THRONE ROOM – Icecrown – Goshi

Goshi

hello,

this will be the first time, I create something for a challenge - so please do not rip me apart - but when you do, please add some feedback, that helps me learning, hehehe...

I already own Substance Painter & Designer Indie and will use it of course.

Other apps:

B2M 3 for quick roughness maps and some teture-mixing/material creation
MODO Indie (801 SP3) & 3D Coat 4.5
Renderer will be Marmoset TB2

If I got enough time left, there will be some Vue and
WorldMachine involved (not sure about this one)

My throne(room) is inspired by Blizzard´s "Icecrown Citadel"

WIP shot will follow...


Hope, nobody else got this idea already?!
If so, please let me know.


Best Regards

Goshi

1st wip shot...

Goshi

... and 2nd one, this time a WIP of the pillar/column

greetz

Goshi

.. decided to go away from the "wow-ish comic like look" - instead trying to do a bit more fancy thing..

Goshi

here is a early wip of a smaller pillar, that will be placed at the bottom of
a staircase...

Wear&Tear will be added in the next step and I will have a look at the space inbetween the
skulls... maybe I fill that with rnd stuff...

I am just re-doing the large pillars atm - because I took them further and I ended up getting a more "Gear of War" / "Necromonger" style... that´s not, what I wanted.

Stay Tuned!

Goshi

...I was kind of sorting out, how to get down the render-fx of my ice-material in TB2 and here is, what I came up with (got a little help/technical talk and then I went on and explored a good bit)

Got two basic versions, one with a more stylistic approach, one more realistic. Those are without any color map or "real" spec/roughness map for now, but will prepare some soon! I will also tweak and improve the thickness/translucy map, when I come to the final texturing.

Goshi

Today will be pillar-finalizing-time (at least I hope to finish the modeling stage and go over to Substance Designer/Painter for getting down one or two material ideas...)

Goshi

Update time again:

Small pillar nr. 1 is final and got a base textrure, created within Substance Designer - will be finalized in Substance Painter soon.

I also tweaked the ice material a bit more - I think I will go on with that for now and could be the RC, too

Goshi

ok, pillar got base-textured - time for close-up
Last touches will be done soon (some break-up in dirt and overall
roughness + one nice glow-fx)

also got some snowy-mountain peaks ready for placing in the background of the scene...

Goshi

Now, the final touches are made... maybe I change/let go the runes later on.. depends, if it will fit in the complete scene

edit: Ooops, forgot the image... here it is!

Goshi

Time to relveal a WIP shot of the throne...

Cheers!

Goshi

update - maybe the throne will be a little giger-ish... (playing around just a bit)

Goshi

very early WIP of the "icecrown" mountain

Goshi

ok... after getting ZERO feedback (be it good or bad) - I am thinking about quit the project and do not invest more of my rare freetime in it....

WarrenM

I guess ask yourself what your reasons are for doing the challenge. Is it to get recognition from other artists, improve your skills, win a prize, etc?

And yes, if this isn't meeting your goals then dropping out is probably the right idea. But make sure you're dropping out for the right reasons. I think you have a decent foundation of something here and it would be a good portfolio piece when completed.

Why not finish it?

EDIT : Remember too that there are almost 500 throne room threads ... not getting any feedback isn't abnormal. There's just so much out there.

Goshi

hey WarrenM

my idea was to improve/build up some skills thru getting feedback.
I find it hard to "judge" my own "creations", so I hoped for feedback to see, if I should go on with
creating 3D assets, or better not.

Getting no feedback feels just like my work is not even worth to be "flamed"

hmmmm.

Maybe I can hope of some feedback from the "jury" (if I finish this project), not sure aboout it.


Thanks for your comment!

noscope

Hay dude that ice formation you have in your last post looks sweet as. The shader you have made for the ice is real nice aswell although its hard to tell what it would look like when its not in a scene. Your throne shape is solid and works but i think the giger design dosnt work as well. I think it maybe it looks like you slapped a few giger textures on in the hope it would work. Maybe push the throne in a different direction? Those columns work well with that shiny metal shader and compliment the ice but the sculpt looks like they should be rock. its confusing my mind! haha The mountian is solid but could do with some more peaks. Good work so far tho dude.

Goshi

Hey noscope - thanks for feedback!

I will try to deliver some complete scene...

kimmokaunela

That ice is just simply amazing! Can´t wait to see the final thing!

Goshi

Thanks for all (very positive) comments - I started working on this project again, here is the base/foundation, where the icecrown-mountain will be placed on...

Goshi

got the basetexture ready - will fine-tune tomorrow

just a quick screen grab from Substance Painter...

Goshi

..and here is the finalized version... (ok, could play with it for some more hours - but I have to hurry, if I want to be ready till next week)

Goshi

and to give it a bit more context:

The scene shows my own mountains in the background, the "icecrown" (the throne and such will be on top of it) and the diorama base for the icecrown-mountain.


hope you like it...

m4dcow

A bit late, but having your images attached to posts in little thumbnails is more difficult to look at than actually embedding the images into the post from another site like imgur.

WarrenM

That last picture is odd ... it looks like a 3D print of a building sitting on a little toy terrain. I don't know why! It's something about it...

WarrenM

Got it, it's the depth of field! Mountains in the back don't blur like that so it's making it look like a macro shot of a small model or something.

Goshi

ah yes, that´s right

dont worry, this scen is not really composed and such... just wanted to put the things together, I created... for fun.

I think it will make up for a good scene in the end - at least that´s my hope ^^

Goshi

so here are the base+the iceberg combined, fully textured!

Next up: the throne and some other stuff will be placed on top of the iceberg (and that will -finally- be the main "throne room" setting...

I keep you posted!!

noscope

Nothing is showing up for me bro!

Goshi

ooops... now image should be there

Orb

I will tell you the secret of having no feedbacks : "Attached Thumbnails"

Goshi

Hey Orb - what do you mean by this?
I thought adding images with the "on board forum function" would be ok?!

What do you suggest? Link images from 3rd party web-services?
Can you recomment a good and free one? Maybe also Mac osx integrated?!

Cheers!

Goshi

I came up with a new idea and decided to re-do the throne completly...
here is a quick screen grab from Substance Painter

m4dcow

Goshi wrote: »

Hey Orb - what do you mean by this?
I thought adding images with the "on board forum function" would be ok?!

What do you suggest? Link images from 3rd party web-services?
Can you recomment a good and free one? Maybe also Mac osx integrated?!

Cheers!

Use imgur.com, and embed the image, I also recommend greenshot which is a screen capture program, that can automatically upload the image to imgur and will save the link to your clipboard.

Goshi

thanks a lot - tomorrow I will start use it!

Goshi

Goshi

a quick setup to see, how the materials (ice, different metals, leather and slate) will work together...