Texturing Competition #6 - Northrend/Icecrown

Here's a picture of it so far on the model. The fur's still a partial WIP



The unwrap



I tried to make the little tusks kind've "pop off" the texture

Thanks for the suggestions/comments, guys, helped me a lot

dude use a bigger brush.

Any size to recommend on a 512x512? I just like using small brushes xB. I usually use around a 1-3 pixel brush, but sometimes much larger

oh my...no wonder it looks like that. Use way larger man, like 15-30. They blend in better and make you focus on the whole piece instead of detailing small parts individually, like you did. It makes everything more unified. And it's also way faster.

Also, be careful 'cause working on doubled resolution is a tricky thing. On one side, it's good because you can be a little more sloppy for when you shrink the image down, it basically blends stuff a little. But on the other side, you may put in lots of detail that will be lost when you shrink it back. So, as I said, take care.

Yeah, I know about that. I was going to scale my magma elemental down to 256x256, but the lava cracks on the arms became crap so I left it at 512x512

I just resized what I had so far just to see what it looks like, it's fine, and nothing that's become blurry you'd be able to notice in-game anyway. I might re-define some stuff after I scale it down, though

another update, thanks to sansui for tips >;D

Supa how did you make that nose, it's magnificent.

CnP from a baboon

Archangel, no idea, I just made it. When I skin, I just skin, and I usually don't plan things out ahead of time. It's in the hands of luck (with some skill mixed in) that it turned out decent

Supa you are in love with that damn Satyr aren't ya
Looks great though man
If you can work it nice, then work it all the time

Gonna get a graphics tablet soon, and once it arrives, you'll all be pwn't!

I have myself a tablet, so NO! I shall not be pwnt ;-P

TDR, I did what you said to the arms (that's what I was working on when you gave the suggestion). Here's a WIP of them



I did the forearm and lower arm at different times, so they look kind've detached from each other xD

Wow, a lot of these are awesome. It's gonna be close!

nice going SuPa-! Only one more thing: make the shadows more saturated.

Yeah, I was using colors for it on the rather gray/dark/black side (lower half of the GIMP pallet) for the shadows... and I'm not sure if I added enough color variation, hmmz. Thanks

I'm fucking screwed....

Trust me, mine's crap compared to most of these..

Ice inbound



I might just make the lower arm fur and have this as some kind of demon yeti that randomly has some armor, because I suck at making ice

Well.. Here ya go, my final, tell me what I can improve and I'll do so..

Please don't edit or re-distribute without my permission, and only credit's i'd actually want is somewhere in the Quests, if it gets used..

The ice looks good SuPa-, just alpha the fur part on the sides and it'll look great. The parts you did with new brush size look very good in comparison.

Ok, I'll do that I s'pose, and thanks

There's a line in the model?
Ugh this and Spell Breaker..frickin Bliz
Anyways, I hope you do something sick with the weapon
And maybe a little more shading on the arm from the shoulder pad

I'm, sad. i was working on my skin why watching my baby bro and i didn't save the new stuff yet and he turned my computer off .

That's mainly just in WC3 Viewer, THE_END. If you notice, in magos it doesn't show the line mostly (except on the nose)

did you hit him? Nothing says "You pissed me off, you fuck!" like a good punch in the face.

SuP, how do you wrap skins in Magos?
Cause I wanted to use that instead of Viewer cause the capture screen in Viewer isn't working for me

Somewhere around the tail is the line on the nose. I dont remember where exactly and it doesn't cover it completely but it minimizes the effect.

THE_END, I don't, it just doesn't show the line too distinctly in Magos for some reason

HMMMMMM!
Well whatever, I love the skin so far
I'd say give him a runeblade

can supa or some1 make a tut how to make that ice please...

For now I'll just tell you what I did and then maybe add in some pictures later. I made a basic shading of where the lighting would be, and then made a new layer and put in white lines for the different shards. After this I added in shading. To make it a little more shard-like I darkened/lightened some of the pieces more than the ones around them.

Sorry if this isn't a good explanation, but meh, I'm not good at explaining stuff xD

OK, I *think* this is how I did mine


- Basic Shading

- White lines added on different layer, as well as shading to the shards (add shading to the top layer)

- Decrease the opacity of the layer
- Merge visible layers
- Increase contrast

- Decrease saturation

- Add more shading

- (This is optional, and you may not prefer to do it) Make some shards more white to represent luster (picture is a crappy example, I only did it to one little segment


I hope this helped you, guys Also, I did it pretty quickly, so it's not perfect

Teh updatez




he's going to have some intricate design on his chest plate

I'll also probably remake the armor, it's looking too unfit

nice =D thanks supa

Meh, I actually feel like having the whole upper body as muscle and fur, and having the lower body as ice

I kind of liked the armor. Fur might be cool, but that armor is looking sweet!

Im going to work on skin some more and as I said prolly post next WIP tonight, but one thing I would like to know is if anyone likes my skin at all? Think it has any chance of placing in this competition?

EDIT: Well, I think I am going to scrap this skin idea, its a good idea but I have notice a little flaw in the wrap of blademaster that is REALLY pissing me off, for some reason blizzard thought it would be a good idea to put a little piece of wrap on the pants that makes a stupid triangle on his head if you change alphaing on pants at all, and I really dont want any team color on the pants.

So if I cant think of another idea in the next few days Im probably out of the contest, I dont stand much of a chance of even placing third anyways.

I'll probably place last xP

FInished the beard for death knight sammy




As you can see here, i failed at "furring" up the boots

Here's a WIP. I started today BTW.

Ignore the dragon scales, I just edited another skin, but I had already converted that skin into BLP, so I decided not to re-extract the Jaina wrap and edit the TGA.
Ill get it wrapped ASAP.

I swear thisruoy
I do hope your not serious with what he has as an excuse for armor right now
Yellows and greens? It looks like hes radioactive

Or the acid he took hasn't worn off yet. He's stuck in the 60's.

He also looks like a fisherman with that hat and beard.

thisruoy said:

FInished the beard for death knight sammy

As you can see here, i failed at "furring" up the boots

Click to expand...

Hey hey who said you could make a skin after me!? xP

..anyways
Also it looks like all you did was recolor that beard mainly

Oh Yeah here are some screen shots. i decided to give him some pants instead of using fur for his legs, Mostly because it works and looks better in the long run.

@the end the green and yellow is just to show where i will be drawing the runes and armor trimming on it the colours wil be deleted in the end

@matcat 'This work is a pure fiction, any resemblance to a person living or dead is purely coincidental'

@the end I swear i didnt recolour the beard
compare the images

Post the unwrap, thisruoy, if you please

YES SIR
tried to make the chest (which is what i was planning at the start)

Well good news is that you have alot of potential to learn from your mistakes. A true mistake is a mistake you don't learn from. So don't make your mistakes into true mistakes by not learning from them. Things to learn:

1. It just looks like an amorphous teal blob.
2. Not enough contrast.
3. Colors are hideous.
4. Nothing about the skin makes you think deathknight.
5. Way too blurry.

Keep working on it. Crits may be hard to swallow but they can be quite important.

Add some more contrast to the shadows on the face.

Well I would love to enter, but i dont have wc3 anymore (lost cd key and new computer) therefore i cannot get the skins from the mpq. If anyone wants to send me the footman skin/and or the mpq file. Do so. Or send me a link where i can get it. It may be that getting the mpq is illegal or something, as i cannot find it, but would giving me just the skin and model so i can see in wc3 viewer?

I have never really been one who cares whether something is legal or not Here you go, +rep would be nice since im doing something that is potentially against the law, lol.

Ok I got a new idea that Im workin on, here is first WIP. I know there are some weird little missing triangles and black lines and shit in the screenshot but for some reason my warcraft 3 viewer does that to everything and I dunno how to fix it.