Texturing Competition #2 - Racial Conversion

[Archian]

Texturing Competition #2

The theme for the Texturing Competition #2 is Racial Conversion.

For this competition, you are required to modify the texture of an existing model within Warcraft 3 of either the Human, Orc, Night Elf or Undead race. You must then reskin the choosen model into another concept from any of the 3 other races. (For example, if you choose an Orc unit. Then you must reskin it into one of the 3 other races)

Deadline: The 20th of April 2007 - with possible extension. Winner(s) will be decided by the final votes of a public poll.

Rules and Guidelines:

• The model must be an existing unit within Warcraft 3 of either the Human, Orc, Night Elf or Undead race.
• No model edits are permitted.
• The skin has to be atleast 75% freehand created.
• You must post at least 1 WIP skin preview before the deadline.
• To qualify for entry, you must post your .blp and an ingame screenshot.
• You must post your entry before the deadline expires.
• You must make the textures for this competition. Which means that you cannot use old skins.
• 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.

Prize: +75 Reputation Points & a Special Award Icon.

 

[burned]

Sounds good to me alltought I can pretty much only edit skins not make them..maybe I still try to make something for your entertaiment

 

[Odin]

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.

what if you make a mounted unit like the Death Knight, where the skin is bigger?

 

[Archian]

Ah, well most skins in Warcraft 3 are in 256x256 dimensions. The Death Knight and some others are an exception, though.

You can go ahead and modify that texture, no problems there

 

[Mechanical Man]

Man, the skinning competition is barely finished. Can't you give the skinner a little breath?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Rest is for the weak.

Now for me, it's bedtime.

 

[TDR]

hmm...if I don't forget I might enter this.

 

[she_ep]

hmm...if I don't forget I might enter this.

TDR ill remind u (only if u want) but i think this sounds like a good competition.

 

[gromhellscream666]

sounds fun count me in

 

[BlackDoom]

Grr... You are obnoxious with the 75% freehand stuff... But I'll not flame this thread about it. I'll do it somewhere else, some other time...

Hell, I'm in. Hope I have the time.
I was planning such a project for a while now, but... given the chance...

Tell you what... I'll do a freehand for you and one or more merges for eye candy.
We'll see...

Cheers!

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Grr... You are obnoxious with the 75% freehand stuff... But I'll not flame this thread about it. I'll do it somewhere else, some other time...

I just have to throw my two cents in.

Why is asking you do do 3/4 of the actual work in an art contest so difficult for people to take in? If it were me, I would have said 100% freehand in both the skinning and icon contests, because it's supposed to be judging artistic skill.

[/rant]

 

[BlackDoom]

Frankly, because "freehand" associated to a mouse (e.g. not a specific drawing device) is more like a metaphor than effective design. That's my primary point of view - as I cannot currently afford / wouldn't invest right now in a pen tablet.

Please, let's stop this here. I do not want to be accused of flaming or such. I'll make a thread these days somewhere here, on THW. We'll have a more advanced discussion concerning this specific subject there, shall we?

 

[burned]

Here we go :/

Zombie militia:

Well I dunno if this can be accepted, but I wanted to try make this. Didnt turn out as good as i expected but I quess it will do.....

 

[Odin]

you should really shade the team color a bit and mabye make the beard a bit lighter...
this is only my personal opinion, so do what you like

i just wondered: can we skin creeps which is one of the four races like the bandits and stormweaver apprentice?

Edit: forgot to say that the portrait looks really good. like a real zombie

 

[Chaos]

COUNT ME IN, this time I'll qualify myself !

Good luck in any way

i just wondered: can we skin creeps which is one of the four races like the bandits and stormweaver apprentice?

I would say no, because they depend in the creep data base and not into the 4 regular races.

Chaos

EIDT: What about a Team-entry, would it be accepted ?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

EIDT: What about a Team-entry, would it be accepted ?

I assume no. That makes it unfair to those who did it all themselves, and makes it more difficult to give an award.

 

[iristle]

Hmm... I think i shall try and have a go, I like my artistic way of digital painting, but i don't like the sound of the '75% freehand' part though, I'm in.

 

[Pyritie]

I might try this out...

Can I add particle emitters?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Rules and Guidelines:

• No model edits are permitted.

No .

 

[Deathell]

Man, this is like the coolest idea for a skinning contest, lol.

I wish I could skin

 

[ChirusHighwind]

More Restrictions to Consider!

I think there are two things you should address in your rules that are not already included:
-Whether or not you can submit skins for models used by buildings. (We need more of these.)
-Whether or not you can submit skins for models used by campaign units for the four races. (This includes Blood Elf Engineer, Blood Elf Lieutenant, Apprentice Wizard, High Elf Female, sea units, Dark Wizard, Bandit, Medivh, Pack Horse, Black Drake, and Wagon models - and all of these are just human units!)

 

[Kimbo]

Zombie militia:

Well I dunno if this can be accepted, but I wanted to try make this. Didnt turn out as good as i expected but I quess it will do.....

You need to show at least 1 wip.

 

[BlackDoom]

The point is to produce such skins that would make available a given unit for another race, other than its original race. That's it. At least, that's what I understood.

Concerning the buildings... I think it's at least ambiguous, yes... But I guess we're allowed too (though in the first post "unit" is stated, not "entity" or anything that may include buildings as well).

Concerning the campaign units. They are just units. You could make anyone available for other races - though I doubt you can make a Medivh for Orcs. A Captain, on the other hand, may be reworked for both NightElf and Undead (I do not see it as Orc, but...).


Yo, Burned: Demons have black eyes (not the iris, but the sclera), while Zombies are associated to white eyes - meaning no colour for the iris. You left your skin with defined eyes in the portrait, yet white in the skin (or is it blinking).

 

[Kimbo]

heres mine so far..tis a stag rider...bleh..

 

[Kuhneghetz]

heres mine so far..tis a stag rider...bleh..

Interesting concept. The stag could use a little more fur.


Hmm...I might try to create a Dracula using the Blood Mage skin (Human/Bloodelf => Undead).

 

[Odin]

Wip

i'm skinning Gul'dan into a human
yes i'm going to fix the eyes..
still working with names: Insane Priest? Mad Monk?

 

[xXMephistoXx]

Great work Odin, kinda reminds me of an face posed G-man in Garrys mod

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

i'm skinning Gul'dan into a human
yes i'm going to fix the eyes..
still working with names: Insane Priest? Mad Monk?

LOL! That looks funny. Whats Wrong with the eyes?

 

[camel's_hump]

Looks pretty good, but it looks more like a zombie because of the skin tone and his lips.

 

[Odin]

LOL! That looks funny. Whats Wrong with the eyes?

there are some white dots there. it may not nook that bad on the screenie i posted here, but it looks really weird when he's turning around and such...

it looks more like a zombie because of the skin tone and his lips.

i know, hes supposed to be like a grumpy, old and really crazy guy.
what do you suggest that i do with the skin tone and the lips?

 

[Kimbo]

The skins good Odin, although.. iv seen people turn that into a human many times...

 

[EviL_BuddhA]

I think im gonna enter with what i think is going to be a wierd entrance...

A Night Elven Crypt Lord...

 

[Chaos]

I think im gonna enter with what i think is going to be a wierd entrance...

A Night Elven Crypt Lord...

Looks like a green bug, improve it !
And please upload it as a jpg the next time, no one is interested in uploading any pictures.

Chaos

 

[Kimbo]

mines done...bleh.....hes 512x256..so.. i dont know if u will allow it..and..ja..

 

[Chaos]

mines done...bleh.....hes 512x256..so.. i dont know if u will allow it..and..ja..

Well, I think it'll be accepted, maybe two things to change ?
1. The hair looks like a green surface, like a cape and less like hair, I do not mean the beard.
2. Maybe make the skin brighter, so it fits better with the nightelf skin.

Positive I never seen any transforming of the Death Knight into anything with nightelf, not easy but you pretty made it.

Difficult to beat this, I start right now ?

Chaos

 

[Dionesiist]

I agree with Chaos, give him a brighter skin, right now he is too dark... Hell, I'm gonna skin the Death Knight too >

 

[Chaos]

I agree with Chaos, give him a brighter skin, right now he is too dark... Hell, I'm gonna skin the Death Knight too >

Thought of it, too but now I gonna reskin MALFURION.

Chaos

 

[Dionesiist]

Started on mine Crypt Fiend->Night Elf.. I think I'll make him some kind of druid and shit... here's what I've done thus far... damn, the Crypt Fiend can't be alphaed :\ Weird...

 

[gromhellscream666]

wip

this is what i have so far

tryin to make him dead

comments or something i could fix?

 

[The guy who needs help]

i might actually try this
i have a good idea
for a skin like this

 

[Odin]

maybe he shoulden't have green beard and maybe make his skin a bit lighter
and more detailed

 

[The guy who needs help]

started my skin its an undead admiral based on admiral proudmoore's skin only just started the face
edit: almost done with the face ps (this is my second skin ever so i needed some practice and i entered out of fun im not even thinking of victory
would be nice to get a vote though.... ) like the face?

 

[gromhellscream666]

hers the new face i sorta like the green beard tho

 

[BlackDoom]

started my skin its an undead admiral based on admiral proudmoore's skin only just started the face
edit: almost done with the face ps (this is my second skin ever so i needed some practice and i entered out of fun im not even thinking of victory
would be nice to get a vote though.... ) like the face?

Good so far. I would suggest changing the eagles and other beasts to skulls. Skulls are a trademark of the Undead. Other than this.... Tomorrow...

Don't forget to add an ingame screenie so we could see the effects of your skin.

 

[Kimbo]

sigh* the viewer makes it look like its alot lighter...and it still abit dark ingame...but..screw it.. i dont want to work on it anymore..

 

[BlackDoom]

All I could say, Werewulf, is that your skin may use some tatoos on the chest area. Other than that... I don't know...

 

[Archian]

started my skin its an undead admiral based on admiral proudmoore's skin only just started the face
edit: almost done with the face ps (this is my second skin ever so i needed some practice and i entered out of fun im not even thinking of victory
would be nice to get a vote though.... ) like the face?

Show us how the texture looks like on the model

Great work, Werewulf

 

[The guy who needs help]

little update
edit:update (working on shoulderpads now) added some chainmail and edited cape
EDIT: 99% done final touch ups in process
Plz tell me which theme u like better
The vAMPIRE knight (up)
or
The pirate(down)
added flat uv

 

[gromhellscream666]

heres mine so far still a wip

 

[Odin]

little update
edit:update (working on shoulderpads now) added some chainmail and edited cape
EDIT: 99% done final touch ups in process
Plz tell me which theme u like better
The vAMPIRE knight (up)
or
The pirate(down)
added flat uv

whats up with the chin?
EDIT: oh, the pirate one is of course the best