[Dota2] – Slardar – Keymaster of the deep

TriggerHappyPuppy

This will be an item set for Slardar, the Keymaster and guardian of the deep. An armour pack with an key theme to indicate the important role Slardar have to protect the wealth in the sunken halls of the deep.

last image.. finish but I did not had the time to finish the helmet so it will only become an 3part set.



link to the workshop site..

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=111342082

TriggerHappyPuppy

An early concept for the weapon Slardar will be using for both slaying his foes but also lock the doors in the big halls deep under the sea.

Dark Acre Jack

Looking good. Makes me want to play some Kingdom Hearts

TriggerHappyPuppy

First draft for the helmet, I think I will go for all the item slots and not just three of them.

TriggerHappyPuppy

Fixing the torso slot.

JGcount

I like that you are beefing him up

TriggerHappyPuppy

Fixed the key staff. All meshes are right now LOD1 (ingame). Will make the LOD0 later when all the slots are finished.

TriggerHappyPuppy

hmm think I have to redesign the staffs bottom because I just tested Slardar ingame and notice that he slams the staff against the ground when he uses his slitheren crush and that makes it clipp, so back to the blueprints...

agentfx

damn you're already testing it in game? I better get on that But looks great! Nice concept

TriggerHappyPuppy

haha yeah, I usually test the meshes ingame as early as I can to see if the siluette and animations works.

Here is the latest update, the hand items.

c0ldhands

Diging the armor so far, and the extra little tail is awesome. The only thing i find abit out of context is the weapon. I get the idea but right now it feels like it could belong to any of the heroes.

jmt

I like the design. The top end of it doesn't look very key-like to me. I think it's because it's several wide, different sized chunks put together.

Snipergen

I'd define the key shape a bit more too, but I like the idea. The armor looks good too.

Rik

Is the extension of his tail a single set of polygons or does it have depth? Kind of hard to tell from the screenshots but I believe it's got polys on either side, which it should. Don't forget that we can't do 2-sided materials. Looking very good so far, great silhouette value.

Mulkyz

I'm not too sure about the key, doesn't seem 'heavy' enough for Slardar, but if you balance it right it could look cool. I think some bigger shoulders/chestpiece would look awesome to add to the armor as well

LuCh!

nice, I like the light fish ref

TriggerHappyPuppy

started sculpting on both the weapon and the torso parts..





torso part without the fins.

SiL

the keys looks great!

Anuxinamoon

Such a cool idea and design! Looking forward to seeing this progress

Larkbeef

I chime in with the crowd, looks great. Key turned out especially well. Possibly make the protruding teeth of the key a bit longer? Handle is kind of the same size, and it might help push it more towards axe than key. Or you just loose the key likeness altogether.
Cheers!

TriggerHappyPuppy

haha I think I am on my fourth torso design and the time is running out so right now it feels like it´s no turning back.. but anyway, here it is, more silhouette than before even if it´s hard to see on these detail shoots.




I will keep the key feedback in mind when I am going back to that one.

more updates are on its way...

ENODMI

That weapon looks great! good luck

c0ldhands

You were up late you bastard, feel bad goin to sleep before you. I dig the keys, yould be cooler if you made them bigger.

TriggerHappyPuppy

I notice that the skinning on the torso was a real pain in the ass so I moved that stuff for a later battle and started instead on the fun part, the textures for both the armour/back and weapon slots, right now just in maya viewport with diffuse only.

And now with two more weeks I can redesign the head and arm slots and maybe also finish the outworld destroyer set.