Dwarven Death Knight

[PsychoNerdial]

Ingame it's gonna look awesome

 

[Kwaliti]

What do you say?

EDIT: Just saw your post THE_END, I'll see how it's going to look like.

EDIT 2: I think I'm done with the hammer's head.

 

[Slaydon]

full person pic?

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Like i said, Gonna look awesome ingame^^ A little idea though: How about making it just a little more bluish? Cause death knights are kinda very-dark blue

 

[Deolrin]

Pure win.

 

[Kwaliti]

@ Slaydon

@ Psycho, I'll see what I can do.

 

[Slaydon]

now thats epic

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Oh, and btw, are you gonna alpha that weird thing on his back?

 

[Kwaliti]

If I alpha it, he'll have a hole on his back. I'll have to re-texture it to look like... something.

 

[Hawkwing]

I still don't really care for the hammer. For one, I'd like to see the runes be team colour or the same frosty death-knighty blue. Also, from a distance it looks bad because it's too detailed and complicated.

 

[Kwaliti]

Also, from a distance it looks bad because it's too detailed and complicated.

Cinematics.

Also, team colored runes are a no-no since I'll have to edit the model, so I'll see about making the runes icy blue.

I'll see what I can do about the axe tomorrow.

 

[Kazzo]

Epic skin it rocks but death knights have blue glow eyes anyway nice skin
i love the hammer and the armour

 

[Hawkwing]

Cinematics.

I can consider this "from a distance." I don't think many cinematics will spend much time any closer.

 

[PsychoNerdial]

If I alpha it, he'll have a hole on his back. I'll have to re-texture it to look like... something.

Aha Maybe make it look like a skull or something

EDIT: Could you post a WIP of the unwrap?

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

Yeah, but it was shitty.

You could say it was l0w_kwaliti?

 

[Kwaliti]

I was playing around with axe designs until I got something I was satisfied with.

Thoughts?

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

cool

 

[Deolrin]

Indeed, looks epic. Now implement it

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Still want unwrap WIP

 

[67chrome]

I like the hammer, though the details seem orientated to be viewed from very close up. Perhaps you could unify them a little more so that from a distance they will just sort of blend into one shape? The background for the runes seems a little to light still, see if you can make it look more like an obsidian or onyx colored rock (really dark) so it will break away from the hammer boarder a little more as well as the runes

btw I like the axe

 

[Kwaliti]

The hammer and the WIP of the axe.

And the wrap:

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Looks great. Aren't you gonna remove that ribbon with the gold edges on the hammer/axe though?

 

[Dionesiist]

No, he definitely won't.

 

[Kwaliti]

So, I started working on the beard a little.

 

[Hawkwing]

The hammer is much better. I'm awaiting another WIP before I comment on the beard.

 

[Kwaliti]

Can anybody say scandinavian black metal band member? (not that it resembles any)

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Sigurd Wongraven

 

[67chrome]

Awsome beard :]

 

[HyperActive]

It really looks good, I'm just a bit worried that he looks too monotone with all that colors looking like gray. Maybe you should have put in some purple, or even some orange runes. I think that orange would look quite appealing.

And yes, the beard rocks.

 

[Kwaliti]

Axe update:

 

[67chrome]

I wouldn't use to many colors, a rainbow death knight really is not very appealing, and with purple as a WC3 dk color, red, green, and blue representing the different talent lines of WoW dks, a tendency to pale (white) skin and black armor, it could be easy to get carried away. I'm fine with the coloration as is, maybe darken the skin tone a bit to make it more of a gray, possibly darken everything to make it lean more towards black than white, but if different colors are going to be incorporated I would separate them between the bulk of the skin, the axe, and the hammer. Darkening it is more of a personal preferance anyways, its fine as is for me.

Anyways, I like the axe so far

Now that I look at the beard a little more I think the mustache is a little big in comparison, maybe thin it down a bit or add a little more beard. The hanging bits also curve a little much, if you can alpha them to the same length as the center part of the beard it would look awesome (of course, I'm not sure if the texture wraps under the beard and forces you to make them that long, I have had problems playing with hair styles before). Anyways, I'm a huge fan of this skin so far, keep up the kwaliti work

 

[Kwaliti]

Unfortunately, the wrap forces me to have that length. I'll see what I can do about the 'stache though.

 

[Hawkwing]

I really hate the beard. The axe is fucking awesome though. The wrappings on it should be the same colour as the runes though.

 

[D a w n]

I think the biggest problem of the beard ,as it is right now, is ,that there is too much free space.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I agree that there's a lot of alpha abuse on the beard, but everything else is awesome.

 

[Kwaliti]

How about now?

 

[Etriegg]

It looks alot better now, but it still seems... off.

 

[Kwaliti]

A bit of contrast.

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Looks sweet, although i liked it better when the beard was thicker and longer...

 

[Rui]

I've been watching the progress. Awesome work, l0w_kwaliti!

The beard looks original, but I agree that it's a little short and too detailed.

 

[D a w n]

looks much better now, but there is still 1 area that is bugging me. It is in the red circle. If you would removed taht part it would look much better in my opinion

 

[Kwaliti]

There are seven braids, five in the front, and two on the sides. I forgot to fix the alpha there. Thanks for noticing

 

[Kwaliti]

*update*

So I took a little break and decided to finish this. Any last comments before I release this?

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Very very nice, I like it a lot. I would say it is still a little monotone though. That hammer almost made me jizz in my pants, very nice.

 

[Denu]

How does it look ingame? That is what it all comes down to.

 

[THE_END]

yea lets get a ingame portrait shot sir
I do like it alot though ^_^

 

[Kwaliti]

 

[thisruoy]

Beard details are wasted imo

 

[PsychoNerdial]

Beard details are wasted imo

Indeed

 

[Kwaliti]

Yeah, but they can be great for cinematics.