Texturing Competition #7 - Holy/Angelic

[markone]

@Darkholme i think that your skin is totaly gr8 and match in holy theme

 

[XS-Archangel]

Hm... I still don't know what to do with this my try. I worked on wings and face... It's Doom Guard's model. I think I can make some kind of creature

 

[Denu]

Good luck with that wrap. You may be making something holy but that wrap is pure evil.

 

[Elenai]

DarkHolme..of all the lich skins in the world, You have been able to make it holy.

I applaude it, and as the High Lord and expert on holy stuff...I know it looks holy.

And even if it causes more competition to be taken from me...I could not allow such an art work of glory to not be made...finish the skin.

Sigh...I wish I could skin the lich..knowing now what can be done with it...sadly..It would be like stealing an idea. Ironic..I just had an idea FOR the lich.

I guess what I am wanting to say is, May I skin the lich as well?

 

[ike_ike]

WIP#8

Doesn't look too bad on the model, except it's a monotone brick

I'll work on the wings and blade later.

 

[THE_END]

Ike you seem to not realize your skin looks like a giant white blob in game
You need to shade a helluva lot better

 

[XS-Archangel]

Good luck with that wrap. You may be making something holy but that wrap is pure evil.

Yep... That's the point.To convert ultimate evil into something good. Totally opposite... I will try to do something...

I guess what I am wanting to say is, May I skin the lich as well?

Well I don't see that it is prohibited in rules...

 

[Elenai]

Well its not prohibited..but its the thing to do.

It would be dishonorable to just skin the same model as someone else without asking permission to do so.

 

[Darkholme]

I considered using the Doomguard, but I couldn't think of any possibly way to use it.Sorry to be of little help Arch.

I'm glad it's not completely hopeless to use the lich. So, out of the people who think it is valid material for this competition, what would improve it?

Also, Feel free to skin the lich. Just make something different than I am

Umm. I'll give you a few things I figured out.
1. The wrap areound the torso is horrible on his left side, and nothing you can do can make it look perfect so go with as good as possible (right when looking at the front)
2. The Collar (behind his head) wraps funny too. His right hand side overlaps the left, and you have to basically mirror a little section of the right on the left if you dont want the skin to choke (see my unwrap)
3. The hands are wrapped funny too. It uses the same section 3 times in a way that you can't match them up if you want more than a solid color there.
4. its a bit of a pain to make some of the spots match up. the sections are really close and overlap in a few spots.

 

[TDR]

well since AR is basically the winner, I thought I'd jump in. So here's my holy crap so far, an eredar retexture.

 

[Darkholme]

well since AR is basically the winner, I thought I'd jump in. So here's my holy crap so far, an eredar retexture.

I dunno if AR is the winner, we'll see.

He posted the first "finished" good skin. but theres lots of time, and a few people are getting some decent skins going, such as your eredar.

 

[HappyTauren]

Are you blind? AR would wtfpwn us if TDR didnt jump in. Now it is him who is gonna win...
Man that's such a cool use of a model...

 

[THE_END]

Holy crap
The Eredar has never looked so holy

 

[XS-Archangel]

please kill me... TDR can u give us a tutorial for making skins? Step by step... Please.

 

[HappyTauren]

Yeah, I got one, here.

 

[madcat2]

Heres my crappy wip.

1.) Yes i know its blurry and there isn't anything i can do about it.
2.) I have no clue what idea i had when creating it.

 

[A.R.]

just as i expected, TDR swooped down from behind a black cloud and pwnt us all

it looks absolutely sexy, i'm really impressed with the crown part. The gold does look a bit yellow in places, though.

i have to say that the portrait for this model is a BITCH. the wrap is slightly different from the normal face, particularly the lips. also, you can't alpha the teeth without a model edit and if you change the transparency in WE it makes holes in the model X.X

 

[Darkholme]

Are you blind? AR would wtfpwn us if TDR didnt jump in. Now it is him who is gonna win...
Man that's such a cool use of a model...

Well HappyTauren, I'm still going to give it my damn best shot. And I won't stop until I'm satisfied that my skin at least rivals theirs. (That is to say, I will be working on it alot)

 

[Denu]

Wow great job tdr. Looks like a super hero or sumthin. ANGEL MAN!!!

 

[Darkholme]

TDR, Lots of credit on tricking th Weird Eredar Face Wrap

 

[markone]

TDR dude brilliant skin, but u are killing point of competition by total ownage....

 

[ike_ike]

WIP#9

TDR, your Eredar is my new god

The wings on the Warden are HORRIBLE to work with to anyone else who wants to use it. Nearly done now, just the hair and a few more shadows

 

[Ezikielth]

Hrm can I see an unwrap please.

 

[ike_ike]

Sure. It's a bit messy though.

 

[A.R.]

hmm... try making the armour like you made the helmet - that is, put a thin line in a slightly darker colour around the outside of the gold bits. it needs a wee bit more contrast overall.

 

[Ezikielth]

Ok here is the breakdown. From first glance of your skin I could tell it needed contrast and flow. What I did is as follows
-Went over the gold in a darker, more rich yellow
-Blurred the wings with smudge
-Darkened borders

Now it wont looks like so much of a blob, but your free-hand needs some work. Just do what I did, I will post the edited skin, BUT DO NOT USE IT. I could care less if you get disqualified, but you need to learn how to do it for yourself and identify when something is needed.

I just edited the JPG so the alpha is missing FYI

Oh and one last thing, try alpha-ing the wings to make them look more natural, at the ends.

 

[ike_ike]

That's the problem: the wings can't be alphaed no matter what you do to them

But that was very helpful.

+rep to you!

Now I just need to do something with the hair. Suggestions welcome


EDIT: Anemic Royalty, I'll give you more rep later. Now the armour looks much better

 

[Ezikielth]

Ponytail with gold bits sorta like the girl in 10000bc.

 

[TDR]

thanks everyone for the feedback!

i have to say that the portrait for this model is a BITCH. the wrap is slightly different from the normal face, particularly the lips. also, you can't alpha the teeth without a model edit and if you change the transparency in WE it makes holes in the model X.X

indeed it is a bitch . Though it's not the teeth that are a pain in the ass, it's those shitty tentacles that come out of it's mouth. If you alpha them out completely you get holes, so there's a stump left there that I still didn't figure out what to do with. Also those little horns on his eyebrows. same thing, alpha them out => holes.

And I agree, there's a bit too much yellow at this stage.

 

[ike_ike]

WIP#10!

This is probably the last WIP. Any last minute suggestions welcome.

 

[HappyTauren]

ike, can we have a front view? It looks blurry and messy all the way though, not sure how it looks in wc3.

 

[ike_ike]

Here we go. At 1.5 scale

 

[XS-Archangel]

Holy Golden Dragon-Bull

 

[HappyTauren]

Seems I was wrong, looks pretty good ingame. +gems
Archangel, what are you going to do with wings?

 

[XS-Archangel]

I think they are good. Dragon with feather's wings craaaaaaaaaazy

 

[Madome]

Argh, i cant compete against these gods (X_x)

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

I'll join! Not much more I can say...

 

[Madome]

Here's my WIP:
I can really use some tips.. I think the leg looks great but im not so sure about the face

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

I've chosen to do the pitlord mind you, so hands off!

 

[TDR]

Madome, here's a huge tip: STOP USING PATTERNS!!!
The leg is not ok, there's only random muscles; look at some reference pictures if you don't know for sure how something looks.

 

[Madome]

Madome, here's a huge tip: STOP USING PATTERNS!!!
The leg is not ok, there's only random muscles; look at some reference pictures if you don't know for sure how something looks.

?? Where do you see a pattern?

Its not random muscles, i did them like blizzard did them.

 

[markone]

yea body looks like patern.

btw. since TDR and A.R made some kickass skins i was practicing some new skin skills, and i will reconsider my model, dreadlord to skin is so wired, all things are twisted inside, and its damn hard to make what u want. i think that i will do grom hellscreem to some human. but still conisdering

 

[Madome]

If you really all hate the body so much i'll redo it -_-

 

[Darkholme]

If you really all hate the body so much i'll redo it -_-

You really should redo the body. Freehand or not, they way you did it doesn't match up with the shape of it, which is why it "looks" like a pattern.

 

[markone]

hey guys, here is wip and im open for suggestions, i still dont have whole idea (i mean how to make sure that he is holy). arms and body are almost done, and face require some additional tweeks. question is can that tooth be removed on some way? (i tried alpha, it doesnt effect). i was thinking abt white-gray hair, and some heavy armored clothes...

 

[Ezikielth]

umm the face looks like a clown, there should not be such a quick and sharp transition from the lower lip to the jaw and go look at yourself in the mirror, assuming that you arnt a burn victim your face doesnt have random ass wrinkles and such. The eyebrow should have a skin background, again look at yourself in the mirror, unless you have bushy as fuck *white* eyebrows whit diff colored hair I suggest you redo that in a DARK gray with a bunch of individual stands on a separate layer.

 

[markone]

abt mouth they look like klown just unwarped, when it is on model its not. abt eyebrow, i said that i want to make hair white-gray, in order to make this guy looks older. abt eb bg yea that's kinda true

 

[Ezikielth]

Post a wrap... please

 

[Madome]

Yeah, he looks like a sad clown
Make him look angry, just because he's holy doesnt mean he cant KILL!!! >

 

[Ezikielth]

Also the eye sockets are misplaced eyes arnt little slits... even if you are azn