[Dota2] – Meepo – TBD

Beats

Not long left for the competition but I'll be joining forces with TeeStock. Worked with him for a few years now and he's an awesome artist.

We've chosen Meepo as our hero! Below are Tom's initial ideas so let us know what you think. I've began boxing a few of the items out so I'll post some 3D WIP's soon.

Some Jerk

Looking sweet. It's painful to know that only one of these will be made into an actual set. Though if you put a gun to my head, I'd probably go with screwloose meepo. Maybe with the shoulder pads from hoarder. Also love the frying pan weapon.

Beats

Cheers man, I'm hoping to find the time to model up a few more of them later down the line. But for now I'll just bust out one for the competition. Thanks for looking

TeeStock

Thanks for the feedback bud! I personally like those designs too. Next up is some initial ideas for the backpack. I'll aim to get a design done for each of our ideas above, i've got a pretty strong idea of what they could be.

tfmcmahon

Great concepts, I love 4, 5, and 6. The frying pan staffs are awesome and hilarious.

Zoltan

Sweet concepts Tom!
Bet it will be a challenge to model the low version if u go with Trickery or Artful lol
Make Beats sweat! xD

DanBe

really cool take on meepo and wicked concepts, almost any works great! but yeah def NO SKULZZ! xD

Sith Happens.

Sweet concepts man, love the frying pan and adventurer or screw-lose!

BoBo_the_seal

great concepts!

D4V1DC

Damn I like 1,2,4 +5 for the character set and Frying pan with skull FTW!

BrontoThunder

Those concepts are amazing!

I like Screwlose/horder Meepo and the skull-painted frying pan

Danglebob

same as brontothunder

TeeStock

Just an update on our Meepo's progress. Thanks for all the awesomely helpful feedback! It really helped us in choosing a direction. This page is me trying to develop ideas and come up with a cohesive, themed set to go with. we're going to go with a "Hobo Meepo" (working title for now) which brings together the "Trader" design, the frying pan weapon and a backpack i originally designed for the hoarder (its covered in accumulated junk). We're going to create the goggles from "screw-loose" as a stand alone item, and maybe the hat from "Hoarder". Next will be a final turnaround! Oh yeh, some of these ideas were me amusing myself goofing around, though i'm all about Meepo taking to the skies!

Some Jerk

What are you doing meepo you're not gyrocopter stop flying this instant.

In all seriousness I like the vibes jewel thief is giving off. But don't let that scare you off from the hobo set. You really seem to have your heart set on hobo, so in the end I say you should go for that one.

Chaemirix

Most of these concepts are really great looking. I'm really digging the Hobo and Screwloose.

fightpunch

Very strong set overall, any combo will be a good choice

LuCh!

some great concepts!
don't forget the silouette!

Nix

I so envy artists who can make a whole bunch of concept variations and have all of them look great.

That said I really do love that "artful meepo" hat...

KaiserKloud

Fantastic concept 0.0 I hope you can take every detail in 3d model too, good luck, and again great, very great concept!!

Beats

Hey Guys, cheers for the awesome comments. I hope I will do the concept some justice, so the pressures on! Thought I should post how its shaping up. I've started to quickly box out some of the backpack, but Toms not finalised the concept yet. Hopefully I'll have the time to have the lowpoly and unwrapping all done ready for the weekend to get all the sculpting and texturing underway. Everything is still WIP so colours will most likely be changing. I've also made the low poly weapon so I'll post that up soon.

You'll notice there are a few changes since the original concept as Toms refined a few things. He'll probably post something up tomorrow for you guys to look at.

Cheers for looking!

D4V1DC

Ha, I was having a bad day i saw this and it put a smile on my face I still love this, nice to see some 3D.

Beats

Glad to hear it $!nz. Expect more updates very soon

MDSchee

lots of character on the hat! nice

TeeStock

Here's an update for the Meepo - Hobo set. He's packing plenty of liqour/ vessels for carrying liquor, and a banjo that he'll busk with for money to buy liquor. This Meepo's as much about getting his hands on some sauce as he is grabbing crystals! Recently i've been mostly looking at readablility of shapes using tones and silhouette. Specific details, hues and asset placement will likely change on the fly as we go, but we're happy with this final direction. As Beats works his magic, i'll be developing the more popular items that you guys showed a liking for. Again, thanks for all the support!

KaiserKloud

Love the idea of the guitar and the pan on the rod

BrontoThunder

This is gorgeous.