The Warden - My Blizzfest entry
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Hello, everyone
I'm a bit late to the party but I wanted to clean up some of the stuff on my piece before posting it. I made a night elf warden, my favorite NE hero from Warcraft 3. I didn't make up a great back story for her but I figured that Netherstorm would be an ideal place for her to be. I wanted to make something that would fit into today's games so she's below 12k triangles as opposed to Garrosh which was a bit higher.
Hope you like it!
Edit: I've demonstrated some of my workflow here; http://www.goraaz.se/WardenMakingof.html
And last but not least, a couple shot for size comparison;
I'm a bit late to the party but I wanted to clean up some of the stuff on my piece before posting it. I made a night elf warden, my favorite NE hero from Warcraft 3. I didn't make up a great back story for her but I figured that Netherstorm would be an ideal place for her to be. I wanted to make something that would fit into today's games so she's below 12k triangles as opposed to Garrosh which was a bit higher.
Hope you like it!
Edit: I've demonstrated some of my workflow here; http://www.goraaz.se/WardenMakingof.html
And last but not least, a couple shot for size comparison;
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Would you mind if I asked how you went about doing the embroidery on the sculpt? just a curiosity
D_Wall: I used curves in max to create them. I tried doing it in various other ways like painting it in the texture but the curves proved to work best. Thanks, man!
Congrats on the win btw, Leslie!
Only critique: Nightelf Ladies usually aren't wearing a purple suit, that's actually a lot of skin showing
@Xaragoth: You've got a point there but this warden's inspiration came from Maiev Shadowsong. Maiev is a very different NE who barely even shows her face in the concept arts. As opposed to other nightelves she seems to prioritize fighting efficiently over looks.
Not that I don't like it, just pointing that out about it, because I came across it in the game recently
It looks like those screenshots were from the alpha/beta, do you have any shots of how she currently looks?
As I said 'a little bit' - as in literally a bit. But it was more in reference to them not wearing leather protection below their armor, really.
Basically just sayin' pretty much any Nightelf lady you find, they usually seem to be only wear underwear, no normal armor pieces.
But yeah, basically just noticed that she has leather armor instead of skin and that seemed weird to me in the relation to how most of the NEs armors are designed in WoW
edit: btw your Folio Garrosh currently links to your Warden page as well, just noticed since I wanted to look at him
Thanks for pointing out the website error!
But yeah, basically I was confused about purple leather on what is normally purple skin. Hope it didn't sound too stupid *g
I made a little "making of" for some of my workflow;
http://www.goraaz.se/WardenMakingof.html
Hope you find it useful