[Riot Art Contest] - Taric
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Sup everyone, finally ready to start my thread. With so much great work already posted I have a lot of catching up to do. 
Going to be working on a Taric visual update and slight redesign. I am looking to turn Taric into a badass that can still support but also be a top lane heavyweight. Below is a quick concept I made to block out some ideas. I am pretty happy with the upper body and shoulders, but the lower body still needs work, probably bigger boots to balance out the top half, also not sure what to do about the underarmor scalemail. Going to start blocking him out in 3D to get a better feel for everything.
Latest: Thanks to everyone who commented with feedback and helped me during the contest, I learned a lot and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. There are a ton of amazing submissions so good luck to everyone entering.
For Fun now that the contest is over, I threw Taric into Unreal to see how he looked with normals and lighting. =P
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Going to be working on a Taric visual update and slight redesign. I am looking to turn Taric into a badass that can still support but also be a top lane heavyweight. Below is a quick concept I made to block out some ideas. I am pretty happy with the upper body and shoulders, but the lower body still needs work, probably bigger boots to balance out the top half, also not sure what to do about the underarmor scalemail. Going to start blocking him out in 3D to get a better feel for everything.
Latest: Thanks to everyone who commented with feedback and helped me during the contest, I learned a lot and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. There are a ton of amazing submissions so good luck to everyone entering.
For Fun now that the contest is over, I threw Taric into Unreal to see how he looked with normals and lighting. =P
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In his lore Taric is from another world and was brought to Runeterra through a mysterious spell. In my version while traveling between worlds and being exposed to so much raw magical energy his body was fused with his armor and gems. So his Armor is him, he cannot take it off and the gems power sustains him and keeps him alive. Thought it would be an interesting spin on things. That is all more of a lore thing and design wise wont mean much other then its a dude in a ton of armor and some of the gem placement might remind you of iron man. =P
Some of the armor and gems blocked out.
And don't forget he has to be outrageous!
pls do tell
It's hard to find nice skin matcaps
Dantert: I like the simpler slicked back hair as well but Taric's Fabio hair is pretty iconic and gives him some of his personality, so I will keep trying to get the first hairstyle to a better place. =P
And to Neer, Chantel and anyone else wondering here is a link to the matcap I used for the skin. It was made by the very talented Hazerdous and works great. Hazerdous if you see this, thanks for sharing the matcap. =D
http://hazardousarts.deviantart.com/art/Zbrush-Skin-Material-332639261
Lovin the stylization on his face. Can't wait to see the rest of it man!
Beastypet: No, atm all the hardsurface is made in maya
Updates!! Some asked for more crystals, trying out adding some to the back let me know what you guys things. Added the cloth bits, waist and thigh armor, and a circlet.
I have a suggestion regarding the crystals. I realize it's early on the process still but once you start defining the textures Try and give them a bit more life. What I mean is, instead of them being all flat blue, go for a more quartz type of look. Maybe even adding some of the roughness they have when coming out of the rocks.
keeping his signature blue as the main color but throwing some variation around.
some examples:
keep up the good work
But your version is looking awesome so far !
Looking forward to see more, keep it up!
The body is for the most part done, will do a damage/detail pass on the armor, but not too much, Taric likes to keep his armor clean and fabulous. Shield and Hammer still need to be modeled.
Small update: Modeled the shield, only have the hammer left. I also went back and made some changes to the feet, waist and back armor, they are pretty minor though so didn't bother taking new screenshots. Next update so be final full body Taric in all his glory. =P
Small update for today, finally made his hammer. Size wise it will be a large one handed Thor like hammer, a little more feasible then the giant 2-hander Taric swings around in game right now. =P
Ready to export the hi-poly and start the retopo. While I do that though I will also be taking my hi-poly renders for the final turn in, going to give keyshot a try, been hearing good things about it. So hopefully I will have more updates soon if time permits, holidays and all.
I mean, so did the textures, but that AO bake is suuuuuuper clean
what'd you use to bake?
Slosh - Thanks, I will try to throw in some warmness where I can but its hard while trying to keep to the original color scheme, maybe switching the hair color, like Jrancourt suggests, to something warmer will help. I am open to suggestions, right now I am just trying all kinds of colors. =P
Would still love more feedback, especially from the painters out there. I want to keep things relatively simple like league, but still make sure it has all the details it needs.
Again nice job!
Here are some color schemes I have been trying out, do I have enough choices? Which one is everyones favorite, let me know. XD