[DOTA 2] - Sniper

selvesteHE

CURRENT STATUS:

So I'm back on track after a very busy weekend.

I've had a lot of software trouble with zBrush and just technical stuff in general, so it's been very slow today. I've never done anything like this before, so I'm just learning as I go. It's frustrating, but good fun when you manage to push through.

So here's a sculpt of the arm piece, just quick and dirty in Mudbox, not wasting time on details that nobody will see or anything like that. Very rough and simple. This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 1640x936.



_____________________________________________________

INITAL FIRST POST:
Hey! Never entered any of these competitions, but this one looked like fun, so I'm having a go. I've hardly play DOTA at all, and never touched dota2, but I've tried to do my research, so hopefully I'll be able to come up with something viable.

I did a few quick sketches, but nothing that's gonna be of any help to you guys, so here's the first WIP shot of the main blockout for the head piece.

I decided to sort of base the design off Sniper's lore, and how he now has to become a legendary battlefield veteran and what not, so I'm going for something along the lines of "Battle-hardened Sniper" as a key phrase for my design. Going for a mixture of soft leather/fur pieces, plated with metal, the fur is because he's a mountain guy, who also has a long tradition of hunting, so that's obvious. And the plating is get him armored up for / from battle.

So here it is so far - everything is still subject to change of course.



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

selvesteHE

So here's today's update. I tend to like clean and classy armor-sets, so as a result this design is fairly simple as far as silhouette goes, but I aim to make up for that, come texture time.

Current status: - I have the back piece and weapon left before I go on to sculpting. However, I'll probably end up changing the goggles entirely. I also feel like I should add some volume to this shoulder pads, as well as adding some ornament or other asset to his right shoulder to make it stand out a little more.

Not sure how I feel about the crosshair on his hat, there.. What do you reckon?



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

selvesteHE

Spent most of the day figuring out how to import models into the game, took me forever, but I finally got it working after many hours of google.

Tweaked the shoulders a little, added a knife piece - I like the way it looks with one on each shoulder, but it might be a little over the top. What do you think?

selvesteHE

So here I have the blockout pretty much done. Still have the weapon left, but I'm going to move on to sculpting some of these pieces, just to freshen things up a bit, polymodeling gets kinda lame after a while.



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

selvesteHE

So I'm back on track after a very busy weekend.

I've had a lot of software trouble with zBrush and just technical stuff in general, so it's been very slow today. I've never done anything like this before, so I'm just learning as I go. It's frustrating, but good fun when you manage to push through.

So here's a sculpt of the arm piece, just quick and dirty in Mudbox, not wasting time on details that nobody will see or anything like that. Very rough and simple.

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

foeffa

Like the idea, and looking good so far