[RIOT CREATIVE CONTEST 2017] Character Art - Forest Spirit Aurelion Sol

Jarran

Finished!




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Hey guys! So excited to start this contest. I'm taking Aurelion Sol and giving him a fresh new forest look. I have to confess that I haven't played lol in years, I had a browse through the new champions and this guy and Ivern instantly caught my eye so I'm combining the best of both worlds.

Jarran

Quick paintover/photobash. I'll be adding/changing more to further differentiate him from the original but I think I'm better off working it out in 3d. Currently blocking the body out

Jarran

Hey everyone I have his face and body to a relatively decent stage for now so I thought I'd spend some time on some headpiece variations focusing on broad shapes and readability.. Personally I'm feeling the rear headpiece of A and the front of B. I'd love to hear what you think! Thanks

vonboe

Looking good.

Though I personally liked your original concept better.
Right now it seems too "empty" with all the space between the leafs and branches.

*Warning shitty paint-over in-coming *

Jarran

@vonboe oh damn! Yeah thats a massive improvement. thanks a bunch for the feedback, I'll get on it asap

Jarran

Modifying his mane has made a WORLD of difference. I'm a little unsure how I'm going to tackle the 'inner' area of the mane while keeping it low poly so I'll have to have a play around with that. I would like to have more leaves pointing out of the whole bunch to breakup the silhouette so I'll readdress that when I come to doing the final version.

Jarran

Some bits + bobs. Further silhouette exploration and figuring his wood armour pieces out.

vonboe

It looks like you are making great process, keep up the good work!

Skylarc

Love the idea/theme   the  change to the  leaves on his head is great! keep it up! cant wait to see more of this

Jarran

@vonboe @Skylarc thankyou both so much! haven't made much progress for a few days, currently fighting with his damn hands.

Jarran

Finally found some time to work on this. Atm I'm worried that it might be looking a little too busy while also being worried that it's looking a little bare. so thats fun. I've started building the LP for his body too.

(leaves looking shitty cos I think I'm gonna abandon sculpting them and just paint them in instead)

Jarran

Refinements and silhouette/FoV check. I think theres some disparity between the wood on his shoulders and on his back so i need to fix that

PaulH

Rad start Jarran! Let's see some more.

Jarran

@PaulH thanks man

Jarran

spent a few hours doing tonnes of bits and bobs. reworked his face mainly.

Jarran

tweaks tweaks + more tweaks. closing in on finishing the sculpt now I think.

Jarran

head refinements/cleanup

Jarran

Hp done, hoping to get loads done by this time next week

vonboe

Wow I've really been gone for a while.
Looks like you have done a ton of progress, looking really good. Thumbs up! 

Jarran

@vonboe hey thanks! glad you think so. your fiora is looking super sweet too

Jarran

Finally some decent progress! Here he is baked down and ready for me to start painting

Jarran

long overdue wip. getting there

Jarran

It's super nice looking back at this thread and seeing how far this has progressed. I'm getting happier with how it's looking, I'm just not sure if the textures look particularly league of legends-y atm. Need to get him posed asap to work stuff out better I think.

Syblinsk

Looks pretty good in my opinion, if you want to do more league-ish textures you should try to darken it a bit mostly the yop leafs, looking at the elderwood skinline should be a good refernce to do it, keep it up!

Jarran

@Syblinsk thanks for the feedback! You were definitely right, I've made them a little darker but I think I might push it further, especially on the green leaves.



I've been working on painting the textures (just the wood so far) to look more league-y, which has meant losing a lot of the unnecessary detail i added onto the high poly but I think its been for the better 

Iced_Latte

@Jarran Oh wow This is striking! I love the details you have on him! 

Jarran

@Iced_Latte thankyou so much! I'm glad you think so.

I've been working more on the textures and have made quite some progress I think. Also did some mane texture variants, I really like the red one but I'm not sure if it fits with him. Might do a few more tests to find out.

Jarran

Think I'm getting close to finishing now. The biggest things I have to do are clean up some seams, pose him and add the transparency. I'd appreciate any crit you lot have for me!

Jarran

Got him posed and thought I'd do a mockup presentation - still a ways to go with the texturing though. I'm struggling to figure out how to present him with the transparency, I have my maps painted I just can't seem to match the same look as in-game 

TheIceWolves

I think his tail is almost completely transparent, not sure how to achieve it lol.
Checkout this Ivern's leaf textures, might help you detailing the patterns https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/003/646/100/large/daniel-orive-compo-ivern.jpg?1475989046 

Jarran

@TheIceWolves
I reduced some of the patterning from the leaves because I thought it was a bit over the top, but I'll definitely go back and give them another pass, thanks

As for the transparency, the issue is (like the pic with the blue background) the parts of the meshes clip through each other thats what i'd expect to happen but it doesnt match leagues transparency. I might try rendering it in max

FemkeSchaars

@Jarran

Nice work so far!

I think I can help you out with the transparency :P 
The word you are probably looking for is a 'fresnel effect'. The texture of Aurelion Sol is indeed almost completely transparent, but they put this effect on top of it to make the shapes still readable.
I'm not sure if this effect is available in any render software, but I know it is available in Unreal Engine.

Jarran

@FemkeSchaars Thanks! lol i feel like such an idiot. I have it set up in UE4 atm so I'll add the fresnel in there.

Jarran

All finished up!

rezet

Great job on the character @Jarran! Congrats on finishing!

Jarran

thankyou you too!!

Buffaloon

Awesome work man. Just reading down and really pleased you went for that palette. Works really well and feels super druidy

Jarran

@Buffaloon
hey Will cheers dude! glad you like