Gunzfire's Hearthstone Board and Cardback

gunzfire

Hey guys. I am currently taking Robotpencil's environment mentorship and here is the second project I am working on for the class. I will be working on creating my own Hearthstone board with a card back to match it. Here is the link to the first project if you are interested. (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151780)

Here are some rough ideas from the sketchbook.



Tying down some of the ideas for an in game perspective.



I felt I wasn't iterating enough different ideas so I went back and tried to incorporated more story elements from the Wow raids from that region. Expanded the Draenei theme to Talador rather than just the battle of Shattrath. The Northrend board undergo many changes as the region had a lot of history and was too big to fit on a board, so I narrowed it down a bit and decided to focus mainly on the Ice Crown Citadel.



After designing the corner pieces, I designed some card backs using the corner pieces as an influence. This way, the shape language would be consistent. Some of the main struggles was coming up with unique designs that doesn't resemble the ones already in game.



During the class, Kalen tallied up some votes on which pieces I should go with. So here are the four for the corner pieces that survived. I just incorporated some flat colors right now to plan the battle before it gets render heavy. This planning might take longer, but I struggled in previous projects when I didn't take the time to separate my colors and materials clearly.



For these cards, I am planning to take A and D to a finish render.

Lumpizaver

Wow! Nice concepts, I am a huge fan of Northrend and everything snowy/mountainy in the Warcraft universe, so I will definitely follow your progress. You have a typo in the penultimate image, your description says Northrend but it should probably be Auchindoun.

gunzfire

Thanks! I will fix the names on the sheets.

gunzfire

One of the corner pieces rendered to get the in game look. Still a lot of work to do.

gunzfire

Here is a wip. Still got a lot of polishing to do to make them more juicy but here is where I am at.

gunzfire

Some more progress on the corner pieces.

Daew

These are really great. I like how you thought about corners interacting with each other.

I would say though that the perspective of them seem a tad off. I think its because there isnt a strong sense of a vanishing point going down towards the board (top view)





edit: ._. the images shrunk for some reason, changed images

Bedrock

I'm really digging the iron star and the iron gattling gun! I would've loved to see a full set with a piece in each corner, but the ones you made only fit top left/top right am I correct?

gunzfire

Thanks guys. So far it only fits the perspective of the top left corner, but I am going incorporate them on to a full board for a more accurate representation. There is going to be some adjustments needed, but the design is basically done. Here is my progress on the cardback with some animations.



Gif

http://i.imgur.com/ujBxxn0.gifv

Lumpizaver

They all look great. The icy one on the right is just amazing, I would select it for my deck the first second I would get it .

lotet

wow, love what your doing, especially the animations look really sweet!

gunzfire

Thanks guys!
Still a lot of work to do before I could call this finish but I am pretty happen where it is going. My next step is going to put them on the board now and fix up the perspective problems. Also Going to make the cardback particles more juicy and some parts more subtle. I am hoping to wrap up the project with 3d Model of the board set at the end of June.

samwoodart

I love these so much man! So well hand painted! Inspiring

gunzfire

An update on the board. Trying a few things here and there with the angles on the props. I am going to cut out the Ice Crown Citadel for the board and focus on Talador. A lot of things went wrong when transferring the corner pieces over to a game board due to them having a background prop bordering the edge. This blocks important aspects of the board, like the display for the mana crystals and it is a big no-no.





An update on the gif. Made some parts more subtle and changing small features.
http://imgur.com/CgeLdPP

gunzfire

Finals pieces






Check out the gif here. http://imgur.com/CgeLdPP

Avanthera

Damn, these all look amazing, some solid portfolio pieces.

Good job!

gunzfire

Thanks Avanthera! Going to move on to creating it in 3d now. I might continue this project into the 3D section of Polycount. Thanks all for the critiques and comments.