[Riot Art Contest] - Azir

Squals · Oct 2014

Finals sent off to Riot,

So I was torn between Azir or Morgana But i decided on Azir. I'm thinking going for a necromancer / Robot / Necron idea.

Good luck everyone, some big time artists this time around, gonna be awesome.

Squals · Oct 2014

Some quick silhouette work I did after work today. I thought he could phase in his minions, which are smaller robots with shields and spears. I will keep doing more tonight but any votes on your favorites would help

as well as ideas / crits

Squals · Oct 2014

Almost forgot, here's my inspiration sheet.

Cheers everyone,

Squals · Oct 2014

More silhouette work.

Decided to make him of an alien race instead of robot, and here's a quick base from last night. The Leader, Azir, will have larger technical pieces / enhancements, like in my silhouette. Still unsure of the Tower though.

Squals · Oct 2014

Got to do a few more hours of work today. I really didn't need to flesh him out but I wanted give his race life a little.

Azir has this ruby in the center of his chest, I thought of making it a breathing apparatus for them since they don't have noses.

Steps

Armor blocking out next.

juancaratino · Oct 2014

very good concept work, i hope to see something

yorikus24 · Oct 2014

After this one some one need make Malder Graves. Good luck. Interest idea.

Squals · Oct 2014

yorikus24 : haha I'll check em out :P
Juanaratina : Thanks!

Squals · Oct 2014

Small Armor update, shapes are still very loose and sketchy. Lots of work left.

Unsure of the shoulders, any ideas?

Thanks to Oniram for the matcap

Waterbear · Oct 2014

Maybe make the shoulder armor like "vents"...slits of metal that can move up and down. Then it would sort of be like the wings in the original but more inline with your concept.

Squals · Oct 2014

A sick, good idea! I thought about putting vents on the back or the chest, but decided I'll keep the chest for simple shapes. Shoulders could be cool. Thanks Waterbear!

Squals · Oct 2014

Small Friday lunch updates

slosh · Oct 2014

pretty solid so far...please take your screenshots with perspective turned on!

Squals · Oct 2014

Hahaha makes that much of a difference huh? :P I'll try and remember that, Thanks

Squals · Oct 2014

Oh yeah, you really get a lot more volume with Perspective on huh, I had never really noticed a difference in Zbrush. Good to know! tx

Squals · Nov 2014

So many great characters so far!!! Good job everyone.

Wells · Nov 2014

Personally I'm a little confused with such drastic changes to the basic character design. One of his biggest signatures is that he's a bird-dude. That's like making Renekton not an alligator :P

That being said, I think your design could push the silhouette a bit more. Currently everything conforms very closely to his body, feeling more extruded than like separate mechanical plates sitting on top.

Lots of really cool reference in your second post, though, so I'm looking forward to where this ends up!

Squals · Nov 2014

Ahaha yeah Wells, you are right in saying that it's very far from the original, but going through all riots League of Legend skins, I noticed that they sometimes go very far from the original idea of the character, while keeping some key features.

So I wanted to do exactly that, drastic on the concept change, but keep key features, shoulders, legs, center pieces. I didn't feel like just rehashing an existing skin, wanted to go on the extreme side of a new skin. I think the weapon, and textures will really uniform it as Azir.

But thanks for the comments! and you are right on the armor, I should push it more as armor and not 'skin tight'

Cheers!

Here's the 2 skins in game right now.

Squals · Nov 2014

Was hoping to have done the low poly / baked by now haha gahh

Rambo4you · Nov 2014

Keep working man, I had the same plans, not even completely done with the sculpt i feel. But looks great, love what u got so far.

Squals · Dec 2014

Hey Thanks Rambo4you! sorry for the late reply haha

Squals · Dec 2014

So I was MIA cause of personal reasons and work but I've been back at it, finished low poly and bakes. Started Textures, hopefully to have them done and start rigging by sunday. So many amazing entries so far!! I feel like I went to much on the 'see good from afar' aspect. And not enough on the High level of detail like so many other awesome entries.

Here's my texture base.

Squals · Dec 2014

Texture work and Rigged for poses. Final textures and final poses / beauties to come

Squals · Dec 2014

Lowered the contrast a little during my lunch. I'm really going for readability in game with this guy, but it's still to strong. Only a few days left, ugh

3d Coat preview

Squals · Dec 2014

Finals sent off to Polycount / Riot. Was a hella fun, good luck to everyone!

[Riot Art Contest] - Azir

Replies