[Dota 2] - Lina - Battle Mage Armor

zicoV

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Hey guys

My idea is to make a set of "heavy" armor for lina with a bit of plate armor.
I made some thumbs to help me work out the idea.



What do you think ?

luckycat

I will assume 1- 12 left to right, with 4, 8 and 12 on the right end.
My combination would be:
1. shoulder/pauldrons of 1/upper left
2. gauntlets of 3 -
3. skirt/pants 1.

side notes:
a. maybe some shin/leg armor can be made?
b. how would she look with a battle tiara?

otherwise, cool stuff, I also think battle mage concepts are great!

Frump

Don't do the second one, because it looks like she's hanging dong.

Fingus

I'm really digging the plate configuration of the bottom right one, I think it would go very well along with the tattered hem on the second row, or the one to the right of it.

zicoV

I'll draw up a more detailed concept of the different thumbs i like when i get home from work today.

luckycat wrote: »

how would she look with a battle tiara?

Yeah I was thinking that this morning as well and also toying with the idea of a hood for her. We'll see how the concept turns out

JGcount

Haha what Frump said!

I like 11 but feel like she needs a helmet if she has a socket for that?

zicoV

Frump wrote: »

Don't do the second one, because it looks like she's hanging dong.

Totally meant to do that. It's tactical dong protection

Rik

I like the armor from #2 more than any other, but not the dong cape. Maybe combine the shape of capes #3 and #6, or #3, #6, and #9. Those shapes seem to compliment the silhouette value of her #2 armor.

zicoV

Made some more detailed concepts for the armor set. Still not sure exactly where I'm going with this but we will see



Please let me know what you think.

mrpresident

Looks great, I think I like the one on the right more. Although I feel like the shoulders need to be just a little bit more fancy/bigger to balance it out with the very detailed dress. Any ideas for the hair yet?

zicoV

mrpresident wrote: »

Looks great, I think I like the one on the right more. Although I feel like the shoulders need to be just a little bit more fancy/bigger to balance it out with the very detailed dress. Any ideas for the hair yet?

Yeah I'm not really sure my drawing skills are good enough to get my point across so I'll try to do some blockouts later. For the hair style I was thinkinh something like this



I think a ponytail would help give her a more badass look

Frump

I think a ponytail would be a bad choice for Lina. She's fiery and explosive! Ponytails are restrained and conservative.

Give her a bigger more exciting hairstyle. Her default is a good example, it's big and swoopy and animated.

zicoV

Frump wrote: »

I think a ponytail would be a bad choice for Lina. She's fiery and explosive! Ponytails are restrained and conservative.

Give her a bigger more exciting hairstyle. Her default is a good example, it's big and swoopy and animated.

I see what you mean. Hmm.. Cant really think of any hair styles that would fit at the moment so I'll have to do some research at that later. Maybe my girlfriend would know what to make, she loves that crap :b

shanks37

Ponytails are restrained and conservative.

and wearing armour isnt? :P

just make it a messy ponytail and then it'll say badass and determined instead.

case and point, i present Guinevere from that one wierd king arthur movie a while ago.

zicoV

So i decided to try and make some concepts in 3ds max and I've come up with 3 designs so far.







Let me know what you think.

Also I will be in Paris all next week so I probably can't update anything until I get home but I will be working on it

zicoV

I'm finally back to a steady internet connection after a week's vacation.
I didn't get a lot of work done but I've combined the 3 meshes i made and made a paintover of what I'm going to do with it once i get it into zbrush.



Not quite sure what the hell I'm going to do with the belt but I'm sure I'll figure it out

zicoV

Here's my current progress on the armor. Yes I've changed the shoulders again but I like it this time so lets hope i dont have to make anymore

One thing I'm a bit worried about is that maybe there are too many patterns on the armor and it will be too detailed. What do you think ?

zicoV

So i've learned the value of spending a little extra time on the concept so that you don't spend several weeks fucking around with your model trying to get something you like...

I havn't updated because I was never really happy with what I had but I realized I can't keep changing the model so here's what I have so far and this is what I'm going with (Once I polish the hair and cloth ofcorse )



I've started making the low poly and I'll start testing it upload tool tomorrow too see if it works out.

Sleep or not I'll get this fucker done

zicoV

Finally got my bakes done. Still a few touch ups needed but I'm sure I'll get started on the textures today

zicoV

Finally started texturing this thing



I've spend some time altering a few of her items and now I'm finally ready to texture this and hopefully finish in time for the deadline.

Let me know what you think about the colors so far.

bugball

dat hair.. loving it

zicoV

Just a small update on where I am with the textures at the moment

zicoV

All done