Mecha'Maw Riot's Kog'Maw

sjuskadur

Hey guys! I recently did a character art test for Riot, the limits were 8k polys and 1 2k texture. I know I would have been able to have fewer polys but because I had to do this in 2 weeks I decided not to stress about it
And this was the first time I do handpainted textures.

C&C welcome and appreciated!

slosh

This looks pretty nice. 2 weeks seems like a lot of time for just a hand painted model though!

sjuskadur

Yeah. I could have done this in way less time, but I am graduating college so I had to wing this as I was finishing finals.

Borgleader

That's a pretty sweet skin, good job!

sjuskadur

Thanks guys!

Figured I should post my sculpt and initial sketch





as always C&C welcome and appreciated!

Esselle

I love kog'maw and the mecha skin of kha'zix, this is a pretty combination!

smokechok

great!

JDunay

Did you get the job?

sjuskadur

Thanks guys! I really appreciate it!

JDunay, hah I just turned it in on friday, and I am pretty sure they are dealing with a heap of character art tests! so no word yet, and im pretty sure they would want to interview me first lol.

Rhoutermans

Looking good! I think the red parts (eye, but especially the hair/tentacle thingies) could be more glowy. Good luck with the art test!

sjuskadur

Rhoutermans: Thanks , Do you mean bloomy or do you think the red should spill more into the surrounding textures? I was limited to 1 x 2k texture and super simple lighting.

Skillmister

Really cool. The seam down the middle seems (hehe) really obvious though?

Iciban

sick skin! really curious, what did you use the highsculpt for? your not baking normals.

sjuskadur

Skillmister: Yeah, those are things I noticed later on, this project needed one more pass to fix problems like that, but I ran out of time because I was doing this in my final 2 weeks of college. Also first time doing hand painted models so you live and learn )
Iciban: Thanks man For the art test I was supposed to do a high poly sculpt to bake out AO which was supposed to be the base for the texture painting.

Im pretty disappointed with Riot. Quite pissed actually, They ask people to do art test which takes up time and resources, and they do not even have the decency to send you a No answer, Ofcourse after 2 months of not a word, I am fully convinced that I did not get any further, but a general "No" sorry try again later when you are better would have left my respect for the company. It is quite frustrating (And I did mail the art test 2x with a month in between to make sure that they had it and would hopefully at least give me a No). /endrant