League of Legends Contest: Plauge Azir

So I have Polycount account and am throwing myself into contests and monthly challenges to help push myself in my techniques and time management skills.

I am taking part in the League of Legends challenge. I choose to work on a new skin for Azir, he is a newer character and there aren't a lot of skins for him so far. I wanted to do a steampunk direction to match with some of the other character skins or a Knights of the round table Middle ages approach.

Here were the rules for Character models

Mission: Create a fully-textured character model of your favorite League of Legends champion/skin

• Take any champion in LoL and create a high-poly sculpt (optional) and low-poly fully textured model

Things to keep in mind

• There are no hard limits on polycounts but efficiency is appreciated: use your best judgment and make every polygon count
• Bake the Ambient Occlusion (AO) map and use this as the start of your Diffuse Map
• Try to keep the texture on its own single 2048 diffuse sheet
• You can recreate the base champion, an existing skin or create your own design.

What to deliver

• Beauty shot of the high poly sculpt (high resolution) at angles that will best show the quality of your asset (Optional if you created a high poly sculpt)
• Beauty shot of the low poly model (high resolution) at angles that will best show the quality of your asset
• Texture with flat lighting on, as found in League of Legends (LoL)
• Composite shot of your character over the updated Summoner’s Rift map (3/4 view)
• The goal is to see your character in context to the environments found in LoL while being mindful of the design requirements of the MOBA genre
• A construction shot (high resolution) which should include the following:
• Wireframe of the low poly model w/ polycounts
• Texture Sheet showing a good demonstration of economical UV space
• Any reference and/or sketches that illustrate your thought process

 First rule is Google it and find images for reference.

 I study the character looking at key parts and areas that make this character unique, things areas I like and points that need to be carried over, like the original skin and the alien skin how they are alike and not.

 This is a "Naked" Azir I Sketched a base to work on and from.

 These are the skin concepts I worked on I really liked to way the Plague design was going and I was inspired to do a steampunk/Victorian style something.

 Early model Zbrush Sculpt started from my Human male alpha.

 Low model, worked on the staff

 Rough posing to see where I need to fix the topology and working on texture map. Now it took me about a good week and a half to get to this point.




The Contest final submission required a few things.
 Beauty shot of the high poly sculpt (high resolution) at angles that will best show the quality of your asset (Optional if you created a high poly sculpt)

Beauty shot of the low poly model (high resolution) at angles that will best show the quality of your asset

• Texture with flat lighting on, as found in League of Legends (LoL)

Composite shot of your character over the updated Summoner’s Rift map (3/4 view)

• The goal is to see your character in context to the environments found in LoL while being mindful of the design requirements of the MOBA genre

A construction shot (high resolution) which should include the following:

• Wireframe of the low poly model w/ polycounts
• Texture Sheet showing a good demonstration of economical UV space
• Any reference and/or sketches that illustrate your thought process

 Even if I don't get anything from this contest it was a lot of fun and my Photoshop skill were greatly improved. And I think he turned out pretty well.