[Riot Art Contest] - Nakaroo

Nakaroo

Latest:

FINAL CREEP DEN:







FINAL TURRET:








Hi everyone!

For my turret concept, I drew heavy inspiration from Leona, who is one of my favorite characters to play as a support main in League of Legends. I also studied the updated blue towers and decided that I wanted to recreate it for the most part, except with lots of Leona flair.

Here is my initial painted concept for the turret:



Reference images:

GravityBwlast

Looks cool !

Nakaroo

Thanks GravityBwlast!

I decided that I liked the blue and gold combo more and made some adjustments to my initial concept accordingly. I also did a composite shot with a quick paint over of the back view featuring Leona's signature double shields. I'll be adding more details once I start the texturing phase.

DefiledVisions

I really like the silhouette of your turret. Works very well from behind.

Nakaroo

Thanks so much DefiledVisions! I was striving for a strong silhouette, so I'm glad its reading well for others.

Small update- Here is the finalized low poly model with an initial AO bake:



Excited to move on to my favorite part of the process..texturing! I'm also going to be working on some concepts for the creep den and hopefully post that really soon.

Nakaroo

Hey guys, wanted to share a WIP shot of my turret. I still have a ways to go with adding textural details, tweaking values and defining my metals but it feels good to have a base established.

Nakaroo

Hello,

Made some substantial rendering progress on the turret and wanted to share what I have to date. I'm going to take a break from it to work on my creep den and come back to it for any tweaks. If you have any suggestions or feedback, would love to hear!

JRancourt

Hey really nice textures and execution! Before i read it was inspired by leona I still knew it was related to her. Well done on the design! The in-game view might be a bit problematic we can't understand that it is a character from behind. Maybe if you'd play around with the size of the different elements it would help see and understand the character a little bit more. Anyways good job!

r4ptur3

nice work!

Nakaroo

Thank you JRancourt and r4ptur3 for the kind words. JRancourt, I really appreciate your feedback and I will definitely be revisiting my turret in the near future to see how it looks in a more accurate composition and go from there.

In the meantime, here is my creep den concept:



I wanted to stay with my theme of designing assets around my favorite League support heroes, and came up with this Zyra-inspired creep den. I imagine this den to hold a powerful plant monster that spawns from the glowing cave when enemies approach.

Reference image:

anglorum

Wow dude. Your creep den is rad! The tower is really well executed, the only thing that really gets to me about it, is the size of those spikes. I feel as though they would actually hinder the players ability to see around the tower in the midst of battle... but hell, I ain't no game designer, so take that with a grain of salt.

Nakaroo

Thanks anglorum, really appreciate the feedback! I'll definitely have to revisit my turret soon enough with fresh eyes.

Wanted to share a quick work in progress of my creep den, starting with the low poly and texture for the center piece.

r4ptur3

nice, you were silent for a while, was hoping to see some more

s0id3

dude really nice work, zyra is my all time favorite champ and you captured her motif well

FemCharles

Nice texture painting, Although i would actually model in the vines, make them thicker and chunkier like in your concept. I don't think it works as well painted on the texture.

Nakaroo

Thanks r4ptur3 and s0id3!! I also really like Zyra and her motifs have been very fun to work with.

FernCharles, thanks for the feedback! I also noticed the vines were looking a little flat so I did end up adding some geometry to support it better. I'll have some updates soon!

Nakaroo

Hey everyone,

Just wrapped up my creep den and turret today. Thanks to all who stopped by with feedback and kind words, really appreciate it! Had a lot of fun with this contest and learned a lot.

FINAL CREEP DEN:







FINAL TURRET:

FemCharles

Looks much better with the thorns modeled in! I love the splashes of pinks and purples. Looks awesome

Nakaroo

Thanks FemCharles! Your inhibitor turned out really great as well! =D

badmouse

Looks insane amazing!

Something I never got is how make a ground like this, is impossible in a traditional way.

I mean the floor

Egg

Really like how this turned out, the inhibitors look awesome!