Morroblivion

Uwsome!

There are colors between red and purple you know:) That way it would stay true to the awesome concept and the lore. Btw great sculpt. i love the moth. oh and sorry for the quality but i think you'll get the point.

@eXecutex perhaps a hood more akin to that of the male thalmor's hood would work, helping to create a more armored and intimidating presence. P.S. I personally like the look of the hood and i am only mentioning this because you expressed displeasure with the hood.  

I am referring to the collar. I had forgot to mention that in the original post

Since the comments left mainly unheard on the dA, here's some copypaste:

The overall silhouette is too big and complicated and it's too much armor for a mage, imo.
see this for a good example (nevermind that's a female)
Mixed different sets for that one, which doesn't really help here, as mages tend to use as little heavy armor as possible - thus the guy on the concept is mainly covered in cloth.

So Is it just me or does the guy really look bit too much bumped up with all the amount of metal on? For an average legion mage that is.




Other than that, it's a solid and indeed a quality piece of work, that's for sure. Just with a slight lack of conception\comprehension, maybeh.

These look awesome so far, great job :D

For the last helmet, I like the idea of a dragon for the top, but as of now it's borrowing from a horse motif.  Instead of a mane of hair, perhaps you could have the dragon's head draped downward, with wings rising in place of the 'mane' and joining with the back of the helmet.  You could keep the mane look, by fusing the wings into 'one', but still showing the dragon profile from the side.

Looks good! Are you thinking about creating capes to go with some of the armor sets too?

Just my personal thought, but I think the big helm would do without the wings on the crest, and wing shape for the face protection.  I understand that the dragon is the Imperial symbol, but that doesn't mean every single thing on the armor has to be a dragon.  For instance not every Roman legion went around with eagles and wolves on their heads.  I think a simple dragon head as the metal part of the crest would be a much simpler, and aesthetically pleasing design.  In addition to that I think it would look better with a more rounded look to the hair part of the crest.

Again, this is just my personal opinion.  I think the rest of the armor is absolutely gorgeous so far.  Keep up the good work eXecutex!

Looks amazingly awesome man. But maybe as a critique I would say that the belt are needs to move up a bit but other then that it looks good.

I really like the leader's helmet i just have one thing to say about the outstretched wings on the "plum"; i think that if they were folded into an "up" position that it would give the helmet a better flow. other than that  i love the design for him.

EDIT: an idea has just occurred to me that you can remove the wings on the crest and still have wings for the crest. if you were to make the crest look as if it were stretching out down towards the face protector where you already have wing motifs. again just a suggestion  

Hello Everyone!

This week I received an email from HappyChappy about my concepts being brought to life. I thank him very much for notifying me in this. Last few months I could not follow or make time for the Skywind project because I am to busy working on official upcoming game projects.

I really have to say that I am really amazed on how much good work has been put in it and how much the 3D version stayed true to the original design (with a few improvements of course). I cannot describe how happy I am to see this! Also I want to thank eXecutex/Oliver for all his hard work, it is really appreciated!

I cannot wait to see the final end results textured in-game!

These are very great. Ten out of Ten, fantastic !

i like the colors alot

loving the direction this armor series is taking and the progress that's been made. However I feel that the general/steel/heavy armor is lacking shape compared to the traditional roman breastplates. Particularly in the seams under the arms (for example adding a gap and some buckles) and near the bottom, having it curve and give a little room for the hips.

just came to say i love the look of all of these armors and that well people should suck it up having metal plates on your shoulders forearms and legs are going to keep you in a battle cause you wont be casting spells when someone hacks your arm off....... or your head

just wow to all of this

this looks sexy <3

This is looking fantastic! Can't wait to see it completed!

Don't get me wrong, I love the modeling work, and you've done an amazing job, but that color scheme just doesn't seem right at all.  Why red shirts and blue drape/robe/cape/what-have-you?  It just boggles my mind.  It makes me think more of a jester than a soldier.

Red Legions of Tiber Septim - that's their colour. They only happened to seem purple in Morrowind because of one skirt that guards would occassionally wear. Red is their colour, so Red is their uniform.

They are also Imperial battlemages. The shadow legion. The dark purple drape is a combination of dark - shadow, and purple - magic (since purple is the most magical/metaphysical of all colours, since it's made of clashing blue and red, aggression and melancholy at once).

And Jorgen, for the Swaróg's sake, I thought you knew anything about history. Have you ever seen what soldiers in old times, and knights especially would wear? ABUNDANCE OF COLOUR. In all freaking ages. Only in World War 1 did they start to wear grey, like never before, for camo. And Imperial battlemages aren't mere soldiers, their cast is said to be extremely rich, so their colours should be pretty much as gaudy as a flying circus. I don't see much need for camo either in their case. We're not having that though and i toned it down a lot, since the original red and magenta looked like total crap and went together so badly that only now my eyes stopped bleeding. Just so that now I eat my teeth out of rage because you people just can't let it go.

Photoshop is easy. If you really can't sleep because the shade of purple on one armour is not right just edit the texture yourself and put it in your game. You can even release it as a sub-mod, I'm sure it will be a must for the majority of players, since purple is just impossible to accept.

My time is precious. I do a metric SHIT TON of design work for this project. Spending hours on explaining why I CHOSE THIS FREAKING SHADE OF PURPLE OVER THE OTHER has NO place on my schedule. And it's not like I never explained it. I explained it many, many, many times. I really don't have time for this. Same with Indorils - people write those heaps of spam about what they think, without even caring enough to look at the designs, or reading their descriptions. If this continues the progress threads will be limited to some separate dev section. This might hinder the project, but we can't have so many people distracting the modellers. I really can't do art direction having a swarm of people shouting their ideas onto artists and demanding them to change things that often shouldn't be changed, for wrong reasons. Without even running it through me first.

Cut this fruitless discussion AT ONCE.