[Riot Creative Contest 2017] Michael Barrington

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Current progress:
Turret - Complete


Jungle area - WiP

starting to explore some ideas for the turret.  Not 100% on anything yet so I'll just be concepting for a bit to see what sticks.

Enhirement

Awesome, can't wait to see how this turns out.

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I've picked four concepts that I am going to delve into a bit more to see where it goes.  Here is the first exploration I made.

jenna_dean

All your turrets have such pleasing lines. I'm really digging the last one. The mechanical shapes mixed with the floating elements are an interesting design! 

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Thanks @jenna_dean!  I've finished out some more designs and am currently blocking some stuff out in ZBrush.  I'm not the best at perspective drawing, so I figure I can screenshot this and do paintovers for better results as well.  Here's the progress.  

Bobababooi

Nice! pretty clean model to start!

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Exploring one of my preferred concepts with a paintover.

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Some progress

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Update on the design of the turret.  Hoping to  finalize my idea for base and start modeling this weekend.

NateMasterFlash

Coming along nicely man.  I really like how the rift is looking in the latest concept. 

I think it could be cool if the ooze had the same material as the rift.

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I was thinking that as well with the ooze pools.  Hopefully it'll look good.  Got some work done tonight on base of turret.  Need to finish top tomorrow.

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Some progress and blockout tests. 

Enhirement

Number 2 or 3 for me, very interesting shapes. Keep up the good work! 

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Started to block in the creature.

RobertTerritory

Clean sculpt!  I like the contrast with the hard edges of the tower and the organic feel of the void monster.  

The amount of detail on the top part of the tower is really interesting.  I'm just not sure how well it will read, considering the turret will be about 3 times smaller in the actual in-game screenshots.  What do you think?

Keep up the awesome work!

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Yeah, I may need to tone it down a bit.  Also, the tower is going to be busted up a little bit and in pieces so that detail is probably going to be nixed. 

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Oof.  Been a super busy week and I wasn't able to work on this at all.  Picked it back up last night and got some sculpting done on it.

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Got some more edits done last night and progressing on this guy.  Tentacles are still very much in progress. They look a little funny now but they'll be rigged and posed after bakes.

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Reworked the tentacles last night.  Hoping to start combining meshes and finishing out the sculpt next

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Some quick color tests that will double as selection groups once they're baked out. Working on the retopology as of last night and looking forward to painting in the diffuse and details soon.

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Initial bakes are done.  I need to adjust the polycount pretty hard as it is too high right now but it's promising.  On to color soooooon.

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Base colors with gradient maps are laid out.  Going to start painting next.  

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Started painting tonight and resized the base.

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Been focusing on the bottom of the turret so far.

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Almost done with the turret.  I was hoping to finish it last night but I still have the floating and broken bits to finish as well as some detail fixes.  I should be starting on the squid guy (and hopefully finishing) this weekend, and then it will be on to the creature area.

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More or less done with the turret now aside from editing the ooze.  I plan on doing that as I work on the squid guy.

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Squid progress.

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Finished the turret.  On to the jungle area.

Giggy

It looks really cool, It's such a cool idea! Nice job!

Sage

looks cool

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Thanks!  I started a paintover concept for the creep den today.  Pretty basic for the concept but I'm pretty sure I know where I want it to head.  I'm trying to tie the theme of both pieces together.

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Got this modeled over the weekend and UV unwrapped.  I'll start painting it tonight if I have time to.

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Started to block in some rocks last night.  Pretty loose still as I'm trying to find the proper values and detail amount.

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RobertTerritory

Good progression so far!  Can't wait to see all those candles lighting up the rocks!

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Thanks @RobertTerritory .  Here's some progress from last nights Twitch stream.

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Added a gradient to the trees and filled out the bottom tiers.  Started blocking out the dying trees.

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Got some more work done last night.

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Current progress.

Entheosche

Nice details and color variation! I love the design of creep den. In my opinion, a transition between green tree and red tree looks a little bit award, you could blend that area using other trees or just color gradient. Looking good.!

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@Entheosche Yeah, I'm very quicklet running out of UV space for extra stuff.  I managed to squeeze some in and paint a transition tree.  Hope it helps.

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Got some lighting in last night.  Might be changing some of it drastically though since I got a paintover on discord.  

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Some big model changes and fixes in this one.  I'm going to finish moss tonight and edit tress a bit.  Might get this finished by the weekend.

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Final for the creep den.  I need to go back and edit a few things on turret and then I am done.

RobertTerritory

Nice work!  I like how you can also feel the transition from alive to dead in the moss on the rocks also.  

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Artstation breakdowns!

Creep Den - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/DRy49

Turret - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ovRgO