Post your skin work in progresses here

halo · Sep 11, 2005

I want this W.I.P. to last longer then my others.
If you are working on a skin and need feedback just post it here.
Afronight76,Pins,Physco 2000,juice_f and leopard,you guys should post your stuff here,though anyone is welcome.
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Now for my skin.
Its style is like mr_physco2000 and afronights76 put together thats a little more blurry and with some photorealism attempt.
More recent pic below
or
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/1147/sssam38aj.jpg
click on link.

Its a paint over of leopards cartoony style skin:
http://www.wc3sear.ch/?p=Skins&ID=4247
looks pretty bad on the model so far,I think you can tell the parts i did(the arms and working on the hands as of now.
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so instead of making a new thread to post your skin work in progresses(wips)here,CMON...
-halo aka staby

Afronight_76 · Sep 11, 2005

very awesome, but i just have to ask if you use numerous texture filters or made all those details yourself.

VGsatomi · Sep 11, 2005

ugghh....I dont want to know where you got those arms from....gross....
-VGsatomi

halo · Sep 11, 2005

Come on afro i wan't to see what you did with all those work in progresses you were doing,post them here.

Now as for my skin,I didn't use and texture filters/overlays,When ever i used them they just made my skin look ugly and ruined the skin tones.When Im done with all the body parts i might put some texture overlays for a finishing touch but for now its just all pixel art,every detail was painted in.
I did use lots of reference vgsatomi but mostly I just ripped off my flesh from my very manly verile body,nah joking.
In my update i did the hands,eyes and face.
Next im doing legs,beard and body in that order.

So you skinners just post your wips...

Afronight_76 · Sep 11, 2005

not bad,t he only problem though is that barely any detail will be seen in game, itll just look like a pink blob basically. oh and ive been a bit busy so i havent had time to work on all those wips.

edit: nvm i found a couple that i havent shown yet

halo · Sep 25, 2005

Those are nice afro.
I know what you mean by being to busy to finish.
I like yours the most in the order you posted them.
I finished my skin:
http://www.wc3sear.ch/?p=Skins&ID=4373

I know I cant see any of the details,thats why im making a higherpoly version with a normal map right now so I can hopefully put it in quake4.
But anyways...
Come on other people...you know you want to.
-halo aka mrstaby

Afronight_76 · Sep 25, 2005

undead grunt, wip.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/Afroknight/Gruntu.jpg

Kuhneghetz · Sep 28, 2005

A WIP skin of my own.

I know that I shall do some freehand on the weapon, tusks and the horn from the helmet, but I wonder if there are some small missing details that needs to be improved.

And all of the modified work is freehand (even the orc).

Afronight_76 · Sep 30, 2005

not bad, but you should use various colors for the skin tones. and i suggest changing the theme a bit to make it more creative.

Leopard · Sep 30, 2005

Needs more smudge on the lizard, rider's hair and rider's beard. Add scale texture on lizard skin and remove team color on lizard's carapace.

antihero · Oct 2, 2005

Something I've been working on. The face took me a while but the body I started today.

Leopard · Oct 2, 2005

Very nice face detail, as always. Who is him, a robber?

antihero · Oct 2, 2005

A samurai...its for black_stan's date masamune model.

iplaystarcraft · Oct 4, 2005

here is mine!
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im thinking of entring it into Leopards contest (when im finished)

Afronight_76 · Oct 4, 2005

try adding cracks and finer hilights on the edges of the stones.

Leopard · Oct 4, 2005

highlight the edges, burn the area inside the stone. You can use afronight's unfinished druid of the claw as a reference.

iplaystarcraft · Oct 9, 2005

obsidian giant wip

Pins · Oct 9, 2005

Sorry halo ! I dont go often in skin forum because i'm too lazy to scroll down the forum page, so i hadnt answered when you asked me to post my wips

Be sure i'll do it

Anyway, very cool works here, i like the face of your grunt afro :wink:

Leopard · Oct 10, 2005

Looks blurry, and need more smudge. Try to smudge cleanly, using soft edge brush and low strength. Anyway, I don't see a significant change from the original one.

Kimbo · Oct 10, 2005

its not that bad. obsidian isnt black diamond so its hard to define but black and gruttle textured. Hmm...not bad...

iplaystarcraft · Oct 11, 2005

yea, obsidian is very hard to recreate... :shock:

Goliath the God · Oct 11, 2005

Demon, WIP :

And the UV :

Some more progress done, his pads are close to finished, and I made him shoulders.. hehe.
Constructive comments!

Afronight_76 · Oct 12, 2005

iplaystarcraft, you should sharpen the hlights, use a 1 pixel dodge brush for the angles of the obsidian.
here's a ref

iplaystarcraft · Oct 13, 2005

i am almost done i gotta do some stuff still
it is still a WIP

do you like the lava??

antihero · Oct 13, 2005

No.....

I think the whole lava giant thing doesn't work cause it has a static texture. But if you want to do it, try alphaing out the leaf parts.

Also take afro's suggestion on the color and the highlight.

Pins · Oct 14, 2005

But if you want to do it, try alphaing out the leaf parts.

I agree, this parts can looks good, but only with leaves or blades, with lava, it's like you're trying to put water. Techninc was good, but not idea

otherwise it looks quite good, but try add some purple :wink:

Goliath the God · Oct 14, 2005

The lava isn't lava enough. It needs more yellow perhaps. And the stones he is made of looks quite good. Perhaps some nice details, instead of only lava and rocks.

Ohh.. and I agree with the idea of alphaing out the leaf-parts.

Horn · Oct 14, 2005

Great work guys!

Last skins I did. Hard keeping up skinning when yuo have so many tasks at hand!

Goliath the God · Oct 15, 2005

I would love to see some proper shading, and a little more details on those skins!

Horn · Oct 15, 2005

Good for you!

Now, try skinning models for Warcraft 3 for 2 years and then realise high detail is worthless.

Leopard · Oct 15, 2005

These skins are unfinished, right? Some details might be needed for soldier's weapon and vehicel's leg. Its not must be a high detail, just a lil bit accessories.

Goliath the God · Oct 15, 2005

Why does noone comment my WIP :cry:

I need comments on it.. (I have to beat someone in the contest!)

antihero · Oct 16, 2005

Basic Color experimentation WIP
I don't think I'll put it up here, doubt anyone would have a need for it.

Leopard · Oct 16, 2005

Goliath the God said:
Why does noone comment my WIP
I need comments on it.. (I have to beat someone in the contest!)

You should post your skin U.V. too (in 2D), so people can see all detail. :wink:

antihero · Oct 16, 2005

Leopard said:
These skins are unfinished, right? Some details might be needed for soldier's weapon and vehicel's leg. Its not must be a high detail, just a lil bit accessories.

Whitehorn knows how to skin...he'll finish them.

Goliath the God · Oct 16, 2005

Well.. The skins Whithorn made there, I would rate a 3 after an in-game look.. I'm sure. I would not be satisfied with those skins. :roll:

@Leo - Posted the UV now.

halo · Oct 16, 2005

Horay people posted W.I.P.'s

Whitehorn:
At least put gradients in them for a slightly shadowed effect.
It's minimum work and wc3's color pallete likes them.

Antihero:
Nice imitation of piors midget,flaming penis man

The eyes look so identical its as if you copy and pasted them.Whats your p.count account bytheway?
I'm CMB since halo isnt the most original name,this was my first forum ever anyways.Oh and nice skin.

Now for mine.

It's a quick skintone test I did.
No dodge,burn,smudge used at all.
All hand painted.(except for the uvwmap)
It's about half done.

Oh and goliath that skin is too blurry/smudgy.
Try painting with out the smudge tool,blend color in manualy like I did.
Use multiple layers if you need too.

Come on people keep on posting...
Leopard or Afrongiht_76 if this gets big enough do you wan't to sticky it?

-halo aka CMB,staby

antihero · Oct 16, 2005

Thanks man halo, the eyes are not cnp, thats just probably the one area where I tried to make it the most like his skins as possible...good to know I got it right.

I just lurk at polycount since I don't have a modeling program that would enable me to download sdk. Kind of a bummer. I love piors work though....his style is just so fantastic.

Nice skin tones by the way, you've really improved a lot.

Horn · Oct 17, 2005

Post your skin work in progresses

Only the last of the 3 skins was done - which is only 1 texture of a set for the refinery (the texture is for the base). The grunt was baout 80% done, a d the walker about 50%.

Sansui · Oct 17, 2005

Whitehorn is ownage with a white horn so lookout or youll get owned by the horn.

its obvious the first two are not done anyone who has skinned for sometime can tell when a skin is done... and dont tell a vetran that he needs to change the way he is doing somthing thats just like telling your anus how to crap... ok im going back to the table and sleepy soon.

halo · Oct 17, 2005

About 20 more minutes

I kind of screwed up with the skintones.
But I realy screwed up by adding hair.

Antihero I sugest you download Gmax.
Its a very good 3d package thats free,works like 3dsmax and is well...great for people who primarily skin,since it doesn't have useless options and stuff.
The bad thing is taht in 2002 was its last update,discreet/auto desk has forgoten about it since it acquired a big 3d package that was rivaling it(maya) and now is merging them or something.
So it will be availible on the internet for a limited time.

Oh and Sansui What have you been up to other then schoolwork?
-halo aka cmb

Sansui · Oct 17, 2005

well ive been up to

parties
sports
RIT
sleeping
maybe soon ill start skinning again... when it snows... when it snows

gmax sucks.

i have 3dsmax but too bad my cdkey is on my home pc and im way too lazy to get it... owell i have free versions of invetor and softworks and shit like that. did i mention i received photoshop and a buncha programs like flash and dremweaver for free from my college.

antihero · Oct 17, 2005

halo said:
Antihero I sugest you download Gmax.

"As of October 6, 2005, Autodesk will no longer offer Gmax® software as a stand-alone product. If you are interested in other 3D animation, modeling, and rendering applications from Autodesk please check out Autodesk® 3ds Max®"

F*******CK!!!!!

Goliath the God · Oct 17, 2005

Gmax didn't work well anyways.. I've tried it.. And I coulnd't get the hang of it.. I could change the proporsjons of a blade f.ex. but any interesting changes was impossible for me.. I'm probably stupid. ^^

Now I use a shit program that only is good for adding emitters.. probably a little more tho.. haven't figured it out yet. It's named "War3ModelEditor". You may find a link in a thread about How to model or something. Whitehorn sugested it, I think.

@halo, Yup.. you screwed up with the hair.. hehe. But the rest is very realistic, very nice. The eyes should maybe be a little more clear tho, he look a bit sick, no?

antihero · Oct 17, 2005

I only need a program to display models of different file types....not make them.

Goliath the God · Oct 17, 2005

Aha, I missunderstood then.

I can't help you then. I don't think the War3ModelEditor can do such. :?

Ohh, and by the way - now that I know you are there, somewhere. Could you just.. comment my WIP (Page 2).. lol. ^^

antihero · Oct 17, 2005

Define the eyes and the area around them more.
Also try working in some orange into your red...try to produce more variations in skin tones.

Afronight_76 · Oct 18, 2005

stickied

Leopard · Oct 19, 2005

Here's my Holy Mage, any suggestion?

antihero · Oct 19, 2005

White takes on the colors of those around them so you should incorporate that into your shading.
The face needs more red, and the highlights are too bright imo.
Yellow(hope its not suppose to be gold) needs more color variations in it.