[DOTA2] -Naga Siren - TBD

miura · Oct 2012

I have been working in an idea for Naga. Let me know what you guys think!

Spudnik · Oct 2012

Damn that looks really cool! I like the take on giving her clothes but still keeping a lot of the natural body shapes. I think if you try some more variations of the "helm", you'll have a really, really sweet concept!

miura · Oct 2012

Working a bit more in the basic figure for the armor piece, here's an update on how thats going!

Spudnik · Oct 2012

Nice! Did you take Naga's original geo and just tweak it into this shape or start completely from scratch? The first method may allow you to easily transfer weights later on in the process.

miura · Oct 2012

I took the original geo for the upper part, Ive done some items that are already in the game, learned that trick by trail and error :P
The geometry on the belt thing is made from scratch. Also i had to optimize and create new geometry on the chest piece, mostly because some of the polygons that already existed, specifically on the neck were not the shape that i was looking for.

TMiuccio · Oct 2012

I like the design, you've obviously done this before. I'm just starting out on my design, do you have any tips that you could share before I get knee deep in the whole modeling/rigging/etc parts

miura · Oct 2012

So many tips

but the most important one is keep versions of your work saved, everytime you change something, save with a different name (workv1, workv1.2, workv1.3) and so on, everytime you do a BIG change, save with workv2.1 stuff like that, ive lost a LOT of time when i have to do something that was already the way i liked it, and then messed it up. It also lets you see if your vision was distorted from the original idea by comparing the files.

TMiuccio · Oct 2012

I'm working with 3ds max and I havent done much weighting or rigging before. I plan to watch some tutorials on digital tutors. Anything I should worry about?

miura · Oct 2012

Well I mostly do all my weighting and rigging in maya, so i wouldnt know much on 3ds. but im sure there are plenty of good tutorials on it out there! gl

TMiuccio · Oct 2012

cool, thanks so much. Goodluck on the contest! i can't wait to see how your set turns out

miura · Oct 2012

Uv mapped the armor, the texture atm are of course placeholders and will be worked on as soon as i finish modeling the other pieces!

miura · Oct 2012

also, started working on some concepts for the weapons, any favorites??

bounchfx · Oct 2012

This is coming along really well so far, I like her chest and helm design a bunch. As for the weapons, I'm partial to the second and fourth ones.

Spudnik · Oct 2012

I like #4 but I'd remove the little groove at the end. That way the spike doesn't look so flimsy.

BoBo_the_seal · Oct 2012

all of those swords are great and fit the character well.

miura · Nov 2012

so i know i havent been doing much with this, but things got busy at work, hoping i can finish it in time to submit. Did 2 versions of the swords and im pretty happy with both of them, thinking about the earrings now, not sure if this is the right feel for this model. Will continue experimenting!

miura · Dec 2012

moar preview, now this is only the difuse map, no spec or normals yet! I hope i make it~!

miura · Dec 2012

wow... im done.... i cant believe it... ill be uploading to the store asap, hope nothing goes wrong with the importing!!! final model here, minus spec/normals

miura · Dec 2012

Submitted the final files last night.
There's still some things I would like to improve on, but I'm quite happy with the way it turned out
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[DOTA2] -Naga Siren - TBD

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