base and did a new idea off of it... Let me know what you guys think.
Do you like:
Turret #1 - the top one, Statue holding hammer in front of his chest.
Turret #2 - The Dwarvish dude on the rock... I think this one maybe needs more of an actual base to make it feel more like a turret...yes? no?
Turret #3 - Floating statue dude holding his hands up... 2 versions with slightly different arms and helmet...
Open to ideas and crits.. Got to wrap up this concepting stuff and start modeling PRONTO!
And I still say vines, glowing runes, and floaty bits, could be used in each piece to tie it all together nicely.
One things for sure though, It could use a little more Owl Belt. I gotta have more Owl Belt!
Small update on the inhibitor, I figure Owls are a good theme for me.
Didn't want to take the time to render this all out... sorry, this is all you get for now.
I like these last two turrets the best, really good read and nice dynamic poses. The first two guys feel a bit stiff and generic compared to the last two.
I'd say the guy with the hanging robe, lots of character with that, and a better silhouette to boot.
The tree root-den is my favorite, nice and spooky, but fits really well into the environment.
Inhibitor is looking great as well, you've really stepped up your concept game!
Hi everyone,
At Riot Games, we have a very strong feedback culture. We pivot and make adjustments when things can be done better or are not working. In the spirit of this culture and after internal conversations with feedback from the community, we have decided to make some tweaks to the environment section of the contest. You can now choose to create the turret or the inhibitor rather than being required to create both. We want to make sure we are giving everyone enough time to create assets that you are proud of and able to finish in time for the December 19th deadline.
We are also tweaking the animation com petition and not have animators pick an established character since animating a specific character without the exact model will be difficult. We want to see solid animations that are keeping the animation style of LoL in mind when creating these ability assets.
We thank you for your understanding and look forward to seeing what you all come up with.
-Kenny
Thanks for the thoughts. Ya, I agree the first dude was really stiff, second was a bit better and I agree the dude with the sleeves is probably the winner. Although, now we only have to do a turret or inhibitor, and I've already started on the inhibitor... but I was looking a lot more forward to the turret... Ugh.. Might just still do all three... not sure...
Thanks Kenny for the update!
Will have to take that into consideration. Was planning on doing both, so maybe I still will. I guess it will just depend on time.
Anyways, here is some work on my inhibitor base. Its still WIP, but a decent start. The hole in the bell needs to be larger I think, but I'm a little torn with it because I don't want it too close to the next hole... Maybe I should only have two holes in it instead of four... I think I might try that...
Sorry, now I'm just spewing thoughts on polycount...More to come soon!
Cheers!
So, just did a quick rework of the opening in the centerpiece to get something a little closer to the ratio in the concept and removed it from two of the sides, which I think will look a lot better and allows the holes to be bigger.
But I'm going to put the inhibitor on hold for now. Going to start on the Turret. So my plan is to get all the modeling and Zbrushing done first, leaving texture for last. And now with the new rules.. I think I'm going to focus most on the turret and den, as they are the most fun. But since I have a pretty good start on the inhibitor I may finish it, if time allows. It really just needs some final tweaking, a little more modeling and everything uv'd but again, I think I'll wait on it till nearer the end to see how the turret and den come out.
So here is the Inhibitor for now.
Still very WIP on every area, but blocking out all the different pieces in Zbrush. I plan on breaking up the symmetry a lot more, as everything right now is pretty much all symmetrical. Just trying to get all the pieces in to some degree so I can start tweaking all the big forms before I start breaking it all with asymmetry.
More to come soon.
Widened his arms out after some crits, added some back armor and a few other things.. Thoughts so far?? See anything that looks weird or should be changed?? Let me know.
Everything is still pretty wip and needs a major polish pass. Just trying to nail down the ideas and pieces first.
Thanks!
Now I'll start on the base for him and then Low poly soon hopefully.
Cheers!
If that is all in the correct perspective of the game and all, I'd grab the left hand of the low poly and pull it out and away from the shoulder, and grab the right hand and pull it down and away from the crystal so they show up better in the silhouette, it's a bit confusing as it is.
It's all looking fantastic though! I'm really excited to see what it will look like once you start painting it!
@Avanthera - I agreed about both of the hands needing adjustments. I made some changes that should help with that now.
@ Kel-Shaded, DefiledVisions - thanks guys and yes I agree about the flags. They still need quite a bit of design work. I'm going to nail down the statue and base I think first and then work out if the banners are actually helping the Turret or detracting from it.
@RoadKill2222 - Thanks Ben! I've got a couple of your sculpts in my Ref/Inspiration folder for this guy!
UPDATE:
Changed a few things and added some more details. Still deciding on the cloth bits... may redesign them or rework them.
If you're still looking for feedback on the turret, the one thing I'm not feeling on it is the large bottom stone piece. It feels more naturally formed to me than fractured and broken off of a statue. Maybe it could be remnant pieces of a shattered robe or something.
Seriously turning out great though!
Update for tonight:
Low Poly on the turret and an initial bake. Spotted a few uv issues so I will tweak those and then probably be pretty good to go. Here's the first bake. Mixed the green channel from a bent normal map, AO and a top down gradient map. Also, I baked it down to a 1024x2048. That way I have the other half of the texture for the base.
Time to sleep....
Inspiring!
Here's the start on the base texture, basically the result of everything described above.
So from here, I am acually putting this one on hold and going to start on the den. I'd like to get all the modeling/uvs done and then have all the remaining time for texturing both pieces. So my next update should be on the den. Kinda hard to set it aside, as I love texturing, but I want to make sure I set aside proper time to get the den modeled out as well. So here I go!!!
I reworked my concept a bit and got it worked into a screenshot from their new interactive map. So enough with the concept stuff... I'll work the rest out as I go.
Here's what I'm shooting for!
Sorry I've been lame and haven't updated in a bit!! I'm still working away on this stuff. My den is pretty close to done, and I'm working on my turret update. I'll post up pics and stuff really soon.
But for now here's a couple things...
This ended up being my final concept idea for the den:
And here is an update on my turret!
I'll post my den progress soon, but its almost done, so I'm just going to finish it first.