[Dota2] - Naga Siren - Sirens Greed

EVIL

Hero Name: Naga Siren
Set Name: Sirens Greed

Lore (Written by my wife - Isobel)

update with concept art will follow later

D4V1DC

I was like whoa nice presentation, Very nice this sounds like It will be great, looking forward to it.

Isobel

So here are our first set of ideas displaying luxury in velvet and gold.
More detailed would be showing little gems and seashells sown onto her cloth armour.
We are not sure on this yet so next set will be exploring more plate armour and such.
Enjoy!

Spudnik

I would say E is my favorite but I also really like the armor in C. Tough choice... I think though overall if you want to show off luxurious armor etc, it would be better to show plate armor pieces in stead of decorated cloth since usually, those would be the gem-studded relics we would find irl and could connect with better. I think that's why I like C a lot, at least.

Andyk125

I would go for C, that one jumped out right away and the shapes in the armor of waves definetly fits the model really well.

Blackcode

C is way better but you must consider also that the character is very small in dota and top view ( perspective )

Some Jerk

Another vote for c.

Various22

A combination with b and c maybe? body part from b and arms from c!

Isobel

hihi my clothy favourite was F, I wonder what plates we conjure up ^^
(wait...I know, but you guys have to wait muhahaha)

Olphelia

C Also jumped out for me first.

Sharc

B, C and F look very awesome.

beta_channel

C for me as well.

danidem

My toughts: I think you should play a way more with the "hair". At the moment her default hair is a way bigger and, in terms of gameplay, the character shape it's going to be missed a lot. Also I think that playing with that could bring her an awesome luxury feeling!

Great concepts and presentation, good luck!

EVIL

Here is the second set, exploring more hair and plate armour options.

Isobel

P.s. the back of the Octopus hair

bounchfx

I'm quite digging K. I like the idea behind i/j hair but I don't know how well the silhouette would hold up.

I also like Isobel's armor D

Spudnik

H is my favorite one, but I think the turquoise (sp?) lines are making it hard to read the shape of the individual pieces, but I really like the way you shaded those metal pieces in C. So I guess my favorite would be H with the metal quality of C ^^

Hair in H is also my favorite because it keeps the wide silhouette of the original.

JimoUK

Naga Siren moves a lot. She is probably the most animated character in the game. (I don't know if you've played Dota 2 or not, a lot of people on this forum haven't) so keep that in mind when designing for her. The waist point is always moving in the idle animation.

I concepted a set for Naga Siren (not for the contest) and the modeller almost had a gun to his head trying to figure out the rig. If you're curious to see what we came up with click here.

With all of that aside, H is by far the best one. And stick with the blues, don't touch the red ones you did earlier. Maintaining the characters color scheme is incredibly important.

Some Jerk

Yes I'll have to throw in support for H. Octohair is awesome.

I dislike the fins in K and L. Looks too much like a pair of childish pigtails.

LuCh!

also like H,
though J is looking good too!

D4V1DC

G or I.
Nice stuff.

Futashia

omg!!!! i'm in love with these colors!!!! amazing designs as well~<3

Isobel

So a tini tiny update the husband and I are "arguing" about the little sleeves on this one:



I love em (the mini pieces op sleeve above the wrist armour) but does anyone back me up in this?

Futashia

hmm sleeves could work! PERSONALLY I prefer armor plating on the arms, just because she does get up close and personal to slice things up, and armor is siiiiiiiiiiic. I really like the gold thing surrounding her body though.

EVIL

went for an octopus type head like isobel concepted above, still working on the bottom part.

BrontoThunder

Beautiful!

jaydon

Gorgeous guys.

ENODMI

That is gross but awesome:)

EVIL

Started modeling on the headdress, dynamesh is freaking amazing, never imagined it could change the way I look at zbrush (never used it before until today)

anyway, here is the wip, I tried to stick to the concept on the previous page as best as I could, but made some small changes.

Stinkhorse

That is some sweet looking octohead there. I thought you were just going to do the tentacles, but you've done the entire bulbous head sac. I don't know anything about DOTA2's character capabilities, but can you get some jiggle bones on that mess?

Baj Singh

I really like the flow of the tentacles running off the head. They complement the silhouette well. Nice work .

EVIL

small sign of life, took the week off to work on this.
Todo are the bracers, her swords and and the back of the hip armor. after this, retopo, uving, baking etc. hope to have the bakes done before the end of the week so I will have the weekend to get everything loaded into dota2

EVIL

basemesh of her sword

Stinkhorse

I feel all kinds of ways about that pommel design.

EVIL

Due to technical difficulties me and the wife decided the competition was over for us. Seems we made it a bit too difficult for ourselves to finish in time. Fear not! This set will be thrown in the workshop and we will dedicate many hours to begging on the steps of Valve, so people can buy it.
As a teaser we give you the High poly model... Enjoy and you will buy this in the future, due to it's awesomeness



P.s. my wife typed this forgive her insanity

undu

Thanks for going ahead and releasing the set anyway, looks very good

Konras

And just try not to finish this!!
I encourage your wife to kick your ass if you will spend to little time making this!
And as far as technical difficulties that is why we have this community here on Polycount to take technical difficulties right back to oblivion

Stinkhorse

Thanks for the valiant effort guys, it was super inspirational and I'll be looking forward to seeing the final version.

Naso

Even if you didn't finish in time, I can still see this in game at some point if you finish it, submit it to the workshop, doesn't have to be part of the contest for you guys to be winners anyway ( not winners of this contest but you know what I mean )

DashXero

Goddammit! I want this set! Please make this happen!

EVIL

thnx for the kind words guys! really motivates me to finish this, and get it in the workshop!

Isobel

*wife reports for duty*

Asses will be kicked.
Questions will be asked (if he doesn't more ass will be kicked).

Thanks so much for the support guys

Kaho

This looks Majestic, Hope to see it get polished, and do you guys plan on having a tail design? coz it would be sick you could.

Hope it all fits in place.

Goodluck guys I am also looking forward to this.

Isobel

We do have an idea for the tail but that will be a surprise ^^
Can't give away all our cookies now can we!

Back to making sandwiches now, been out of the kitchen way too long