Blood Elf Skins

[67chrome]

I've been working on a few blood elf skins, and I was wondering what changes they need to get as many 5s as possible

These are based off of the blood elf starting gear and a few of thier quest reward items, which is why the gold looks a little - not gold. I may end up changing it to look more metalic or more like the golden bits on the blood elves from Wc3, not sure. Anyways, all coments and critiques aimed at making these better are welcome.

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

I don't like the eyes. I think they need to be more popping, brighter, and more vibrant.

 

[Wintermute]

Should they be revealing more?

 

[Grog50]

I really like the Archer, the armor looks great. The sentry is also pretty good but it looks very stretched

 

[Malcous]

Cool skins

 

[FrIkY]

Second one looks great, you should upload it (hehe, your third Watcher skin, you really like them, don't you?), but the first one... more shading, in my opinion. Hair looks very rough and sharp, you should fix it.

 

[Nichita_00]

Woah, they really look like the real thing. I don't like the face tho', doesn't fit with the warcraft theme. And the redhead's hair isn't red enough. 4.(9)/5

 

[67chrome]

Made the eyes brighter, worked on shading some more, decided to go all out with gold, also did a sorceress .

What do you guys think now?

 

[Zerox]

Personally I preferred the old Sentry and Ranger skins you did in the first post. I thought they looked great.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

damn dude, when i see those post, it surely makes me think that i should definatly investigate much more time when i'm making my textures

you rock dude

 

[THE_END]

Chrome, the only criticism I really have on these skins, and I believe 5 million other people have mentioned this...all those intricate details will be lost in game. It will look like a cluttered mess from game view, you either A. need to make the armor more general, or B. accentuate the small details, make them a little more brighter, or condense them...if that makes sense

Personally I'd like to see some of the unwraps to see how all these details look on the BLP/TGA file

 

[~Void~]

They probably look amazing on the TGA...

 

[67chrome]

Second one looks great, you should upload it (hehe, your third Watcher skin, you really like them, don't you?), but the first one... more shading, in my opinion. Hair looks very rough and sharp, you should fix it.

Lies! Watcher isn't my favorite skin I swear! I mean, if you check my current projects alblem you won't see any other watcher skins in their, with 3 key exceptions...XD
This is actually the fifth watcher skin I've worked on - I'm getting to know that wrap pretty well.

Personally I preferred the old Sentry and Ranger skins you did in the first post. I thought they looked great.

XD - well, the faces havn't changed since the first two screenshots, but the file size for the newer .jpgs I submitted droped by a decent amount, sort of rushed the screenshots to, so if it's the face that looked better thats probably why...though if you like the original two for the color of the gold I might have to add more saturation to the gold bits. I'll have to admit changing the gold did take amay a decent amount of color diversisty within the first two skins.

damn dude, when i see those post, it surely makes me think that i should definatly investigate much more time when i'm making my textures

you rock dude

sweet

Chrome, the only criticism I really have on these skins, and I believe 5 million other people have mentioned this...all those intricate details will be lost in game. It will look like a cluttered mess from game view, you either A. need to make the armor more general, or B. accentuate the small details, make them a little more brighter, or condense them...if that makes sense

Personally I'd like to see some of the unwraps to see how all these details look on the BLP/TGA file

Ouch - the only criticism you have is that I should totally rework the entire skin XD. I understand what your saying though, WC3 textures don't have a lot of room for tiny little details, at least not be be easily seen from the in-game view with the level of intensity I'm putting them on my skins anyways. Making things golden sort of adds to the level of detail too, though I'm not to keen on the idea of totally changing the golden bits of the skins :/

Here are the unwraps, if viewing them gives you any ideas on how to make thm better let me know!

.....Blood Elf Sentry.....[td].....Blood Elf Archer.....[/td][td]...Blood Elf Sorceress...[/td]

 

[dansaDisco]

It really doesn't matter how the unwrap looks.

Provide them wrapped and you might get a proper review.

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

I think the eyes look flat. You still need to shade the eyes, even if there is glow inside.

 

[Hawkwing]

I think the eyes are fine. A bit of shading, I guess, but it's not in dire need of contrast or anything. Now the faces are different story.

 

[THE_END]

The eyes are fine, I agree with Hawk
And I wouldn't say necessarily completely redo the skins entirely
I'd say just change certain areas on it to not have as many details, like the chest area on the Watcher, way too many gold designs on them

 

[67chrome]

I think the eyes are fine. A bit of shading, I guess, but it's not in dire need of contrast or anything. Now the faces are different story.

So work on the shading for the faces some more?

The eyes are fine, I agree with Hawk
And I wouldn't say necessarily completely redo the skins entirely
I'd say just change certain areas on it to not have as many details, like the chest area on the Watcher, way too many gold designs on them

Ok, that shouldn't be to hard - saved all the gold trim on a separate layer. If the gold on the watcher's chest is a problem though what do you think about the gold on the sorceress / were should it be simplified? + the same for the archer?

 

[Hawkwing]

Yes, you do.

 

[THE_END]

I'd say just make the gold trim larger, and less of it. Still make details but not intensely small that cannot be seen as good as they're needed to be viewed at.

 

[67chrome]

Ok, I re-worked the sentry a great deal. Re-did the facial shading, skin, gold, and team color. Is their any fine tuning I missed/any way to make it better?

full scale model shots[td]portrait view[/td]

Edit - BTW, finally got my WoW model viewer up and running again - here is what I was going off of for my skin concepts

....Sentry....[td]....Archer....[/td][td]..Sorceress..[/td]

 

[Nublu]

Looks nice

 

[Hawkwing]

The chestpiece seems a bit too shiny.

 

[THE_END]

I agree with Hawk
Look at the red on that WoW Sentry's chest piece

 

[Palaslayer]

female bloodelfs! submit them ^^

 

[67chrome]

Ok, reduced the boob glow a bit and touched up a few other things

full body screenshots[td]portrait shot[/td]

 

[XS-Archangel]

She has better boobs than... than.. I will save this image on my PC

 

[Palaslayer]

^^

well, those skins pwn.

 

[THE_END]

Very good, that is what I'm talking about chrome

 

[Misha]

Alas, i can say only this. All thise little details will be visible only if you resize the model to a factor of 10 X3

the last bloodelf watcher pic has just the right amount of details, shading and highlights and it is more than enough (even epic) for warcraft.

if you want to improve more i suggest not on details, but on bigger areas. details are alreaddy perfect.

that's from me....

~Misha~

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I personally like them alot, specially the updated Sentry. =)