Texturing Contest #25 Theme Discussion

Heinvers · May 16, 2016

Once again we've gone through another contest. It would be good to have a discussion for the next one going on.
You know what to do. Let suggestions rain from the forums!

Previous themes:

Suggested themes:

Steampunk - is a subgenre of science fiction and sometimes fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

Alien/Sci-Fi - could be anything from the deepest oozes of space to the lightest canopy creatures just as long as it looks otherworldly.

Elemental - creatures of nature/space/universe that have the sole purpose of keeping the original chaotic nature of things.

Dark Elves/Drow - related to the night and much more elven like spider theme robes(you name it we make it).

Ethereal - beings that are torn between this plane of existence and the next one.

Underwater monstrosity - anything from the ordinary naga all the way up to Cthulhu.

Alternate Life - what if Warcraft Characters had different storylines? Example: What if Arthas has never took the Frostmourne? How would other characters develop?
Though the idea above requires one to have very deep understanding of the lore.

Tribal - participants are required to create a tribal themed units. Whether it is the tribes associated with WoW lore, or real life, it is up to discussion.

Fusion - what happens if a satyr is fused with a gnoll? Create an acceptable concept texture that resembles a fusion between two creatures in the WoW universe.

Game of throne - because the show is takes and interesting approach towards ancient history and we can do what ever we want with it. On top of that, it brings a more realistic texturing approach.

Dragon warrior - one could turn a unit into a lizard type creature or take a unit and give him a sweet looking plate armor with dragon designs all over it.

Double and Down - contestants are to pick any of standard playing or tarot cards, and convert the idea upon a character skin of choice. Such skin can, for examples, be a cruel yet stunningly beautiful Queen of Hearts, a wretched old Ace of Spades, an undead monstrosity representing the Hanged Man, or a building texture of a temple to represent the Wheel of Fortune.

Pirates - a pirate is a person who commits warlike acts at sea without the authorization of any nation. Yarrr m8!

Insect/Insectoid - any relate-able creature/being that's insect-like in its nature. Think about the silithid and quiraji for example.

Retro game re-imagined - Retro games are generally those produced from the 1970s to 1990s. For example, this, this and this. You try to retexture it using a warcraft3 unit (maybe doom guard or Ogre) etc.

Dual nature - It could work by making two skins for a model or 1 for two different models depending on what that being/person can switch between.

For example, think of Jeckyl and Hyde.
An orc and a fel orc.
A worgen and a human.

Post to be updated further.

Blood Raven · May 16, 2016

Ethereal - Beings that are torn between this plane of existence and the next one.

Underwater monstrosity - Anything from the ordinary naga all the way up to Cthulhu.

I'm dry on ideas today :S

AditTechno · May 16, 2016

I like Ethereal :cgrin:

Paladin - Heroes that are combined with justice and arrogance. They usually bring a hammer.

Apheraz Lucent · May 16, 2016

Smithmagic's Soul - Contestants are required to take an already existing artwork of any weapon, and transform the idea of it on a unit model of choice.

UgoUgo · May 16, 2016

hmm i just kinda thought of this...

Alternate Life - What if Warcraft Characters had different storylines? Example: What if Arthas has never took the Frostmourne? How would other characters develop?

Though the idea above requires one to have very deep understanding of the lore...

Tribal - Participants are required to create a tribal themed units. Whether it is the tribes associated with WoW lore, or real life, it is up to discussion.

Fusion - What happens if a satyr is fused with a gnoll? Create an acceptable concept texture that resembles a fusion between two creatures in the WoW universe.

Just_Spectating · May 17, 2016

we did Diablo, How about Starcraft?
Some units already have their cameo in Starcraft II (namely the tauren and murlock marines) and vice versa (Hydralisk, Marine, zergling) let's create some more buddies for them

The_Silent · May 17, 2016

Can't help myself.

Moy · May 17, 2016

League of Legends - contestants are required to skin a ladder model base from any unit from the franchise - be it a skin, champions, minions, etc.

Void - create a creature from the dimension.

will add more sooner or later

Deleted member 238226 · May 17, 2016

The_Silent said:
Can't help myself.

Sclammerz · May 17, 2016

Hmm. I like the Drow/Dark Elves.
But how about Dota 2?

Bernkastel · May 17, 2016

Insectoids, cyborgs, blaablaaablaaa..

Or maybe the greatest theme, the most inspirational source that ever existed, the joy of your lives? Me.

Mr.Goblin · May 17, 2016

mythologie! = I want to see some norse viking textures or egyptian textures. or maybe aztec looking units etc. DO AT!

Doodad texture = way to much love has been given to the units and buildings. How about a change?

Tileset texture = same idea as above... the rest of warcraft needs some sweet luvin too!

Dragon warrior = because why not. one could turn a unit into a lizard type creature... or take a unit and give him a sweet looking plate armour with Dragon designs all over it.

Game of throne = because the show is dope... and we can do what ever we want with it

+ a more realistic texturing approach.

Bumhunter · May 18, 2016

1. Heavenly/pure being

2. Insectoid

3. Extraterrestrial being

RED BARON · May 18, 2016

Pixel Art

Mr.Goblin · May 19, 2016

RED BARON said:
Pixel Art

DUDE! HAHA :goblin_yeah:

Blood Raven · May 19, 2016

Well. pixel art would've produced some pretty interesting results... if WC3's texture wrapping didn't suck so much balls!

Apheraz Lucent · May 19, 2016

There's a place for pixel art thingies - we did a mini texturing contest creating UI standard icon borders for an example. Could be interesting to see something similar in the future, such as new hero HP/MP bars.

We can merge LoL and DotA in one I think, they're the same genre after all and it narrows down to getting a free slot for the 10 options theme poll.

Another theme suggestion:
Double and Down - Contestants are to pick any of standard playing or tarot cards, and convert the idea upon a character skin of choice. Such skin can, for examples, be a cruel yet stunningly beautiful Queen of Hearts, a wretched old Ace of Spades, an undead monstrosity representing the Hanged Man, or a bulding texture of a temple to represent the Wheel of Fortune.

This also made me think of actually stealing the Seven Sins idea from icon contest I suggested a while ago and maybe trying it with skins?

Blood Raven · May 19, 2016

Apheraz Lucent said:
There's a place for pixel art thingies - we did a mini texturing contest creating UI standard icon borders for an example. Could be interesting to see something similar in the future, such as new hero HP/MP bars.

We can merge LoL and DotA in one I think, they're the same genre after all and it narrows down to getting a free slot for the 10 options theme poll.

Another theme suggestion:
Double and Down - Contestants are to pick any of standard playing or tarot cards, and convert the idea upon a character skin of choice. Such skin can, for examples, be a cruel yet stunningly beautiful Queen of Hearts, a wretched old Ace of Spades, an undead monstrosity representing the Hanged Man, or a bulding texture of a temple to represent the Wheel of Fortune.

This also made me think of actually stealing the Seven Sins idea from icon contest I suggested a while ago and maybe trying it with skins?

Seven deadly sins would be awesome, add that to the list and see how it does in this poll.
Doodad Sets - Contestants are to modify one of the ingame textures that are used on a large variety of doodads (like Doodads0.blp), while keeping a certain theme.

Sadly pixel art won't work too well on health bars since they get stretched about 90% of the time...

Just_Spectating · May 20, 2016

Dota skins?
have we come full circle?

Mr.Goblin · May 20, 2016

Warcraft themed movie? or how about Warcraft1 - warcraft2 theme

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Chen · May 21, 2016

M'kay then.

Overwatch-Anything related to the Overwatch universe. Might be an Overwatch agents, some Omnics, Talon soldiers, even the 21 heroes themselves!

Lore Characters-Someone from the Warcraft Lore. Varian, Sylvol'jin, etc.

Lol I'm not that original, but might as well could be added to the list.

Moy · May 22, 2016

@Aph: You can't combine LoL and DOTA 2 into one. Well they are the same genre but they are completely different especially in art.

Apheraz Lucent · May 22, 2016

Actually, we can also shove chars from the "Smite" game in there too and title the genre as "Famous Hero Defense/AoS Characters"

Blood Raven · May 22, 2016

Or rather "ASSFAGGOTS" (Aeon of Strife Styled Fortress Assault Game Going On Two Sides) Heroes, that'd be a really attractive name for a contest xD

Apheraz Lucent · May 23, 2016

Lol.

I disagree for one theme tho, which is Game of Thrones. I personally didn't and don't plan on watching it, and I bet there are others too. A theme should be thought up in such a way that they don't exclude people.

Bernkastel · May 23, 2016

And how do other themes not do that? Not everyone plays a moba. Same goes for other themes. Like the last one for example.

Deleted member 238226 · May 23, 2016

Bernkastel said:
And how do other themes not do that? Not everyone plays a moba. Same goes for other themes. Like the last one for example.

he has the point. which left me a bit trouble to find an interesting character for me to reskin in the previous contest lol.

and then someone said "it's not really him, why did you made a skin of him if you didn't know who is he?" it's what i get for putting up an old man on a horse in the game universe where he never ride a horse before. sigh..

Blood Raven · May 23, 2016

Ardenian said:
What about a Paired Contest ?
We had some in the past, I recall. Basically a modeller and a texturerer get together and create one entry.

That's usually a modelling contest, not a texturing one. I do like the idea though, I wonder why one hasn't been hosted in such a long time.

Moy · May 23, 2016

I like that ASSFAGGOT title XD

With the paired contest, well, it will be really hard to get some entries/people interested in and it will take too much time.

Sexual Orientation Inversion - make a unit's sexual orientation inverted. Like the Illidan model (which is male) turned into a female of the same model.

Heinvers · May 23, 2016

I appreciate having a paired texturing-modelling contest but that's for another time and thread.
Thank you for the post.

DotA theme shall not be done. LoL, well, that could be integrated in the AoS/MOBA genre.
However, it is rather way too wide in interpretation.

DotA, on the other hand.....let's just quote Just_Spectating /have we come full circle?/
That and there's much hate from some people towards this particular game/successor(kind of) of wc3.

Apheraz Lucent · May 24, 2016

I think gender swap was done already, pretty sure of it actually as I remember chrome making Acolyte into a badass blood elven chick. On a side note, correct name for that theme is "Crossdressing".

Bernkastel · May 24, 2016

Apheraz Lucent said:
I think gender swap was done already, pretty sure of it actually as I remember chrome making Acolyte into a badass blood elven chick. On a side note, correct name for that theme is "Crossdressing".

No, it is not. Crossdressing is dressing up as the opposite gender. Genderbend is an opposite gender version of a character.

Mr.Goblin · May 25, 2016

how about = Retro game reimagined?

Exemple = https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yZaO_1bc3Dk/hqdefault.jpg, you try to retexture it using a warcraft3 unit (maybe doom guard or Ogre) etc.

The_Silent · May 26, 2016

Bernkastel said:
No, it is not. Crossdressing is dressing up as the opposite gender. Genderbend is an opposite gender version of a character.

Rule 63 theme, heh.

Mr.Goblin said:
how about = Retro game reimagined?

Exemple = https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yZaO_1bc3Dk/hqdefault.jpg, you try to retexture it using a warcraft3 unit (maybe doom guard or Ogre) etc.

I second this theme.

Heinvers · May 27, 2016

I quite like that idea. That one brings back quite the memories.
Added!

I am not that sure about cross-dressing though. It might spring some ideas that are too twisted for practical uses.

Just_Spectating said:
we did Diablo, How about Starcraft?
Some units already have their cameo in Starcraft II (namely the tauren and murlock marines) and vice versa (Hydralisk, Marine, zergling) let's create some more buddies for them

You hint at the franchise as a whole or a specific race based theme?
I feel that the SC theme is a bit wider than the Diablo theme we previously gone through.

Just_Spectating · May 27, 2016

Heinvers said:
I quite like that idea. That one brings back quite the memories.
Added!

I am not that sure about cross-dressing though. It might spring some ideas that are too twisted for practical uses.

You hint at the franchise as a whole or a specific race based theme?
I feel that the SC theme is a bit wider than the Diablo theme we previously gone through.

doesn't have to be a bad thing
the diablo theme excluded some people from entering due to unfamiliarity with the game,
but considering the Hive also supports SC modding, anyone here should be familiar with starcraft.
we've had broad themes before, and I think it will provide a very wide range of creativity for everyone

Heinvers · May 28, 2016

I was thinking that for such a theme we could allow custom models to be textured as well.
It might spark more imagination that way and limit it less for some people seeing as the vanilla models have little(with few exceptions of course) to no corresponding units to the SC/SC2 ones.

What do you think guys?

Also, Apheraz's borrowed idea of Seven Deadly Sins could work for texturing. We have quite a lot of vanilla units that could be turned into such an idea.
For example, Abomination and Ogre for Gluttony and Tinker or Alchemist for Greed.

Mr.Goblin · May 28, 2016

How about = Feral creatures/beast?

People could turn things into werewolf, bearwolf, create wierd interresting beast as well. There's plenty of ''animal'' models in warcraft too! Could be fun

Apheraz Lucent · May 28, 2016

You mean something that classical wc3 units could morph into? Or I got that wrong?

Mr.Goblin · May 28, 2016

Apheraz Lucent said:
You mean something that classical wc3 units could morph into? Or I got that wrong?

nah! just thinking furry stuff... cause why not

Turn a grunt into a beast humanoid, or turn demon into a chimeria of someshort etc.

Heinvers · Jun 12, 2016

Mr.Goblin said:
How about = Feral creatures/beast?

People could turn things into werewolf, bearwolf, create wierd interresting beast as well. There's plenty of ''animal'' models in warcraft too! Could be fun

That one's interesting. I reckon that we could expand that with something like morphed units/dual nature.

For example, think of Jeckyl and Hyde.
An orc and a fel orc.
A worgen and a human.

It could work by making two skins for a model or 1 for two different models depending on what that being/person can switch between.

Mr.Goblin · Jun 12, 2016

Heinvers said:
That one's interesting. I reckon that we could expand that with something like morphed units/dual nature.

For example, think of Jeckyl and Hyde.

An orc and a fel orc.

A worgen and a human.

It could work by making two skins for a model or 1 for two different models depending on what that being/person can switch between.

Sounds like fun!

The_Silent · Jun 12, 2016

Just resubscribing.

Alternate form will be pretty hard and time consuming.

Kyrbi0 · Jul 3, 2016

Gender-bend is a great idea.

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