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Warcraft Orc Tower Diorama

This was initially a study to tackle the industry standard pipeline in creating game ready assets, and wanted something to have a little bit of everything to practice baking and texturing on such as metal, wood, stone, ropes, ground and foliage, as for the idea and reference this tower is inspired by the Orc tower building in Warcraft 3 Reforged, the Quiver and Spears are identical to the ones that the Troll Head Hunter unit Yields in that game, and the Axe is identical to the one that the Peon Carries.
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The idea behind this diorama is paying homage to Warcraft 3 and something in which most Orc players did in that game and it is as simple as sending peons to gather wood so you can build your towers from.
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Pipeline Approach:
- Blocked out My reference in Maya , then went ahead and detailed them in Zbrush making the Final highpoly model, after that re-imported the model back to Maya to retopo and optimize the model before importing back to substance painter where I baked my highpoly information to my lowpoly model and textured the result.

- Used a modular approach in placing similar looking assets that both optimized the model and saved time in finishing it, for example all the middle planks are 1 plank that has been rotated in 2 different axis to yield a more efficient workflow result, the platform is one quarter of a block that repeats itself 3 times, the spiked metal support are all the same one rotated and scaled, I even split the UV in 2 so that the dirt and curvature masks in painter would make them look even more random.

- Used Substance Designer to Create the terrain that includes the pebbles that are scattered around, the dirt and the grass that are laying there.

- The grass planes have been modeled in Zbrush then textured ,baked in Substance Designer , then imported as a plane to Maya.

Orc Tower Diomara

Orc Tower Diomara

Orc Tower Wireframe

Orc Tower Wireframe

Diorama Turntable

Peon Axe

Peon Axe

Peon Axe Wireframe

Peon Axe Wireframe

Head Hunter Spear

Head Hunter Spear

Head Hunter Spear Wireframe

Head Hunter Spear Wireframe

Grass Planes inside of Maya

Grass Planes inside of Maya