Dota 2 workshop monthly competition
polycounter lvl 9
Hey guys
the idea of this competition is to create sets for a hero defined by voting in a friendly ambient
that way we can bump items to a hero that is needing it and help each other to get the best of its capabilities
its open for everything possible on the dota workshop, like set items, wards and couriers. It just should follow the voting
there is no prize, is just and excuse to keep everyone motivated =]
the winners on each category will be selected by public pool after the deadline
CATEGORIES (sorry we decided on the post but i forget to change here)
-solo item (dont need to be part of a set)
-set
-newcomer item
RULES
1 - open for teams of any size
2 - open for sets, solo itens, couriers, ward and annoucers!? =]
3 - everyone should keep posting feedback on other works
DEADLINES
voting - at least a day so every timezone could vote on it
final submitions - february 28 (as we are doing it for the first time we will have a little more time, the next ones will be a month for each hero)
the heroes to be voted are the newest added on the workshop
-centaur
-slark
-mirana
-keeper of the light
-lesrac
-lich
-darkseer
-batrider
-shadow demon
the voting for february is here
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=50fb472ee4b00f8f291e0051
reddit post about it
http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/16wrxv/the_guys_over_at_polycount_are_starting_up_a/
Winning hero MIRANA
3d visualizer of the model
https://sketchfab.com/embed/9lVs96AuFUAjKjwvsMG0Uf7Yy7b
the link is from the site http://planetdota.com/new.html
Concept sheet
Logo for a fancy presentation
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suggestions from Brandon Reinhart
Wow, that's really awesome. Please keep us at Valve informed so we can help draw attention to the winners, progress threads, etc.
Some advice:
Try to give some attention to heroes that are under-served so far (in terms of amount of content).
The success of sets tracks well with the popularity of the hero. (Although popularity can vary between updates and as Icefrog changes balance.)
Look for heroes that the community seems to have trouble creating content for. Good work can really open up the design landscape and help people think about the dynamic range of potential designs.
Don't forget about single items (instead of full sets). Many of the most popular items in the game are single items. Mounts and weapons make good candidates for this, but it varies by hero.
Mix up these approaches. So maybe one month you do a popular hero and another month you do a hero that has few items.
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POOL RESULT
FINISHED ENTRIES
Sets
Nightsilver Sentinel by Anuxi
Blessings of the Lunar Dragon by Bronto Thunder
Solo item
MoonLight Observer By beetrootChan and Vlad
SnOwl courier by T_Vidotto
Valron, the frost guardian mount by Paskie
the idea of this competition is to create sets for a hero defined by voting in a friendly ambient
that way we can bump items to a hero that is needing it and help each other to get the best of its capabilities
its open for everything possible on the dota workshop, like set items, wards and couriers. It just should follow the voting
there is no prize, is just and excuse to keep everyone motivated =]
the winners on each category will be selected by public pool after the deadline
CATEGORIES (sorry we decided on the post but i forget to change here)
-solo item (dont need to be part of a set)
-set
-newcomer item
RULES
1 - open for teams of any size
2 - open for sets, solo itens, couriers, ward and annoucers!? =]
3 - everyone should keep posting feedback on other works
DEADLINES
voting - at least a day so every timezone could vote on it
final submitions - february 28 (as we are doing it for the first time we will have a little more time, the next ones will be a month for each hero)
the heroes to be voted are the newest added on the workshop
-centaur
-slark
-mirana
-keeper of the light
-lesrac
-lich
-darkseer
-batrider
-shadow demon
the voting for february is here
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=50fb472ee4b00f8f291e0051
reddit post about it
http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/16wrxv/the_guys_over_at_polycount_are_starting_up_a/
Winning hero MIRANA
3d visualizer of the model
https://sketchfab.com/embed/9lVs96AuFUAjKjwvsMG0Uf7Yy7b
the link is from the site http://planetdota.com/new.html
Concept sheet
Logo for a fancy presentation
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suggestions from Brandon Reinhart
Wow, that's really awesome. Please keep us at Valve informed so we can help draw attention to the winners, progress threads, etc.
Some advice:
Try to give some attention to heroes that are under-served so far (in terms of amount of content).
The success of sets tracks well with the popularity of the hero. (Although popularity can vary between updates and as Icefrog changes balance.)
Look for heroes that the community seems to have trouble creating content for. Good work can really open up the design landscape and help people think about the dynamic range of potential designs.
Don't forget about single items (instead of full sets). Many of the most popular items in the game are single items. Mounts and weapons make good candidates for this, but it varies by hero.
Mix up these approaches. So maybe one month you do a popular hero and another month you do a hero that has few items.
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POOL RESULT
FINISHED ENTRIES
Sets
Nightsilver Sentinel by Anuxi
Blessings of the Lunar Dragon by Bronto Thunder
Solo item
MoonLight Observer By beetrootChan and Vlad
SnOwl courier by T_Vidotto
Valron, the frost guardian mount by Paskie
Replies
Is there any rules against working on groups? Or does this have to be a solo thing only? Also, is it limited to just sets? Or can it be anything related to the character? Like wards and couriers? Does it have to be a full set, or if someone didn't have the time, at least contribute one item, like a weapon or armor piece? I have questions!
We start the contest on Monday morning and assuming it's Mirana, since mounts are a bit of a bigger deal, we could make the contest go until the end of Feb? And every competition after that could be at the start of the month.
Just thinking out loud.
@Helenek if groups were good enough for the official Dota 2 contest I don't see why we shouldn't allow them
1 - open for teams of any size
2 - open for sets, solo itens, couriers, ward and annoucers!? =]
the idea is that we have some fun and bump some items, as we are going to do things for the same hero, even the guys that are starting will get some good informations on other works feedback and will share some info like color pallet and design style
will be a lot easier to give feedback since everyone on the competition will be working with the same character and we will be working on what the dota comunity wants =]
im adding a rules section on the first post
+1 for this ^
And i Really like that this is a pretty casual layed back polycount "civil war" style contest, should be fun. And already over 1000 votes on the poll, nice one reddit!
1st-Mirana with 20%
2nd-Keeper of the Light with 14%
3rd-Slark with 12%
that is a good idea, adding to the rules
Same if its slark and all the people doing slark right now make it count?
i think that is not a problem Anuxi
as long as it is in progress should count =]
Agreed. As long as the set is completed by the end of the month then it should count.
Knowing Anuxi it will, just make a 2nd set, or a ward or a courier
A concept sheet
With room for Mounts and all
and room for some jokes and a "brazzers" logo =]
beeing serious now, nice one ninja
i think its a good motivation to people start creating =]
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. These polycount monthly contests are to build practice, skill and a sense of community. Everyone may be having the same issues so everyone can help each other. If the contestants are lucky, they might even get their items into the game but with no guarantee.
The more you practice, the better you get. The better you get, the more chance of your items being accepted ingame.
It'll be funnnnnnnn!
4000 votes with:
1- Mirana - 21%
2 - Keeper of the light - 14%
3 - Slark - 12%
we need a logo to look more professional =]
How's this?
Excellent, you two are organisational kings.
Do we create fresh threads for our WIP's or just post here?
Here's what I'm thinking for my mount, going dragon-themed with this one.
I love Mirana's colour-scheme so much.
Also I have a shiny new avatar!
hahaha amazing!
i like the idea to keep it here, it will be easy to follow everyones update and give feedback
placed the polycount logo over the aegis
bronto, mirana is a lady! your mount need some confortable place for her
btw, is looking really nice, dont forget to worry about the actual bones structure, if you change too much you can get some skinning issues
I've run into issues of skinning before and my concepts being a bit too out-there and not having any functional way of being worked into the game so that's always at the front of my mind whenever designing now.
omg you are right, my bad, was with the luna´s mount in the head
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for someone that want to get inspired by the model, here is a 3d viewer
https://sketchfab.com/embed/9lVs96AuFUAjKjwvsMG0Uf7Yy7b
and here are my first sketches
Gatuja second version =]
This needs to be the official logo of anything involving DOTA and Polycount.
WOOT! I can participate!
Throwing down some colours for the mount. I figure if I get ths looking right then the rest will just fall into place, right?
Trying to keep a similar setup to the original. I had more purple but it broke up too much of the shoulder. So I removed it.
What do you guys think?
What everyone here is thinking right now: "Quick! Must find a new animal to model for mirana or i'll get stuck with a giraffe or something."
With that said, i'm grabbing a snow leopard.
Bronto, nice to see you taking the mount in a pretty different direction. Are you planning to do a full set?
gota love that old school chrome!
Tvidotto, is that a courier? its looking pretty adorable already
Anuxinamoon, all kinds of awesome
Paskie/I-ninja, nice guys, good to see some strong feline entries
Personally im considering trying to make a bear and rougher wilder version all around. Will need to play with that mount rig before i commit to that though, so please don't let me cockblock anyone from running with the same
Not looking so much as a snow leopard yet, but i kind of like it with the "saddle" so i'm going to keep that.
Anuxinamoon - looking great so far! love the painted feeling it has so far
this competition will be awesome!
anuxi will be banned for abusing awesomeness hahaha
great work anuxi
for the guys that are using a more real animal like paskie, i have something for you guys, just send me a message, i will be uploading on the dropbox
@paskie, you could use an real tiger skull to get the shape of your character head, i think that will help
@lenny, yes, its a courier idea, hope to get some time today to work more on it
@helenek - glad that you liked the logo =]]]
You should try making a throw away blockout sculpt. Dont event think about high detail stuff, just make sure it looks good with large forms, the silhouette looks good and the lines aork together.
The blockout phase for me is a spiritual process and its all about the feel of the shape emerging from the screen. Here is a vid I recorded of my blockout phase. Notice the use of reference and my focus on the proportions and silhouette.
http://www.twitch.tv/anuxinamoon/b/357410775
Seeing allready some great things, good luck everyone!
tested some profile concept but im not happy with it, is looking a monkey and i need to be more feline
Sorry its a photo, the computer hung as I was painting your paintover! You need to look at more owl reference and feline reference to get the iconic proportions from both. Here is an example I did in a few minutes because I've just come off looking at 500 owl and cat pictures as I made my owlion xD