Sketchbook: Aaron Quiney

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I thought I would start a sketchbook to show my process of a League of Legends asset I am currently planning out.

I will be remaking the blue-side Inhibitor, using a PBR, Substance Painter workflow, rather than hand painting the textures, going for an Overwatch sort of aesthetic. 

Here is the initial in-game asset 



And here is some quick concept sketches I made to help plan out the separate parts of the model, I think it will be much easier to break it down into a few parts rather than keep the entire thing as one mesh. Although I will probably combine them at the end for the baking and texturing stage, perhaps keeping the crystal separate in order to make animating it easier.



The next stage would be to make some basic blockouts for each of these in Maya

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Here I've begun to block out the base ring section, making sure everything tiles around a center pivot point correctly. In the original design the gold ring around the edge is just a flat texture, here I've decided to give it actual geometry, which after sculpting, should help give the model a nice silhouette and is closer to the chunky, Overwatch style I'm going for. Next I will add the 3 boxy connector parts

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I've now blocked out the separator parts


I particularly liked this separator more than the others, so I have done that design for them all. 

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The next thing I'll need to do is raise the top sections at the end of the ring to help the transition into the front section. 

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At this point I'm starting to think about how I want to tackle the gold trim parts. Whether they should be modelled now, or handled in ZBrush at the sculpt stage, as they are quite blocky, they could be made in Maya.