Jalcober Dota2 thread

Jalcober

I make stuff and things.
Currently working on an alchemist set concepted by Hawf.

Jalcober

Sculpt for the bracers.

Jalcober

Textures!

Not sure if I should add some orange stripes or something.
Edit tried stripes.

Shammy

Loving the look you're going for, suits Alchemist way better than his current set imo. Can't wait to see it complete!

HntrLuc

This is looking great!

Jalcober

Thanks guys!

BearsAremajestic

This is looking good. I really like the helmet!

BrontoThunder

I'm liking this set -- nice, solid, well-designed forms

Sharc

I think the orange stripes give it some added personality.

sadies

I like the orange stripes too, adds more interest to the bracers. Naice job so far!

Jalcober

Trying out some shapes for the weapon holsters. What do you guys think?

Andyk125

Looks good, maybe add some straps on it?

Jalcober

I will be adding straps
Heres the sculpt for the weapon.

Jalcober

Its all textured up

Gonna work on the masks next.

I-ninja

i like it i like it

Nannou

sexy!

Jalcober

Started work on the small guys hat.

BrontoThunder

Hmm... I'm unsure about the mask for the little guy, it makes him look like a knight where as the armour makes the beast just look plated and intimidating - I think if you could find some cool middleground between armour and mad scientist it would be a lot better.

I really, really love the armour on the beast but yeah, if you could keep that theme without straight-up just armouring up the Alchemist himself it will be perfect.

Jalcober

Good point. I will ask Hawf if he can come up with something different for him.

Jalcober

Thanks i'm happy that you like them. What do you mean by slashes? If you mean the scratches then its detail baked from the highpoly to the normalmap.

Jalcober

Oh those are just done by hand using the clay buildup brush.

Tvidotto

wow, loving that set

remembers a lot the style of that character from madmax, one of my best childhood movies =]

ZUBILO

Can you explain your texturing process? I will be very grateful to you)

Jalcober

The texture is actually really simple. The bakes are what makes the texture look good.
Example:
With bakes

Without bakes

Jalcober

Almost done!

Coyo.Te

love that set. really cool coloring. thx for the texturing stuff. helps understand stuff

BrontoThunder

SO so good!

mrpresident

Looks awesome!

AndrewHelenek

Looking awesome dude!

Jalcober

Thanks for the compliments guys!
I need some names for the set/items got any ideas?

Spudnik

"Blind Charge Essentials"?

Jalcober

Its here!

Vote!

Jalcober

Working on a beast master weapon with ike.

Jalcober

I hope undying gets added to the importer soon.

Jalcober

Working on an Axe set with Robo. Here's the weapon sculpt.

Oroboros

Jalcober wrote: »

I hope undying gets added to the importer soon.

I hope so too. :thumbup:

Чёрный л

how are you doing such smooth surfaces?

Hawt Koffee

Чёрный лис wrote: »

how are you doing such smooth surfaces?

many many subdivisions and edge loops

JayTheRay

I have a question. when you sculpt (i use zbrush) you have to get more subdivision levels before you do anything right. when i export it (is it supposed to be still subdivided or return to original subdivision)?

Jalcober

It should be still divided.

Jalcober

More axe items! Still need more practice at sculpting organic things.

vlad_the_implyer

Jalcober wrote: »

More axe items! Still need more practice at sculpting organic things.

What's up with the normals?
I think you can smooth the folds a bit, just do it like spud does, inverse dam_standard and smooth it out

Jalcober

Its just a flat shaded shot with the green channel of the normal on the model. I still need to bake some things. I will try smoothing of those folds.

Konras

Smoothing? Surely that was Vlads sarcasm. I personally hate dam_standard brush. pinch effect is killing me all the time when I use it. I prefer Orb_crack+clay+flatten or Selwy brushes for cloth.
You probably know this but in case I will paste you this link:
http://www.selwy.com/2009/zbrush-clothes-tutorial/

vlad_the_implyer

Konras wrote: »

Smoothing? Surely that was Vlads sarcasm.

Konras wrote: »

I personally hate dam_standard brush.

Please stop talking for me and push your personal opinion as something better than the method that works (i'm quite sure Jal was watching that stream with me).

The brushes are nice though, nothing you can't do with the other brushes, but i'll try them anyway.

Konras

You got point Vlad. Could have skipped the part about sarcasm.

Jalcober

Axe's axe is too manly for portrait.

Jalcober

Just finished this set up. Up votes are appreciated!

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=152290362

A1mb0t

Awesome work! Having a badass concept art piece certainly doesn't hurt that great set! thumbs up!

Hunter-Killer

Really well done, particularly the scythe!

Jalcober

Thanks guys!