Elderwood Kindred (fan made skin - Playable)

Personal project: Elderwood Kindred.
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This was a challenging project, a big step up compared to the previous.
As you can see I start from the base model of both Kindred and the lamb, in order to have an easier time during animation (some shape are bigger on my model to match base kindred proportion).
Unfortunately I NEVER done animation so far neither I ever open the animation tab on Blender.
I ends up spending a whole week learning animation (rigging, skinning), but in my case I needed just to match the game animation to my mesh.
On top of that, due to modding reason, I ends up learning a lot more then expected.
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League's animation seems to be made in Maya, BUT... I work in Blender.
Apparently, according to the online community, there is no way to convert Blender's animation system to Maya (in fact I spent over 2 days on figuring out a way to do that). I ends up reading blender's documentation, watching any sort of tutorial regarding animation (in blender and in maya) and chatting with the League's modding community. All of them stands with the Maya solution for the animation and skrew up my work done so far on Blender.
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I said no.
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After those 2 days I finally find a way to convert Blender animation to Maya, consistently and with no glitches!
At the end of the day I manage to limit my Maya usage to "import my blender project and export it to SKN and SKL".
I feel personally rewarding, specially because I found dozens of people asking for help about this and each single one being shutted by the worthless reply that says "there is no way to convert it from maya to blender, make your animation in maya instead". Guess what, there is.
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I spoke with the kind Eli Allen (studio director of WildBlue Studios) during one of his "portfolio review" on twitch. I mention him that I'm looking for to work with the Riot skin/champions team one day (or any similar companies). He suggest me to work on a League's skin and proove that I'm able to work on that.

And that's what I present you today.
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I'll probably come back on a new Leagues Skin, either as fan made or for a proper commission from Riot itself. This time around with a bespoke concept since I've already proved that I can follow somebody else concept. I would like to test the power of AI to speed up the concept creativity.
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As always you'll find me doing all of this stuff live on stream on my twitch channel:
twitch.tv/wsoulless
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You can use this skin with the mod tool LCS-Manager (google it).
Following the download link for the skin file: https://mega.nz/file/t0dimR6J#hen0_28lVDEVGrLC1HGafX2OLMvSKTRZjt3QfsMTjDM
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Thanks GuiSai (from the modding community) for the help and a big thank you to Megan A. O'Rourke (aka VegaColors) for creating such an amazing concept.
Concept art link:
https://www.deviantart.com/vegacolors/art/Elderwood-Kindred-Concept-Page-587554881
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▼ wSoulless // 03 OCT 2022
e: wsoulless@outlook.com
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