[Riot Art Contest] - Thresh: The Chain Warden
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I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this one:
There might be a slight spin on it but I'll be basing it on his classic skin.
GLHF Report Thresh for instalock.
There might be a slight spin on it but I'll be basing it on his classic skin.
GLHF Report Thresh for instalock.
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It'll be cleaned out with a ZRemesh when I get the rest of the body blocked out.
Current progress of blocking Thresh out via Dynamesh: I had a lot of fun making the skulls, but the bone segments definitely made me appreciate Thresh's classic skin so much more. It was pretty hard to keep to his proportions, reffering constantly to my in game screenshots, his splash art and LoLKing's model viewer. I'm hoping that I've made him quite imposing and terrifying, having exaggerated the upper torso with the mindset that constantly lifting chains, getting his victims on varying torture devices and other sorts of villainous things has turned him into a very beefy dude.
In terms of his 'head position' I've interpreted his head as a sort of 'face mask'; when he was alive this may have been a mask that he wore to hide his identity from his victims, and so it extrudes off of his face here which it is why it is placed much more forward. The head on the original floats very forward of where I think his head would be, so I've decided that can justify his current head placement.
Got lots more to do! Crit welcome!
(Hands are hidden as they currently get in the way of the chains; the chains will be put in a more proper neutral position later)
Blockout:
Added the bones that follow along his collar, padlock and revised his proportions on the upper chest and thighs to closer match Thresh. He's been pretty tough to match up with, but now its looking pretty close!
Looking closely at the Thresh model in game and on LoLKing, almost all of it is symmetried and the chain of course re-uses UV space. Whilst I'm pretty sure even the head is symmetried, I'd like to get a little assymetry going on at least there in terms of texture detail.
I know that not many people play LoL with full zoom and locked cam, but at quiet times like the start of the match when they're just bought their champ or something, theres a chance that they'll zoom in to get a closer look. Thats probably the only real different touch I'll place on him that is drastically different, as I feel his face plate could do with some horrifying cracks or disfigurements to make him even more terrifying.
To save a headache, the chains, lantern and scythe will be moved after their high poly sculpts are done. as theres a little area that the first one fits into within his 'side skulls'.
The fully saturated colours mean areas that have their own space. The darker, less saturated areas share space that corresponds with their hue. for areas like the scyte, its back side will probably be symmetried as well. This affects the way that I'll be sculpting the high poly and modelling the low poly as well.