DOTA2 Character Guide

Hazardous

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterArtGuide.pdf

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterTextureGuide.pdf

I'm not sure if this is up anywhere else, feel free to remove if so.

I just think every character artist needs a copy of this tome of goodness on their wall!!

THANK YOU VALVE!!!

EtotheRic

Sweet!

Mongrelman

Sweet, nice find.

crazyfingers

Aye, this is super exciting and i hope it trends at other game companies! I've been toying with the idea of doing a set myself, think i'll wait a few weeks before starting one though, little busy atm.


It's a great chance to do some zbrush work and maybe even get some pocket change while getting your art in a valve game. I mean... what more can you ask for?

seth.

brilliant, thanks for the share Haz.

ceebee

SAVED.

crazyfingers

Thought this might be helpful to you guys:

http://stats.dota2.be/herostats/recent

If you sort by matches you can see which heroes are the most popular and get an idea of who might be a good hero to do a revamp for. Note that some heroes are new such as phantom assassin and chaos night so their numbers are a bit inflated. Phantom assassin tends to be pretty popular globally as a dota hero though.

Dylan Brady

is there an explanation of the copywright/usage restrictions on what can go in the game?
would suck to find out my Harry Potter character model wouldn't get put in

ScudzAlmighty

Copyright infringement: Even if you made the model yourself, if you used an existing likeness, it’s copyright infringement. We can't and won't put other people's intellectual property in our game, for the simple reason that we don't own it. They do. We will automatically reject any items based on existing intellectual property.

- from the workshop page, though should be considered a standard anwser for any pre-existing character/design being used without express written permission.

Swizzle

After reading through their texturing process, I realized that I follow pretty much exactly the same method I use for a lot of my texturing. Sweet!

ablaine

Thanks Haz! Great find.

papagersi

thanks for sharing it Haz!

D4V1DC

Prayers have been answered! Leave It to Valve to do something else awesome, their cool points are sky rocketing.

Shiniku

Wow, those are great, so inspiring too. Thanks for the links!

wasker

Oooh! saw this a couple of days ago, it's a really cool art guide. I wish more companies would release and do cool stuff like this.

mospheric

Wow this is inspiring! Thanks Hazardous for posting this! Definitely going to incorporate some of this workflow.

Mcejn

Well put together. Good style guides.

MainManiac

Would the point light baking thing only really be used on stylized art or can it be used on more next gen type models? And what exactly would it help? Not only that, would baking point lights be done in Max?

This is really cool!

ZacD

frell wrote: »

Would the point light baking thing only really be used on stylized art or can it be used on more next gen type models? And what exactly would it help? Not only that, would baking point lights be done in Max?

This is really cool!

It's mostly for stylized work, these characters are always going to be lit from above and they want the characters dark on bottom and light on top, that map helps with both those requirements.

DLoud

Anyone have a good workflow for baking the lights in maya?

crazyfingers

I wouldn't expect it to be too different from Max, Dloud.

Make sure you enable advanced lighting options, and put in a global light with maybe 30% strength and a couple well positioned spots at maybe 30% then just bake. You could even do each light separately and adjust the opacity and levels to fine tune it using other in game textures as a reference.

DrunkShaman

Hazardous wrote: »

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterArtGuide.pdf

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterTextureGuide.pdf

I'm not sure if this is up anywhere else, feel free to remove if so.

I just think every character artist needs a copy of this tome of goodness on their wall!!

THANK YOU VALVE!!!

Thanks to Valve indeed. It is not necessary to mount these on our wall (since I only have one wall, which happens when you are sharing the room,) but this definitely should go to our artist guide archives.

Frump

I really like the examples of using a value gradient over the entire character. It's a technique I've heard of before and they make great use of it here. I'm going to certainly start using that.

As usual, Valve are the bestest.

PaulP

Nice find, thanks!

Hazardous

YES!!!! that is awesome

ablaine

dustinbrown wrote: »

Well it's not tacked to my wall, but I did get them printed into a little booklet at Kinko's. I don't know why, but for some reason I tend to review and appreciate a thing more if I have a physical copy of it.

Yes! I'm so doing that. I'm doing that TONIGHT!

I was going to try to find some website online to print it and deliver it to me.. but there's a kinkos store down the street. Thanks for the idea!

lancemaker

whats the point ? i cant submit becouse i dont have a key.

Lennyagony

lancemaker wrote: »

whats the point ? i cant submit becouse i dont have a key.

Just sign upto the beta opt in through steam? it only took a few days before i could download and play.

Im a first timer for DOTA, its pretty awesome.

IEatApples

lancemaker wrote: »

whats the point ? i cant submit becouse i dont have a key.

Plus if your in a hurry to get into the game and start making stuff, it is possible to buy into the beta for £25 i think it is. In the dota 2 items you can basically buy a beta key, probably need to know someone who already is in though.

Ged

I just wanna say I love these guides, such a great art style

zicoV

dustinbrown wrote: »

Well it's not tacked to my wall, but I did get them printed into a little booklet at Kinko's. I don't know why, but for some reason I tend to review and appreciate a thing more if I have a physical copy of it.

Brillant!
I'm making that first thing monday