[Dota2] - Antimage - TBD

Jalcober

Doing an antimage thing!
Working with the awesome beetrootChan he will be doing concepts and stuff!

Here is the concept so far.

ellisq

I love the weapon concept!

Jalcober

Progress on the weapon!

I recorded the whole thing because it motivates me more
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYnsQdtZTck"]polycount stuff - YouTube[/ame]

Gryn

awesome work jal!

Jalcober

Tried messing around with it in zbrush.

bounchfx

love the direction so far man,especially the helmet and weapons. The sculpt you made looks good so far, but I'd probably make some of the scratches or dents a tad bigger so they'll read in game.

Jalcober

Will do!

EVIL

I would avoid scratches that run with the angles of the blade, it will make the blade look dull and way to damaged. only stick with damage that run across the blade. also keep in mind the direction the blade will slice trough your opponent and try to match the chipping angle to that movement.

watch these darksiders 2 contest video's to get an idea of what I mean
http://livestre.am/1jy8Hv (around 25:10)

Jalcober

Redid the weapon!
Hopefully this is better.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTN4WuTgXZY"]Some sculpting - YouTube[/ame]

Jalcober

Going shopping.

Tvidotto

great work with the weapons! =]

lolobananica

Maybe you should make that jacket to be моrе narrow and along his body. Anyway good work so far, hope I will see more soon

EVIL

rofl at the "haters gonna hate" pose. great looking blades man!

SassaFrass

Haha nice pose! Looking really nice so far.

Beezow

Do the blades really work with the animations? I'm not sure right now, I'll test it later.

My suspicion is that anti-mage mainly uses the other part (the one your weapons dont have) for attacking.

ike_ike

started texturing!

Beezow wrote: »

Do the blades really work with the animations?

i checked his animations quiiiite some time ago so my recollection is a bit patchy but i think he does lots of spinning so it should be okay. worst case scenario he can wield his swords backhanded i guess

Lotto

Really liking this set, hope it translates well from the concept you have drawn.

Jalcober

Workin on the masks right now. Bummer that mask1 doesn't display correctly on HLMV

marul

Nice concept. If you're sure you want to have dents and cracks on the blades, you could maybe work with some reference photos or other similar game weapons. On the other hand, I don't think they will matter much because they are gonna be smaller than 1 pixel in the game so you can remove them altogether.

Are you going to add the strips of cloth to the first one like the concept? If so, I'm curious how it's going to be rigged. (Juggernaut currently has a weapon that has some cloth tied to the pommel as well and I'm jealous)

Pina

Cool concept.
I think that marul has a point there, you either put the cracks bigger or you wont see them on the game.

Jeff Parrott

I like the silhouette of the blade. But your scratches are not going to read in game. Zoom out in ZBrush when you're sculpting. See how things read from far back.

Also you only have small details. You need a good balance of large, medium, and small details on things. Make some larger scratches or something to add to the middle areas of the blade.

Your wraps are blending in with the metal. Make those darker but the spec (not spec power) brighter. That will allow the highlights to catch. Open up a Valve made weapon that has leather wraps and see how they handle the masks. Mimic those.

BearsAremajestic

Looks really great! But won't it hinder with his side-swipe attack animation?