[Riot Art Contest] - anglorum
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Hey there all!
It's been a good long while since I've gone and gotten myself stuck in a personal project of any real magnitude. Needless to say, the eruption of a riot-sponsored contest should have raised alarm bells sooner, but day jobs and personal lives so easily get the better of us.
Either way, I decided to set aside some time tonight and get a good bit of work done on this whole thing. I'm starting on the creep den, and have completed colors on one of my sketches. Ideally I'd like to complete colors on all four of them, since they have given us a rather generous deadline.
Final Updates to the project:
Here are my WIP shots for posterity:
It's been a good long while since I've gone and gotten myself stuck in a personal project of any real magnitude. Needless to say, the eruption of a riot-sponsored contest should have raised alarm bells sooner, but day jobs and personal lives so easily get the better of us.
Either way, I decided to set aside some time tonight and get a good bit of work done on this whole thing. I'm starting on the creep den, and have completed colors on one of my sketches. Ideally I'd like to complete colors on all four of them, since they have given us a rather generous deadline.
Final Updates to the project:
Here are my WIP shots for posterity:
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I think you can make the simple silhouette work on the second one if you break up the open space on of the ground with some interesting shapes.
Nice stuff so far!! looking forward for more :]
oh and remember, we have the choice of either designing a turret or an inhibitor, not both.
I agree though that the Skull den looks a little too sparse at the moment. I suppose I'm kind of nervous about adding TOO much stuff in there, as it feels like the regular dens in the game have relatively little actually going on IN them. Who knows though, I'll probably return to it later and throw a few other bones in there for fun.
Thanks though for the critique, and I'm glad you like the stuff!
Pressing on with the conceptuals. This one needed a little bit of extra lovin, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
It may just be personal preference, but I would like to see a little more plant growth on the skull itself, just to break up the color.
My 2 cents, but you know what your doing!
At first glance I actually thought the skull was an old tree trunk with a big knot hole. Maybe making the bone whiter will help it stand out as bone and not old wood.
Let me know what you guys think?
It's worth noting that this isn't completely unlit I think..? I put it in maya and bumped the ambient color to a billion. Seems to have put it at flat lighting, as maya 2014 doesn't like to run flat lighting in Viewport 2.0 for whatever reason... but I digress. If you guys think it looks too abysmal, I'll take some shots of it in 3dcoat or unity... or I dunno. /fart
I'll go back and do an either strictly inhibitor, or turrent creation once I regain my faculties, and get some well-earned sle-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz!
awesome work, you took up the look very well, model- and texturewise!
good luck farther on...
can you spam some more technical stuff,please (polycount, texture...)?
thanks
But yeah, I took a lot of time to really study the architectural and color beats of the nexus and ihibitors. I tried not to include too much that wasn't already alluded to from a structural perspective, but I wanted to push the avian aesthetic a lot more.
So far as tech specs: 1X 2048 diffuse (unlit) and about 7100 tris.
I'll post flats at the end of the project, but they're not really that spectacular to look at, since I knew I'd be hand painting this in 3D coat, I war pretty merciless on the seams.
FemCharles: Thanks a ton! Your work so far has been great as well!
after taking a look once again i just saw one little thing you might adjust. i think the crystal might not take so much of the blue light. as it is the source of energy (and magic - yey!) it should just absorb or overpower all the blue light...
just my opinion, though
greets
It's still got some tweaking to go, but I'm fairly happy with how it turned out for all of 3 days work.
Gonna be eating some verts for thanksgiving.
I'm definitely still open to critique, but this is as done as I can call this for tonight.
Also upon revisiting it a couple days later, I can see that my trees are WAYYYYYY off. I think the trees are the most difficult thing to stylistically replicate to begin with, so I'm going to give them a bit more TLC before I call this thing completely finished. Probably reduce the contrast towards the bottom and try to match the color a lil more accurately.
So far as the reflections and stuff in the metal, it was just down to out-n-out hand painted-ness. I did some very basic AO bakes for the bigger Inhibitor (nexus maybe I dunno) but for the smaller one, I did an extensive amount of baking and had a high poly and urrytang. But the funny thing is, I wound up spending an exorbitant amount of time painting over them anyways. I dunno, the lesson I've really learned since beginning this contest is that obtaining any real finalistic data from zbrush to do hand painted stuff with is HARD. I feel like I'd need some actual lessons in order to make it work, and not just have the normal maps fight me in the end result *if I'm using normal maps that is* or to just not have all the final textures look so... pre-computed, if that makes any sense.
I'm probably going to do some hand painted streams here soon, and I'd be happy to post on here when I do, if you're interested.
Anyways can't wait till the final ver is done. good luck!
Good work man and Good luck!
Food for thought though I saw some debate on another thread on how the current new summoner's rift is made right now, and there's a lot of implication that most of the rock work is actually just planes; and another separate entry on the environment thread seemed to use that method and it has exactly the same feel. I don't know if this is the kind of work you usually like to do, so thought I'd pass the info on since I found out about it.
Again, great job and I like what you did!