Grimoire the Book Wyrm
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Hey folks,
It's been a while, but spacemonkey and I have finished another Dota 2 Courier!
We had the idea of a creature with a big book kicking around for a while after finishing Blotto, and when spacemonkey concepted up this little guy we knew he had to be made.
He originally concepted the guy with 4 arms and a bunch of extra gear, which was really cool, but we were worried about the complexity of the animation and the bone count which is limited to 52 on Couriers.
Original concept:
So here's the simplified version with just 2 arms and less gear, but the character is still there
spacemonkey did all the concepting, sculpting, lowpoly modelling, baking and texturing, and I moved in with the rigging and blockout animations while he was finishing up the texture. I was immensely slow at this - we started last year!
But we finally finished - spacemonkey handled most of the animation work in the end, but I managed to find time to put this video together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OurwNgA9EII
And here are some promo images:
If you feel generous, please drop by our Steam Workshop page and give it a vote and/or a favourite, it'd mean a lot to us!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=229226780
Cheers!
-MoP
It's been a while, but spacemonkey and I have finished another Dota 2 Courier!
We had the idea of a creature with a big book kicking around for a while after finishing Blotto, and when spacemonkey concepted up this little guy we knew he had to be made.
He originally concepted the guy with 4 arms and a bunch of extra gear, which was really cool, but we were worried about the complexity of the animation and the bone count which is limited to 52 on Couriers.
Original concept:
So here's the simplified version with just 2 arms and less gear, but the character is still there
spacemonkey did all the concepting, sculpting, lowpoly modelling, baking and texturing, and I moved in with the rigging and blockout animations while he was finishing up the texture. I was immensely slow at this - we started last year!
But we finally finished - spacemonkey handled most of the animation work in the end, but I managed to find time to put this video together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OurwNgA9EII
And here are some promo images:
If you feel generous, please drop by our Steam Workshop page and give it a vote and/or a favourite, it'd mean a lot to us!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=229226780
Cheers!
-MoP
Replies
I will give it a vote on Steam!
If you didn't want critic you can obviously ignore whatever i said.
+1, amazing job!
To me - it brought the piece a little disney evil vibe, which I feel lands nicely with the dota 2 style.
Hope you guys make more i love all the piece for DOTA2 you've worked on, the pig was epic and i still smile, how can you not.