[Riot Art Contest] - Orianna
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I'm not much of a LoL player. But everytime I did, I was completely taken by Orianna. There's so much potential with this clockwork dancer. I hope I can do her justice.
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I'm doing a straight redesign of Orianna. My focus will be to really ramp up the elegance of her being a dancer. I wanted to keep certain aspects of her silhouette (mainly the Key and ballerina dress) while pushing the forms to make her seem more like a ballerina and less... well .. clunky. In addition, I'm hoping to push the clockwork automaton aspect, but adding moving parts and making sure things fit together properly. All this and using Baroque design elements to tie it all together.
Should be challenging as well as time consuming. But it should also be fun.
Today I finally had a day off and began to hit the base model:
Now it's break time for a couple hours, then it's back to work.
that skirt idea is not a good representation of what I want. I'm still debating on the idea of having the skirt rotate about, like the original model. That decision will really make a difference in how I approach the skirt.
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still working on the skirt
EDIT:
I decided against the rotating skirt. Came up with something much better.
It has been a relatively slow week. I'm trying my best not to rush this project, but it's definitely not moving at the pace I'd like to. ah well. Feels good to finally start seeing this come together.
The for the end result, I'm shooting to have an animated pose. Does anyone know if toolbag2 can do animations yet?
That's an interesting point. I've been dancing (lol) with the balance between the slender cyborg style legs and thicker muscled ones. I'll thicken them up a bit though. See if I can find a nice compromise.
Took Abrvpt's advice and thickened our little dancers legs. T'was a good call.
Here's the WIP for today:
mmmmm.... delicious!
That pretty much does it for the outer frame base. I'll be going out of town for a few days, but I'll be back at it once I return. Next item to block in: the dress.
Have a good weekend!
Take a look at this:
The original concept was designed around #1. It's no-nonsense and feel elegant. However the other 3 seem to give her a bit of personality that I think might be lacking in the concept. I like them all.
halp!
As for the hair, I really like 2 and 4. I think there needs to be some loose strands on the side of her face though as it appears in every skin even when she has her hair up.
That's kind of what I was thinking. The bangs definitely add more, but there should be a more controlled look. Thanks for the input!
Thanks for the input. So far #2 is the stronger option.
For the hair my personal choice would go to n°1, but n°2 fits great to both dancer and cybord theme. Good work !
Here's the latest WIP.
Thanks to all you that helped me pick which bangs to use. It's much better this way, I think.
There are a few notes about this piece and how it's starting to come together. Orianna's bun is a gear sphere (example: here). Being a clockwork dancer, This will *cough* hopefully *cough* animate properly in a loop. A similar, if not slightly more complicated, gear sphere will be the engine that makes up her ball/weapon. The gear spheres are slightly poly intensive, but they're made up of only 2 different gears so the texture strain is pretty low.
As you can tell, I opted out of the radially symmetrical skirt. I couldn't find a way to make the silhouette very elegant with it. This one feel much lighter, I think.
Unfortunately, GoZ corrupted my file where I was building the back key. I was testing how the creases look at a higher resolution, and now this is the key I'm stuck with. I havent decided if I want to go back and remake it just so I have a lower res one. I plan to retopo it anyway after sculpting it, sooooo...
Anyway... enough yapping. Time to start winding down and hitting this little lady tomorrow.
NEXT PHASE: Bringing back the Baroque!
Sorry for crit bomb but I really like this character so far!
Here's Ori with the mechanical parts in place.
She has a clockwork gear system setup inside of her torso. The idea is that these gears will animate accordingly. Since that was a major point of the model from stage 1, I somewhat already knew how I wanted to approach it. The hard part was making shoulder and hip joints that "look" like they're functional. Orianna has a pretty tragic death animation in LoL where she breaks down and falls into a bunch of parts. I wanted my Orianna to be able to do the same. It's one of her animations that I feel really captures the tragedy that is Orianna as we know her. So all the joints need to be functional as well as be able to break limbs off. That was the hard part. Lol.
After the mechanical parts were all planned out, it was time to start blocking in the scroll work. The scroll work is supposed to be heavy in "clothed" areas to simulate a ballerina dress, thighhighs (maaaaaybe) and ornaments. Here's the pic:
I love doing this kind of work.
EDIT: Don't mind the black polypainting. I use polypainting to save complex masks.
TL;DR: mechanical insides done and fancy baroque detail started.
Just my 2 cents, looking forward to seeing the finished model, keep it up.
chains16: The skirt bottom planes are there as placeholders. I wanted to see how the silhouette would be effected and size them up. I was planning on doing more scroll work for them, but after slosh's comment, I'm rethinking of how I'm going to do it.
slosh: This is a very interesting point. I may have to block in some less noisy larger-scale scroll work to see if it helps readability.
Thanks for all the comments!
Hopefully I can upload an update after work.
BUT, I'm back. And I'll be the first to admit that I might not have enough time to finish by the deadline. However, I still want to finish this piece. It might be for my own piece of mind, but I'm going to do it dammit.
Here is a LOOOONG overdue update:
This is most of the high poly done for Orianna proper. I've got a few tweaks to do to her (mainly hair trim, hand, and proportion issues that bother me). Next up ... the gear sphere that makes up her weapon and friend. Luckily, I planned how I'm going to tackle this little guy. And I can't really make him until I''ve UV'd the gears that make up Ori's insides and a few extra decorative ones. I plan to save texture space by reusing the same 4 or 5 gears. And these gears will be made of a lot of overlapping UV's. So.. I've gotta hunker down and make those.
I wonder if I should bake before then. perhaps.