[Riot Art Contest] - Kha'Zix

Xyniph

Edit: Final images so they're easier to see:






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Hey everyone, I'm thinking of doing a new Kha'Zix skin. Deep Sea Kha'Zix to match his two Void "buddies". Also grabbed some images of other sea creature skins to use as a style board. Will get some sketches up tomorrow!

Xyniph

Coming up with a few different themes. Want to be sure I have a clear idea with the claws, shoulders, "wings", and face.

Xyniph

Alright, got the form blocked out and started the sculpt. Going with the fish fin blades.
Wings and shoulder spikes aren't on there yet, will be sculpting more tomorrow

AnthonyAnimation

Interesting concept! When I think of Kha'zix I think of sleek design with sharp edges. For the body section something similar to the Robust Armored Gurnard has spiny overlapping scales, just some inspiration. I'll keep an eye on this one!

Zombard

I love the idea too, I would buy it. What do you think about actual lobsterlike claws for the claws ? The fins look like they could broke on something

Golden Yak

'The Kha'Zix from the Black Lagoon?'

Xyniph

@AnthonyAnimation:
Oh man, I love how those fish scales work. I'll definitely be looking at that compared to the more seahorse body I've got going now.

@Zombard:
At one point I was thinking of doing a more crustacean Kha'Zix, but big claws didn't scream assassin enough for me. I will probably bulk up the spines of the blade fins so they look less flimsy though.

@Golden Yak:
Y'know, it'd be pretty fun to do a series of skins as cheesy movie monsters. Not quite my goal, but for anyone listening; eh? eehhh?

Lazar

I'm super stoked to see this man. It already looks really good!

Xyniph

Was able to put a few more hours into this, focusing mostly on the back 'cause of in-game camera angle. Much prefer the scales for the back.
Plus, Kha'Zix, now with more tail!

Squals

Cool mix of Designs, I like!

Xyniph

Continuing to tweak the back and shoulders. Working on basic Kha'zix before doing all the visual upgrades for the wings/spikes/blades, which means I'm going to step the blades down to the weaker version when I get to the forarms.


This past week I've been pretty busy, but this weekend should be pretty open.
Gonna get a lot more done, stay tuned!

Xyniph

New update!
Redid the blades to be more representative of the un-evolved form (and just refining them in general). Also refined the head, arms, and legs.
Gonna do some color tests next

Xyniph

Got a start on some color schemes. Leaning towards the green/brown with pink details. What do you guys think?

Kel-Shaded

Xyniph wrote: »

Got a start on some color schemes. Leaning towards the green/brown with pink details. What do you guys think?

Think I like that one the least, it doesn't pop, the purple on the right with AO and gradient would sit nicely IMO, really like the left one too.
Looking great though dude

Enalya

Smart and fun concept! Left one does best for me, especially in the new Summ Rift.

Xyniph

@Kel-Shaded: Thanks for the feedback! Based on this particular background, I think I did pick a pretty bad green to use.

@Enalya: Thanks! Yeah, the left one was the first one I did. I thought it clashed a bit too much, which is how I got to the green one.

So, at first I thought I'd mix the left and center two and see how that looks. I decided that it still was looking too plain.


So let's explore Kha'Zix's existing skins, their color scheme, and think about "what's missing?".

Kha'Zix has three skins currently. The original skin, and the Sands skin have similarities in their color schemes that I feel is important.

Original Kha'Zix is primarily purple, secondarily yellow/brown, with accents of green and red. So, a tetrad leaning towards using the purple/yellow complements, with red/green complements to accent it.
Sands Kha'Zix is inverted from that, a tetrad loosely leaning towards yellow(gold)/purple, with green/red to accent it. Arguably it's yellow(gold)/green, THEN purple/red.

I think keeping that same tetrad is important, as is the balance of the colors (heavily purple, or heavily gold so far). So there are many flipped versions of that. Probably should lean towards a primarily green or red, with purple and yellow accents. Here's a few (really) quick color swatches.


The third skin, the Mecha, is very different from the other two. So hey, maybe I'm putting invisible barriers around myself. But, from here I can see why I was leaning towards blue-green in the first place. I'll probably explore an red-orange scheme as well now, Especially since the fish mainly used as a reference is red.

Sorry about the brain-dump!

Kel-Shaded

Great post dude, cheers for sharing your break down

Xyniph

Had a bunch of things all hit the fan at once the past couple weeks, but I'm still in it!

Got the low poly built and did a test bake. Gonna go add more details to the arms and legs to make them more visually interesting. Probably replicating the patterning on the head in places.

Xyniph

Did some UV tweaking to get a bit more space out of my shells. Mostly though, I've added the upgraded wings, spikes, and blades.


And some shots from above, closer to the in game camera.

Xyniph

Paintin' time! Pretty big departure from the colors I was thinking about before, but hey, I like it.



Still rough in places, but I promised myself I'd post tonight. Looking forward to the last stretch

Xyniph

Alright, did an environment test and finished posing him.


Also did a grayscale test. Need to push values more to give it a bit more readability.

Xyniph

Final touches and getting some good renders out now

Xyniph

Final Submission!

Waterbear

Oh man, this is awesome. The pose, the textures, all very nice! Adding the evolved form was a very nice touch too! Congrats on your hard work.

Xyniph

Thanks Waterbear!

I had a ton of fun working on this guy, and am really happy with how he came out.

baiph

So realistic! I love it!

bgram1984

This is so great. I really don't understand why you don't have much replies and compliment. Good job. : )

Darknavigator

Glad to see this come in to the finish line. Looks great!

Xyniph

Thanks for the comments guys!
@bgram1984: Yeah, it got kinda quiet towards the end. I figure everyone was focused on finishing in time. I know I was.

In other news: first time uploading something to sketchfab, figured it'd be a fun idea to finally try that. Uploaded with a 1024* texture to make it load a bit faster. So, be aware that it's lower res than the final images were, which can cause some seams to be a bit more noticeable.
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Kidow

nice work mate