[Riot Art Creative Contest 2017] - Femke Schaars - Fireworks Aurelion Sol
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Hi there! This is my first time here at Polycount.
I love playing League of Legends and I'm very excited to participate to this contest!
Since the release of Aurelion Sol, I always wanted to concept a chinese dragon skin for him! He is perfect for it!
He has a long body without wings (like a chinese dragon) and explosive abilities that would fit pretty well with a fireworks theme.
I'm planning to make him fit with these existing skins: Lion Dance Kog'maw, Dragonwing Corki, Firecracker Jinx and Panda Annie.
(I still need to think of a fancy name for the Aurelion Sol skin)
I'm very happy this contest exist so I have a good excuse to start making this skin haha.
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Hi there! This is my first time here at Polycount.
I love playing League of Legends and I'm very excited to participate to this contest!
Since the release of Aurelion Sol, I always wanted to concept a chinese dragon skin for him! He is perfect for it!
He has a long body without wings (like a chinese dragon) and explosive abilities that would fit pretty well with a fireworks theme.
I'm planning to make him fit with these existing skins: Lion Dance Kog'maw, Dragonwing Corki, Firecracker Jinx and Panda Annie.
(I still need to think of a fancy name for the Aurelion Sol skin)
I'm very happy this contest exist so I have a good excuse to start making this skin haha.
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I'm not entirely sure about the colors yet. I will likely use red with purple and green accents since that fits nicely with the other skins. I will tackle the colors when I'm satisfied with the design.
I made the scales also a little bit bigger (thanks for the feedback ^^), I think it will also be easier to define the exact proportions once I get some ingame background in there.
Now youve made the scales bigger I'd suggest reducing the amount so that theyre not everywhere, I think the character mesh could be quite noisy in game view. perhaps have clusters of scales in different areas (btw, i prefer the first head iteration ^^)
So What I did now was figuring out what features I liked in my concept art, and what features I want to keep in the final design.
So now I created a (somewhat) final design fo the head of Aurelion Sol:
(I will do a full color pass after I'm done designing the body :P)
Now I got the head done, it will be easier for me to design the rest of the body. (For example the shoulder parts should match with the horns etc.)
I liked the golden outlines on the scales a lot so I tried to implement that in my concepts aswell.
So here are a few concepts of the body of Aurelion Sol.
I experimented with pointy scales and round scales. I also made a few different iterations for the schoulder pads, I wanted them to fit with the golden horns.
Number 4 is my personal favourite, but I'm very curious what you guys think :P
I will likely combine all the features that I like of these concepts and make a final version with ingame background.
@Jarran: Thank you for the feedback! I tried to not completely cover the body with scales, for example the inside of the arm and the lower parts of the legs are not covered.
I personally like a lot of scales haha since you often see that in traditional chinese drawings of dragons and koi fish. With the placing of the scales I tried to mimic those kind of chinese drawings :P
I made the final concept art for Aurelion Sol with ingame background. I still want to make some color variations (I'm not yet sure if I want to go for red and purple). Atleast I can start modeling now haha.
I thought it would be cool if the tail would have some fireworks particles (I thought it could work well with the tranparent tail). I probably will make a bit less distracting in the final model though.
Thank you guys so much for the comments!
I'm really sorry for not posting updates lately, I feel terribly quilty. The reason I couldn't post any updates is because I'm currently no-lifing to finish a graduation project. I'm studying Game Architecture and Design, and I've basically been sculpting in Zbrush and modeling non-stop (+/- 8 hours a day litterally every single day for 7 weeks :'D).
So unfortunately I haven't had a lot of time to sculpt and model Aurelion Sol. However, I will move heaven and earth to finish him and deliver an entry for the contest!
The pro of having worked in Zbrush for so many hours now, is that I got really fast at it, and now I know a lot of tricks to speeden up my workflow. So I'm confident I'm going to make it! (even if I need to sacrifice some sleep haha)
So today I sculpted a rough mock-up (a lot of parts are still blobby, but atleast I have a good idea of the shapes and proportions now).
I'm aware that the default T-pose of Aurelion Sol looks a bit different. Unfortunately, I don't have time to rig and pose him xD, so that's why I sculpted him directly in his idle pose.
I hope you guys like it, and feedback is ofcourse always appreciated
I will work very hard and post updates every day from now on!
I almost done with the sculpt, I only need to polish some minor things and then I can start with the retopo.
I also changed the horns a bit to something that looks more powerful and traditional.
Here is a quick test to see if the sculpt would fit with in the game:
Thank you so much! ^^
Here is a little update on the retopo:
I only need to do the hair still, after that I'm ready to do the UV's.
I might need to reduce the poly density in some places.
I'm done with retopologizing and UVing
I'm working really hard to finish it (I'm dying inside :'D)
Anyone got some last-minute feedback?
Just submitted it.
There are still a few things I would have liked to add (transparent tail and fireworks passive), but I decided that I don't need to die during this contest. I'm gonna catch up some sleep haha.
Thanks for all the support and encouragements!
Would have loved to see him posed though
@GravityBwlast : Haha if I only had time to make a rig :'D. Thank you very much though!