Texturing Competition #10 - Arcane

[Hawkwing]

The Hive Workshop

Texturing Competition #10

Contest Theme: Arcane

Each contestant must create a Arcane themed skin. Can be a arcane construct, a sort of sorcerer, etc.

Contest Rules And Conditions

1. Model must be existing in Warcraft 3 already.
   
   
2. No model edits are allowed.
   
   
3. To qualify, you must post your finished skin's .blp file as well as an ingame shot
   
   
   • Rule 3a. This finished skin must be submitted before the deadline
   
   
4. You must make an original texture for this competition
   • No using skins started/made before the start of the contest
   
   
5. Textures must be no larger than 256 pixels in any dimension when submitted as final entry, though you may work in 512 (or higher), but they must be resized down to 256 when submitted.
   
   
6. Skin must be atleast 75% Freehand
   
   
7. Along with the 75% freehand, the skin must ALSO follow the skin submission rules
   

Contest Judging And Voting

• 50% of the decision of who wins, shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
  
  
• 50% of the decision of who wins, shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

Prizes, Winnings, Booty & Bounty

First Place: A custom award icon as well as 40 rep Second Place: 25 rep. points Third Place: 10 rep. points

Contest Dates And Deadline

Each skin must be complete and submited before the deadline expires. All submissions willl be looked at carefully to make sure all of it is original work.

The contest shall begin on September 01 2008 and conclude on

October 01 2008 12:00 AM, (GMT).​

 

[FamousPker49]

/me is off to work.

 

[Hawkwing]

Keep in mind I am not the judge, so please do not ask me about this contest unless it involves that first post, spam, or any other things a moderator needs to do.

 

[FamousPker49]

So it's not arcane/ancient? Hmm... I may have to rethink my skin...

 

[Mr.Goblin]

i'm TOTALY IN!! yipi!!

 

[THE_END]

Yea I'm the judge, Hawk was just getting this up and running, so..let's begin to skin ladies and gents!

 

[Dionesiist]

I'm going to texture the blood mage into a mage omg!

 

[LightBloOD]

wow, ive jsut learned skinning so im confused :S
but i may join later D

 

[Dionesiist]

Don't tell me to take my time, because I am.
Some arcane mage who had the misfortune of being born with skin over his eyes!

 

[HyperActive]

Good start!

 

[FrIkY]

Hmmmm.... I'll still think about that joining into this contest...

 

[FamousPker49]

It seems like he is grinning... very weird.... Anyhow, I know people will probably hate the model I am using just because it's been done, but I decided until I have a better idea, I do not care.

 

[LightBloOD]

I love his roots on his torso

 

[Dionesiist]

The roots on his torso look awesome, but it's overall monotome and the leaves are way too repetitive!

 

[FamousPker49]

Well, it actually for the most part is one tone. Lol, but what could I add to get rid of some of the leaves repetitiveness?

 

[Mr.Goblin]

so .... is it Arcane? Anciants.. or just arcane.. cause Famous Ilidan just totally messed me up..

 

[AntoMarc]

I'm in sure no idea in this moment good luck to all

 

[Mr.Goblin]

ok .. shotgun on the Goblin Shredder ! (joke) i will do an arcane golem .. kind of... i will see.. if not .. will change model..

 

[Hawkwing]

I Is Cool.

 

[FamousPker49]

Wut?! Why do you say that? Explain.

 

[Hawkwing]

Because they really blend together and are hard to differentiate.

 

[FamousPker49]

When it is moving, and with the glow, you can easily differentiate them dood.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

WOOT, I LOVE YOU HAWKWING!!! I am glad to see that we have a new contest moderator. Since I started the idea thread and have been waiting for this forever I AM OBVIOUSLY IN!!! @PKER You need to do more overall shading on the leaf area, You have each leaf done very well but they are all done exactly the same. THE WHOLE THING needs to be brighter in the middle and darker around the edges, this is what I mean by overall shading. Your shading is good but it is all the same.

 

[SuPa-]

I'm in I guess

 

[THE_END]

Yea Famous..that doesn't really look arcane at all
...just letting you know

 

[FamousPker49]

/me fails to SuPa.

@ WOMBAT I see what you mean, I was going to add that eventually, but I'll do it naow.

EDIT: Well, I thought that it was going to be arcane/ancient, but I will try to add more magic-ish stuff or do another texture.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Seeing as my first one got such a good response, I am going to do another Arthas skin for this. QUESTION:I want to use the Arthas with sword model this time instead of the hammer one so I was wondering if I can submit 2 different skins and have them be judged together since Frostmourne uses a separate texture.

 

[FamousPker49]

Did some work on the wings and face, a basic outline on the face for the most part, Ima add more details and such.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Lookin a little better. I just dont think it looks very arcane. The colors I usually associate with arcane are blue, teal, and white. Not purple and green. But everyone has their own interpretation I guess. Here is the start to mine, just base colors, hair, and eyebrows done so far. Still need my above question about the second texture for frostmourne answered.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

It's megaman!

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Lawl, he does sort of look like mega man at this point. Update. Still need a mod to answer my question.

 

[Zypher]

Ill see what I can come up with. If it's good, I'll submit it to the contest. The model I plan on skinning is a challenge. Tauren Cheiftan .

Edit: Spent an hour and what Ive come up with looks like shit. I forfiet my place in this competition.

P.S how do you guys brainstorm ideas for your skinning. Or in other words simply, how do you go about skinning? Do you start with certain parts? Do you start a certain way? How do you get nice looking textures using solid colors?

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Tauren Chieftan actually has a pretty easy wrap to work with. Arthas has one of the most challenging wraps to work with, look at this update for example. Notice how everything is WAY uneven on the unwrap, but wrapped they match up almost perfectly, due to my experience working with this wrap. And I know this looks a LOT like a recolor of my other arthas skin guys, but I assure you that it is not. It is freehanded and overall of a higher quality than the other skin even though it is being done in a smaller resolution.

 

[Hawkwing]

His moobies are a bit uneven on the wrap. Anyways, this is looking a lot like your Night Elf Swordsman. It's good, but it's not very original. So far at least.

 

[Denu]

Damn I was hoping this one would be ancestral. I had a few ideas for that. I can't find any good examples of what is "arcane" aside from WoW stuff. Maybe I will do an arcane frost wyrm construct.

 

[Hawkwing]

If I had it my way I would have done Arcane and Ancestral, though it appears that's not what THE_END wants.

 

[THE_END]

Arcane and Ancestral??
Nah waaaay too big
I can't have that
There would be things such as well, it can be arcane or ancestral
There would then be a huge debate about one submitted skin that seems to be one or the other by certain rules but everyone would say its not and a huge upheavel would happen...
So one theme shall we?

 

[A.R.]

I R in!

 

[Dionesiist]

I really love how your textures end up so sharp and saturated. You should make a tutorial for us mortals. ;P
Anyway, I hope I can compete.
EDIT: I think I'll redo the white cloth areas.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

i'm taking the Doom guard.. it will be a BIG challange but anyway

 

[ike_ike]

Dio and AR, those look awesome. Combat, it looks too much like your other one, as said previously. Although you haven't added the detail yet.

 

[AntoMarc]

very nice skins A.R. looks the best arcane golem first idea when I will start I will say

 

[Hawkwing]

A.R., make sure the dark strands on that beard connect.

 

[Dionesiist]

That's suicide, Hawkwing.

 

[Gilles]

That's a sexy skin there A.R.

 

[FamousPker49]

Well, I will finish the skin I started, but I will need another idea for the actual competition. A.R. tell us how you do it! Or is it in a higher resolution right now maybe?

 

[markone]

blah i dont have good idea ... arcane...

 

[Mr.Goblin]

how can we represent arcane? .. with like pink diamonds.. and all? like this?!

??!! cause than i can start my texture right away

 

[markone]

i made total sketch of some "arcane" idea i just need someone to say does it fit to theme enought, so if it does i can start doing some serious work on it

 

[A.R.]

A.R., make sure the dark strands on that beard connect.

No can do, man. There's not enough pixels

Also, I am loving how people are working in true res xD