PC-CSGO | PP-Bizon BAAL (WIP)

enzYm

The PP-Bizon BAAL is my restricted rarity skin - contribution for the workshop contest.

The BAAL collection I make is highly inspired by the original Alien movie from 1979 and H.R. Gigers work in general. I mixed it up with the solid black-white design resembling the clean Stormtrooper armour and ship designs from the old Star Wars movies. Over all it should feel like a factory new white future gun infested and corroded by alien goo.

Reference Sheet:

To break the 2 color contrast i added some red elements to make the composition 
more interesting - however I try not to make it to much like a railgun.

This is still a very early stage and far from finished. I personally am not that happy with the white goo on the magazine and I will add more solid white parts. Higher level of detail and over all more corrosion will be added as the work progresses

enzYm

enzYm

still not sure abut the magazine

enzYm

reducing the "Alien" part and adding more "X-Wing" charm.

enzYm

MuzzCS

this looks awesome bro!! keep it up, cant wait to see final skin

enzYm

thank you =D

enzYm

First workbench tests using default wear off for now. Still a lot to do.

nineteenss

Wow, that looks nice, bro! 

enzYm

Thanks

enzYm

next task: reworking the goo part

Bixon

Very nice looking skin dude, love the colour scheme however you need to remember that the Bizon will be a blue skin. I cant influence u or anything just a reminder.

rooksword

Nice. 

enzYm

thanks for the comments =D

@BIXON: Did not know the Bizon will be a blue tier skin - however they mentioned the P90 Elite Build as a reference for the blue tier skin scheme and the AK47 Elite Build and the new Dual Berettas Ventilators are also blue skins (all of them high quality skins with a ton of fine detail) - furthermore they took the AK47 Cartel as a reference for a high tier skin but the Dual Berettas Cartel (basically same scheme) are a blue tier skin - so I guess Valve does as they please =D
As far as I am concerned about my own contributon: it is black + white + 1 color so by no means flashy enough for a high tier skin^^
But thank you for the advice

Gecko

The rarity stuff is a little confusing if you go back to what they've added in the previous cases. Really liking what you have so far though with the Bizon, white is a hard scheme to pull off.

enzYm

Considering that the Bizon will be a low tier I came up with the following idea on how to reduce detail but still be true to the original references I wanted to be the theme of my skin.

- so heres the deal:
The goo part is gone for factory new wear BUT it shows itself the more wear off the skin becomes so at battle scarred it is basically molten metal on the previous goo parts. This would also fit in the Alien scheme where in the film the blood of the creature melts basically everything it comes into contact with. The more wear off - the more alien blood the gun came into contact with.

Here is my first rough attemt of this idea - I would like to hear your thoughts on this one

enzYm

@GECKO: Thank you
Yea I try to wrap my mind around the tier choices that valve makes but can not really get a clear indicator of how they actually assign skins to their tier. The best guess I personally can make is: the more different colors / complex pattern a skin has the higher its tier gets.

Rokit

Personally, I totally dig the May 5th post.  I think that magazine looked the coolest.  I like how the slime goes at a 45 degree angle into the top lines of the gun.  I also dig the slime on the top part.
Edit:  Yeah I can't wrap my head around their rarity classifications either.  The AWP - Asimov, while it flows with the lines on the gun, it uses simple colors, there isn't much detail, and yet it is a Covert gun.

yutehara

I like what you done with the battle-scarred condition, very creative. I am also worried that it might look "too good" for a blue skin.

enzYm

Thanks guys
I personally am more happy with the magazine as it stands now. I always felt the first drawings where not the style I was looking for. It also made no sense to me why the top of the barrel has horizontal goo while the magazine had vertical goo but I do get that a skin with that style would look cool.

And thank you for your feedback

rafear97

In factory new u got too bright whites and too dark blacks, try adjusting them so they dont hurt eyes, make white a bit more grey, and black a little brighter, you should have whites on factory new as they look on battle scared. but concept is very nice.

enzYm

Thanks
I will try to make it less bright on the white parts.

enzYm

current state - will work on small tweeks but the over all look is basically finished

Nolt

NICE! Really cool looking! I like the Alien Star Wars cross over.

enzYm

@9thKnight:
Thank you for the comment I appreciate it

kingdcoy

Scary to think this would be too high quality for a blue tier.  It reminds me of the Asiimov skins and they are Classified.  I'd wish to see this make it, and maybe they'll let this one slide, and or make it a higher tier skin.  It looks sick!

enzYm

@kingdcoy: Thanks !
Well the most important thing is to have fun making skins and improving with every piece made. ofc getting added would be the checkpot
But I think the fear of fitting to a certain tier should not restrict your own creative idea. Valve will pick what they think fits the theme best and has a quality high engough for representing a weapon in CS:GO. Sure when they are looking for a low tier skin you probably should not design a new Hyper Beast^^

Rokit

I remember reading that you should never use pure white, pure black, or any pure saturated colors for textures.  Turns out that was from the Dota 2 Character Art Guide.  I didn't see anything about this in CSGO's Weapon Finish Guide.  I think Dota 2 uses a different game engine and CSGO has its own compositing system, however it is still probably safer not to do it for Custom Paint Job finishes.  For patterns, it's actually necessary to use pure white on the separate RGB channels, since the color is chosen via the color picker in the workbench.

enzYm

My last post of this skin uses a 73% white and a 98% black because it is true that solid black can cause some trouble especially using "Gunsmith" as your finishe style (it will add some green artefacts to the gun ).
So avoiding solid 100% colors actually helps the final look of your design.
DOTA 2 and CS:GO both run on the Source 2 engine as far as I know but it could have something to do with how the shaders are build together in both games.
In CS:GO there is a standart dirt map added (regardless of your alpha channel) and some guns use a special texture for text / screws / the handle... and so on - both you are unable to edit.

jj1926

I love it it looks great but I wish there were like word carvings like maybe "good hunting" and a smiley face or something like that on the side

Davitteu

Well done man, this looks absolutely beautiful. Perfectly captured your inspiration. 

sboxle

Damn dude, this is sweet. Great use of the wear.

enzYm

@jj1926: Thanks Well I did not want to "overdo" the design and I am not sure if this additions would fit in my choice of references. But I do appreciate your suggestion.

@Davitteu : Thank you too. I am very happy to hear that I very much appreciate your comment!

enzYm

@sboxle: Thank you very much. Glad to hear that

Rokit

Double post.

Rokit

Triple post.

enzYm

So finally done - takes me forever to finish simple stuff BUT I had to be busy else where

I added more wear-off to the entire gun and refined the goo wear off i already had from my last post
The level of detail had been reduced by a small amount (there was stuff going on in the black part ath the middle of the gun-body - that has been deleted)
I also made the entire black part a tiny bit brighter and did some tweeks on the shader in the work bench compared to my last post.
And I finished the entire backside of the gun (I usually do this last when the visible side is finished)

This picture was made by two ingame work bench  greenscreen snap shots + some tweeks in over all levels in post - for the final submission I will upload additional unedited work bench screenshots (as required).

Thank you guys for the feedback - made me realise that the black goo part was actually way too much and to be honest I think the solution with the goo-wear off is pretty cool - so thanks for pointing that out and pushing me to come up with this solution

EmkaStudios

I love the bs so much...might be too good for milspec...i can see this covert bison ezym easly pink =P

enzYm

@EmkaStudios:
Thank you very much
I really appreciate it. Your workshop contributions and level of skill are outstanding so I feel kind of honored :DDD

enzYm

So heres a link to the STEAM workshop post of this skin - to get a better look at it from different angles.
It is basically finished BUT I can still change little things so feel free to point out my mistakes
I will repost this skin in the final thread (without the WIP stuff of course) so those pictures taken from the workbench are basically my final sumbission images for now.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687308964

EmkaStudios

Voted and favourited...gj and thanks =D you too!

enzYm

thank you

guardiangear

this is awesome

Rokit

Love what you've done with the alpha.  This is the only custom paint job I've seen where the gun looks just as cool whether battle scarred or factory new.

enzYm

@guardiangear: thank you =D

@Rokit : Thx yea the custom paint job is the only finished style where you are able to paint a pattern on the wear off (to my knowledge). You can use some very basic solid alpha things on GUNSMITH as well but it is basically hiding certain parts of the metal - no actuall drawing. PATINA does not support Alpha at all (this is the reason why PATINA skins have next to no wear off like Wormgod or Medusa) those skins only lose some color value on Battle Scarred.

enzYm

Uploading my final submission pictures here too (they are part of my workshop presentation) just in case it turns out they are needed on my polycount topic as well

Mitchell_Strenk

Looks nice. I think this would be one of those guns that people ttry to get battle scarred more than fac new.

enzYm

@Mitchell_Strenk:
Thank you. Yea Battle Scarred more asked for than FN that would be funny

Mitchell_Strenk

Best of luck on this. I really hope this gets into the case, because I need a new bizon and I would love to have this proudly displayed in my inventory.

enzYm

@Mitchell_Strenk:
Thx I really appreciate it - would make me immensely proud seeing this getting added and people using it (like every designer would be seeing their stuff getting added and used)