Gnome Warlock Shop WIP

[frostwhisper]

Inspired by Harald Oesterle's artwork I decided to try and create the interior of a mage tower/shop. There is no gnome in here yet, I will add one when I'm done with the rest of it.

This terrain is in wip phase, and I know is far under the level of perfection, so I gladly welcome any suggestions on how to improve it. You have the stage now, people, I'm listening.

EDIT: The final pictures are done. Check em' out:

A view from the top of the tower. Don't ask how I climbed up there...

Another bird-eye view, this time a bit closer to the ground.

We're in the danger perimeter now...

Oh noes! He saw us!!!

 

[Mor)L(unE]

hmm an octangular building would be more gnomish, but i guess that ruins the work you've done now

 

[frostwhisper]

I was actually planning to try several shapes. I may do another shape if I manage to get high scores with this simple shape.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

It looks great!! There must not be a old gnome liveing there....

 

[Craka_J]

Adding a black or dark gray fog would probably give this piece a lot more life. But so far it looks great! Keep it up!
~Craka_J

 

[DungeonM]

There's some book models around either on WC3C or here try adding a few randomly throughout the space.

 

[Gilles]

The angle is cool, and this is pretty good overall. A unit would help for sure. And as Craka said you could add a generic fog. Maybe a pale yellow for light, and make it seem dark outside? It would be hard. Or other way around, dark inside light outside?

 

[Just_Spectating]

add ladders goin up to the top and stuff and add like a top top floor.

the first pic is awsome

 

[frostwhisper]

Ah ladders. At first I thought of adding some, yet I'm going for this feeling, that the mage can summon anything with ease, hence why I am making a tall tower for a gnome.

Craka, I will add the fog when I am done with the doodad placement. The dark fog inside idea is good, Gilles.

And, yes I will put in books, I just have a nicer idea than simply letting them sit on those dusty shelves.

EDIT: Worked on it and uploaded new screens.

 

[Just_Spectating]

mage? not a gnome? i mean, gnomes are short people you know

 

[Gilles]

Not sure I like the floating books. I also can't decide on the waterfall. It looks kind of cool, but maybe you should add more magical things.

 

[frostwhisper]

I made the waterfall come out of the blue rune, so it is magical.
But I ain't happy with it either...
How about the new fog, does it suit it better?

 

[Just_Spectating]

the fog makes it look alot taller, and dustyer its tight.

 

[Gilles]

I like the new fog a lot. The waterfall only looks out of place because it's the only magical thing. Maybe if there were more runes and other magical occurrences it would look good. Maybe not though.

 

[Just_Spectating]

the waterfall just comes out, and stops kinda in the air.

 

[frostwhisper]

The final version of the pictures has been updated in the first post.
I got rid of the waterfall and added the gnome (credits to Nasrudin for the model).
Also I'd like to thank everyone who have aided me in making this terrain a better one.
Enjoy.

 

[Just_Spectating]

lawl, "oh no, He saw us!"

 

[frostwhisper]

Yeah, the moment I saw the expression on that guy's face, I said to myself "I got to do it!"

Oh and Craka, could ya do me a favor and remove the "WIP" part from the thread name please?

 

[Mor)L(unE]

The problem with ladders is:
1: it aint magical, even if there were ladders, the warlock would prob levitate himself up
2: theres no real ladder dood as far as i know (otherwise send it to me, i need one )
3: making a ladder out of custom doodads, is a waste of the doodad limit.

perhaps someone needs to model a ladder

 

[frostwhisper]

Erm... I never said I would make ladders. The whole point in making this tall towe r a gnome home was to imply the fact that he could simply summon the books, or, as you said, levitate. So yeah, no stairs intended, no stairs done.

 

[kebabmeat]

honestly, I didn't see the Gnome until the last pic really good btw

 

[Gilles]

Very good piece of work. No waterfall? lol

 

[frostwhisper]

Got rid of it. Didn't seem to fit in well.

 

[Mor)L(unE]

I was refering to just_spectating

For the overall. it looks messy wich is abit of a downside, on the other hand thats the gnomish aspect.
The idea is quite original, and you made good use of the doodads for walls.

 

[Craka_J]

I like the camera angles.
~Craka_J

 

[frostwhisper]

@ Mor)L(unE: Ah, I understand now. And thanks. Messiness was one of my goals.

@Craka_J: Thanks

 

[Just_Spectating]

in that case, this is MESSY!!!!

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

They look great now!!!

I can imagine him trying to cimb all the bookshelvs to get somthing at the top...Lol

 

[frostwhisper]

He would just wave his hand and down comes the book... hitting his head!

 

[Just_Spectating]

well, he must be a very lonely person.

 

[frostwhisper]

Last pic clearly states that he does not like company...

 

[Just_Spectating]

exactly

 

[frostwhisper]

Oh well, thats how old warlocks are. The only time they come out of their towers is:
1. When they unleash some demon upon a village.
2. When they go shopping... -.-"

 

[kebabmeat]

Make a cinematic out this and you have deserved a cookie.

 

[Craka_J]

I agree with kebabmeat! A cinematic like this with your camera placement skills would probably be pretty awesome. Make a cinematic about pure terraining like MadseN is!
~Craka_J

 

[kebabmeat]

Agreed on that one

 

[Just_Spectating]

haha, make it that the audience is the camera, and is sorta like a spying camera, and it zooms in like your pictures and he sees us and "Oh no, He Saw US!" then he tries to destroy the "camera" and the camera desparately tries to get out going upwards as the warlock levitates toward casting various spells missing and the tower just keeps going up and up and up and up XD with some suspensful music

 

[Gilles]

That would be pretty hard to do!

 

[frostwhisper]

I actually thought of doing something similar. Although the levitation part would be arduous... Besides, I wanna finish Sparta first and have little time.

 

[Craka_J]

I still haven't seen any updates on that Sparta map! But lets leave that in that thread.

Anyway, I don't think it'd be that hard to turn this into a cinematic. All you'd need to do is trigger it and make a lot more to the terrain to make the cinematic longer and more worth-while.
~Craka_J

 

[frostwhisper]

It could be a cutscene in something longer. I'm open to ideas...

Oh and the Sparta map, I really haven't had much time lately. School...

 

[Gilles]

Dang school. Who needs it?

 

[frostwhisper]

Bleh... I can manage both... I hope.

 

[kebabmeat]

That's good! I would like to see some results sometime

 

[frostwhisper]

You will, I really hope you will

 

[Revolve]

Good job with the tower, it's excellt, and we want a movie!!

[Off-Topic] - Where have you find that Gnomish Warlock? I could really use it; So can you please send it to me or send me a link to it? I need it for a AoS i am making.

 

[kebabmeat]

He probably used WoW Model Viewer and extracted the model
from it, and imported into some modeling program.

 

[frostwhisper]

It aint a WoW model people... -.-"
Its made by Nasrudin and can be downloaded here.

 

[kebabmeat]

Good to know, otherwise..
Well, I'm nice, so I don't blame people.

 

[Gilles]

Wow, that's an awesome model. Deleted last post.