[Riot Art Contest] - Iciban

Iciban

Hey the theme I'm going for is somewhat based on Vicktor from LOL. I wanted to recreate a base/ inventions that Vicktor would create. Went for steampunk sorta feel.
The story I went for is Vicktor discovers these crystals, which he harvests the power from to help his inventions. Everything he creates gather power from these crystals. The nexus is the main power source and it runs through cables to power the inhib and turrent.
Vicktor's created these monsters, but they escaped from lab and resides in these Dens. The creatures feeds of these crystal energy, so each den has its own crystal. The ideas he gets for creating these monsters are based of the people he fights in the League of Legends.

Here are my concepts for both the inhib and monster Den.
For the Inhib, I am leaning more on 2 & 4.
As for the Den, leaning more on 2

Off to model/ blocking out the silhouette. Most likely change the concept on the go

Iciban

here's 3 designs i made for the inhib. I am still deciding on which one i want to go with, but so far i'm leaning more on 1 and 3. I'll be tweaking the geo more since the base is too big and the crystal is a bit small.
Need to finish my monster's Den. I'll come bak to this later

Iciban

here's a quick update of my inhib so far. I went with another concept where the crystal grows out of the ground and this device is harassing the power from the crystals.
Still a lot of work to do, but its coming along.

SimonT

nice! i like that you put a gradiant from dark to bright on the inner "columns". I wonder if it would visually work to have this gradiant globally on the whole asset?

Iciban

Thanks for the feedback!

Been pretty busy, since a got a new job, but here's my progress so far. Still need to define the metal more and also the ground.

Iciban

another update.

Got some more shading done and added more detail on the ground. Only have to define the metal texture and probably some touchup. Getting close.

CC are encouraged!

Iciban

I'm going to call this inhib done. Here's my comp shot.
Sadly I don't think i'll be able to finish the den in time.

SimonT

looks great! congrats for finishing it!

anglorum

Nice job on the inhibitor man. I like the values in the metal you've got going on! Even if you don't wind up submitting, this is a solid portfolio piece for sure!

Iciban

Thanks guys, means a lot! I'll probably create the monster den on my own time.

beastypet

I read somewhere in the faq you only needed to make 1 thing anymore.
you should look it up.
I love this theme. makes me wish riot would have more maps

Iciban

here's my inhib sheet. Sadly no time to do monster den.

SimonT

congratz! looks great!

friesen123

I like it