Death Prophet Dota 2 Workshop

Been working on a number of sculpts, starting out with my first Dota 2 workshop hero.

First the concept, I am referencing a lot on the Phantom Queen or the Morrigan, a Celtic God of War. I am working around these few quotes(if you can open the image above in a new tab you can see all my references in text) -

"Her role often involves premonitions of a particular warrior's violent death, suggesting a link with the Banshee of later folklore"

"Her role was to not only be a symbol of imminent death, but to also influence the outcome of war. Most often she did this by appearing as a crow flying overhead and would either inspire fear or courage in the hearts of the warriors. There are also a few rare accounts where she would join in the battle itself as a warrior and show her favouritism in a more direct manner."

I really like the second quote because I plan on replacing Death Prophet's ultimate to raven looking creatures.

The main theme I am focusing here would be Raven and the Victorian fashion.

The mask in the concept art is actually following another deity of death by the name of Mictecacihuatl. I later replaced the mask with a masquerade that is probably going to have some raven features instead to fit the overall style. 

This is me quickly sculpting out the shapes and applying quick textures to have a better  feel of the overall look. With the shapes I used zRemesher to get lower poly models and exported them out to Maya for fixing, UV unwrapping and refining.

Here is my current progress, keeping the tri-count according to Valve's LOD 0 requirements and UV unwrapped.

My next step is to bring these to zBrush for high poly sculpting and texturing. Then it will be another round of decimating the tri-count to LOD 1.

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Before this project, I was sculpting a female pirate as practice and a portfolio piece. This project will probably be long term as this is more of a learning process and experimentation.

The concept, rather rough but it gets the idea across.

Sculpting of the face, been having troubles with female faces and in general the eye areas, happy to say I have gotten something out of this.

So far I am quite satisfied with the outcome of the face, so I moved on to blocking out the hair and body. Maybe after body I'll have a new outlook on further improving the face again. :)

All in all, will be heading back to Malaysia for Christmas, probably the Death Prophet set will be done in 1 or 2 weeks. Might have enough time for another set for the upcoming Chinese New Year event by Valve : http://blog.dota2.com/2013/12/become-a-part-of-the-next-dota-2-event/

One more thing, I am open to suggestions and feedbacks, especially on the Death Prophet set. Also thinking of a name to give it, would love some suggestions.

A Barely Bearable Tale : The Delusional Warrior Trailer

A Barely Bearable Tale : The Delusional Warrior Trailer

My main tasks were the Art Direction, Character Designs, Character Modeling(Soft), Texturing of Everything, Lighting and Compositing.

3D Images

2D Images

Maquette

Personal Show Reel 2013

Update on Male Skinning and Dwarf Sculpting

Working on 2 projects now, one for the internship and the other personal.

This is the male skinning I'm working for Easley-Dunn.

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And this is for my personal project, the dwarf concept art I did before.

Quick Paint over of the beard on the lowpoly mesh to see how his face is looking.

Did some moving and refining on overall form and shapes in zBrush, have yet to

paint over a beard to see overall look.

Actually didn't have to work on the muscles this much cause it was all going to be covered in armor and stuff, but heck for the sake of learning and practicing. =P

Show Reel 2013

Showreel for the early 2013, will be updating it again after project is complete. =)

Texturing, Modeling, Concept Art Showreel 2013

I do not take any credits for the music, the music is by Ronald Jenkees - Disorganized Fun, as credited at the end of the showreel.

Some models are provided and are credited at the end of the showreel.

Internship - Female Skinning

This weekends' assignment was to skin a realistic female model. So far it's going quite well, after going through a marathon of SSS tutorial videos. Thanks to Scott Easley for providing the resources.

Here's what I've done so far.

Just sent out the email to Scott, will be waiting on his C&Cs. If anyone has any feedbacks to give, it'll be appreciated!

Also tried SSS on Yelena the Steam Knight, there's a noticeable improvement and I'll still continue to improve the shader to get the right look and feel.

Internship : Demon Part 3/3

The last one of the series. :D

As usual, only textures by me.

Thorreck Tavern Master

Had a session of D&D with friends during CNY in Malaysia. Created this NPC in 15 seconds after improvising and stuff. He's a adventurer-veteran turned Innkeeper after finding enough riches during his younger days.

Planning to Zbrush this guy soon.

Internship : Demon Part 2/3

Here I am again, with the second demon.

As again, I only did the textures. (Color, Normal, Specular)

Internship : Demon Part 1/3

This is the first demon I'm working on for Easley-Dunn Productions, one down two to go!

I only did the textures.

Photography - Good Old Times & an Internship

It's been so long since I did photography. The days of taking my time preparing the shot in my head and then taking the shot has proved useful esp now when planning out compositions and illustrations. I think that 6 months of intensive studying and exploring in cameras and photography has been the most fun and challenging time in my life, having reap the benefits now even though I don't still linger in photography. Can't believe that within 6 months I also managed to get a job offer to be a photographer for cars. I am just imagining the amount of things one can achieve when the right focus and motivation is put into it, it's amazing!

On a side note, I've just got an offer to be an intern for a small company called Easley-Dunn Productions in LA, CA who works on mobile games. I accepted and am quite excited to get started. I'll be working on character concept, modelling and texturing. How I got this job is with the power of internet, I posted some of my work on Polycount forums and Scott Easley spotted me. How awesome is that.

Anyway, some of the photos I took back in 2008 with my Pentax K200D.

More at : http://kengraphy.deviantart.com/

Can't wait to go back for Chinese New Year !