Well this was quite a fun challenge! I’ve never made full character, or even a whole human before, so this definitely helped me push my limits and I have a much better idea and way more respect for character artists after seeing how much work goes into creating just one of them! I feel like this guy is as done as I can make him, at least for the challenge.
The inspiration came mainly from the sorcerer Hex from the original Ben 10 series, but while texturing, I came up with the idea that this particular warlock lives at the foot of a volcano, and sources his magic from the fiery gods that live within it. In order to cast spells, he is required to perform blood magic, whether it is his own or his enemy’s, it makes no difference to his magma-dwelling overlords. His prolonged exposure to this form of magic has turned his eyes black, and the constant heat and ash have slowly begun to turn his skin black as well. The skull is painted on using the ash from the volcano, and marks him as a follower of the gods of flame and destruction.
Thanks to Flipped Normals for creating this challenge, and a special thanks to @Bharat for helping me all along the way while I learned how to texture in substance.
quick edit from a dumb dumb: forgot the maps and needed to mention that the final tri count is 54k for all objects together, and the maps are all 2K resolution
This is my Final Submission for FlippedNormals Warlock challenge
I decided to do a mecha scifi warlock and I name this warlock “Albus” which represents “white” or “bright”
Here I share the final render and progress for my warlock character
I did the baking on Substance Painter. I just made sure that i captured the silhouette properly by snapping the low-poly model according to the peaks and protrusions on the high-poly model. That’s all. Not much work really
This is my final submission for the FlippedNormals Warlock Challenge
this is Wren, Wren is a warlock that has found a why to tap into the domain of the Void where a vast space of limitless magic resides, although there are repercussion of being in contact with this dark force.
Here is my final submission for the challenge, had some fun creating this character and
learned some things in the process.
Hope you like
Good luck to everyone!
Hi guys,
This is my final submission. I had a lot of fun creating the character. For me it was a special challenge because I have never created a complete human character before (sculpting, texturing, compositing was new to me). I learned a lot from the challenge. Thank you very much for this wonderful challenge.
The story about my character, which my friend and I wrote, can be found at the end of the post. Take a little bit of time and dive into the world of my character Nazuri
The Story: (a big Thanks to my best Friend to help me whith this story, she is amazing)
This is Nazuri, of the tribe.dark warlock She struggles a lot with herself because she realized that she doesn’t like the dark craft of the tribe and when she loses a friend to the brutality of the tribe her decision is final: The tribe Vakaipa is no longer her home!
But how could she do that?
Escape is not an option.
But alone against the entire tribe? Impossible!
Nazuri has already seen a witch who turned to good, despised by her tribe and, as custom demands, cruelly sacrificed in a duel against the strongest witch of the tribe during the next full moon during the cleansing ritual.
At 18 years of age, Nazuri may be more experienced than before, but will she be able to defy black magic as taught in the tribe with her own magic?
At this thought she becomes aware of how hopeless it all seems.
Nevertheless she is determined to defend herself.
Khian shouldn’t have died in vain, and besides, if she doesn’t put an end to all this, who will?
Questions after questions buzzed through her mind while she sat at the old bog.
Her head ached with self-doubt.
But one thing Nazuri made clear: “I will not become like them! I don’t have to be like the tribe demands! I can change everything!”
She stood up abruptly, took a few steps towards the dark waters, dipped her hands into the grey, cool mud and looked at her reflection.
This black shoulder-length hair. Typical Vakaipa.
Suddenly she could no longer suppress her anger. Why did she have to remember everything about this tribe, about Khian and this compulsion through this given life? Why couldn’t she just be free?
Tears tore the perfect surface of the water below her and drew long waves across her reflection.
Re-awakened by frustration, Nazuri’s rage and desperate thirst for action broke over her.
She pulled her hands out of the mud and ran her fingers through her hair.
Nazuri wanted to get rid of it, everything that reminded her of this tribe!
One hand after the other she reached into the mud again and pushed it into her hair.
When her frustration finally subsided, the black of her hair was no longer visible under the white dried mud.
Almost in awe she looked at the white hair while she cleaned her hands on her cape.
“I can change everything,” Nazuri repeated resolutely, turning away from the old bog and going to pay her former tribe their last visit.
Now she was sure.
This is my final submission for the warlock challenge, i had lots of fun making this and the other entry are just breathtaking, thank you Henning and Morten for hosting this competition, i hope you enjoy my submission, the final render has a tri count of just over 71k, for a more indepth look at my work take a look at my thread: Warlock of DOOM ill be posting a link to a sketchfab model shortly to that thread, enjoy!
Here is my final entry for this challenge. I really had a lot of fun creating a character from scratch and thank you to FlippedNormals for giving this opportunity!
Backstory/Lore
Barael is a warlock that serves his patron, a vulture-like entity. While not very strong when in direct combat, he excels at curses and planning which makes him a high-rank tactician amongst other followers. He lives a hermit lifestyle, alone and far from civilization. However, he does keep an eye on everything that goes on in the world with his flock of undead vultures, waiting for orders from his patron.
The final model uses 2 x 4k texture sets and has a total of 52,273 Triangles.
This challenge was a great experience and I learned soo much.
Especially the sculpting part in Zbrush really expanded my knowledge.
Thank you FlippedNormals team for hosting this challenge!
Good luck to all the other participants. Alot of you guys kept me motivated to push myself to create this character as best as I can.
Cheers!
This is the final character for the challenge.
I have created the 3D model based on the concept art of an acquaintance.
Concept artist: Nayra Kei
Lore: Her name is Brinbergine (Bi Be). She’s a little and lonely warlock. Time ago, she sacrificed her left eye to create a magic weapon to increase her power. She learned to build things up just by herself, and started a path where she’s still trying to understand that there’s much more than meets the eye.
This little lady is Vispa, a fairy who instead of been a lady butterfly, a moth waifu or a nightmare for Hellboy, she took the easy dark and forbidden spider magic from a magical staff and a old grimoire from a forgotten (and surely forbidden) ruins. So…yeap, she took the old warlock, or witch, path, but she looks happy, corrupted but happy (I know that because I modelled her a smile behind that veil.
For more details about the inspiration and the creation process, you can see her thread
I’m glad to finally finish this challenge! It’s been so cool to push myself and try to make a whole character.
This one is The Unspoken - a mysterious warlock who survived an assassination attempt and now seeks revenge. I tried to add a background story to the design through small (or maybe not that small) details all over - which is was, for me, the very first time I did something like that. I hope I achieved something close to that.
Below are some shots taken from Marmoset Toolbag - along with the texture maps.
Here is my final submission to the Flipped Normals Real Time Character Warlock Challenge. Cursed by a witch during a mission, Glaymore turned into a feral beast. The only way to return to his former self was to master what he had rapidly learned to hate. Being a wielder of magic became both his doom and his fate. The final model hits a whopping 64085 polys and consists of two 4K maps.
A huge thanks to everyone involved for making this whole thing happen. It is a huge opportunity for all 3D artists to learn and improve. I loved working on this big dude and can’t wait for the next challenge!
First of all, word of gratitude to Flipped Normals guys for doing this challenge. I’ve decided to switch carriers exactly 1 year ago, knowing absolutely nothing about 3D or art as a field. This challenge was my first full character attempt, and 80% of the whole pipeline was done for the first time as well) And that’s exactly what my gratitude is about: thank you for this taste of “field action”, it was hard but very rewarding. I’ve messed up quite a bit of stuff along the way, like hair cards(which are missing coz of that) but gained tons of invaluable experience. So here’s my submission for The Warlock Challenge.
Albran Tiefling Warlock
Based on a concept of SketchGoblin
My twist on a story:
Albran was an ordinary fella, except of his dark blue skin and devilish horns, which were pointing to his origin from the clan of tieflings, that were living far in the mountains. He was found half-dead in the woods near the village by the local blacksmith, adopted and raised like his own son, who also showed him how to handle a sword, as well as how to forge his own one.
Albran was having a hard time getting along with local boys, which resulted in numerous mass beatings. As he got stronger, he started to fight back to others, relentlessly swinging his long wooden sword and swearing with all kinds of words on his native dialect. Nobody could understand those words and they sound like spells or incantations to other boys. So they started call Albran “the Warlock”.
Slowly getting respect and his place in the community, now Albran is a skilled swordsman, and no one dares to insult him anymore.
Hi there ! Final submission tiiiime ! Let me introduce to you : Iwa !
Iwa is a young and shy Warlock apprentice with some astonishing potential. She loves nature and espacially : ROCKS ! She’s able to bend it to her will with such facility that it’s scaring the hell out of the people around… Sometimes, she looses control on her powers and can become a real threat to them. Therefore, she doesn’t have many friends and suffers a lot from it. But she’s brave and tough ! To lessen that isolation and loneliness feeling she made out of stones her two best friends Brock & Mica !
Thanks to Flipped Normals it has been a pleasure for me to participate in this contest. It has been a challenge that has made me improve as a character artist in many ways. I’ve had moments of frustration and trouble but you never give up. I’m very happy with the result, I hope you like it.
98k tris with two 4k UV maps.
Software used: Zbrush, Maya, Substanc Painter, Marmoset.
) experience, and also good luck to everyone.
