[Riot Art Contest] - Gangplank (The Bilgewater Bailiff)

Cam Sykes

Hi Polycounters!!!

This project will be my first serious attempt at the complete production of a game character. I have a background in 2D concept art and as of late have been extending my skills in the 3D arena.

I've chosen the champion Gangplank, and a skin concept of my own being a wild-western sort of gunslinger/sheriff. I noticed his rival Miss Fortune has a Wild Western skin so why not Gangplank?

GANGPLANK: THE BILGEWATER BAILIFF

Gangplank would set sail, travelling to compete in The League of Legends. For many months at a time Gangplank would be away at sea, spreading his fame and increasing his fortune.

Upon his return to Bilgewater he would find it to be a den of thieves, full of corruption and no hierarchy. Gangplank's authority and reknown was not recognised in his own town. It was time to set things straight and show the citizens of Bilgewater who's Boss. Enter THE BILGEWATER BAILIFF!

MOST CURRENT UPDATE/PROGRESS

REFERENCE

INITIAL CONCEPT + LOW POLY

SILHOUETTE EXPLORATION

I'm using Blender for the modeling and Photoshop for concepting.

Update: Going back to 2D concept stage with b+w silhouettes to refine some ideas, in order to make the design more visually interesting.

Cam Sykes

Development from the silhouettes. Not sure which one I'll go with but they give me good ideas I can mix and match in the sculpt.

Cam Sykes

Update - Colour Rough



Now time to get Sculpting!

Cam Sykes

Sculpting. Was going to use my initial base mesh I had already created but wanted to experiment with a process of creating the base mesh entirely in ZBrush using ZSpheres and ZRemesher.

Goldo_O

Glad to see more cowboys joining the fun You're on for a bit of a rush but it looks like you're doing good progress so far.
My crit would be to review the proportions a bit, with longer legs and chest. Gangplank has a regular human build and I'm afraid that in-game, these "compressed" proportions might be emphasized by the camera angle.
Keep it up man!

Cam Sykes

Goldo_O: Thanks alot for the feedback. I've heeded your advice and adjsuted the legth of legs and torso. Yeah would look even more distorted from game view. Getting words of encouragement from a pro like you means alot to me and help fuel my latest progress!

Update: Clothing and accessories. Still much more to be added and detailed.

Hellstern

Very nicel stylization!

andyvargas

OHhh he is looking awesome! i like the style! :'D keep it up! you can do it!

Cam Sykes

Hellstern: Why thank you!

andyvargas: Thanks for the encouragement, it's very helpful in making me put in the extra hours and effort.

Taking me a while since I'm learning alot as I go, and testing different techniques for future projects. Dreading the point where I'll need to retopo.

Cam Sykes

InGame Mockup to check how the silhouette reads from game view.

Cam Sykes

More Progress on the sculpting. Was getting OCD with getting the belts and straps correct. Alot of tweaking to get the strap going through the lopp correctly and getting it to wrap around the shape right. Also got his weapons and a fair few other details added.

Been a long day.

Cam Sykes

So all those sweet high poly details and objects I tinkered with will have to be cut. Due to poly economy. During the retopology / conversion process I had to really go backwards to get a nice clean poly-efficient mesh. All in the learning process I guess, this being my first 3D game character project ever.