Long time no see, a little texturing fun I had

[Archian]

My thoughts exactly <3 Go for it!

 

[Traggey]

So whilst I'm still struggling with export errors on Thrall ( managed to get about half his animations done at least! ) I went ahead and finished up my Arthas texture!

 

[stein123]

Oh god x____________x

 

[Wareditor]

You are crazy good man...

 

[Kyrbi0]

Oh goodness.

 

[Stefan.K]

So whilst I'm still struggling with export errors on Thrall ( managed to get about half his animations done at least! ) I went ahead and finished up my Arthas texture!

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Man, that face. Really. That's true Arthas we need, really looks like one from the cinematic. How many polycount so far? About the animations, may I suggest some spell like 'stab attack' where he attacks his father? Would be cool to have something that can remind the moments from the cinematic. Great job so far, all your wips look DC so far.

 

[Traggey]

Thanks guys! Yeah Stefan I was thinking of doing an animation just like that aswell! He's sitting at 818 triangles currently. I'm probably going to go through and try to optimize it a little better once I'm done with Thrall.

 

[Stefan.K]

Thanks guys! Yeah Stefan I was thinking of doing an animation just like that aswell! He's sitting at 818 triangles currently. I'm probably going to go through and try to optimize it a little better once I'm done with Thrall.

If you ask me, that's not big polycount. You could freely go to 1000 triangles. Good luck.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Eh, Warcraft is often about 'economy', at least where polies are concerned.

 

[Traggey]

Art hangout tonight! Come on and join me you butts!

https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/u3h4f74imndqhcu72njvqevpkai

 

[Traggey]

Did some sculpting last night! Obviously far from finished this one, but it's starting to take shape.

 

[Heinvers]

Great looking Traggey :]
Is that demonic Illidan I see?

 

[Traggey]

Thanks Generic Demon Hunter, didn't want to go exactly for illidan but rather do some designs of my own, like with the wings and horns.


Uploaded some icon resources from last nights painting sessions aswell!

Orc Warlock

Death Staff

 

[Stefan.K]

Thanks Generic Demon Hunter, didn't want to go exactly for illidan but rather do some designs of my own, like with the wings and horns.


Uploaded some icon resources from last nights painting sessions aswell!

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Orc Warlock

Death Staff

Wow, that's some nice staff there, although I think the warlock is more green then it should. Hope you understand.

 

[Traggey]

I see what you mean, my intention was for his eyes to give of a green fel glow, lighting up the rest of his face with a more unnatural green.

 

[Traggey]

So I've gotten the basic animations for Thrall done, but he still needs more, such as alternate spells, spell channels and more attacks.

HOWEVER, Neodex is about to cause me to throw my PC out the window, It has crashed over 20 times on me today and I can not add new keyframes anymore.

No responses on the Neodex thread from the dev, not sure he's active anymore? So I'm pretty much stuck here.

 

[Kyrbi0]

It hurts. Wish I could help. :<

 

[Stefan.K]

I was just about to say that Ghostwolf can help, but saw the thread about the neodex. It's a shame that every model that has great potential to become very useful and great looking failed to get finished...

 

[Traggey]

I'm not giving up just yet! I might have found a work around, a very.. Troublesome work around! But I'll get this finished up if I so have to walk over glass to do so!

 

[Stefan.K]

It's nice to see optimistic thoughts from you, really. I just wish it, and other models you started, to get finished. Btw, that death animations from the video looks very nice and smooth. The Blizzard could hire you and Tauer by now. Also, you two could record some video to learn as "mortals" how to make custom animations like that.

 

[Traggey]

 

[Stefan.K]

The attack animation(?), you should turn the hammer a little, to bash his enemies with it. Other then that the animations are very well done.

 

[Traggey]

There'll be animations like that to come, this one is intended for his basic lighting ball throw attack.

 

[Stefan.K]

Oh, I see. My bad.

 

[Sheephunter]

Jesus man these skins/models looks amazing, looking forward to the release of the Arthas skin

Hope you fix that exporting bug soon enough.

 

[Traggey]

Thanks a bunch Sheephunter! Doin' my best to get these out!

 

[Traggey]

Can't stop myself from making moar models! This time around it is just a heavily edited Rifleman, figured he could use a bit of a facelift.

Almost the exact same amount of polygons as the original Rifleman and the same texture size.

 

[Heinvers]

Pretty :]

Considered making diablo themed models? I think that some reaper angels or Malthael would be cool.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Can't stop myself from making moar models! This time around it is just a heavily edited Rifleman, figured he could use a bit of a facelift.

Almost the exact same amount of polygons as the original Rifleman and the same texture size.

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How is that even possible?...

 

[Traggey]

@Heinvers

Would be fun! I'm nowhere near as big of a Diablo nerd as I am Warcraft, but perhaps! I like myself some good'ol gothic horror at times.

@Kyrbi0

It's all in the UVW mapping, blizzards unwraps are just garbage across the board, my workflow for this was, import model, adjust proportions, add/remove pieces from the mesh, change/fix topology, make A GOOD UV MAP.

Makes texturing so much easier :3

 

[Traggey]

Evil Arthas done, figured I'd make a slightly nicer one aswell!

 

[stein123]

So awesome!! But I think that the shoulder spikes shouldn't go

 

[Traggey]

Shouldn't go where?

 

[Stefan.K]

Man, that's awesome. I love how you make everything perfect just with texturing. Nice and simple.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

Oh my god. Traggey, that's one of the most detailed skins I've seen.
When are you gonna upload that masterpiece?

 

[Sellenisko]

Thanks Archian! ALL the nipples and buttockes! When I was designing this guy for the platformer game it was about 4 AM and I was giggling like a school girl when I decided to give him the cowboy butt pants.

Did some touchups on the texture, much happier with him now.

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Give him a scythe and a skull maks and it perfect Grim Reaper!

 

[Traggey]

@StoPCampinGn00b Thanks man ^^ Well I have plans to make a lich king verision aswell as horse verisions for all these three verisions, then they've got to be rigged and animated. So it might take a bit haha.

@Sellenisko Hah I might actually make a little variant of him one day just for that, cool idea!

 

[SpasMaster]

Hey man, I just discovered this thread, which has some of the most amazing texture work I've ever seen done for Warcraft 3. While you have showcased plenty of skins and models in this thread, I fail to see where we can get our hands of them? Are they ever released somewhere? Thanks!

 

[MogulKahn]

Shame to see this models not realised...

 

[Traggey]

Hey SpasMaster and MogulKahn! I agree it is indeed a shame ^^ I'm still working on Thrall but have lately been super busy with my real job, we just launched our first VR title if that's of interest to anyone!

As of now only really the skins I've done for the texturing contests are uploaded for grabs. Thrall is very close to being done though and I think I've managed to work around the various problems I've been having with NeoDex.

Arthas will be next but as mentioned previously I will be making a Lich King verision aswell as horse verisions for all three Arthas's..s ass Arthi? Arthi, and that will take a bit aswell hah.

If there's folks out there whom would like to help with possibly rigging some of the other skins like the Rifleman and what not that'd be super helpfull, as I don't really want to use the old animations.

 

[Ungoliath]

Your work is absolutely mindblowing! Any plans on creating something from the Diablo universe, further down the line?

 

[Traggey]

Thanks Ungoliath! I'm not that huge of a Diablo nerd honestly, although I did enjoy the first two games.

It's possible, if I find something that really interests me, but as of now I'm doing Warcraft.

 

[BunnyLoveSu]

Incredible work! I knew I saw your style somewhere before on Polycount, just saw the HOMEBOUND post on the forums Keep it up, Traggey!!

 

[Kyrbi0]

... I fail to see where we can get our hands of them? Are they ever released somewhere? Thanks!

Shame to see this models not realised...

Guys. If you've read the thread, you'll see that he's been more than willing to release stuff, he just couldn't; having major export issues.

Hey SpasMaster and MogulKahn! I agree it is indeed a shame ^^ I'm still working on Thrall but have lately been super busy with my real job, we just launched our first VR title if that's of interest to anyone!

As of now only really the skins I've done for the texturing contests are uploaded for grabs. Thrall is very close to being done though and I think I've managed to work around the various problems I've been having with NeoDex.

Arthas will be next but as mentioned previously I will be making a Lich King verision aswell as horse verisions for all three Arthas's..s ass Arthi? Arthi, and that will take a bit aswell hah.

If there's folks out there whom would like to help with possibly rigging some of the other skins like the Rifleman and what not that'd be super helpfull, as I don't really want to use the old animations.

Way cool, man! I forget that you have a real-life job doing this same cool stuff... Tell me you textured those ruffles. xD

 

[Stefan.K]

If you're going for mounted versions than I'd suggest making horse mesh from scratch, but I don't really doubt that you'll make it perfect even if you edit Arthas' goat in game.

 

[Traggey]

Thank you ever so much for the high praise @BunnyLoveSu !

And hah, @Kyrbi0 naw I didn't texture those, fun fact! I work at a company developing the leading industry material scanning library, those chips are actually scanned real life ones

 

[RedLord]

Lovely Arthas dude..

 

[Eat_Bacon_Daily]

These are seriously A-MAZ-ING!
I honestly think some of these models look better than their Heroes of the Storm counter parts!

 

[Traggey]

These are seriously A-MAZ-ING!
I honestly think some of these models look better than their Heroes of the Storm counter parts!

Woah! That's some big praise! Thank you ever so much ^^

 

[Kam]

@Traggey

These are probably the best skins I have ever seen. The Rifleman and Panda are beautiful.

Please release all of this.