VG Remix - Warcraft's Orgrimmar

Xeik

Hey Polycount community!
I'm a huge fan of the Warcraft franchise. As a Hordie, I wanted to see the city Orgrimmar in the low poly style

The plan is to make the Valley of Strength-portion of old (pre-Cata) Orgrimmar, as well as the characters Thrall, Vol'jin and Cairne.

Xeik

Modelled Thrall today currently UV-mapping him.

Coyo.Te

not to discourage you but isnt wow orgrimmar already pretty lowpoly ^^

Xeik

Yes, but not as lowpoly as this contest requires ^^ especially not the textures. I see people doing stuff like FF7, which is already lowpoly, so it should be fine

a3sthesia

Lower poly! AND, in diorama-mode. Wicked

Spacey

Something to keep in mind when doing models with this poly limit is what forms are really important to the feel of the character design. For example, on the shoulder pads you've made a small indent along the middle where the spikes sit. As you have it those triangles are adding nothing to the model while increasing the polycount. I'm not saying those indents should be taken out, but if you feel they're important enough to leave in I'd make them more pronounced.

Same with the hair. Is it worth it to model the thickness of the hair or would a simple plane of polys for each strand work better?

Another thing is functionality. The pointy thumb combined with the short fingers makes the hand look weird. And because it is so low poly and lacks any real joint loops I'd anticipate it animating poorly. Chopping off the thumb and including it into a fist might be a better solution.

Hope that's helpful. Good luck!

Xeik

Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep this in mind while making the other characters

Xeik

Thrall's texture is done

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Xeik

One of the most remembered locations in Org: The Bank

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Xeik

A multi-purpose hut, also serves as an inn.

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FlashL

I like the recent huts you've posted : )

I'm with spacey though, especially on the hands. When looking at your model from the side, I can't even tell it's a hand - it looks like he has no hand. I understand what you;ve tried to do with the hand but for it to be effective you need to convey that it's a hand through the texture, at the moment all I see is a stud.

Anyways, good luck!

Xeik

Thanks for the feedback ^^ I agree with the "stud-thumb" but I chose to keep using it for the characters, because I just can't get it to look right with texture alone But I'll keep trying!

Here's Cairne Bloodhoof!

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Xeik

Progress on Orgrimmar! Only a few more models and it's done

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Daniel Duy

It's pretty. The character will be great when you put in. I just want to tell you that we allow to turn off the Bilinear in texture to make them look clearer. I think this will make your texture look even better.

Xeik

Thanks for the tip ^^

I've made a flight tower and Thrall's Doomhammer, which means that the project is complete On to the submissions thread!

ErikNilsson

You should sharpen up those Textures a but Lotta, push em to the max

Sharpness and contrast is important! High and low values, push evverything as far as you can. You can do so much with textures! Oh and put up some screen caps with a grey background and "Use No Lights" checked in

Ben Mathis knows his low poly! http://www.poopinmymouth.com/3d/beastman_constr.jpg
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