The Kayo judge was a passion project of mine. After being inspired by the games and cinematics produced by riot games, i decided to try my hand at modeling a weapon skin in the style of one of my favorite agents, KAY/o.
Inspiration & Concept
After seeing the Deadlock inspired Phantom in a former battlepass, I thought it would be awesome to see other primary weapons styled after agents. Being an initiator main, kay/o seemed like the obvious choice. since he's holding the judge in a lot of concept art, i decided to paint a rough mock-up of the design and start modeling!
RDVR Phantom by Lucy Russel
Kayo Key Art by Su Ke
Kayo Judge Rough Concept Mock Up
Process
After creating the concept, I roughed out the model in blender, iterating on the original design. I then took it into Zbrush to create the high poly mesh, before going back to blender for retopology. I created the textures in substance painter, hand painting the wear and tear. Finally, I took it back to blender one last time to create the final renders.
Base Color
Ambient Ocllusion
Normal
Wireframe
Side View
Back View Showing Screen
Final Renders
i created the final renders in blender, and used a little photoshop magic to mock up what they might look like in game. thanks for looking, and check out the interactive 3d model at the bottom of the page!
In armory Mock Up
In Game MOck up
Final Render
Modeled in Blender & Zbrush
Textured in Substance Painter
Rendered in Blender
Post Processing in Photoshop and After Effects
inspired by the incredible artists at Riot
