[Dota 2] - Antimage - TBD

fICHTARRR

Hi,

I'm really late to the party, but since the Gaben choose to extend the deadline and I have a lot of free time in the next two weeks I decided to enter the contest. Who am I to judge the Gaben?
I'm pretty new to this whole fancy 3D thing, so I'll try to use this contest as an opportunity to learn rather than to compete.

I will try to make a set for Antimage that toys around with his origins as a Turstarkuri acolyte. So they are all more or less monk-themed.



1. The Warrior Monk - Pretty straightforward.
2. The Pilgrim - Hiding his face and plastering the Turstarkuri wisdom all over his attire and a bottle full of booze to defeat the boredom of travel. That's how you convince people that your order ist pretty cool.
3. The Devout - After the assault on the monastery he grabbed all the relics and scrolls he could find and strapped it all over his body to protect them and himself. The gong of Gong-Gong broke during the massacre, but he saved the parts and build them in a weapon to slice up magicusers.


Right now nr.3 is my favourite, but I believe it's not antimagy and cool enough for a pubstomper like him. I'm looking forward to your opinions...

Phet

I like all of your concept. I hope that you can make them.

Okoo

#2 weapons are really nice!

Some Jerk

Number 2 does seem to be the strongest of them. 3 makes him look like some sort of weird rapper and I'm not feeling the hair from 1.

D4V1DC

#2 weapons, belt

#1's bracers and neck/chest pieces

Thats It for me, nice work.

Hope to help you out if I can along the way, but I might forget so don't rely on me, better than no help.

fICHTARRR

So, I decided to go with parts of nr.3 simply because the scrolls and round shapes should be the most readable in the topdown view. I hope. For the weapons I'll try to combine the broken gong with the shapes of 2.
I'm still not sure about the head. Right now it's a pigtail wrapped in cloth until I have a better idea.

Here is my first sculpt. I'll try to tone down the visual noise tomorrow, to get closer to the sleek antimage design. I guess I got carried away trying out stuff, after 2 days of zbrush online tutorials.

Phet

AWESOME! i love u man

fICHTARRR

Thanks!

Retopo and normals. That is incredibly boring.

LOD0 with 256px normal. Now I have to figure out how to get rid of all the small mistakes...


E: And the Rest. I'll redo the shoulders so they don't look like a glam rock outfit.

fICHTARRR

Small update before I go to bed. Started to paint the textures. So much to do tomorrow



E: More progress. Looks nothing like the concepts, but who cares. #YOLO

bugball

aww i really liked your first skirt model :O to bad you didn't go into it!

Axez D. Nyde

How do the scrolls stay furled on the edges? Magic? :poly124: Not with the Antimage I guess, though

bugball

oh and I hope those are not magic scrolls! Antimage is not the kind of guy who likes the magic...

fICHTARRR

Oh, he glued them together. Everybody who had an interest in them is dead and the antimage can't read.

Axez D. Nyde

Yeah, that leaves him to banging the gong as a past time activity

fICHTARRR

Mindlessly banging a gong in his past time is the best preparation for rightclicking enemy heroes during his working hours.

finished diffuse:

naruSol

Can we get a clearer look of that weapon? I really can't get my head around those shapes in this shot.

fICHTARRR

Sure. The original concept was a doubleblade crafted of the parts of an temple gong(or any othe round shaped relic), that broke during the siege of the monastery. I know it's stupid, but I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic makeshift stuff, so I decided to give it a try. But the task was well beyond my ability as a (3d) artist and I could not make it readable. Maybe I'll make a new weapon after I got the other items ingame.

naruSol

I think you just have too much going on there. Maybe just make the whole thing out of the bronze color you have for the detailing? A little less damage might help too.