The Thunder King stuff

FirstKeeper · Dec 2013

Hai!
Here is a few things I did for WOW "The Thunder King" patch 5.2

Couple examples on simple fx and animations for weapons:

Texelion · Dec 2013

I hate you ^^.

anglorum · Dec 2013

I will be this good one day! I know it!

Way to inspire with style FirstKeeper!

tsabszy · Dec 2013

love all theese!
especially the lizzard/troll kinda thingy!
great job, thanks for posting them!

Eliteabix · Dec 2013

Thank you so much for posting this stuff! We don't see enough blizzard art dumps.

Great work!

Can I ask how long do you spend on these? Are you responsible for just the textures ore do you model too?

stevston89 · Dec 2013

Really wonderful work. I especially like the way the skin looks on the troll. Any chance of seeing the textures?

FirstKeeper · Dec 2013

Eliteabix - can't remember time I spent, it was long time ago. I do concept art, 3d modelling, hand-paint texturing and simple rig/fx/animations, it's always fun!

stevston89 - no flats this time. If you have installed WOW client you can export current ingame items (3d and textures) with "WoW Model Viewer". I used to study this way how 3d stuff in WOW is done.

moose · Dec 2013

Beautiful stuff! Thanks for posting

I always grab the flats and fbxes from that model viewer, good study material!

yay!

paulsvoboda · Dec 2013

Wow, incredible work. The textures on all this stuff, but the last two characters in particular, are beautiful. Everything has a really gorgeous, soft look to it. Thanks for sharing.

Stinkfoot · Dec 2013

Texelion wrote: »

I hate you ^^.

This, also will you marry me?

Amazing stuff, straight to the inspiration folder it goes.
Longtime player, great to see this stuff, it just keeps on improving.

riceart · Dec 2013

those troll guys should be playable characters, they look so awesome. Color scheme for weapons in thunder king looks to boring i think. Brilliant work!

lotet · Dec 2013

great stuff, love it!

Torch · Dec 2013

Saved!

DougClayton4231 · Dec 2013

Fantastic work!

BoBo_the_seal · Dec 2013

SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD! Love it all!

- BoBo

Optinium · Dec 2013

really nice stuff, I'm personally loving the colours

mafubash · Dec 2013

awesome stuff! very inspiring!

Pixelatedkiwi · Dec 2013

Awesome, love it

JFletcher · Dec 2013

Beautiful work, thank you for sharing!

Gannon · Dec 2013

Holy crap, those trolls are awesome. How come I haven't seen them before in game? the weapons are fantastic as well, I love the animation on the second one o_o

Perzik · Dec 2013

Beautiful work ! Love it !

CougarJo · Dec 2013

Great stuff ! The trolls are amazing

BARDLER · Dec 2013

Did you do highpolys for these? If so I would love to see them if you can post them. If not, then you have some wizard texture painting skills

FirstKeeper · Dec 2013

Thanks guys! It's really nice to hear positive feedback from you.
I'm going to keep improving my skills though, there still a ton to learn from my awesome talented colleagues.

BARDLER- I did not make hi-poly for these guys, it's all hand painted on basic low-poly AO, but my pipeline is different now. These days I make rough sculpt in Z-brush for organic stuff, it's a great source for low-poly and hand-painted texture, and even sometimes for concept.

wirrexx · Dec 2013

Amazing keep the good work up!

TerryMosier · Dec 2013

Your work is fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

FirstKeeper · Jan 2014

Hi, here is more "Mists of Pandaria" stuff.
I worked on some armor sets for Mists as well. I usuallt start with quick concept just for showing rough idea of design. Next steps were 3d modeling, texturing, fx stuff etc.

Hunter.

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Paladin.

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Warlock

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Priest based on Mark Gibbons Red Knuckle concept:

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Druid.

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Doran · Jan 2014

Straight to the inspiration folder, really nice stuff. Love your painting style and use of color. I played some of that patch and noticed the art in Mists was getting better and better. The expansion as a whole was very nice.

I had a question about the characters, are they painted right in Photoshop on uv's? Or in a program like 3d coat or baked from Zbrush sculpts first?

edit - thanks for the response! just what I was wondering

FirstKeeper · Jan 2014

It's a mix between 3d coat and zbrush bake. I personally prefer for organic stuff do rough sculpt and paint in 3d coat on baked sculpt base. Sometimes it's more easy just to go straight to 3d coat painting though.

Gannon · Jan 2014

Awesome sets, the palli set's one of my top 3 favorites and the Druid one probably IS my favorite.

What kinda of triangle counts and texture sizes are these?

Luke003 · Jan 2014

As a hunter, that is one of my favorites of the newer sets. Is it possible to take a look at sculpts?

Torch · Jan 2014

They're all great but my fav is the priest/hunter sets, lovely!

FirstKeeper · Jan 2014

Gannon - triangle count may vary for complex shoulders or helmets, but usually it's around 1k (+,-). Texture size for body textures is always 512*512, for helms and shoulders 256*256 for each.

Luke003- there is no sculpts, it's all hand painted in 3d coat based on simple low-poly AO bake.

Torch- thank you.

giovannyarce · Jan 2014

Awesome work.

moose · Jan 2014

Great stuff!! Love that paladin armor, really awesome idea for shoulder pads, and sweet helmet design!

Was staring at the druid shoulders the other day on my dude, never noticed the skulls before then. awesome little touch, and different for druids!

Were you also responsible for all the different color variants of these armors too?

Snader · Jan 2014

Loving almost everything about this (even though over-the-top fantasy isn't my style) except the feet, which are a bit too blobby and angular.

AimBiZ · Jan 2014

Superb work! I'm fascinated by how the maps really makes the relatively simple models look like they have more form than they actually have. My favorite is definitely the Warlock set.