Joining the Texturing Contests - A decade too late!

[Moy]

It means my Blood Elf is invalid?

 

[Misha]

It means my Blood Elf is invalid?

well.. done skins don't count? xD i'm for that

 

[Arowanna]

"For this competition, you are required to modify the texture of an existing model within Warcraft 3 of either the Human, Orc, Night Elf or Undead race. You must then reskin the choosen model into another concept from any of the 3 other races. (For example, if you choose an Orc unit. Then you must reskin it into one of the 3 other races)"

Blood Elves are part of the Human faction/race, the Eredar - Kil'jaden & Archimonde - are linked to Undead via Campaign Units. There are no limitations on Melee or Campaign units, so I'd say that your skin passes the rules. If the people back in 2007 would've agreed, I do not know.

 

[MagicCampaign]

May I join?
I have first WIP for Racial Conversion (Texturing Contest 2)

I tried to create 100% freehand Unded Witch skin with Dryad as the base model.

@Arowanna , May I join?

 

[Arowanna]

Of course you may join, MagicCampaign! I've said it before, the more the merrier!

 

[MagicCampaign]

Of course you may join, MagicCampaign! I've said it before, the more the merrier!

Thank you

 

[Moy]

@MagicCampaign looks interesting, hoping for it to be finished! Good luck!

 

[MagicCampaign]

Thank you

 

[Misha]

ah cool x3 MC is here

i still want you to try the footman tho xD but maybe later

 

[MagicCampaign]

ah cool x3 MC is here

i still want you to try the footman tho xD but maybe later

I will try footman after finish my undead witch

Head texture is done

I still have no idea for other body parts

 

[Misha]

@MagicCampaign hm.. you could try going for an undead horse, or a skeleton one, or take some details from the obsidian statue.. or heck, something totally different

 

[Blood Raven]

Decided to make a texture for the 25th texturing contest (dark elves).

Using Tarrasque's Lasher as a base model.
Heavily influenced by HoMM5's Shadow Matriarches (and their upgrades):

reference

Here's the first WiP.

P.S. The links for the 25th contest actually link to the 24th, you might want to fix them.

 

[aeman]

i can sense something great will come

 

[Arowanna]

Glad to see more people joining in on the fun, added to the main post. Looking real good as well!

Edit

P.S. The links for the 25th contest actually link to the 24th, you might want to fix them.

Fixed, thanks for mentioning it!

 

[Blood Raven]

Here's the second WiP.
I don't like how the kneepads turned out, I might remake them in the future.
Also I hate the wrapping on those "ball fists", I can never get them right :S

 

[The Leader]

A pretty good thread. I'm thinking, maybe i will join, in future, the TTC. And very interesting wips so far. Good job!

 

[Teldorei]

can I join?! I tried to make one for the texturing contest #25 dark elves but I guess this is an epic fail
wip:

 

[Arowanna]

@Teldorei, there's no need to ask for permission, of course you can join! Adding you to the table as well.

I've been sick for a long while now, so I've not made much progress in any regards, but I'll update the Demoness and Death Knight later today, as I've been able to make some progress at least. Updating this post some time later today.

Edit
Fuck it, here's an update:

 

[Kyrbi0]

That's rather cool; like a hero-Necromancer.

 

[Blood Raven]

Done the shoulderpad. That little thing took me like 3 hours... I feel miserable.
I tried a couple of designs, including a chained naked woman figure, minutaur and hyrdra, and that seemed to work best. The cloth is TC.

 

[Deolrin]

Looking awesome, Blood Raven. Please consider making a version with dark blue / gray skin, ala Drows.

 

[Blood Raven]

Looking awesome, Blood Raven. Please consider making a version with dark blue / gray skin, ala Drows.

Maybe I'll tweak it once it's done, but I kinda want it to look like those HoMM5 dark elves, which actually have lighter than normal skin since they live underground and have lost their skin/eye/hair pigmentation. I'm not sure if those tattoos will look okay on a dark skin tbh.

 

[Deolrin]

White tattoos usually work well on Drow.

 

[Blood Raven]

Done with the fists, ears and parts of the skirt. This gradient TC actually turned out better than the one on the shoulder, I might want to redo the latter.
Also, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS

 

[Mister_Haudrauf]

Done with the fists, ears and parts of the skirt. This gradient TC actually turned out better than the one on the shoulder, I might want to redo the latter.
Also, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS

Nice. I will take the uncensored version, if it's done.

 

[Blood Raven]

Nice. I will take the uncensored version, if it's done.

Here you go, pervert xD

 

[Mister_Haudrauf]

Here you go, pervert xD

That was actually a joke. It wasn't meant to be taken "siriusly".

Maybe for the future i should always say that this shouldn't be taken "siriusly".

 

[Moy]

This is for Texturing Contest #3

Deceiving Mask

 

[Maximal]

Very good! Though I don't like that little antennas

 

[Misha]

This is for Texturing Contest #3

Deceiving Mask

this thing is frikin' mad-lookin'

 

[Arowanna]

This is for Texturing Contest #3

Deceiving Mask

Added to the list and all that, really digging this one

 

[MagicCampaign]

This is for Texturing Contest #3

Deceiving Mask

I thought it was an alien

 

[Archian]

We have added the tag Timeless Texturing in the resource section. I will add the tag to the TT entries submitted to the resource section.

Check it out (your golden little corner in the skin section) Skins | HIVE

Keep them coming! I really enjoy seeing all the old contests getting revised.

 

[Arowanna]

We have added the tag Timeless Texturing in the resource section. I will add the tag to the TT entries submitted to the resource section.

Check it out (your golden little corner in the skin section) Skins | HIVE

Keep them coming! I really enjoy seeing all the old contests getting revised.

Neato!

I've done some work on the Northern/Icecrown and Demon textures, but I'll focus on them once we're done with the current Texturing Content!

 

[Moy]

wtf triple post XD

Elderwood Knight

I actually finished 95% of this today.

 

[Arowanna]

Yay, activity! I'm delayed again. Apparently the last 3D Coat patch did this to my Demoness. I'll check if I've some old Autosave where I can restore the parts that are gone.

3D Coat fucked up the last patch by giving us plebs the pro version, which gave us more layers than we're suppose to have. And I used that as I thought they had finally changed their mind and stopped being dicks about it. Seriously, restricting the layer count to 7 for the amateur/student license is lame.

Edit
Trying to restore the chaos, the wings look like crap if you wonder. Not worth sharing them yet though.

 

[Moy]

Looks pretty cool! I would give her more muscles and some dramatic shading tho. The golden trim could be more metallic. That's just some quick thoughts, but pretty neat idea! Looking forward for more participants in this.

@Archian make it a news perhaps? It would be great if there are more number of participants tho.

 

[Arowanna]

Looks pretty cool! I would give her more muscles and some dramatic shading tho. The golden trim could be more metallic. That's just some quick thoughts, but pretty neat idea! Looking forward for more participants in this.

@Archian make it a news perhaps? It would be great if there are more number of participants tho.

Yepp, the texture lost a lot of detail. Heck, it was almost ready for publishing. I'll work on the contrast, but man, there's nothing more annoying than restoring crap that I've already done.

And yes, a post in the News Section would be great! Not a lot of people visit the Texture sub-forum, would be neat to garner some traffic!

 

[Archian]

@Archian make it a news perhaps? It would be great if there are more number of participants tho.

Indeed! I will spread some more highlight on this lovely thread. As for a news post, I will for sure, but after a few days. We just announced that we are looking for a new Community Manager. I want that to be frontpage news for a few days (perhaps a week). But in the meantime I will spread the news on our facebook, twitter and discord channel.

 

[Arowanna]

Not in the mood to draw today, but here's a tiny update to the helmet or whatever it is. Not sure about the middle part, I'll most likely revisit it later.

 

[PrinceYaser]

Well, can someone please explain that what this thread is for? Is this a texturing contest? Mini-Contest? What?

 

[Arowanna]

In a rude manner, it's a nostalgia trip for old bums like myself and a self indulgence of the past. Beyond that, it's simply a texture thread where we revisit the past.

The main purpose, I guess, is to promote peoples work, get people working on stuff by giving them a theme with established rules; restrictions are not all bad when it comes to art. It's not a contest or anything along those lines.

Edit
In the beginning, I just wanted to share my take on past contests that I missed due to laziness or lack of skill, with heavy dose of nostalgia sprinkled upon it.

 

[PrinceYaser]

In a rude manner, it's a nostalgia trip for old bums like myself and a self indulgence of the past. Beyond that, it's simply a texture thread where we revisit the past.

The main purpose, I guess, is to promote peoples work, get people working on stuff by giving them a theme with established rules; restrictions are not all bad when it comes to art. It's not a contest or anything along those lines.

Edit
In the beginning, I just wanted to share my take on past contest that I missed due to laziness or lack of skill, with heavy dose of nostalgia sprinkled upon it.

So, this is a texturing thread with contest themes. Nice! Maybe I'll participate too.

 

[Arowanna]

Update fluff and whine here.

 

[Naze]

Looking great, Arowanna. About adding glow on the eyes, I would do so, I think. Something small and not too flamboyant.

 

[aeman]

i'm a little too late on 27 texturing contest

 

[Moy]

Looking good @Arowanna
I liked that talon part it looks really cool and refreshing!
Would need more shadows. The wings looked fine from that angle XD

Meanwhile might take a custom model for the #20. Also 17 & 18 has the same theme description.

 

[Arowanna]

Done with the Demoness, in a way. Struggling with the Team Color at the moment, didn't think about it when I made the texture and trying to back-track and actually make Red, Blue, Teal and etc. actually fit with the texture is torturous. I'll most likely make two variants of this one, one without TC, one with.

Looking great, Arowanna. About adding glow on the eyes, I would do so, I think. Something small and not too flamboyant.

I've tried, but I can't get it right. Not giving up just yet, but I'll post some WIPs today or Soon™.

Looking good @Arowanna
I liked that talon part it looks really cool and refreshing!
Would need more shadows. The wings looked fine from that angle XD

Meanwhile might take a custom model for the #20. Also 17 & 18 has the same theme description.

That's why I hid the wings in an odd angle, they still look like crap despite numerous attempts. *Arowanna runs away*

And I've understood something recently, I need a new monitor. Recently compared my textures on a couple of monitors and what I see on mine surely doesn't pop on other monitors. I've done some work with the highlights though, but now I worry that things are too bright and too dark. Easy to tweak in PS if nothing else.

And thanks for noting the theme description screw up, fixed!

 

[Arowanna]

I give up, here it is.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Nice work, man!