Burning_Wood_Golem.blp

[Moderator]

17:58, 27th Sep 2012
Kwaliti:

Great work, fine details and quite useful! Approved.

 

[JesusHipster]

Nice)

 

[Maestros]

This is awesome! + rep!

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Nice 'n' creative! Gj on this!

 

[Skavenloft]

Thank you everyone, I'm really glad you like it

 

[MrSN99]

nice and useful!

 

[Misha]

xD i gotta say, this skin is hilarious, but in a good way

 

[InfernalTater]

Not sure how the wood contains the molten lava, but it's cool regardless. 4/5.

 

[Skavenloft]

@TLI-Inferno - I created this burning areas not as an burning lava, but as a burning wood, and I suppose the whole golem will be burned someday - read the backstory in the description

 

[morbent]

Ok... this is awesome... I mean, awesome. I wonder how from the Pygmy Shammies you got this far... so soon. It's totally different. 5/5

Await +rep after I spread some.

 

[Skavenloft]

Thank you very much, but to be honest - I don't think I get anymuch better since the Pygmy Shaman skin I submitted few days ago The true is that this is just a really simple unit to play with
If you tell me to create a skin for i.e. a Paladine, it will be probably the crappiest thing youve ever seen, believe me

 

[KaplanHorus]

Really nice skin !

 

[Matarael]

Brilliant idea, excellent execution.

 

[Deolrin]

Amazing texture. It's a shame you chose such a low-quality model with a sucky wrap. I suggest you try a more 'mainstream' unit next time, like Arthas or the Tauren Chieftain. I think you could really do wonders!

 

[Misha]

or perhaps you could try texturing buildings like.. naga temple of tides

 

[Skavenloft]

I think that there is a lot of great Arthas skins, same with the Tauren Chieftain, Blood Mage, Sorceress, Assasin and a lot of other popular/mainstream units/heroes. There is so many of them that I thitk they are a little bit overused, so I prefere to focus on other, not so popular skins...
If I submit i.e. Tauren Chieftain skin now, a lot of people will say:
"Oh, whatever - just another TC skin. I've saw this a thousand times before, and the one or the other was even better than this one here, so - meh, whatever..."

And from the other site - if I submit a nice, detailed skin for the Temple of Tides, someone may say:
"Hey, that's a really refreshing stuff, did anyone try do rework this thing before..? Maby I could use this in my new map..? I should PM my friend, he was looking for something like this just a few days ago..."

And so on. So if I had to choose, I'd definitely take the less popular request - just to make it popular

 

[Deolrin]

That all depends on your creativity. It's not the unit you're texturing, but what you are re-texturing it as.

However, some models, simply put, suck. Like the Child model. And the Golem models. That's why no matter how awesome your texturing skills are, the finished product won't look nearly as epic as the wrap.

 

[Skavenloft]

I agree with you, that great idea could make even the most overused and badly created model into a masterpiece
But I cannot agree that Siege Golem model suck I think that it is really forgivable and simple to reskin model (eh, maby the head is a lil bit troublesome, but all w3 models have their flaws )... It is one of my favourites, I must say

 

[Maestros]

That all depends on your creativity. It's not the unit you're texturing, but what you are re-texturing it as.

However, some models, simply put, suck. Like the Child model. And the Golem models. That's why no matter how awesome your texturing skills are, the finished product won't look nearly as epic as the wrap.

I will agree on the Child model, but i will disagree about the golem model.
They are very nice, i like the very much also.
However, i must say, that no matter how good the skin is, that model was not build for wood.
Dont take me the wrong way, the skin is really great and the thought is original, but i dont think it fits the golem model : /

 

[Deolrin]

Everything looks great except for the head and the flat "fire" effect(which can be remedied with SFX attachments in-game), imo. But that head really screws it up.

 

[Misha]

I think that there is a lot of great Arthas skins, same with the Tauren Chieftain, Blood Mage, Sorceress, Assasin and a lot of other popular/mainstream units/heroes. There is so many of them that I thitk they are a little bit overused, so I prefere to focus on other, not so popular skins...
If I submit i.e. Tauren Chieftain skin now, a lot of people will say:
"Oh, whatever - just another TC skin. I've saw this a thousand times before, and the one or the other was even better than this one here, so - meh, whatever..."

And from the other site - if I submit a nice, detailed skin for the Temple of Tides, someone may say:
"Hey, that's a really refreshing stuff, did anyone try do rework this thing before..? Maby I could use this in my new map..? I should PM my friend, he was looking for something like this just a few days ago..."

And so on. So if I had to choose, I'd definitely take the less popular request - just to make it popular

well the main.. if you could call it a problem, is that Temple of Tides uses two textures, which might be double work

 

[Skavenloft]

well the main.. if you could call it a problem, is that Temple of Tides uses two textures, which might be double work

Yes, I discovered this yesterday... But in fact, the second one is pretty simple... More work? Not really, maby 130-140% of normal work... The really pain in the ass is that it takes more time to test a lot of different options. When doing a skin, I usually create a few dozens of simple, doodle-skins, just to see which colours looks better ingame and how the texture wraps the model... And when I want to do that with Temple of Tides, I must do this twice-.-

 

[Plasma Boy]

Neat idea, good job!

 

[Misha]

Yes, I discovered this yesterday... But in fact, the second one is pretty simple... More work? Not really, maby 130-140% of normal work... The really pain in the ass is that it takes more time to test a lot of different options. When doing a skin, I usually create a few dozens of simple, doodle-skins, just to see which colours looks better ingame and how the texture wraps the model... And when I want to do that with Temple of Tides, I must do this twice-.-

well.. i think rock golem uses 2 textures as well

 

[Skavenloft]

And thats one of the reasons, why I prefere Siege Golem model^^

 

[Rainbow_Dash]

Love the effort put into it, unfortunately the lava doesn't really seem to glow. In-game it looks rather weird.

 

[Misha]

it is burning wood >.> embed that into those brains of yours

 

[Strikest]

Nice, reminds me of the Blazing Inpachi from Yu-Gi-Oh