Anuxi - DOTA 2 Thread
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Hey all and welcome to the first installment of the Anuxi WAYWO thread train!
First of all some important links!
My workshop
Where you can vote and downvote my shiz
My Twitch.tv Livestream
Where I stream almost every facet of my item creation.
Here is a link to the VOD's in case you want to watch previous recordings in your own time.
My items that have been accepted into the DOTA 2 Store:
Designs of the Slithereen Nobility | Garments of the Nightsilver Sentinel Set | Blessings of the Wildwing Set | Light of the Solar Divine Set | Winter Snowdrop Set | Featherfall Set | Chest of the Shaper Divine (12 items) | TPL QoP Set | Shagbark | Aspects of Summer Set
And here is the latest Wip of the item I'm working on!
Working on a Drow Ice Wurm Set!
First of all some important links!
My workshop
Where you can vote and downvote my shiz
My Twitch.tv Livestream
Where I stream almost every facet of my item creation.
Here is a link to the VOD's in case you want to watch previous recordings in your own time.
My items that have been accepted into the DOTA 2 Store:
Designs of the Slithereen Nobility | Garments of the Nightsilver Sentinel Set | Blessings of the Wildwing Set | Light of the Solar Divine Set | Winter Snowdrop Set | Featherfall Set | Chest of the Shaper Divine (12 items) | TPL QoP Set | Shagbark | Aspects of Summer Set
And here is the latest Wip of the item I'm working on!
Working on a Drow Ice Wurm Set!
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I'm glad you liked the vids, lenny! I'm hoping its helpful to people learning more advanced techniques to modeling.
Zaubereis: yeah now I can't unsee the cat mask now! Dammit! I'll try to ake it a bit better. I've separated the fur colour from the skin colour. I hope that helps or maybe it makes it worse. Argh! I have a long way to go with the textures but its a good point I will keep in mind! Thanks!
Cheers Jeff!
Alright now for the Textures on this cat bat. Started laying out the basic blockout colours thismorning. Always the hardest part.
Here I have also added the black and white values of the original vs my bat. I often to this while planning out colours to make sure the values are similar to the original, for the most part.
Trying to make it the same yet different, very hard! haha
So glad the fbx importer is working again! The bat is just on a default skin. I haven't weighted it properly yet!
I think I might darken the wings a bit more and maybe the grey fur? But its pretty much doneskies!
valve had this to say bout our bat
looks like high contrast is the way to go
I've been watching your stream when I can Anuxinamoon, it's pretty motivating, but it comes on about 12am UK time :*(
I have a crit for the cat-bat: The grey fur around the eyes isn't reading too well to me. At first I thought it was a stone mask or something, for two reasons I think. Mainly its the dark shadows around the eyes. It looks like a flat surface and makes a sort of material difference. I think painting some dim fur 'highlights' in the shadow would help alot. There's also a big difference in material between the jaw and the face - maybe the jaw needs to look more furry?
edit: Here's a paintover from your stream.
Forgive the crappy mouse drawing, I'm at work, but thats the gist of what I meant.
Now I'm onto retopoing my single items that I made up last week
Can I ask you one question.
I post my item in Workshop and then make some changes to the model, and want to update me post.
In Edit menu i can add .zip file ... so the question is
You need to go into the game, go to store>workshop>view my files > edit.
Doing my single weapons and finished my centaur axe today. I dunno what to call it though :<
Speaking of the SS hat...
Also that Storm spirit hat is looking great, really fits the character really well. Great work as always!
Okay I've finished 2 weapon today! Woo!
Also I just blocked out the colours for silencers glave.
Finished two more items today! Only 5 remain!
Also a rough blockout of QoP's wings colours. I'm planning on balancing the blue a bit better, to it gets more intense at the end of the wings and not just all over the place like it is now.
PL Spear looks great. Silhuette and shapes are pretty nice.
Outer circles of Storm's hat seemed some desaturated.
Silencer's weapon looks nice (may be some spikey), reminds BH suriken.
Thanks Pierate and Uliss
One down three to go!
Getting your own chest?
Anyone else mad sandking stuff and found the shader masks to be wack? I want a nice glossy earwing insect slimy carapass look but its just not happening with this guy. I think the yellow spec mixed with a global reduction in spec value makes this impossible
Finished lashrac's horns today!
Thanks Sadies xD Someone on my stream suggested the red, it was a good call
Thanks Bewsii and Robbiek
Haha Crystel! I finally got them all uploaded! And I gathered them all up into a handy collection
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=133304836
Wonder what that 'A' stands for? Grats!
I'm in Anuxi's boat too. I'm a professional 3d artist, not a hobbyist. This isn't play around money for me, it's my income right now. And I like how Valve is spreading the money around nicely. But that stops happening when the chests are taken by one person
EDIT: Btw, just to clarify my position.. I'm not griping at Anuxi :P I think she's an amazing artist, and very nice person. I'm glad she's getting items in the game as she deserves it. I just hope VALVE doesn't make it a habit of dedicating a month's chest to any single contributor in the future. It just hurts the rest of us who don't have the time to submit 10 items in one month, but still depend on workshop money :P