[Dota2] – Phantom Lancer – Pole's Knight

Kodomaru

Reserving my spot. I have some concept down, I need to get some time to post it. Hopefully tonight.

Kodomaru

I've done some concept art on my armor for Phantom lancer. A big part of playing with PL is the illusions, so I wanted to make armor that wasn't straight forward (if that makes sense). I designed armor with a lot of loops and spins. Here is the concept art. Let me know what you think.

Kodomaru

So, I jumped into making the arm. This is my first time with 3d modeling, but I think I was able to pick it up quickly. I realize the difficulty with PL is the low polycount limit. When I had finished the arm initially, it had a 750 polycount, so I had to keep deleting unnecessary faces and combining others to drop it down by half. I think it turned out as I wanted it to, though.

Kodomaru

Started the belt as in the concept art, but didn't like the way it turned out. I'm going to rework it.

Kodomaru

Reworked the belt, I like the current one better

Kodomaru

Finished the shoulder:

agentfx

looks interesting, maybe a little too close to stock but hard to say, put the character in there for blocking so we can see it in context.

Kodomaru

Here it is in context:







I think that I need to make the loops on the belt larger to match the shoulder and arms.

Also, here is an idea I've been messing around with, but I'm not sure of (the PL on his chest):

Kodomaru

After a bit of break, I have finally taught myself how to texture and such. I have finished texturing the gauntlets and have started the belt. Here is the current status:

Kodomaru

Got a lot more texturing done:





Going to have pictures of the spear up in a bit, I'm pretty proud of it.

Kodomaru

Finished Spear:

Kodomaru

Anyone out there? Taking suggestions.

Kodomaru

And with that, the contest is over. I had a great time trying my hand at modeling. It's been fun learning this new skill. I did have a couple of moments where I'd figure out something and realize how difficult I made it on myself or how I could have easily improved my product (I figured out normals last). That's okay, though. I'm pretty happy with how my first project turned out and will definitely consider doing it again.

Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to properly figure out rigging, so I had to make major adjustments to my product. I almost considered removing the belt with how it turned out on the character. I was very pleased with how my spear turned out, though. It rigged nicely the first time I tried.

Some of the other entries I've seen are just stunning; they may be better than any other items on the market right now. I'd like to congratulate all of the other entries. I will post a link to my dota workshop page in a following comment.

Peace.

Kodomaru

Shoulders: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=111478818

Arms: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=111482088&searchtext=

Belt: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=111362052&searchtext=

Spear:http://http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=111375243&searchtext=