[Riot Creative Contest 2017] Michael Barrington

praetus · Nov 2017

Current progress:
Turret - Complete

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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.

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Enhirement · Nov 2017

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

praetus · Nov 2017

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.

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jenna_dean · Nov 2017

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!

praetus · Nov 2017

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.

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Bobababooi · Nov 2017

Nice! pretty clean model to start!

praetus · Nov 2017

Exploring one of my preferred concepts with a paintover.

praetus · Nov 2017

Some progress

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praetus · Dec 2017

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

NateMasterFlash · Dec 2017

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.

praetus · Dec 2017

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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praetus · Dec 2017

Some progress and blockout tests.

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Enhirement · Dec 2017

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

praetus · Dec 2017

Started to block in the creature.

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RobertTerritory · Dec 2017

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!

praetus · Dec 2017

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.

praetus · Dec 2017

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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praetus · Dec 2017

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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praetus · Dec 2017

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

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praetus · Dec 2017

praetus · Dec 2017

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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praetus · Dec 2017

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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praetus · Dec 2017

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

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praetus · Dec 2017

Started painting tonight and resized the base.

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praetus · Dec 2017

Been focusing on the bottom of the turret so far.

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praetus · Dec 2017

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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praetus · Dec 2017

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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praetus · Dec 2017

Squid progress.

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praetus · Jan 2018

Finished the turret. On to the jungle area.

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Giggy · Jan 2018

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

Sage · Jan 2018

looks cool

praetus · Jan 2018

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.

praetus · Jan 2018

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

praetus · Jan 2018

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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.

praetus · Jan 2018

praetus · Jan 2018

RobertTerritory · Jan 2018

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

praetus · Jan 2018

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

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praetus · Jan 2018

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

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praetus · Jan 2018

Got some more work done last night.

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praetus · Jan 2018

Current progress.

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Entheosche · Jan 2018

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.!

praetus · Jan 2018

@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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praetus · Jan 2018

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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.

praetus · Jan 2018

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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praetus · Jan 2018

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

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RobertTerritory · Jan 2018

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

praetus · Jan 2018

praetus · Jan 2018

Artstation breakdowns!

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

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

[Riot Creative Contest 2017] Michael Barrington

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