Texturing Competition #10 - Arcane

[Hawkwing]

Now that is good!

 

[FrIkY]

Well, I do think that the previous was kinda bad, and I agree with Hawkwing, those eyes on the face, glowing, are not good without proper partciples... and I lost the ideas what to do next on it (I hope it won't happen on this on :S)

EDIT: Oh yea, and I didn't made a double post, right? I just bumped it, because no one would see if I posted new WIP on the old post... just making the thread alive -,,-

 

[Mr.Goblin]

well its a good thing cause you made me remember that i had to finish MY skin

 

[FrIkY]

New WIP. I'm still thinking about keeping this cloak that is right now... or should I change it?

...:::NOTE:::...
''Viewer's Fault'' means - that black area on cloak is showed only in Viewer, not ingame or anywhere else
''Model's Fault'' means - that blue thing on her back is because of messed up wrap, back uses wrap from the front part of torso, so it took some part of the cloth too

 

[Linaze]

The cape is looking really nice FrIkY, too bad the model is messing up abit on the back, still looking good and progress is always nice

 

[THE_END]

Wow that is fuckin' awesome Friky

 

[markone]

hey i finally bought a tablet

i started new skin, based on ancient of lore

here is early head wip. maybe too much yellow

 

[FamousPker49]

Beard looks weird with a white background, maybe alpha would look good or something.

 

[Hawkwing]

I don't see anything arcane in there. Anyways, the beard needs "shading". Not just 1/2 pixel black and white lines.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

In case anyone was wondering whether I died, I didnt. I just went into a SPORE induced coma. Have been playin it so much I havent been doin much skinning. But I am slowly chipping away at it and it will b ready for the deadline.

 

[FrIkY]

@markone, I know a way how to improve the beard. Start by using some dark gray color (don't use white background for making hair, beard, fur... it's bad) as a background, and to make lines you use some light gray colors, and then lighter, and ligher... until you get white beard, or wanted beard. You don't need dark gray as a background, it can be any color, but too be dark... and so is for the lines you will be makin' on the beard, it's supposed to be the same color as background, but lighter

 

[markone]

@FrIkY thx for advice, i already fixed before i read your advice, but i will have it on mind if i need to do it again or some other beard

i also changed saturation to match skin color

 

[ike_ike]

Nearly finished. I also have another version in which pretty much the whole model is plastered with runes. Someone please help me with ideas. The whole model can't be alphaed, and the helmet's pretty horrid. Also, the black bits of the face don't seem to be editable in the portrait.

 

[HappyTauren]

ike, that is BBQTASTIC

 

[Hawkwing]

Very well done indeed.

 

[FrIkY]

I am also nearly finished, I just have to fix the stuff that's not good... About your's Ike, it's very good! But there's one thing... one thing that's weird to me. You skin looks like it's made in Dionesiist's style, I don't know... that's just how it reminds me of... I'm not saying that Dio made this!!! I repeat, I'm not saying that Dio made this, I just said it looks familiar to Dio's style, which isn't bad, at all. That's it...

Oh, and about my skin, how should I fix it and improve it?

 

[Hawkwing]

Maybe do something on her upper legs.

 

[D a w n]

looks nice ike_ike + you added a pokeball into your skin xD

 

[Hawkwing]

@FrIkY thx for advice, i already fixed before i read your advice, but i will have it on mind if i need to do it again or some other beard

i also changed saturation to match skin color

It's much better. But you can't have that amount of contrast between each strand of hair. Instead of using a black use a dark/medium gray.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

ike_ike: That looks very nice indeed.

FrIkY: Since the Sorceress model has on odd wrap proportions on the legs, why not draw a knee on the end of the naked leg part.
Otherwise, It looks great. Too bad the model's wrap on the back fudges it up.

markone: The new one looks much better than the old one, and I look forward for future progress.

 

[frostwhisper]

That Sorc needs a less blurry dress.

 

[FrIkY]

Thanks for the helping frost, DvO and Hawk, I'll try to fix those thing
EDIT: btw, did I make crown good?

EDIT2: New WIP, @frostwhisper: is the cloak better now? @ DvO: are legs better now, I added armor. @ Hawkwing: is it better?

 

[Hawkwing]

Looks fine to me.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Much better, FrIkY. Much better.

 

[frostwhisper]

Inside boob area needs more work imo.

 

[Hawkwing]

Mmm. Yes, it's a bit too pronounced.

 

[Linaze]

<- Agrees on that too, not that I am a good skinner my self, but I can still judge art. Still a sadpanda on the damned model which messes up a bit, but thats not your fault.

 

[FrIkY]

Inside boob area needs more work imo.

Like how? I don't really see much what's wrong there

...Still a sadpanda on the damned model which messes up a bit, but thats not your fault.

sadpanda? Who/What's that? I hope that's not me

 

[Rising_Dusk]

That whole texture is an absolute mess, in-game it's going to be a blue blob waving its arms and legs around.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Here is an update.

 

[Just_Spectating]

looks more demonic/chaos than arcane.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Black and green is just as arcane as blue and white, just not as common.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

i think you should remove some runes.. cause we lose all the shape of the muscles of the body ..

 

[communist_orc]

Black and green is just as arcane as blue and white...

Looks better to! (than blue/white)

 

[A.R.]

Friky: The problem with her chest area is in the lighting. For a start, the area directly
under and between her breasts shouldn't be the same lightness as above them.
Emphasising the area between the bottom of her ribcage and her stomach area wouldn't
hurt either.
Dusk is right about the contrast, making a clear distinction between the borders and the
cloth colourwise would help immensely. I also think the metal and gem areas seem a little
blurry. If you haven't already, try sharpening the texture and see if that helps. The
cloak-thingy at the back is a bit boring, it could use some kind of design or something,
at least it's not a big ol' smudgeblob like it was before.

So yeah, more contrast and a little more detail and you'll be fine.

 

[FrIkY]

Whoa, I didn't know it sucks that much... well, ok I'll try to fix the skin, thanks for the great advice A.R., I appreciate it ^^

EDIT: ok, I made some changes... boob area and that stuff, I hope I fixed it and I sharpened it as A.R. suggested I should

And use this rar file, to see the work by yourself, better. Inside is the skin and the model, so you can see it by yourself in the Viewer

 

[HappyTauren]

better shading @ boobs plz
The way you did it, it seems that lighting comes from your eyes. You need to make it so it looks like lighting is somewhere up there.

 

[FrIkY]

Ok, I think this is it, does it looks good now?

 

[communist_orc]

Nice... Boobs better already!

 

[HappyTauren]

Duh, it is sort of better, it is just that you texture like you've never seen certain things in real, the way they are shaded. You seriously need to use some references.

 

[FrIkY]

Well, it won't be so important or noticable in game actually, but... ok I'll try to fix it, even more...

 

[THE_END]

Yea I want those boobs to pop out
..not literally but they must stand out
SEX APPEAL FTW!

 

[FrIkY]

Now?

 

[HappyTauren]

that's much better. GG porn

 

[FrIkY]

Are you sure it's 100% alright, no more fixing?

btw, side question: How do you like the crown? (question to everyone)

 

[HappyTauren]

luls, double post. I was just saying that boobs were fine actually. I dislike the cape, if you are doing trimming like that... It needs to look more like a cape, not like it's got some random lines all over.

 

[FrIkY]

Ouh... that cape is really bugging me now, always something wrong with it. Well, I'll try to make it better though I don't know will it look good...

should I make it somethin' like this or this

sorry, I have to ask you again: How do you like the crown?

 

[HappyTauren]

It's fine, though still sort of blurry. However, follow the first example for the cape.

 

[FrIkY]

I think this is it, my final submission, I think it's all done now and ready to go!

Here's the skin View attachment Sorceress.blp and here's the model + skin View attachment ArcaneSorceress.rar, don't forget to test it ingame! ^^ (and don't judge it by the screenshot, you should see the skin first and how the skin looks ingame... thanks!)

 

[Linaze]

Awesome, +rep