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Priestess.blp

This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
This is my first ever entirely freehand skin and I just randomly chose a unit and got what I considered to be one of the ugliest skins, So I think I made it better :) This time I took it as far as to even draw it with pencil then design it with the computer after scanning it in. This file is the slightly lower quality one, if you would like the really high quality please PM me. I designed this model allowing the gender to be ambiguous so that you may use it as male or female. If you use my model, credit is cool; but not neccessary. Distribute it as you wish, please not under your own name and feel free to edit as you desire. Thanks Hive, Hope you like it!

UPDATE: Added significantly more shading, made some nice fur which sadly blended a lot when I reduced the size so it's not highly visible. Fixed Bow and changed facial mask to show more skin on the lower end. Overall made the model look better and thought about teamcolor but its not neccessary because the bow is quite obviously glowing the players color. Thanks, hope these are good changes; if not I can still make more providing you let me know your opinions.

(Other Note) When using as Male, Kael's voice works pretty well.

Keywords:
Assassin, Hero, Rogue, Desert, Archer, Tiger, Animal, Stripes, Claws, Hot, Armored, Male, Female, Rouge, Fighter, Awesome, Cool, Support
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Priestess.blp (Texture)

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21:45, 6th Mar 2011 shiiK: Author requested permanent rejection due to lack of motivation to continue working on the skin. shiiK: Didn't realize this was updated, but it's still not enough for approval. 67chrome gave you some solid pointers that I...

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21:45, 6th Mar 2011
shiiK: Author requested permanent rejection due to lack of motivation to continue working on the skin.

shiiK: Didn't realize this was updated, but it's still not enough for approval. 67chrome gave you some solid pointers that I think will help this skin greatly.
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That's a little weird he permanently rejected it. If you are planning on updating it kindly ask him to unlock it so you can update it.
As for the skin you need to add more shading on the white parts of that skin and work on it more in general. Some of the shading on the skin seems a little intense, I would recommend using lower opacity (higher transparency) brushes for shading that skin. The having intense lights and darks is good for making things look really shiny, but most of the stuff on your skin should be more on the dull materials side.
Please send me a VM or PM the next time you update, that way I will notice sooner.
shiiK: This is of inadequate quality. The shading is lacking for the most part, making the tiger appear entirely flat. The lines in the tiger's fur looks like pieces of paper glued to his otherwise fur-less body. Some of the yellow trims are very bright and appear out of place. The ears of the priestess has a black hole in them, I can't see why. The tiger obviously uses Colgate Max White, for his teeth are shining like the sun. His paws shine as well. The priestess is overloaded with patterns as if she was dressed in curtains (with no shading and shape).

* Changed status from permanent rejection to temporary (until updated).
 
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Ok before the trolls get here, let me inform you that this is 99.9 percent sure to get rejected hatefully in its current state. It has potential, but looks like it was made in 2 min or less in MS paint(dont mean that it was though) I am sure you tried, and plus rep+ for trying! :) so lets get down to buisness shall we?......\

Shading 0/10
Color 6/10
Textures 3/10
Originality 5/10
Creativity 9/10
Completeness 1/10
Neatness 0/10
Style 10/10
Concept 8/10
Other 5/10
I like but needs mucho more work. Vote -Rejection.


IF YOU ARE A JERK AND PLAN ON TROLLING PLEASE READ
YOU JERKS THAT TROLL PEOPLE DESERVE JAIL TIME IT IS OFFENSIVE MEAN AND SOMETIMES HAZARDOUS TO ONES HEALTH OMG YOU ARE SO DUMB FLAMERS AND TROLLERS I WILL REPORT U I AM GETTING F'ING TIRED OF YOU [rainbow]GAAAAAAYHHHHHHHHAAAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/rainbow]
 
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Cool skin, very creative. The elf's tan skin could use more detail, and the general state of the skin lacks ruggedness. The fur on the tiger isn't that fur-like.

+ Correct Path
+ Works in-game
+ Looks good in-game

- Little to no team-color
- a bit cartoonish

it needs more shadows.

What he said.
 
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I don't really know who to rate this. It looks simple, but very clean. You should try making the texture with brushes rather than filters though, as cool as filters are texture is generally best created by hand.

Anyways, this skin is pretty flat. It almost looks like an animated paper cut-out. Actually sort of works with this style, but doesn't fit in with other WC3 skins. You should add shading to this in general, as it is largely lacking it. Take a low-opacity brush with black and use it to define the shadows.

Your color choices are overall pretty good, though the gold trim on the bottom of the facemask and the color of the ear spikes are to close to the skin tone, it looks as though the mask is cut of prematurely.

If you are going for gold with the yellow trim, shiny stuff involves a wide tonal range. Some parts should look almost black and others white, the greater the extremes are the shinier it will appear. If you set the golden color to something between yellow and orange, saturated and gray, you can use burn and dodge tools to make it really stand out. And then apply brightness/contrast changes on it to stand out more.

The boobs are in the wrong place, they should be closer to the center of her chest rather than under her armpits. The bow could use a lot more detail to, right now it's just a color and genaric texture.
 
IF YOU ARE A JERK AND PLAN ON TROLLING PLEASE READ
YOU JERKS THAT TROLL PEOPLE DESERVE JAIL TIME IT IS OFFENSIVE MEAN AND SOMETIMES HAZARDOUS TO ONES HEALTH OMG YOU ARE SO DUMB FLAMERS AND TROLLERS I WILL REPORT U I AM GETTING F'ING TIRED OF YOU [rainbow]GAAAAAAYHHHHHHHHAAAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/rainbow]

you know.. you were doing the criticism perfectly, until you typed that :ogre_hurrhurr:
 
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IF YOU ARE A JERK AND PLAN ON TROLLING PLEASE READ
YOU JERKS THAT TROLL PEOPLE DESERVE JAIL TIME IT IS OFFENSIVE MEAN AND SOMETIMES HAZARDOUS TO ONES HEALTH OMG YOU ARE SO DUMB FLAMERS AND TROLLERS I WILL REPORT U I AM GETTING F'ING TIRED OF YOU [rainbow]GAAAAAAYHHHHHHHHAAAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/rainbow]

you know, you can always ignore trolls. the more you pay attention to them, the more they will become successful.
 
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Acctually misha, I was not talking about you I was talking about trolls who say stuff like
Dis be sukies mnodel; i bote foe ejection PS this is SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHITTTTTTTTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!1
even thought it is a skin, or
this is good model and model is really bad.
P.S. I was the first post there was no criticism before mine. and why did you read it, were you going to troll!?!
 

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You need to work more on the shading and the fur. I suggest you have a look at Mr. Goblin's tutorial. He's got a neat technique for making fur and he uses a mouse to do it, so I don't want to hear any complaints about not having a tablet.

The white parts - teeth, lips, inside ears and paws - are too flat. There's no shadow, no shape. It's all highlighted. Find some good reference photos of tigers. It could be useful to find a good photo of a Siberian tiger for the white fur on the paws.

The armour/clothing on the priestess is largely covered with textures, and lack shading. I suggest you make the texture a bit more subtle to fit the style you're going for with the tiger.

The yellow trims are a bit vivid and bright, and create too much of a contrast to the orange tiger, in my opinion. I suggest you make it subtler and/or a different tone.

The bow is awfully bland and boring. Try to make it more interesting by shading it more and adding some details. You could also try to make the texture of it look more like wood - if it doesn't blur out.

Can i somehow insert it in a map, if I need standart skin also? Is it able to use them both?

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...-282/how-make-one-model-use-many-skins-11119/
 
As for shading, yeah I could do more and probably will. But the bow does indeed blur out; it had looked quite a bit like wood in my 1024 version (256 blp)
I like the bright contrast on the armor because it gives a central focus point to the model. As for the fur it significantly blurred out as well and making it big enough to not blur (in my opinion) would be in awkward proportion to the tiger model. As for the person who wanted the real priestess as well as this one, if you like I can replicate the model with the skin built on so that it would not replace the priestess -Yes/no- (Note that will increase the file size a bit)

Edit: Yeah, Ill do more work with shading and the white fur when I get home.
 
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I have further updated it; however while saving it as a flat imaged png I accidentally saved the PSD flat too, so I believe this is the last update.

Added shading to: Parts of Armor, (Cat-->)Ears, Mouth Area, and the tooth however the tooth's shade is not shown in the picture I uploaded. (I did not shade the paws)

Thanks, hive for helping to improve my skin! As I said this is likely final, So I hope you like it. If not, I did say "You may edit my skin as you desire"
 
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