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SeaWarlord.blp

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units\Creeps\SeaGiantGreen\SeaGiantGreen.blp

Skin made for the Texturing Contest 21
Credits still go to my acctname: koondad
doesn't really matter

it's been a while since i made anything, so it was refreshing
Low Quality version: Compressed Version

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Addition to this skin: GreatShark

Keywords:
Sea, Giant, SeaGiant, Warlord, SeaWarlord, boss, war, lord, captain, hero, razortooth, redbeard
Contents

Sea Warlord (Texture)

Reviews
02:38, 8th Dec 2011 shiiK: I'll just assume this works in-game (so if anyone discovers otherwise, let me know), I usually test models in-game to make sure - or wait for another moderator -, but this one has been pending long enough. Detailed Review

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02:38, 8th Dec 2011
shiiK: I'll just assume this works in-game (so if anyone discovers otherwise, let me know), I usually test models in-game to make sure - or wait for another moderator -, but this one has been pending long enough.

Detailed Review
 

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Detailed Review
As far as concept go, it doesn't really look a lot like a sea giant any longer. It's more of a sunken ruins (as in the tileset) golem. Although it packs a warlord feeling, it seems more like some outer force has given him things they can't make themselves - particularly the teal lights on the metal pieces as well as the eyes.

Otherwise, it's a little bit too colourful, a few too many colours have too much saturation. I've personally come to the conclusion that any WC3 unit is best represented with only one strongly saturated colour. If that colour is a primary colour, I like to dampen the team-colour to avoid too much of a clash. You have green, blue, orange and purple in fairly high saturation, making it look very colourful. The grey metal also contributes to this problem by not being saturated.

I'd suggest you go for a seagreen colour for the skin, so that it matches the sea giants better while still maintaining the contrast you get from the blue lights. Then I'd probably make the blue lights a dim orange and make the metal ornaments like the rock armour. Apply the seagreen to the face fins as well. This will give you a less colourful appearance, it will look more like a Sea Giant, and it will still be a warlord.

Anyway, that's just my idea, and I'm by no means more correct than anyone else. I've just been doing this for a very long time and I think this would be better, although probably be less original. If you want to keep the orange skin, I would make the armour contrast the skin and still get rid of the metal parts and lights. Metal armour and rock armour in the same skin doesn't really fit.

Finally, I just needed to add some praise in the end, because the execution is very well done, and the shading is fairly appropriate for WC3. The level of detail is just where it should be as well, and it wraps smoothly from what I can tell by the previews.
 
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