Modeling Competition #10 - Elementals

[Elenai]

I made two models just in case I get bored with the other one....though I'm not sure which one to finish.

The stag doesn't have his antlers and holy bits yet, and the other elemental is still....a bit wooshy on what exactly its going to be.

Stag of Light WIP

Elemental

 

[D a w n]

I´ll make some kind of molten/outland elemental based on the DragonSpawn model( but just because I don´t want my model to look like the fire lord :/ )

I´ll post wips as soon as I finished something worth to show

 

[LiOneSS]

a VERY early wip. i will change the head and make a better wrap >_< the texture color differences are ugly D: but i'll make the materials transparent to make it appear ghastly and look less fugly, i present you:
Night elf avatar of earth, Theia:

 

[Dionesiist]

Fix the neck area.

 

[LiOneSS]

I shall. when i fix the damn head D: i might just drop this idea 'cause i got a better one while reading some egyptian mythology >:3

 

[Xatoga]

I'm gonna make a plague elemental or somesuch. Sorta verging on a death elemental, but with more focus on disease and poison.

 

[LiOneSS]

fixed the wrap a bit and and the neck area. The body also seemed a bit longish so i shortened it. I won't make legs, she will be floating and the lower body will be ghastly, made from particles:

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[Devine]

wtf are those hands, Lio?
and are is that hair? it looks like a very big neck!
looks pretty nonethless

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I am loving this compo right now. Can't wait to see what TDR has in mind*... please don't do a shit elemental...

The wrap on the legs for mine is killing me. I think I'll add some stuff so it doesn't look too much like the ancient of wonder.

 

[Hawkwing]

I'm not using that Naaru for the compo anymore, but anyways thanks. I was using a difference reference and it didn't have that.

 

[LiOneSS]

oh the hair has no texture yet and it lookes like a ridiculously thick neck ^_^; and the hands are vines

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

Elementals, eh?
I'll join this one.

 

[Dionesiist]

It's probably going to be some poison elemental or something I guess.

 

[HappyTauren]

Phire elemental.... original

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Bah, none of these are really elementals. "Elemental" means spamming animated textures and additive, and you all know it.

Where are the glows, people? WHERE?

 

[XS-Archangel]

I like to see some elementals like from HOMM 3: Armagedon's Blade, Conflux city

 

[TDR]

no you don't. You want to see something original.

I'll make a pain elemental (not like the one from doom 2)

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I'll go for a goofed looking radioactive blob thing, and I mean goofed looking.
Here's a very early wip.

It's named Snot the Radioactive Blob until further notice.

I'm facing a very huge problem now.
I want to give it some sliding texture animations on it (like the Water Elemental), so global sequence and texture animation is made (Magos Model Editor).
Adding the animations on the material and testing the animations isn't a problem. But when I save the model, exit the program and re-open the model, the material still doesn't use the texture animations, yet I did applied it before. I have no idea why that happens and it annoys me a lot.

 

[Just_Spectating]

it looks familiar Dan,

Isnt that the same model for that one really black looking one with one eye thing model on this site somewhere i saw before?

o and dio, it looks to become a Glass elemental.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Bah, none of these are really elementals. "Elemental" means spamming animated textures and additive, and you all know it.

Where are the glows, people? WHERE?

Patience. There will be lots of those in mine.

@DVO: Try editing the parameters as .mdl and in notepad instead.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Isnt that the same model for that one really black looking one with one eye thing model on this site somewhere i saw before?.

My WIP is based on the Firelord, so this has nothing to do with WILL's old shadow elemental model.

EDIT:
Tried as WILL said about notepad, and it works. Thank you!

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Both my model and his were based on the Firelord...

 

[HappyTauren]

Bah, none of these are really elementals. "Elemental" means spamming animated textures and additive, and you all know it.

Where are the glows, people? WHERE?

I am totally gonna do that in milkshape.

 

[Burning_Dragoon5]

I'm in.

I will the model I told in my personnal gallery: I will change the Floating brain into some kind of floating nature elemental spore.

The mesh is finished, though i'll surely add some details. I've started texturing it with some grass/stone/dirt skin (i'll add some "flowers" later)

Note: the last screen (with the texture) is a shot from the 3dsmax editor

 

[AirHead]

ok I'm done trying to get the death elemental to work its way to much and a lot of polys at that it doesnt look that good but i was gunna make the floatey things bones and make his body made up of them also adding green fire-ey smoke lineing his basic figure with one big one in the middle and the bugs into spirits zooming around him, but it was unbearably boring so I'm moving on to better things.

i think I'm gunna do some sort of wind elemental.

EDIT: oh, Dio you use WarForger atleast sometimes (or you did before) i gotta ask how do you rig with it? i was planning on using a already rigged model and super editing but we saw where that got me. please link me to some place or tell me how.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I'm in.

I will the model I told in my personnal gallery: I will change the Floating brain into some kind of floating nature elemental spore.

The mesh is finished, though i'll surely add some details. I've started texturing it with some grass/stone/dirt skin (i'll add some "flowers" later)

Note: the last screen (with the texture) is a shot from the 3dsmax editor

The model has to be done from scratch entirely for this competition. Not a single use of modelling done in previous competitions or outside of this competition is allowed.

@Airhead: I can't see much from that pic... What's with the blood?

 

[AirHead]

stuped amobination in the wc3 viewer does that i was trying to make it as visible as possible but i figured out just now i can remove it so heres what it actually looks like.

sorry for the inconvenience.

 

[Burning_Dragoon5]

The model has to be done from scratch entirely for this competition. Not a single use of modelling done in previous competitions or outside of this competition is allowed.

Damn, you're telling me that I've to abord my concept just because I started it a couple of days before the modeling competition #10??? I knew that elemental was the next competition, i just waited it to "continue" the model (well, only 20% of the mesh was "made".

Made from scratch, but i'm not allowed to enter this one.... nice...

 

[CombatTheWombat]

You can enter it, just make a new model. Its not allowed because the rules clearly state that you cant use old works or anything that was started before the contest. Even if it was only 20% started/

 

[TDR]

it's an unfair advantage to continue on something you already started before the opening of the competition, even if you insist it's just a little. Get another idea and that's it.

 

[Burning_Dragoon5]

So, what's the difference between picking up pieces of already existing Wc3 models, and merging them, and continuing a mesh? There seem to be some kind of problem in here, don't you think? I mean, even if the merged result is considered as "from scratch", it's not because its pieces are from existing models (so, they're not from scratch litterally)

I find this "rule" really harsh for those who have pending models, and have the opportunity to continue them within a contest....

 

[Mr.Goblin]

ah man .. problem with the terrain competition now with the Modeling competition ><...

 

[TDR]

geomerging always had an unfair advantage over scratch modeling, since all you do is pile up parts from existing models. But that's a totally different thing, there are still people who model from scratch in this competition and it's unfair to them (us) for you to start with a base that you already had.

 

[Devine]

ima made the magnetshit from scratch but uhm ... the animations are total failure ( i know why but now i have to redo them all )!Milkshape is a really good tool, designed for me! and its animation editor is just ... whell amazing i'm glad i'm trying it *considers buying it*

 

[SuPa-]

geomerging always had an unfair advantage over scratch modeling, since all you do is pile up parts from existing models. But that's a totally different thing, there are still people who model from scratch in this competition and it's unfair to them (us) for you to start with a base that you already had.

ya, srsly

 

[CombatTheWombat]

I dont think your animations will work in game unless you have bought the program because the trial version doesnt allow you to run 'zero joints'. But either way, I dont consider geomerging to have an unfair advantage at all. You dont even know how badly I wish I could model from scratch. But me and my family are very tight on money and cant afford and programs that would allow me to make a good model from scratch. And of the free ones ive tried, such as GMAX, are very fidgety and almost impossible to correctly export everything from. And very limited to boot. I tried milkshape and its nice but like I said cant really buy anything right now. So geomerges are really the only way for me to do stuff. And it is really hard to get all the pieces and stuff to fit together right. Like I said earlier I got frustrated and gave up on the model I was doing because it is just too hard when all you have to work with is oinkerwinkles tools. So dont try and say that geomerges have an unfair advantage. It takes just as much skill and patience as "scratch" modeling does.

 

[HappyTauren]

No it doesn't. Patience yes, skill no. Oh, and you can work quite well in gmax, as long as you animate in something else

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Geomerging is mostly about creativity, not artistic talent. It's for those cool ideas that you don't have enough skills to accomplish. In the end it's really about how interesting your concept is.

Scratch-modelling implies both creativity and artistic talent. Sure if you have a cool concept it's good, but an unoriginal model that was exectured incredibly well will simply stand out more.

@Airhead: The whole thing is pretty much a mess... I have no idea what you were trying to accomplish, which is always the point of WIPs.

 

[TDR]

no, it doesn't take as much skill at all. It's like making a collage, half of the work is already done for you. Creativity? Bah, you can always draw your concept on paper and be as creative as you can be. But it takes more patience. And I think you're a poor geomerger since you say that, look how fast WILL worked on his entry now.

 

[Hawkwing]

Honestly, that abom looks like it dived into a tornado. No offence.

 

[AirHead]

two things. one, scratch modeling is better but harder don't try and say otherwise because you would be wrong. two, is this project still going?

I am quite aware of how much my abomination sucks thats why I'm going to something that will actually work, and look good.

 

[Elenai]

Problem with scratch modeling is that in later versions of 3dsmax, IK animation requires special exportation, and I don't think there are any tutorials for animating in a later version of 3dsmax.

Blinkboy should make one >.>

 

[TDR]

What do you mean man, all versions of max have both IK and FK animation, including max 5. You can make animations with IK in max 5 and bake them for use by wc3, never heard of 3dmaxhy's IK Animation Exporter?! Olof's madass dragon model was animated by Jigrael with an IK rig.

scratch that, I got what you were trying to say

 

[Devine]

Honestly, that abom looks like it dived into a tornado. No offence.

something far worse happened to it!
you should better use another concept.

 

[XS-Archangel]

no you don't. You want to see something original.

I'll make a pain elemental (not like the one from doom 2)

When I said I want to see, I thought that modelers look for inspiration in it's shape

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Added particles.

 

[SuPa-]

[shittalk] WILL, it doesn't matter what you do, because in the end, my entry will pwn yours [/shittalk]

Anyway, I'll be making a gorilla with emeralds sprouting from its body. So it'll be like an earth elemental I guess

 

[Just_Spectating]

i dont think ancients count as an elemental.

 

[SuPa-]

It's close enough, dude. It's basically a nature elemental. It's made of rock and wood and nature crap, so...

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

i dont think ancients count as an elemental.

Then it's a nature elemental and not an ancient. Seriously, there's no point in this. We can argue all day long but it simply won't matter.