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Making Boreas

Discussion in 'Developer Work and Blog posts' started by UglyFist, Jul 6, 2017.

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  1. UglyFist

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    As you guys know, each Titan has been getting unique visuals. For Release 44 I am making the final Titan - Boreas, the Titan of Truth.

    SPOILERS below.

    I just wanted to put up some screenshots of what Boreas looks like during the making-of, like I did with Arabella. I will likey be making further edits to finish polish on Boreas before it's over, but this is how he's looking so far.

    Like with Arabella, I have here a turnaround of the very first, low-poly, blocked-in model
    Here, poly-count is about 8000...
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    Then, I get all the pieces into ZBrush as fast as I can for the fun stuff...here he is with the high poly details
    Here, it's at about 25 million polys...
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    I'll bake textures from the high-poly to the low-poly mesh. Just like with Arabella, I tried to replicate the turnaround in-game - so this is Boreas, textured, rigged, and in-game...
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    As soon as I get him all wrapped up I will post him on Sketchfab as usual to show him off in 3D.

    Also, the story of Boreas (and why he's a dead guy) has become one of my favorite parts of the story.
    I'll give away a few details soon, in future updates to this post.
     
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    Cool! I hope he's huge.
     
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    That armor detail is amazing. Great work!
     
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    He's like.... really old and stuff.

    Great artwork though.
     
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    He's like... a zombie and stuff. :)
     
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    is it just me or do i see a white walker =p
     
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    Stupid question. Does this mean our giant Titan statues are going to change to look like this ? If so I cant wait!
     
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    Boreus, doest thou even hoist bretheren? Thou musn't skip leg day like this.
     
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    The titan statue would be Boreus pre Death I believe, this is walking Dead Boreus, though I thought he was the skeleton in Artifice...

    THAT LYING KOBOLD!!!


    @UglyFist He looks great man, outstanding work.
     
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    Kind of a dead "immortal" outsider (like us and other titans)... interesting. =p
     
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    If our character is us, then Lord British "is" Richard Garriott.

    What if I told you that the real goal was not to harvest the bones of NPC humans, but instead to harvest living "Avatars". :D

    [​IMG]
     
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    But avatars are our outer egos. "Spirits", like the lore says. :)

    I'd say: take it... it doesn't hurt more than having your skull harvested by the Oracle everytime someone kills you in PvP. Maybe Avatar bones should be used to make real ingame weapons? Yeah, that would be a nice nasty idea... :D

    PS: I know it would be exploitable but anyway... :p
     
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    They had me (harvested) at Spiritual Successor to UO.
     
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    He looks great! But did I miss something? I didn't come across a dead-but-walking version of him in Artifice. :confused:
     
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    Right now, he's just a sitting skeleton.
     
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    the poor guy...

    met him last week....he must have seen better times

    good work
     
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