Finished Blizzard Entry. "Taurck"

Josh_Singh

ok, This guys done. Thanks for all your Crits and observations, I just need your help with one more thing.
Each entry is only allowed one (1) Image. Im torn over these two images,
should I:
a) Submit a production style presentation sheet that shows all the technical stuff. This would be good so the judges could see my flats and orthos.
b)Just submit the pretty beauty shot because they will want to put these up in a gallery or somehing.
Here are the two pics:

Beauty:


Production Sheet:


and here's a link to the Large version of the Presentation sheet: large version

rolfness

coool .. very nice

noritsune

looks rad. if I remember right, aren't you allowed to submit up to 5 MB of image? so really you could just append one of these to the other and submit the whole thing. You'd still only have about 4.5 MB at that point.

great job! and congrats on finishing.

animatr

would it be possible to submit the presentation sheet, but in the middle, where you have the nice poses, use the background colors you used on the other beauty?

It might be worth trying out. I like the presentation sheet the most, it just feels complete and shows off all the details.

or maybe add the brownish background to the presentation sheet. and add the border to it too.

animatr

looks great btw! I think you'll do pretty damn well.

tremulant

Id say, just send in the beauty render, and they will ask for more if they like it...Which I don't know how they couldn't//

ChaosEidolon

great job man. you cranked that guy out.

Very professional finish on him, and good presentation. The one crit i will offer is that the weapon could benifit from some more obvious weathering, like a strategically placed rust/blood streak to break. The metal looks great but its very uniform. Same advice for the pouch.

Pretty minor crit though. GG!

Zwebbie

I think the beauty is much better, the presentation doesn't have a good view of the model. The orthos aren't worth it if you ask me; they don't show much more than your beauty does. It's not as if the designers would have enough pictures to judge your real do-we-want-him-quality without a wireframe anyway.
Though, perhaps you could just make the file larger and put the flats underneath, and the details (like the polycount) can be put above where you have the contest logo now. Or something like that.

Nice work, btw, even though the concept of mixing races sounds a bit silly, it came out very well and it's an interesting direction for an Orc.

Tulkamir

Man that totally kicks ass. I'd personally agree with noritsune if that's possible. But if not I'd say go with the presentation sheet.

Anyways, I totally love this model, great job.

Xenobond

I'd also go with just the beauty sheet. You are entering into a contest, not applying for a job. Show what looks the best and make them wonder how you did it all.

Lee3dee

looks awesome ghost_rider!

Have you thought about compositing him ingame? maybe against the thunderBluff city. I'm going to composite my entry to see what it would look like in game. If you want a particular screenshot, I can capture it for you in the wow viewer.

Lee3dee

did they specify the texture size or did you choose that yourself?

warby

defnitly hot stuff

[MILES]

Turned out sweet man!

adam

That brush you used for the brown border on the beauty render is my favourite PS brush ever!

Nice job dude, I say go with the beauty.

Geezus

damn that's sexy.

almighty_gir

ghost rider, host both images, have your beauty render posted, but have it linked to the second render. so that if people want to see your flats, they can. but the focus remains on the beauty render.

bearkub

I'd go for beauty as well, unless you can find a way to get all that into one image.

This is a fantastic piece. I watched it from the beginning in the what are you working on thread. Good stuff, ghost.

Zcubed

Great work! I think this is my favorite of all your spear-wielding characters.

I think Xenobond has the right idea. Show them the beauty render and link to the overview sheet. If they'll let you, just submit both!

Striff

So hot I had to come over to your cube and tell you the hotness!

Good job man!

moose

beauty. it shows the completed process and artwork, and in the end that is what matters.

great mesh!

Steve Schulze

They mentioned you could submit PSDs. You'd want to be careful with versions, but you could theoretically have all the images on different layers with the beauty on top just in case they don't go through them.

Oh, and nice work, mate. You should be in with a real chance with that model.

poopinmymouth

Looks great man, definitely Blizzard.

A few crits I had: The skin especially looks overly shaded with white, and could benefit from having a solidly chosen color for the light plane, the transition area, and the shadows. Right now most of it seems that base green, and then gradiates smoothly to white, with no color in between.

The contrast is overly distracting all over. It's super strong from head to toe. Picking a focul point like the chest and face and making it so that it's noticably higher key than the rest, will make it easier to read visually.

For the overlays, I found a nice trick that you might find helpful in your workflow. When you're done painting the volume layer, lift it to a new layer, and place on top of the overlay layer. Desaturate the volume layer and auto levels. Then group (alt+g) that volume layer to just the overlay layer, and change your volume layer to overlay mode. Now your overlay layer has volume information in it too. What this allows you to do is put the overlay on in a stronger value and it gets lighter and less noticable on the bright areas, but stronger in the darks. Right now your's is on so strong in some areas that it obscures the lighting information, but also gets lost in the extreme darks.

I really like your finished product, it's definitely of the quality I could see winning!

struve

You did a really good job on this, and in light speed! I agree with noritsune, you should attach the two together as one image and summit that. They can always crop the beauty render out if they want. If not, then definitely just the beauty shot.

Josh_Singh

ok here's the final image, I'll probably submit it tonight.

Slum

nice! this turned out great. Nice compromise on the submission image, too.

I'm excited for you. win win!

katzeimsack

nice! but I would add some alpha planes (fur and hair)

ThE_BirD

Great work man...glad you got the beauty render in there.... lots more attitude:)

Phobos

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That brush you used for the brown border on the beauty render is my favourite PS brush ever!

Nice job dude, I say go with the beauty.

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Thought the same thing..

Sweet model ghost, the beauty definately looks like something blizzard would put out.

Jeff Parrott

Great job Ghost! It really fits their current style.

killingpeople

i like your artwork and you look thuggish in your dangerously swave avatar. you are a sweet boy and i miss you. tonight... is poker night.:*(

Josh_Singh

Thanks Cory, That means a lot. Go all in blind tonight for me.

Wells

I refuse to take your spot at the table. Poker is for ladies. Thats right, I said it.

greenj2

Very nice work dude, he looks great!

arshlevon

awesome, how did i miss this? love the presentation.

Lowen.l

Good! Nice work!
You can try use "nomal map",that's better!!

Erol

great work, gr!

Electro

/salute

typhus22

its weird, ive been looking at this guy fro the past couple days and there was just something that kept bugging at me. today i finally figured it out, its the iron around the hoof, the bolts look a bit pixelated and blurred and b/c i know its there my eyes keep going to it. everything else is gorgeous and i can easiy see him in the WoW world.