Baby Death Knight - WoW Fan Art

barnesy

Here is a little fella that I started a over the weekend based o nsome conceprt art in "The Art of WoW"

You will have to try and ignore some of the scruffy areas like the teeth on the boots, I have been playing around with all of the major forms etc trying to get the colour balance right. I still need to add some classic wear and tear to the character.

I am going to add some more alphas to the model to break up the hair and to add some cool aura glow to the eyes, as I still have 50 tri's to play with.

He is currently 1,950 tri's, The weapon is 320 tri's.
The character uses 2 256x256 textures and the sword is 128x256.

I might also have a play around and see what they look like at even lower resolutions.



I hope you guys like him

Hang10

hehe, awesome stuff. Diggin the moehawk

dpadam450

See if you can get more contrast in the texture. Right now it just looks plain. Maybe even just tinting in a little color instead of all gray. Could add some scrapes on the knees.

barnesy

Hang10 - Thanks , it should look good with some more alphas

dpadam450 - Your right, it does seem pretty flat. I will see if I can work some more light into it, make the shoulders and helmet stand out.

I am hoping that the scratches and stuff will add to the contrast aswell.

-- UPDATE --

Here is a tiny update, I have managed to finish blocking everything in.

Impala88

maybe give him some dark blue/purple AO using a gradient effect that fills out into the rest of the armor. Possibly see how the armor looks with more colour on it and have a look at maybe adding in some baked spec highlights in places, alot of WoW art uses baked lighting i think.

But yeah, looks pretty cool to me like a lil' gnome!

barnesy

Thanks man , you raised some good points there. The gradient of AO has really helped make the chest area appear believable.

I have also brightened up some of the armour but I am not sure if the knee pads are too bright now.


-- UPDATE --

I have managed to get lots done today. I still need to play around with the contrast and fine details.

I have added the extra planes to the hair to bring the character up to 2000 tri's.



I think I am going to make the skull on the sword much darker as it doesnt seem to fit in with the rest of the colours.

barnesy

I created a little comp to see how the colours matched up etc and they were too bright and contrasting for the background so I have made a paint over. I am going to apply the same adjustments to the textures and create a mini scene to show this guy off.