[Dota2] – Faceless Void – Ancient Cultist

Konras

FINISHED!!!!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=111293784


Hello all fellow Polycounters!
Together with my girlfriend Madzia we decided to give it a try with this new fantastic Dota 2 contest. We will see what we can make of Faceless Void. For this type of character we found plenty of inspiration in ancient Egypt and everything based on it.

For starter here is a concept made by Madzia (I hope she will say hi as soon as she will have an valid account here )


Hope you like it. C&C are welcome as always.
Also if some experience Dota 2 player could tell if that design will suit the game universe we would be very happy

hopgood

Love the concept so far

lemusic

sick idea

Roar

Hi,
I'm a DotA player with no modelling experience, but I have two suggestions that might help concept-wise (especially #2).
1. The Egyptian headpiece is a little over the top for me. I think something more original would give you guys a better chance.
2. The sword looks great, but doesn't fit Void at all. He always uses a mace or similar weapon. One of the hero's key abilities is a 'Bash' (Time Lock), which requires a blunt force weapon.

Overall I think this design looks awesome.

Clyptic

Awesome!

fremax

Very interesting

Konras

Thanks for comments everyone, especially Roar.
Regarding design we will rethink the sword idea. Maybe some mace or staff will suit him better.

As for the hat I am really into it, even started blocking it out. It will be quite a challenge since default Void's face is an switchable item (and it has 700 tri already, so after optimizing it not much is left for actual decoration )

Screen has default belt on. Headpiece (with optimized face) right now has 460 tri.. so its somewhere between LOD0 and LOD1.

Okoo

Good set.. except the helmet.. xD sry

shanks37

am i the only one that likes the pharaoh's hood? : /

tjallen8

The original concept looks great. I like the hood from behind as seen in the bottom right of the latest concept. But I agree with Roar and others that the hood is over the top, especially with the stripes. I don't know what to suggest though.

I also agree with Roar about the sword. It will need to be a one handed mace to go with his attack animations.

Konras

Thanks for comments.
As for now I have blocked down the belt area

Lennyagony

Looking really nice Konras, one thing to keep in mind is his head slot, how it replaces his entire head and how that may effect your budget for that slot.

foeffa

Looks sick! =o As an avid void player, this gives me nerd chills.

Echronos

Wow man...this looks awesome! Really loved the concept. I'm having the same issues with the head poly count. At the end, I attached the "helmet" to the shoulders.


Keep it up man! I'm making a faceless void set too. Check it out later

P05TMAN

Really liking this idea so far. Not a lot of people play on the fact that FV jumps between times and dimensions. Drawing Egyptian inspiration is badass. My only input is maybe think about making changes to the weapon design concept. I agree with whats already been said here. Maybe think of more of a staff-like weapon? With obvious Egyptian references like an eagle or other prominent animal. Just a thought but either way, best of luck and cant wait to see more!

Beezow

You should really keep the weapon a mace. He has a ton of voicelines that reference the fact that he does wield a mace.

I may be faceless, but I'm not maceless!

Madzia

conceptart update, I changed shoulders, they were to similar to orginals

JohnArr

Cool update! Shoulders and head look great and the more exposed areas lighten the top half of the character, tieing in nicely with the gradient valve suggest.

Konras

Thanks everyone for comments!! I hope you like new weapon design (it's a mace )
Here is a little update showing sculpting. I cry knowing how small final textures will be and how little detail I can put there . Thinnest detail will be added later in 2D.

Cheers!

Clyptic

Very nice models and the new weapon design looks great!

Konras

More progress on hipoly

Need to speed up!!

ENODMI

Nice sculpt:)

Clyptic

Damn that looks good!

Konras

Thanks for comments, I am really happy that you like it
Here is finished sculpt (I hope so )

Still lot to do... I even didn't started weapon yet
Looking forward for comments!!

Konras

Bake of head.
It's 400 tri 256x256 texture. Now it's just colorless diffuse + normal.

I am really happy that it looks quite sharp, I was a bit worried what will came from 256 texture
I will probably steal face part texture space from original head model later.

foeffa

Very slick! GJ

Konras

Low poly shoulders and arms done.

Final texture size applied to model.
I am happy with the results. I don't see to much blurry parts.
Arms part was a bit complicated because of small triangle limit LoD0=400 LoD1=350.
Only 50 tri difference between LODs that sad .

Pina

Cool concept!
Did you test all the parts in-game before you baked?

Konras

Thanks for comment Pina
As for in game testing I exported head some basic geometry just at the beginning to see how whole process works (I learned that no one should work with FBX files ). As for baked parts I exported head to see how basic maps will work and to check normal direction. We will see soon how proper skinning will work for me. Wish me luck.
Ok, all low poly done.
I will have to remove some loops in belt part for LOD1. In other parts I will add some loops and backface parts of geometry for LOD0 because now they have LOD1 tri count already. Textures on model below are 4x.

Madzia

Here's first color test with flat light, no normalmaps. I will add details and more highlights in next days

Deus.Vult

Awesome! A little more hint of gold would be much better i think. This is probably gonna be the first set of void that I like. GJ and keep up the good work!

BrontoThunder

It's definitely well-made, not sure about the Pharaoh head-piece but everything else looks really nice. The weapon will really tie it all together

Konras

Here are some in game shots.
Work in progress

Madzia

random stuff that came out while preparing final pics

Konras

We managed to put everything together.
Here is a link to workshop:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=111293784


Looking forward to your thoughts. Hope you will like it!

Clyptic

Looks awesome!

EVIL

aww no weapon replacement? looks awesome btw!

Naso

Looks good, but I don't know about the color scheme on the head, it pops out a lot in game. Other than that, everything is really nice!

Konras

Thanks for comments.
EVIL Sadly our weapon design as we decided didn't match Void well. Surely we will work on something suitable for him after contest will end to not break the rules now.
Naso Thanks. At firs we tested darker green color for head gear, but it was not visible in game from distance. After that we decided to brighten it up and match more his crystals color. Now as suggested in Valve materials character has vertical intensity gradient, and in my opinion colors fit nicely together

Lotto

The headpiece is one of the best parts of this set. Haters be damned. It fits in well enough with his lore and makes his character a lot more interesting than just all these green crystals popping out of him (no offense to those sets). Good job guys, really. Hope it makes it into the game!