Durotan, Warchief of the Frostwolf Clan

MadGunslinger

I'm back and making Durotan, Warchief of the Frostwolf Clan and father of Thrall this time!


The first of many WIPs to come.

MadGunslinger

Started late in the evening so didn't make too much progress today. But here's today's progress anyways!

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Forgot to post yesterday's progress, so here's some of yesterdays and the progress of today so far.

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There, the blockout is done! Going very Heroes of the Storm styled on this one. Might do some more adjustments on the proportions and then start detailing.

Sukotto

Good progress Tim! Cant wait to see how you handle the pelt A minor thing, but I feel like his face looks too much like your Grom's face (yes they're both orcs but they should have their own personailty) Maybe make his nasal bridge a little broader and his nose more bulbous? Maybe make his nostrils point down more?

Keep it up!

jose.fuentes

you're off to a great start, can't wait to see how this turns out

Enydimon

Looks good so far! Durotan is one of my favourites.

You might have already caught it, but I thought it might be worth mentioning anyway just in case.

Try moving the belt up a little more, so it covers the row of abs above it. As you have it right now, it's making is legs look overly short and his torso look really long. It's taking away from the impression that this is a tall orc warrior. It's also more accurate to the reference.

Of course I'm still a novice so I don't know if you're intentionally doing it as to not run into issues for whatever reason, but I think the impression of his height is something you might want to keep in mind.

MadGunslinger

Thanks for the feedback, changed the face a bit and started adding details.
Tried putting the belt higher, but wasn't satisfied. Warcraft orcs have pretty short legs in the end.

YBourykina

great job! love that you thickened him up! XD

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Progress of the day.

SveinY

This looking really good so far. Keep it up!

amirabd2130

this looks awesome already.
looking forward to this

MadGunslinger

The wolf pelt is done aswell now. Adjusted the fingers a bit, along with some parts of the chest. Up next is the weapon.

_Kratos_

Super nice work!
Cant wait to see this painted...

MadGunslinger

There, the weapon sculpt is finished as well. Time for retopping and all of that goodness.

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Retopped, unwrapped and baked everything. (under 10K tris + a 2k normalmap)
Now that all of the technical stuff is out of the way, time for painting!

Jakub

That is looking really neat! Love the axe.

I know it's probably a bit late to change proportions, but I thinks he should be slightly bigger in waist and legs.

But who cares! He looks really nice, can't wait to see him finished

oxygencube

Looking clean so far! Excited to see this guy textured.

MadGunslinger

Started texturing, here's a flat diffuse WIP.

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Still need to work on the lighting setup, but here's a shot with some shading. (Marmoset TB2)

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Some more WIP on the texturing along with some skin color variations.

Jakub

I like Axe#3 and Skin#1 the most, so far Going well!

TomGT

Solid stuff! You keep pumping these out like a mad gunslinger haha.

Have you considered a red orc color variation? Might be too much, but you never know.

MadGunslinger

Didn't consider that Tom, but I think I might do that instead of the yellow tint, because I'm not a big fan of that tint, looking at it again. So thanks Tom!
Also planning on doing a masterskin variation (Which is a variation on the normal skin, not an entirely new skin) Made a quick sketch. The shoulderplate is inspired on Orgrim's shoulderplate, who is Durotan's dearest friend in the lore.

praetus

Yellow skin isn't terrible as it reminds me of the half orc/ogre breeds like Rexxar That being said, it may be a little too much like Rexxar with the axes as well. The main issue I have with the yellow skin is that the wolf pelt is too similar in color to it. I feel like it needs to pop and it is not.

Sukotto

Great progress! I don't know what it is but the axe is looking a little....soft. I think you could push the shading on the axe blade and further define the planes of the blades. Here's a paintover if I'm not making sense



Keep it up, can't wait to see this finished!

MadGunslinger

Alright, gonna start on the master version, improved the axe. (thx Sukotto!!)
Also did some improvements on the low poly mesh to make it more moba friendly.
And lastly, tried out the red orc thing, but it didn't look how I wanted it to look, so I went back to the ogre-ish color and improved that variation. Basically just did lots of tweaking today, before starting on the Masterskin version.
Color variations

Moba view

Front & back view

alifarsangi

its just awesome work dude !

MadGunslinger

Here's the masterskin WIP. Going for an alternate lore inspired version.
Where Durotan didn't learn how to control his bloodlust and killed Orgrim, instead
of becoming friends (Hence the shoulderplate)

BradMyers82

very well done!

amirabd2130

really goooood, keep on rocking :thumbup:

MadGunslinger

After applying some feedback and adding extra stuff, here's the finished Masterskin!
Next up is rigging and skinning both versions and posing them.

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The normal version of Durotan has been finished!


You can also check him out in 3D over here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/durotan

VanLogan

Very Awesome! I always look forward to your updates. Keep it up!

MadGunslinger

The Masterskin variation of Durotan has also been finished now!
(You can check it out in 3D over here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/masterskin-durotan