Hi all, I'm hoping to jump on next month's competition as I'm fairly confident with Maya but don't have any experience with ZBrush.
Does anyone have any tutorials that they found particularly helpful when learning ZBrush for the first time? and is there anything I should know before going into this comp?
Many thanks!
Wasn't the whole point of these competitions was to create sets for heroes that don't get much love while providing a friendly competitive environment for constructive criticism and healthy growth?
Correct, however "doesn't have any items" is different to "don't get much love" -- I personally haven't seen many Lone Druid/Batrider/Enchant items/sets recently other than a few standouts.
Anyway, it was just one idea, you guys should suggest your own
I thought batrider was among the heros when we did storm spirit - about the time anuxi did her bat. I could be wrong. Maybe we could switch gears for a month and do wards or something? Still..i do want to make a bear
Edit* maybe wards and/or abilities isn't a terrible idea. A bit more complicated maybe
Some heroes with 1 or 2 sets which I think would be great options (in no particular order): Razor, Nyx Assassin, Necrolyte, Shadow Demon, Shadow Shaman, Silencer, Spirit Breaker, Warlock, Enchantress, Disruptor, Chen, Chaos Knight and Batrider.
Here's TV's ideas with the appropriate heroes and an extra list I thought of while writing all of this out
[*]"legless" heroes
- Death Prophet
- Lich
- Lina (she has two but she doesn't really use them ;D )
- Medusa
- Morphling
- Naga Siren
- Razor
- Slardar
[*]heroes with 4 or more legs
- Broodmother
- Centaur Warrunner
- Enchantress
- Leshrac
- Lycanthrope
- Meepo..?
- Nyx Assassin
- Outworld Devourer
- Sand King
- Weaver
[*]The First Few (first set of heroes with items added to the Store)
- Nature's Prophet
- Juggernaut
- Axe
- Faceless Void
- Sven
- Witch Doctor
- Bloodseeker
- Dragon Knight
- Kunkka
- Tidehunter
- Invoker
- Bounty Hunter
- Omniknight
Some great ideas all around, it should probably be fielded to Reddit to make the final choice, as all the choices are pretty good and the Reddit process hasn't failed us yet.
As for me im partial to the initial idea of the winners bracket or +4legs, mostly because im bias and want to make something for Enchantress :poly121:.
Considering the International 3 is coming up, how about a focus on heroes that are popular picks in tournaments?
There's a new balance patch coming out soon which will totally change which heroes will be popular for competitive play - I think that's definitely a good idea but I think it would be cool for maybe the month before TI3.
hey guys, sorry for the delay on the finished entries, i started adding those and is looking really nice with the thumbnails =]
dont forget to use the smaller thumbnail, the one with 200 pixels and you guys will make my life so much easier =]
did i miss any finished one that used that coding?
btw, im planning to switch the rules post with the finished entries, the finished one being the first one and the rules the second, do you guys think its a good idea?
I've been crazy busy for the past month and a half, but managed to squeeze in this Medusa set. She was a real challenge to work on, but I hope you all like it!
I've been crazy busy for the past month and a half, but managed to squeeze in this Medusa set. She was a real challenge to work on, but I hope you all like it!
Wow this looks pretty awesome!
Don't like the heroe that much but this really needs to get ingame! Great work, didn't expected this at all which even makes it better..
Heroes of old? Ie heroes who used to get lots of sets but no longer get any love. Drow, axe, morphling, invoker, sven, omni, and witchdoctor.
So I decided to finish up these wings too, should have them up by the end of the day!
Looks awesome Anuxi!
I'm having a bad time doing my wings (yeah, I'm still with the SWM set). That time when you are about to finish something and then you realize that some piece is really shitty, so...I'm still on it! I hope I can finish before the deadline
Btw, great job everyone, SWMs, Tusks and Medusas are gorgeous! Polycount is awesome as always
How about a season themed competition? Like a summer splash party with Tidehunter, Morphling, Slardar, Siren, and maybe Slark. We could do it every 3 months for each season.
Though it didn't get much response on the workshop, I completed my 'Goldwing Staff' for Skywrath. I just updated it with some texture tweaks and scale/proportion changes.
I'm also pushing to finish a Medusa bow. Here is a rough normal/AO.
Anuxi, I love how those wings turned out. Very cool.
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Does anyone have any tutorials that they found particularly helpful when learning ZBrush for the first time? and is there anything I should know before going into this comp?
Many thanks!
btw, we need to think on the next month!
any suggestion?
here's our result
Seems like a decent bunch.
i forsee 20 bears.
That was just March's theme.
Wasn't the whole point of these competitions was to create sets for heroes that don't get much love while providing a friendly competitive environment for constructive criticism and healthy growth?
Anyway, it was just one idea, you guys should suggest your own
Edit* maybe wards and/or abilities isn't a terrible idea. A bit more complicated maybe
Here's a list of all in-game cosmetics of each hero, ordered alphabetically:
A through L
M through Z
Some heroes with 1 or 2 sets which I think would be great options (in no particular order): Razor, Nyx Assassin, Necrolyte, Shadow Demon, Shadow Shaman, Silencer, Spirit Breaker, Warlock, Enchantress, Disruptor, Chen, Chaos Knight and Batrider.
hahaha that was a creative idea
we still have heroes without sets? i dont think so at this moment
we could also list the ones with less sets and let reddit decide (without repeating the one we already made)
we can also go some crazy ideas like:
=]
EDIT: as Insaneophobia said, heroes with mount is a good one.
Maybe removing CK since he's just got a set and has a tonne of items in the Workshop.
So I decided to finish up these wings too, should have them up by the end of the day!
[*]"legless" heroes
- Death Prophet
- Lich
- Lina (she has two but she doesn't really use them ;D )
- Medusa
- Morphling
- Naga Siren
- Razor
- Slardar
[*]heroes with 4 or more legs
- Broodmother
- Centaur Warrunner
- Enchantress
- Leshrac
- Lycanthrope
- Meepo..?
- Nyx Assassin
- Outworld Devourer
- Sand King
- Weaver
[*]heroes tha can self multiply
- Brewmaster
- Meepo
- Naga Siren
- Phantom Lancer
- Rubick
- Shadow Demon
- Spectre
[*]strengh, int or agility heroes
Strength
- Alchemist
- Axe
- Beastmaster
- Brewmaster
- Centaur Warrunner
- Doom
- Dragon Knight
- Huskar
- Kunkka
- Lycanthrope
- Omniknight
- Pudge
- Sand King
- Skeleton King
- Slardar
- Spirit Breaker
- Sven
- Tidehunter
- Tusk
Intelligence
- Batrider
- Chen
- Crystal Maiden
- Dark Seer
- Dazzle
- Death Prophet
- Disruptor
- Enchantress
- Invoker
- Keeper of the Light
- Leshrac
- Lich
- Lina
- Lion
- Nature's Prophet
- Necrolyte
- Ogre Magi
- Outworld Devourer
- Pugna
- Queen of Pain
- Rubick
- Shadow Demon
- Shadow Shaman
- Silencer
- Skywrath Mage
- Warlock
- Windruner
- Witch Doctor
Agility
- Anti-Mage
- Bloodseeker
- Bounty Hunter
- Broodmother
- Clinkz
- Drow Ranger
- Faceless Void
- Juggernaut
- Lone Druid
- Medusa
- Meepo
- Mirana
- Morphling
- Naga Siren
- Nyx Assassin
- Phantom Assassin
- Phantom Lancer
- Razor
- Riki
- Slark
- Sniper
- Spectre
- Templar Assassin
- Ursa
-Weaver
[*]The First Few (first set of heroes with items added to the Store)
- Nature's Prophet
- Juggernaut
- Axe
- Faceless Void
- Sven
- Witch Doctor
- Bloodseeker
- Dragon Knight
- Kunkka
- Tidehunter
- Invoker
- Bounty Hunter
- Omniknight
4+ legs is my favorite of those two personally.
As for me im partial to the initial idea of the winners bracket or +4legs, mostly because im bias and want to make something for Enchantress :poly121:.
awesome work Anuxi!
its just me that dont like those wings animation? they look lifeless...
Valve animators are gods for me, i will never say anything different, maybe i should start liking this wing =]
@Bronto!!! you made an amazing job!! congrats mate!
im up to that idea of selecting couple categories and let reddit decide
and that idea of old heroes is great! =]
dont forget to use the smaller thumbnail, the one with 200 pixels and you guys will make my life so much easier =]
did i miss any finished one that used that coding?
btw, im planning to switch the rules post with the finished entries, the finished one being the first one and the rules the second, do you guys think its a good idea?
Wow this looks pretty awesome!
Don't like the heroe that much but this really needs to get ingame! Great work, didn't expected this at all which even makes it better..
Looks awesome Anuxi!
I'm having a bad time doing my wings (yeah, I'm still with the SWM set). That time when you are about to finish something and then you realize that some piece is really shitty, so...I'm still on it! I hope I can finish before the deadline
Btw, great job everyone, SWMs, Tusks and Medusas are gorgeous! Polycount is awesome as always
I hope I got you guys in the mood.
The deadline pressure is mounting! Haha
I'm still fiddling about with my high poly. I'm so indecisive... I work well under pressure though, so this should be interesting.
Though it didn't get much response on the workshop, I completed my 'Goldwing Staff' for Skywrath. I just updated it with some texture tweaks and scale/proportion changes.
I'm also pushing to finish a Medusa bow. Here is a rough normal/AO.
Anuxi, I love how those wings turned out. Very cool.
omg guys, those links are making my life so much easier! thanks =]]
btw guys, any more suggestion of the theme? we could go for 2 or 3 themes, let reddit decide and make another pool for the heroes
Bounty hunter
Phantom assassin
Skeleton king
Chaos knight
Juggernaut
Natural bash-men
Spirit breaker
Faceless Void
Slardar
Storm Spirit
Disruptor
Razor
Hmm....I think I did this wrong? Only way I got it to show up decently was using the code tag...
Anyway, what a great month for items!
Sniper
Gyrocopter
Clockwerk
Tinker
I think out of those four only Sniper is available for the workshop right now though.
congrats mihalceanu!
-Riki
-Ta
-Nyx