Sketching out ideas for the overall look.

Been poking around with substance designer/painter. Had an idea for an enviroment, made a proxy model and ported it into UE4. The ground and arches are just random test props created to test. Thought I'd post a screenshot just to add something to the blog =P.

More to come.

Keep on keeping on

I've really been wanting to create a World of Warcraft themed scene in UE4. The warcraft series have so much lore, alot of it has been described in words but not pictures (granted I've no clue how much is in the comics, so I might be 110% wrong :D). On such thing would be Broxigars last stand against the Burning Legion, defying an entire legion of demon and even wounding the titan god Sargeras before walking into legend.

I've searched around, but only come up with a few pieces of old concepts and fan created work.

So, lets get bizz!

I've started to block out Brox. Unsure how I want his face to look. Theres concepts for his armor, but I might do a "refresh" on it.

And thats a wrap...

Finally finished. Guess things never quite pan out the way you want, but he avoided being directed to the "bin of shame"... like so many before him... gone before their time... never forget... *sniff...

ANYWAY, heres the final images of the stud in true RGB colors!

Getting hairy

Been doing some tests rendering hair in 3ds for texture use. Its really either that or just painting it out in photoshop. I'll most likely end up making a base cap with overlaying cards/strands to break up the shape.

Heres how the test look in marmoset on a curved plane. Will probably end up making it less "silver", especially witcher 3 have given him more or less white hair (from what I've seen so far).

Edit - Heres a image of the main cap (that will be underneath the hair cards/strands) textured with the same patch. Im debating the thickness and feel... but so far so good.

Second edit - Made a tex for the eyes, not final but getting there. Hair with anisotropic spec and SSS to smooth the light.

another edit /.

Made a quick bake of his body (really dirty) and tweaked the eyes abit (might make them glow instead, donno).Im using a 2k map for his body, but details are still comming up a tad blurry. Hope I can get abit more mileage out of it once the texture sheet is packed better. Atm im just working on getting the hair done.

Last edit to post - Bake of armor now done. Still havent had time to look at his hair or beard tho =/

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 But thats up next!

Testing out some skin shading in marmoset toolbag. With witcher 3 right around the corner, I'll probably just stick with making the character, posing him in marmoset.

As you can tell, I've started to block out the hair to get a feel for the volume and shape. More to come shortly!

Ak... almost!

Armors 95% done, just missing folds on his cloth (pants/boots/armor padding) and fixing a few things clipping (just noticed his shoulder). Once done I'll move on to his face, hands and hair, fun times!