Lich King

[Kwaliti]

This is an early WIP. More things still to come!

 

[Wintermute]

Looks.. Awesome. I'd rather if you didn't show human parts, only darkness and glowy stuff.

 

[X.e.r.e.X]

Is this for WC3?

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Kick-ass wip!
My only critique would be directed towards the seam on the nose part.

 

[Kwaliti]

The seam actually exists on the helm. http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/9/9f/Arthas_Cover.jpg

@Xerex: Yes.

[Edit] Update. Excuse the low res texture of the shoulder.

 

[Dentothor]

what program did you use to model this l0w?

 

[Kwaliti]

Milkshape.

 

[Jacky The turtle]

can you make a attachment of the helm please =D ??

 

[Tauer]

Awesome!
I always thought we needed a super awesome Lich King model!

 

[D a w n]

already told you in chat that the model wins

 

[Kwaliti]

Another update.

 

[Mulgrim]

you know, you can change that blue backround to another color in File > Preferences > Choose. just saying, i changed it because it really annoying...

 

[Kwaliti]

Meh, I got used to it.

 

[Linaze]

I'm not too fond of the shoulder texture, but otherwise, this looks truly awesome.

 

[Kwaliti]

Another update:

[Edit] Yeah, I see that I moved a shoulderpad buckle vertex up by mistake. Already fixed.

 

[Deolrin]

The helmet and the rest of him has a lot of contrast. The low-res and low-poly shoulder plates and chest just don't fit quite right with the super-detailed helmet.

 

[Kwaliti]

The helmet was done in a high resolution. When I drop the resolution, it'll fit better.

[Edit] Polished up the body texture and started working on the legs.

Note: Ignore the legplate-tabard overlap; it'll be gone when the model is animated.

 

[HappyTauren]

holy shiet D:

 

[takakenji]

looks much better than general franks ( no offense ), the helmet is almost identical to WoW's

 

[Kwaliti]

Yeah, I based it from multiple images of the helm.

 

[General Frank]

WOW, that's pretty awesome! I mean the helmet is just wow.
And I don't really care that it is in fact better than mine, so Taka is right.
But do not think I won't make a beefed up version of mine.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Looks awsome, only the face, I ddon't think it looks "bad" enough and not dark enough, also in WC3 the details on the face are way too high, I believe you won't even see them ...

T.

 

[Slaydon]

possible to get the first wip as a model? (attachment)

EDIT: Pure awesome

 

[Kwaliti]

Thanks all!

@Frank: We'll see who'll eventually come out on top. ^^

@Taylor: I'm thinking of adding a plane inside the helm that will have a black-to-transparent gradient, so only the mouth is shown, while the rest is in darkness, if you get my point.

@Slaydon: Soon™.

 

[gohan43]

looking real good, now if only alll of the wc3 models were this good Whats the polycount so far? Also are you going to plan on adding frostmourne to him or just use attachment points? well good job and good luck +rep

 

[Kwaliti]

So far there are 1080 triangles with this update:

It's going to be around 1500 triangles without cleaning. I'll try and clean up as many unnecessary triangles as possible when I'm done.

 

[X.e.r.e.X]

Looking good so far D:
Are you going to cover more of the face with dark or just the eyes?

 

[Tauer]

Damn. That is so win. I wish I could model like that :/
Instant DL for sure!

 

[Kwaliti]

@Xerex: Probably. That's a modified plane with a black to transparent gradient. I'll see and stretch the plane a bit.

Time to skin the cape

 

[Mulgrim]

wow, nice but what about the foot?

and what texturing program do you use?

 

[Kwaliti]

The feet look bad under that angle. Here's a better view:

I use Photoshop CS2

 

[Mulgrim]

i think you need to extend the boots a little, they don't fit the rest of the body.

 

[HyperActive]

He looks perfect, just perfect.
It's got that "hell, I want to make a mod just for this model" feeling.

Can you animate or will you transfer animations from another unit?

 

[Kwaliti]

Of course I'll animate him.

EDIT: Here's something to make you laugh.

 

[Tauer]

Can I haz your skillz?

 

[takakenji]

the exactness of this to WoW's cannot be explain

 

[Mulgrim]

you should make a tutorial

 

[Kwaliti]

Stand animation:

It's a tad slower in reality.

[Edit] I just noticed that I made a massive mistake; I attached both the upper arms and the pauldrons to the same bones, and I pretty much kicked myself full speed in the groin when it comes to arm animations. It's relatively easy to fix, but I'll have to re-do the arms' motion.

[Edit 2] All fixed - the motion actually became more natural after the bone fix

 

[Kuhneghetz]

He needs to bend his knees a little bit.

 

[Kwaliti]

I was thinking about that as well. I'll see what I can do.

 

[Tauer]

You have a release date?

 

[Kwaliti]

Somewhere during next week probably.

 

[Tauer]

Cool, looking forward to it!

 

[Mulgrim]

He needs to bend his knees a little bit.

he has skulls in his kneecaps!!!

 

[Slaydon]

head as attachment plox ;D

 

[Mulgrim]

Stand animation:

It's a tad slower in reality.

[Edit] I just noticed that I made a massive mistake; I attached both the upper arms and the pauldrons to the same bones, and I pretty much kicked myself full speed in the groin when it comes to arm animations. It's relatively easy to fix, but I'll have to re-do the arms' motion.

[Edit 2] All fixed - the motion actually became more natural after the bone fix

my gawd, did you do all this from placing verteces or primitives?

 

[Kwaliti]

Updated the animation.

@Mulgrim: I used both techniques, although my first idea was to modify Arthas' model, but in the end I just used the belt from his model.

 

[Mulgrim]

please guide us

 

[Dentothor]

omg. this is Model SEX

 

[GnoobSauce]

this is amazing. +rep.
perfection in model form xD