[DOTA 2] Broodmother Tubemother item set

Nuclear Angel

So hi there polycount. This will be my first WIP thread i have ever made, so I am a little anxious, but I hope that it will be fine.

So what I am going to do is an item set for broodmother, because in my opinion she is the most interesting champion in Dota 2. And what I am going to do is pretty much Brood mother, but replacing her legs with half synthetic (cyborg like) legs, and a new opisthosoma. Which will instead be a synthetic test-tube platform were her babies will be in. And lastly I will do a remake of the spiderlings and make them in to cyborg spiders.

I will place a little quick sketch of what i wanted to do, right below this text.

shanks37

this is a cool idea but keep in mind dota's setting is fantasy. just keep it looking more magic than technology and you should be fine though.

Some Jerk

Oddly enough there was another mechanical broodmother set in the workshop that was met with a ton of resistance. Not entirely sure what happened, but I think it's floating in an odd limbo where valve can't decide whether to add it or not.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=70368619

Not gonna tell you not to do this, but just a reminder that it might end up in limbo next to blademother. Like shanks37 said, try to lean towards more fantasy and less sci-fi.

Nuclear Angel

Thanks guys, maybe if I make it look like cocoons instead of tubes? And make the metal legs look like added parts by a crazed necromancer?

shanks37

nah, definitely stick with the tubes idea, its a lot cooler.

attaching metal legs to a giant spider is more an artificers job but yeah, you get the idea :P

that should work great if you make the metal brass or pig iron with maybe some leather or canvas straps to hold them in place.

Nuclear Angel

Hi guys, damn I really need to learn to post stuffs, because I am so slow on that. BUT, here I am with an update to my Brood Mother (Tube mother). So I will drop some dumps and show where I am at.







If you look on picture one, I do not have anything for the "Hair" piece, I have no idea what to put there, do you guys have an idea? Any whom, hope you enjoyed.

Nuclear Angel

I really need to start working on this WIP thing, I am damn bad at it!
So I am done with the abdomen, and soon done with the legs. I will post pictures below, and I will also put up pictures of the sketches that I have done as concept art, because the first is quite messy.

So here we go:








I also had exporting issues ( following with a picture ):



So I have not seen how it looks inside Dota 2 yet. Help would be appreciated, because there seems to be a skinning issue =3

C&C welcome and appreciated

Nuclear Angel

I told myself that I would post more WIP pics and posts, but no I have not. I am terrible at it. I sit and work for 5 hours straight till my hands bleed, then fall asleep. And the sum of this is that I forget to post at my on WIP thread. I am ashamed...

Anywhom, I am pretty much done with my item set, made a preview for it. The thing is, I have one little step left to take, get the items in to Dota 2. I cant import my item set. Same problem as before, just look at my old post. But I will try to reinstall my Dota 2 client, to see if that will help me with my problem. Also I will try to upload my stuffs from another computer as well.

But here is a picture of what I have done, and I ill stay in touch over the coming days.
Polycount, I love you for the extension!

Nuclear Angel

So one day till deadline, Still got problems with imports, but slowly crawling forward to something that is in game. But this have been a fun ride, learned a lot, and I would want to thanks Polycount and Valve for letting me and everyone else be on this contest. I ill put up my finished entry as soon I get it in game.

Nuke