[Riot Art Contest] - Azir

Squals

Finals sent off to Riot,









So I was torn between Azir or Morgana But i decided on Azir. I'm thinking going for a necromancer / Robot / Necron idea.

Good luck everyone, some big time artists this time around, gonna be awesome.

Squals

Some quick silhouette work I did after work today. I thought he could phase in his minions, which are smaller robots with shields and spears. I will keep doing more tonight but any votes on your favorites would help as well as ideas / crits

Squals

Almost forgot, here's my inspiration sheet.

Cheers everyone,

Squals

More silhouette work.



Decided to make him of an alien race instead of robot, and here's a quick base from last night. The Leader, Azir, will have larger technical pieces / enhancements, like in my silhouette. Still unsure of the Tower though.

Squals

Got to do a few more hours of work today. I really didn't need to flesh him out but I wanted give his race life a little.

Azir has this ruby in the center of his chest, I thought of making it a breathing apparatus for them since they don't have noses.



Steps



Armor blocking out next.

juancaratino

very good concept work, i hope to see something

yorikus24

After this one some one need make Malder Graves. Good luck. Interest idea.

Squals

yorikus24 : haha I'll check em out :P
Juanaratina : Thanks!

Squals

Small Armor update, shapes are still very loose and sketchy. Lots of work left.

Unsure of the shoulders, any ideas?

Thanks to Oniram for the matcap

Waterbear

Maybe make the shoulder armor like "vents"...slits of metal that can move up and down. Then it would sort of be like the wings in the original but more inline with your concept.

Squals

A sick, good idea! I thought about putting vents on the back or the chest, but decided I'll keep the chest for simple shapes. Shoulders could be cool. Thanks Waterbear!

Squals

Small Friday lunch updates

slosh

pretty solid so far...please take your screenshots with perspective turned on!

Squals

Hahaha makes that much of a difference huh? :P I'll try and remember that, Thanks

Squals

Oh yeah, you really get a lot more volume with Perspective on huh, I had never really noticed a difference in Zbrush. Good to know! tx

Squals

So many great characters so far!!! Good job everyone.

Wells

Personally I'm a little confused with such drastic changes to the basic character design. One of his biggest signatures is that he's a bird-dude. That's like making Renekton not an alligator :P

That being said, I think your design could push the silhouette a bit more. Currently everything conforms very closely to his body, feeling more extruded than like separate mechanical plates sitting on top.

Lots of really cool reference in your second post, though, so I'm looking forward to where this ends up!

Squals

Ahaha yeah Wells, you are right in saying that it's very far from the original, but going through all riots League of Legend skins, I noticed that they sometimes go very far from the original idea of the character, while keeping some key features.

So I wanted to do exactly that, drastic on the concept change, but keep key features, shoulders, legs, center pieces. I didn't feel like just rehashing an existing skin, wanted to go on the extreme side of a new skin. I think the weapon, and textures will really uniform it as Azir.

But thanks for the comments! and you are right on the armor, I should push it more as armor and not 'skin tight'

Cheers!

Here's the 2 skins in game right now.

Squals

Was hoping to have done the low poly / baked by now haha gahh

Rambo4you

Keep working man, I had the same plans, not even completely done with the sculpt i feel. But looks great, love what u got so far.

Squals

Hey Thanks Rambo4you! sorry for the late reply haha

Squals

So I was MIA cause of personal reasons and work but I've been back at it, finished low poly and bakes. Started Textures, hopefully to have them done and start rigging by sunday. So many amazing entries so far!! I feel like I went to much on the 'see good from afar' aspect. And not enough on the High level of detail like so many other awesome entries.

Here's my texture base.

Squals

Texture work and Rigged for poses. Final textures and final poses / beauties to come

Squals

Lowered the contrast a little during my lunch. I'm really going for readability in game with this guy, but it's still to strong. Only a few days left, ugh


3d Coat preview

Squals

Finals sent off to Polycount / Riot. Was a hella fun, good luck to everyone!