Making of - race images

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:22 pm

First of all: no, the art team is not sleeping, I'm just doing too many things at once Wink

While I was painting the image for one of our remaining few races, the Trianii, I had the idea of posting a making of, so that those that might be interested can have a look at the whole process.

It all started with the pencil sketch I made. Since I didn't want to simply copy WOTC's nice Trianii concept from the UAA, I found myself looking around for some good panther images, but couldn't find one, that struck close to what I was looking for.
Going through other sources I went through some of the old WEG books and found their Trianii concept, which looked more like a tiger and well, apparently tigers are a lot more popular in the search engines Rolling Eyes

So having some reference pictures printed out and lying right next to an empty sheet of paper, I came up with the following, then scanned it and removed the background.

What I already liked in that version, is the predatory stare this guy has. You feel like a raw steak, just locking eyes with him Laughing

The next step was adding some colors, to get the general layout of what the armor and the fur will look like.

Getting closer, but overall just too plain, so I added some highlights and shadows to it, to give it a bit more depth.

Now that's more like it Smile

It already is somewhat three-dimensional and the armor looks more like reflective metal as well, now.

However, that's where my magic ends. After knowing his capabilities for years and seeing what he could do with the Duros sketch (a co-production between me and CC), I asked my friend Lord LaForge, who's working with me and some other friends on the Rebellion Reloaded TC, to lend me a hand. Well, I don't think anyone will be surprised when I say, that he studied graphic design Cool

After some plastic surgery, that made the head much more like that of a real tiger, even more and this time more anatomically correct depth, new fur coloring and a whole new matte look for the armor, you can now see the final stage, which is what every new player here will see, if they choose to play a Trianii character Very Happy

Thanks again for your great work, Lord LaForge !

Dark Lord of Selur Joined: Sep 01, 2005 Posts: 647

Very nice work! Good job Maskan and LaForge, very nice job! Make me want to be a Trianii next time! Exclamation

Joined: Jan 11, 2002 Posts: 3061 Location: USA

Yummy, just yummy

I have another project that I could use graphics for. I'll show you Uliq sometime