[Riot Art Contest] Irelia

Elyaradine

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I painted a version of Irelia that I wanted to make 3D last year, but I never really around to it. Still like a lot of what I did with the painting, so I think I'll do something along those lines, and change some of the things I thought didn't work so well (like the blades). Definitely needs more vibrant colours.



The only good Teemo is a dead Teemo. (Sold separately.)

Currently got a moonlighting gig and a course I'm busy with, so I'll be a bit slow to start, but I'm super pumped!

Elyaradine

Hrm. Got a bit of time to try improve the design, but I'm kind of stuck. :P

slosh

Dig the new sketch. I prefer the longer hair but I'm not sure if that works better for her original character.

CocoaCup

I like more the right design even with longer hair. Maybe you could try to add the upper part ( i mean the weapon, I never thought about how it's called :X )

Elyaradine

@slosh: Thank you! Yeah, I'm undecided. But the Riot art has both long and short haired versions, and I think the long hair could result in some pretty cool shapes when she runs around.

@CocoaCup: Thanks! Yeah, I should actually do concept art from the in-game camera view, and get an idea of where those other things would be placed in relation to her...

CocoaCup

And maybe add some more chinese related details, accessories ? It kinda feels it should be more exotic oriented with the nefrit thingy but that's just my idea.

Elyaradine

Yeah, great point. I'll research some more.

BlazeF

Efffffff Teemo! GJ

Elyaradine

Mainly scribbled a design for a weapon, and then tried a game-camera drawing. I dunno, not really sold on that design either, though it really helped put into context what will and won't be seen. So final thing will be some combination of this stuff combined with the previous sketches.

Elyaradine

Did some modelling today. I'm not sure if I prefer long or short hair. The long hair would look pretty cool with dynamics, but her back's quite busy already with that thing hovering behind her, so maybe not. Seems some proportions need tweaking, like her head size, but I'll compare it with some screenshots from the game's current models to check.

Elyaradine

Did UVs tonight. Swapped the short hair for long hair.

Elyaradine

Wasn't happy with the texel resolution; seems the normalization script wasn't behaving very well, so I rescaled them manually and repacked the UVs. Painted some textures. Hand-painted textures are harder than I thought they'd be... XD Also rigged her up for animation.

Rambo4you

Oh wow man, I think most of the texture just looks amazing. I also love the color choose. If I can think anything that needs improving then I would say the arm bracelet and the shoes could use some more texture work, but otherwise pretty eye catching piece. Gj so far.

Elyaradine

Thanks man! I haven't touched the arms, legs and shoulder armour much, just laid down some base colours. I'll get to them this weekend.

GravityBwlast

Woah.

CocoaCup

sweet colour palette, love it I love the subtle gradient from the bottom part. Really nice work

Elyaradine

@GravityBwlast and @CocoaCup: Thank you!

Hand-painting specular's way harder than I thought. Especially considering spec is camera-dependent, so sort of need to paint spec that doesn't really have a direction I think... I dunno, still figuring it out. XD

Kraken

Wow! old school approach! looking good so far!

CocoaCup

i wish riot would make this as official skin

Chantel-sky

Nice design and textures

erroldynamic

Nice painting so far!

Elyaradine

@Kraken: Thank you! Been spending a lot of this year doing painting studies, so I figured I might as well see what I learnt.

@CocoaCup: ME TOOOOOO!

@Chantel-sky: Thank you!

@erroldynamic: Thanks so much!

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Spent most of last week pretending I could animate (note to self: I can't really). I'm sort of jumping between textures and animation depending on my mood. That deadline's looming...



The hands are untextured, as is the thing on her back, so I'm still getting there.

Elyaradine

I finished up the texture and made it a playable demo.

You can check it out here: http://techartjon.com/riotcomp

Elyaradine

Did some colour balancing. Here's a shot with the texture sheet:

karytsukino

Hey! Nice Character! I like your texture =D

Elyaradine

Thank you, karytsukino!

Submitting now, with the playable demo!

Goldo_O

That is so cool!!!! Ahaha man, awesome idea and presentation. Love it!

darkmag07

Nice, I hope the folks at Riot can play your demo!

Waterbear

The weapon is really cool!

makaronas21

Amazing job i've never felt so good playing a champ since braum was released and that playable demo was one of the most satisfying things i've experienced i mean come on the q animation tops most of the riot stuff

and that running animation gosh

Taka007

Nice character! Definitely will try out the playable demo! Good stuff!

Elyaradine

Goldo_O: Wow, that's really high praise coming from you! Your entry was fantastic!

darkmag07: Thank you! I sent a Windows build along with my entry, so I think they will get to play it.

Waterbear: Thank you!

makaronas21: Wow, that's so nice of you! Yeah, I really wanted her Q to feel good -- it's such a core part of how Irelia plays. I'd like to redo her R (wasn't really happy with the laser idea), but I've got some work-related stuff to get done this holiday, as well as resting up a bit, so I'm not going to beat myself up if I don't get around to it.

Taka007: Thank you! Let me know how you find it.

zkylon

love the design, good work!

Icesoul

I hope you win!!! I love it!

kommtdas

i like the shot hair better really good work

RamonRedcat

Really really awesome work!
I hope to one day be able to make 3D characters like that, very inspiring!
I wish you the best of luck c:

Elyaradine

Thanks so much, guys! I didn't place or anything, but I wanted to fix up some of the things I didn't like about her design, specifically her colours and some of the details that I felt were difficult to read from the game view. It's still work in progress, as there are a couple of small things I'm not happy with yet, but overall I'm quite pleased with this new revision!

Djghostylibra

Would you ever post this as a custom skin? :DD