Modeling Contest #21 - Chess

[Pyramidhe@d]

just a little pointer to jigrael/tarrasque.

me and anarch just thought it was a lion rather than a bear. the face is almost def a lion and bears aint digitigrade as well

just wanted to point that out before you furthered your design

I'm... Sorry? D:
I understand that it's all about artistic representation and such, but... This seems to be stretching it a bit too far? I have nothing against it, Jigrael's models are wonderful, and I can see why it would correspond with a Rook; But I mean, this is like making a werewolf and calling it a Knight because they both resemble animals.

Although, I admit I didn't really make the connection between "strong, firm" etc and a rook at first because I was slightly tired.
Moving on please?

ok. this is how i explained to kwah and he seemed to understand it enough well. and i dont think he even cared for the model contest.

the shield above is NOT a rook. it doesnt even look like any sort of tower. HOWEVER, it does have that characteristic crest that rook pieces have. it is also a shield which means it is sturdy like a solid building/tower. therefore, even though it may NOT be related to rook in terrms of what it is, it is a good representation of a rook, both visually and functionally.

now. a werewolf. a generic one will definitely not pass for a knight. for obvious reasons. but if the person were to design it in a way that visually relates to a knight, then i would say it is a representation of a knight.

please dont tell me we are going to have to spoon feed you and explain to you how each visual/functional aspect might relate to the chess pieces.

PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSE TO MAKE LITERAL CHESS PIECES. they could if they wanted to. but that is fucking boring

 

[Tarrasque]

seriously? first I though you guys where joking. Its just as Pyramidhe@d is saying. Basically I didn't know what to do because I didn't want to make something obvious to represent a chess piece. Although yeah perhaps I'm stretching it a bit too much, but seriously we are here to have fun doing what we like and at the same time give back some nice resources to the community. So quit being so serious about it.

And yeah its a lion, I meant like a polar bear just in the texture, just the color choices.

 

[A.R.]

OK ramblers, let's get rambling.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

OK ramblers, let's get rambling.

Matriarch Benezia?

"No light? They always said there would be-- ah..."

 

[Gen Bloodhorn]

Agreed, i'm a Holy Knight here!


I would make that but this is not a request area dude o.0

i will admit that im speaking the wrong time and the wrong place so sorry

 

[Arisato]

It's fine, i know you're kinda new to the community?

 

[Deolrin]

ok. this is how i explained to kwah and he seemed to understand it enough well. and i dont think he even cared for the model contest.

the shield above is NOT a rook. it doesnt even look like any sort of tower. HOWEVER, it does have that characteristic crest that rook pieces have. it is also a shield which means it is sturdy like a solid building/tower. therefore, even though it may NOT be related to rook in terrms of what it is, it is a good representation of a rook, both visually and functionally.

now. a werewolf. a generic one will definitely not pass for a knight. for obvious reasons. but if the person were to design it in a way that visually relates to a knight, then i would say it is a representation of a knight.

please dont tell me we are going to have to spoon feed you and explain to you how each visual/functional aspect might relate to the chess pieces.

PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSE TO MAKE LITERAL CHESS PIECES. they could if they wanted to. but that is fucking boring

I thought I made it clear the confusion has passed and I don't need any further explanations or any bullshit like that in my post. Apparently not.
So I'll say it again: It's okay, I got it. I know what you're getting at. I know what you mean. I don't need you to explain. Good? Good.

seriously? first I though you guys where joking. Its just as Pyramidhe@d is saying. Basically I didn't know what to do because I didn't want to make something obvious to represent a chess piece. Although yeah perhaps I'm stretching it a bit too much, but seriously we are here to have fun doing what we like and at the same time give back some nice resources to the community. So quit being so serious about it.

I was indeed semi-joking, but I also seriously wondered how "rook" immediately brought up the image of a polar bear wearing blue strips of leather in your mind. I could not see the relation because it was late, and I was tired. Nonetheless, the next day I apologized(I guess) and I think I made myself clear I understood everything and I don't need any further tutoring.

Can we please move on? This is just spamming the thread now. I just commented on the guy's model, jeez. :/

OK ramblers, let's get rambling.

Badass!
I want to see that baby finished.

EDIT: Oh, btw, I love how no-one gave me shit about the guy who made Arthas with a spear and called it a "bishop", but everyone's giving me shit for being confused about Jigrael's entry.
Prejudice? Maybe. Coincidence? Perhaps. Nonetheless, I hope this is the last post in this thread regarding this theme.

 

[Arisato]

For the last time it is NOT Arthas
its made from kael.

 

[ike_ike]

EDIT: Oh, btw, I love how no-one gave me shit about the guy who made Arthas with a spear and called it a "bishop", but everyone's giving me shit for being confused about Jigrael's entry.
Prejudice? Maybe. Coincidence? Perhaps. Nonetheless, I hope this is the last post in this thread regarding this theme.

... you're trying to be a judge. can you see how that in any way makes a difference?

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

i was more or less having a go at everyone in the contest who made tower rooks. not necessarily at you. you merely triggered my response. since you are a judge

 

[-Peper-]

... you're trying to be a judge. can you see how that in any way makes a difference?

Good point there.

 

[Arisato]

I just can't stop doing the bishop =.=

Well i can't stop animating it.. and HappyCockroach said that i can upload the entry again This is the fifth wip then(gonna make it the final entry if i don't have any more time :/)

BIG

THIS IS the FINAL entry, not updating it anymore

 

[epsilon]

i think i could make a stained glass axe (i´m not really sure)

----- CURRENTLY -----
·575 vertices
·12 anims from GolemStatue, HeroDreadLord, BeastMaster and Wendigo.. (all of them will be slightly edited)
·team coloured
·No sounds, no particles, no footprints

criticism will be appreciated

 

[-Peper-]

i think i could make a stained glass axe (i´m not really sure)

----- CURRENTLY -----
·575 vertices
·12 anims from GolemStatue, HeroDreadLord, BeastMaster and Wendigo.. (all of them will be slightly edited)
·team coloured
·No sounds, no particles, no footprints

criticism will be appreciated

Texture on the head is damn creative
Those are jetpacks?

 

[epsilon]

those are towers.. I used warcraft style instead of chess style.... (to make some kind of conection)

 

[Arisato]

If Those are towers you should make them touch the ground that would look awesome

 

[Spartipilo]

Epsilon, make them rockets. If they are tied with chains, who's that they don't fall? Make them touch the ground, or add some magic levitation, or rocket-fire.

 

[Wandering Soul]

Work Complete!

The Black Knight is complete (Although there is some static bone animation)...
Tested in game (and it works fine to me)...
There's no DISSIPATE/DECAY FLESH/DECAY BONE animation for this model...

 

[Direfury]

That's actually rather creative, I like it!

 

[Dionesiist]

I really think you could've pulled that off with in-game textures.

 

[D a w n]

I really think you could've pulled that off with in-game textures.

2nded.

 

[Wazzz]

2nded.

3rdnded

 

[Dionesiist]

Tattoos or no tattoos?

 

[PROXY]

Tattoos or no tattoos?

More armor boobs, some tattoos.

 

[Gausslander]

If the tattoos are team-color than I say yes.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

With tattoos.

 

[Arisato]

More armor boobs, some tattoos.

man those boobs look boxy and... agreed ^

 

[eubz]

What's happening here? Much better with tattoos..

 

[The Weird Human]

If those are team colored, then definently with the tattoos!

 

[epsilon]

almost finished it!! =D
just have to add particles, sounds and footprints!

(blue glow around and over towers is team coloured)

 

[Spartipilo]

The model at the right (without legs) seems more 'consistent'. Those rocky legs doesn't seem to match the other unit skins.

Looks awesome! be sure to make those 'rockets' float or something

 

[anarchianbedlam]

almost finished it!! =D
just have to add particles, sounds and footprints!

(blue glow around and over towers is team coloured)

you should make it so he carries 2 towers when he has legs to walk, and then carries 2 legs when he has that turret base under his torso.

 

[epsilon]

Spartipilo: i thought that concrete legs fit with the brick base.. anyway, i´ll look for another texture....
and yes, the rockets float!

anarchianbedlam: actually, legs morph into the chess base and viceversa in morph animation..

everybody: model now has footprints, sounds, portrait camera and death particles.. now i just have to add attack particles and make a projectile!

 

[Tarrasque]

@Dio: With tatoos, the other looks a bit naked
@anarchianbedlam: I like the version with legs

Ive left too much time pass by, time to start. This is my wip, 710 triangles, I'm trying to keep the polygon count low.

Now that I see it, looks a bit like a gnoll.

 

[Skeedish]

Since no one else has done it yet, I've chosen my "chess piece" to be the "chess board". Here is the dev process, with explanations of what I did in each step.

STEP 1: Here is my initial concept - not just a regular chessboard, but something greater than a mere two-dimensional battlefield. Notice how the King and Queen can both stare at the opposition over the heads of their troops, and can assume a position above the battlefield as if they are commanding their soldiers in a similar way to a game of Warcraft 3:

Initial concept

STEP 2: Since I'm new to modeling, I'm going to base my model off a standard Blizzard model, then pimp it to the max:

Base model

STEP 3: The first thing that needed to be done to the model was to give it a complete texture overhaul. I made some modifications, and here's the WIP halfway through the process. I got hungry after all the work so decided to make myself a tasty sandwich. Ham, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and salt were what I put in it. It was a really wholesome sandwich and tasted delicious. Here's the WIP:

WIP1

STEP 4: After I'd finished my sandwich I made another one. It was just as good as the first. After that, I resumed work on my model, and managed to get the skin to the required level of detail that I was striving to achieve. Notice how it now actually resembles a chess board:

WIP2

STEP 5.1: As you can see in the above pictures, the Blizzard model doesn't possess the required 8x8 squares of a standard chess board, so I set about making some heavy modifications to their model as follows in WIP3 and WIP4:

WIP3

STEP 5.2: After working out the initial "copy, paste & flip," I still didn't have the required number of squares on my chessboard, so had to select the entire model *again* and repeat something roughly similar to the jump from WIP2 to WIP3.

It was quite tricky getting the wrap correct, but I managed to achieve a very similar "multi-leveled" effect for the chessboard in WIP4 to the chessboard in my initial chess board concept (see above):

WIP4

STEP 6: WIP4 was very close to the final product I am aiming to deliver, so with a few minor tweaks and a bit of polishing here and there the final render of the model came out like this:

Final render

STEP 7: Here's a screenshot:

Chess piece 'n game screenshot

Goodluck to all the other contestants - really epic models going down in this competition!

 

[The Weird Human]

WELL HERE IS MY FINAL SUBMISSION!!!!

USES INFERNAL ANIMATIONS
HAS 2 CUSTOM ANIMATIONS
1 EDITED DEATH ANIMATION

(Could have been better, but there was a bug so it ended up like this)

Staff: This submission has been removed for breaking hive rules

 

[rysnt11]

Uh oh.., tarrasque joining..., seems i must continue my rook to something more......epic..

 

[Suselishe]

I'm really sorry, but my participation in the contest is canceled. Soon put in the hospital for two weeks = \

 

[PROXY]

Oh noes. Motivation is fading away further and further... ;_;

Gonna most likely stick to the Black/White theme, but gonna start a new model (oh jeah, I know it's late) but I'm just so unsatisfised since I saw the other entries.

 

[epsilon]

@Tarrasque: anarchianbedlam is not in the contestant list.. that white rook is mine!! xD
and those were not 'versions', those are normal and alternate animations..

 

[kola]

WELL HERE IS MY FINAL SUBMISSION!!!!

USES INFERNAL ANIMATIONS
HAS 2 CUSTOM ANIMATIONS
1 EDITED DEATH ANIMATION

(Could have been better, but there was a bug so it ended up like this)

Give him a sword, the current weapon isn't really King-ish...

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

both sword and mace are king-ly weapons. a scepter is basically an adorned maced

 

[Joe-black-5]

That model should be The Rook, just saying.

 

[epsilon]

ok, i think i´ve finished it..
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/whiterook_byepsilon-205303/

Screenshots

 

[D a w n]

you still have to directly add the model to your post epsilon.

 

[epsilon]

sorry.. didn't know! thought it was the same thing

models attached to this post!

NOTE: use a missile speed of 1500

 

[anarchianbedlam]

epsilon. the edit button!

 

[-Peper-]

Wtf how did I got unsubbed...
So many entries right now. *frankly*I hope great modelers won't finish their model or I'll be doomed.

 

[eubz]

I think I'm going to edit my entry.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Tattoos or no tattoos?

For a queen, she's too naked, and tattoos are not really suitable. But disregarding the original concept, I think the tattoos look good.