Sparkly New WiP Texture Pack

[Dionesiist]

The Sun	The Moon
The Emperor	The Empress
The Fool	The Hierophant
The Magician	The High Priestess
The Hermit	The Lovers
The Devil	Death
The Hanged Man	The Chariot
Strength	The Wheel of Fortune
Judgement	Temperance
The World	The Star

Well, my idea would be to make 2 sets of textures, representing two teams, with each member representing one of the cards in the Major Arcana in Tarot.

First Post at some Point

The one I started with is The Emperor and I come with WIPs.

[very, VERY bland WIP because I just started working on it..]

EDIT 1: I can't decide on a face paint pattern for him, might ditch the idea entirely.

EDIT 2: :v

EDIT 3: I wonder how long I can get this post to be before someone else replies. I'm having so much fun.

EDIT 4: Lions aren't wrapping that well, I'll mess around with skew.

EDIT 5: LIONS, LIONS EVERYWHERE

 

[Ganondorf]

Quite nice from what we see, I love how you made the cloth fold. The lions are nice as well, and I surely love that face. I had a suggestion, but i see it is not possible to do so without modifying the model first. It would have been nice if you could make the red clothing team colored, but meh, it's perfect for now.

 

[D a w n]

looks awesome, but that streak would look much better in white/grey than in blond

 

[Dionesiist]

I've made it black, like the rest of his hair. I figured he's over the top enough as is...

EDIT: Decisions, decisions...

 

[D a w n]

left

 

[Ganondorf]

right for prettyness
for realness, go left, cause gold can't move like that

 

[kola]

left

I'm in love with those boots haha

 

[A.R.]

Well, my idea would be to make 2 sets of textures, representing two teams, with each member representing one of the cards in the Major Arcana in Tarot.

If someone were to make an AoS themed around this, it would be very awesome.

Any particular reason for the Kabuki paint on an Emperor? Just seems a strange style choice

Watch your detail level. It appears you're working in 512x512, if you keep it reasonably clear it should still resize down to 256x256 nicely.

About the cape, definitely go single colour. In-game visibility is king and considering the mix of red and gold on the body, having it on the cape trim would simply blend in. You might also want to consider a third colour for the body, or just shift his lower abdomen and legs a little more toward the purple end.

Speaking as someone who's worked with this model recently, you want to make the most important parts of the model stand out the most. Namely, the floaty projectile weapons, followed by the head, the shoulderpads and then the cape. If you focus on drawing more attention to those areas, it'll look more effective in-game

 

[-Grendel]

you really like texturing the blood mage do you? :>
looks great by the way

 

[Dionesiist]

Left was my own choice, too, what a coincidence.

Any particular reason for the Kabuki paint on an Emperor? Just seems a strange style choice

I chose to give the 'red' side face paint in order to emphasize their chaotic nature. They are a faction led by their feelings, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it contrasts with the opposite faction's more logical approach.

Watch your detail level. It appears you're working in 512x512, if you keep it reasonably clear it should still resize down to 256x256 nicely.

I like to think there won't be any problems, except maybe the belt.

About the cape, definitely go single colour. In-game visibility is king and considering the mix of red and gold on the body, having it on the cape trim would simply blend in. You might also want to consider a third colour for the body, or just shift his lower abdomen and legs a little more toward the purple end.

Yeah, I'm having trouble adding more than two colours since we don't get along that well.

Speaking as someone who's worked with this model recently, you want to make the most important parts of the model stand out the most. Namely, the floaty projectile weapons, followed by the head, the shoulderpads and then the cape. If you focus on drawing more attention to those areas, it'll look more effective in-game

Are you hiding textures from us? >:C
Lame remark aside, this is what I ended up with yesterday before shutting the PC off.

I'm not particularly happy with either his shoulderpads or his collar thing.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

The "collar" is a bit out of place, indeed, but I think the shoulders work out nicely. Perhaps adding a trim to the lower piece would be beneficial. How does the back look, by the way?

Otherwise, this is pretty awesome, and I'm looking forward to see the next ones as well.

 

[Deolrin]

His boots.
Kiddy slippers.

Otherwise, I'm digging this guy. His facepaint is great. I liked the streak of gold in his hair, but I guess it had to go. The shoulderpads look kinda... Bad, but I guess you're changing them. He needs some teamcolor though, and the cape, being non-TC as it is, looks really unfinished(it lacks color and details).

 

[D a w n]

I think making the stomach area black would make it look better

 

[Deolrin]

Yeah, making the chest black and making the cape red with some gold designs would make it look better.

 

[Dionesiist]

K, I think I'm done.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Spectacular!

 

[Dionesiist]

Thanks.
On to The Empress.

 

[Deolrin]

Looks nice, but looking at the cards, she looks more like the High Priestess to me. Because of the Elenai-blue theme and all.

 

[Dionesiist]

It's like the lions, except wings. :v

 

[A.R.]

Hate to be the Suggest-O-Bot 4000, but after reading the description, wouldn't Jaina be a better model for the Empress? Being a caster, she'd be a better parrallel to the Emperor (plus the Warden seems more of a badass warrior-type). But yeah, the Warden would be awesome as High Priestess, The Star or Judgement.

Looks good, though

(Oh yeah, and I'd definitely like to see a portrait shot of the Emperor. A full-body shot of him resized and zoomed out a little would be great as well)

 

[Dionesiist]

Well I had originally wanted both Emperor and Empress to have similar cape styles :v and as far as I know, only the Warden has a similar cape. Also, contributes a bit to the 'lion' theme I had for the Emperor, him being a slacker and the Empress/lioness doing all the work.
Either way, here's an in-game screenshot of the Emperor.

 

[Deolrin]

Seriously, imagine if all that red was TC.
You should definitely release a 'bonus' model\skin to when you release the Emperor with all the red replaced with TC(you'll have to edit it in Magos a bit for that). Just attach it to a post or something.
Also, his eyebrows seem... Wrong. I mean there's a white 'line' under them on that portrait, you might want to fix that up.

And yeah, that Warden definitely looks more like a High Priestess than the Empress. :<

 

[THE_END]

Sickness Dio..it seems you can raise A.R. from the pits

 

[A.R.]

Yeeessss, the three of us should do another big something sometime.

 

[THE_END]

PM me A.R...let's discuss

 

[Mr.Goblin]

definatly watching this! Impress me Dio!

 

[Dionesiist]

So, uhm, anyway...
I'll just finish her armour in this colour and then mess around with Hue/Saturation values.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

pimp her shoulders with wings <3 and rubies and shit

 

[Dionesiist]

Sadly it seems most of her body objects to any and all kinds of pimping... :v

EDIT: Meh, I'm gonna need some ideas for the blades, the wrap is surprisingly bad for something so simple...

 

[A.R.]

Tell me about it

Make them clear, simple and bright. Pointy and wicked ought to do the trick, don't introduce too many colours on the weapon either. Speaking of colours, the rest of the armor could probably use some differently coloured trim and such to break up the blue; value contrast may not be enough at in-game level.

Erwt gave me some good advice for this model a while back in the thread for this skin (could have sworn I fixed the broken links and stuff, but anywho); the stuff that's hidden beneath the cape isn't really going to be visible in-game, so making it as compositionally strong as the parts that will be seen goes against the philosophy you're working with. Tone it down and the different areas won't be fighting for attention

 

[Dionesiist]

Don't worry about the colours, I'll fiddle with them once I'm done. I ended up tracing over the original weapon's blades because that area is a bitch. Also did the back-wing-things and the cape, still working on the latter. The reasoning behind the edge trim is that it contrasts with the Emperor's soft, round trim by being pointy.

EDIT 1: Trim which is virtually invisible on the first screenshot... ._.

EDIT 2: Warden Noire

 

[Midnighters]

I personally think the blue and the gray mix well together, and the all gray is monotonous.

 

[D a w n]

I think it would be awesome if you'd change these arrows on the weapon into a single heart on each segment. And it would be quite creative if you'd change the blades of the weapon to some kind of feather/wing blades :>

 

[Dionesiist]

So yeah, I think I'm happy with how she contrasts to the emperor in-game. And I'm sick of fiddling around with the lasso tool and colours.

EDIT 1: I now have a shiny sparkly table on the first post to keep track of progress...

EDIT 2: Who summoned the Devil? >:v

 

[Dentothor]

when i tried doing my blood elf huntress i started out with the iron raven model. there was some really bad stuff. like the hair braid is the leg and the boobs are pretty much square. its a horrible wrap to work with. but this looks so sexy how you did it. awesome work.

and ohshi- devil.

 

[Dionesiist]

Ehrm. So not happy with how his body is turning out.

 

[Wazzz]

Can't wait to see this devil one
What's the plan for it's appearance, Master Dio?

 

[Dionesiist]

No idea, lol, I just make these up as I go. :I

 

[-Grendel]

i think it'll look better with the Illidan model. Its just my opinion though.

 

[Dionesiist]

So, uhm, yeah, long overdue update..

 

[MiniMage]

No offense, but that looks.. kinda weird. :O
Why not go for the typical depiction of evil in religious text?

One side is ultra evil, complete darkness and with a glowing eye, glowing runic symbols and whatnot, the other, is the lesser evil. Sort of a Jekyll and Hyde in one. :O
Also, I'd suggest trying to make either most of the elf ears into horns.. or.. make some of the elf ear into a horn and some of it into a regular ear. XD

The most modern depiction of the devil is where one half is something that looks like a human businessman and the other a is pure demon.
Personally, I'd love to see that guy wtih a tophat and tie, but that would require modeling. XD

Also, skeletal dark versions of his original wings would add to the devil feel of it, as most religions say that they can't fly. :O
(Even though Christianity says that he doesn't rule hell, nor that he is in it. In fact all the abrahamistic religions says that he is on earth and tempt man to do evil.)

Something like the original metamorphed Illidan on one side and this version thing on the other. It's just a thought, take it or leave it. XD

 

[Dionesiist]

Blergh, Devil will have to wait. Trying to make the High Priestess.

 

[Dentothor]

noice!
what model is that?

 

[D a w n]

sorceress

 

[Raven0]

Those two skins you released were incredible. Definitely watching this thread and hoping for WIP pics

GL ^-^