[Riot Art Contest] - Syndra classic

Chantel-sky

Hi guys,
I'm going to be doing Syndra as she's one of my favorite mid laners.

This is my first competition and will be the first time creating a stylized game character so I hope I can finish this on time.
Good luck to you all

Update of my low poly version!










Update:

Chantel-sky

I've been busy with uni this week, but finally got around to blocking out the mesh. Now onto starting her face.
I've also included a reference board for her face.

Any feedback is welcome

Chantel-sky

Been working on the face past two days now that uni is over for the year. Critique is welcome as I'm still pretty new to sculpting them

Chantel-sky

Fixed the face thought it wasn't as feminine before, started blocking in the helmet and worked on the hair.

Feedback welcome

Sundaynights

Hey Chantel-sky,

I am also doing a Syndra and stumbled over your thread. The face has something "childish" to it, can't tell why that is. (But it could still be a child-version of syndra if you aim for it)

DmitryGrebenkov posted a link to his 3D version of Caitlyn. As Edgeflow is crucial it might help to look at his Cait - you can toggle the wireframes on and see his two subdivs http://p3d.in/2ultS/wireonsmooth

Chantel-sky

Started blocking in her clothing /armor and made small changes to her face.



Hoping to have her clothing/ armor finished by tonight and then move onto her headpiece.

I think I also need to go back and work more on her lips more, I'm just not happy with them.
Critique welcome

Chantel-sky

@Sundaynights I was just in the middle of posting my updated version.. I really hope her face doesn't look childish anymore

His Caityln is amazing!
Edgeflow is definitely important, I've never done anything low poly before so I'm hoping when I get to that it wont be too difficult, I heard Topogun is very good?

Chantel-sky

Have been working hard on her face, Still trying to get the lips right.. But I hope she doesn't look like a child version anymore.
I think I'm slowly getting the hang of sculpting faces. Going to try and improve it further.



Also started detailing her shoulder armor, which I have decided to do the patterns the game model has.

Khronos

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Chantel-sky

@Khronos, Thank you
I've been having trouble with that cause it said that you just had to insert attachment after you upload but it kept coming up with an error.. no idea how it managed to work when I made my first post.. But will definitely fix it

Chantel-sky

Just about finished the high poly sculpt, just need to make a few tweaks to her head gear.



Silhouette of front and side view



Critique welcome

Chantel-sky

Can anyone tell me the best way to check your model in the 3/4 view would be?

Chantel-sky

Increased the length of her legs and made her waist cape hug her body better and fixed the shape of her nose from the side view.

so here is an updated Silhouette. Going to make a start on texturing her so check back soon for an update

Chantel-sky

Today I blocked in her coloring (not final), I am using the color scheme from her splash art though and I re-did her hair. Not sure If I should make the ear piece armor bigger?

Critique welcome !

dreadleft

I hope not too late to check proportions. Maybe this picture give you some ideas.

Chantel-sky

@dreadleft : Thanks for taking the time to do that, will make some changes shortly. Hmm making the legs longer does look better.. but she's already sitting at 8 heads tall so I'm not sure if I should make them longer.

Chantel-sky

Made some proportional changes to her boobs, bum and increased the length of her legs (not by much though).

Also made her waist coat longer and wider on the sides.

Chantel-sky

After playing around with the color schemes of the splash and in game model I have decided to go with purple and gold. Need to paint a few more pieces and make some more changes.

I made some more proportional changes and fixed her lips (Just couldn't help myself).

Hoping to move onto the re-toping stage in the next few days.

Critique is highly welcome

Chantel-sky

Polypainting finished. Made the gold brighter and added more detail to her skirt and top.

Now onto re-toping...

Chantel-sky

Started retoping a few days ago using Mayas modeling toolkit.. which has led to a bit of frustration ( sometimes won't register vertices for a quad to be placed.. But I am using 2014 version)

She's currently sitting at 2,220 tris (includes base, stockings, sleeve, glove and wrist armor) ... the tri count will change once I add clothing as I'd remove the unnecessary quads.

I did try to lower the tri count but lost some of the proportions. As this is my first time doing the high to low poly workflow.. any tips would be much appreciated

zzMedVeDzz

just stay strong and do best of your

Chantel-sky

Finished creating my low poly model, Is at 8.3k tris.. not sure how I'd go about lowering it and not lose the silhouette (but I think 8.3k is reasonably okay, as riot didn't give a set limit..)

As I'm entering this competition to improve my skills (I have only been doing 3D for about a year) any tips to improve would be great.

I'm aware that some parts of the vertices are intersecting with other parts and I'll fix it up tomorrow when I make a start on the UVs.

andyvargas

ohh i have never played with Syndra but your its looking great! Keep up the hard work! also the fact that you have Edi as your porfile image ugh!

Chantel-sky

@Andyvargas Thank you You should try Syndra some time she's really fun... so much burst!
Edi is the best

Chantel-sky

Just a quick screenshot of my progress. (I apologise for the low quality.. Will update with better quality soon)
UVs are done and Gradient map is baked (Might change when I start texturing, though)

I was not a fan of her low poly face, so switched over to Maya 2015 and re-did it there.. which definitely helped as Maya 2014 modeling toolkit didn't seem to have relax.

Anyways I'm exhausted.. going to play some Dragon Age : Inquisition

Chantel-sky

Here is a better image to show how my low poly version is looking.
I can't wait to pose her

kmactastic

Her fingers looks a bit small, or thin, like I can't tell she has finger armor from this image. Might not be too much work to make them a little bigger (: Looking forward to the texture.

Chantel-sky

@Kmactastic Thanks for the feedback. I agree with you.. I've been looking at it for too long haha.
I'll scale them up and hope it makes a difference.

kmactastic

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