DOTA2 - all heroes weapons - concept challenge (WIP)

thetanapta

Hello there polycount!

A few days ago i gave myself a challenge to draw weapon for every single hero in DOTA2 (if hero uses weapon, some of them are magic users that don't have anything in their hands etc so i will pass those).

I am not aiming to do crazy "overthetop" items, most of them will use only color palette that is mirrored from original hero weaponry/base model.

This post will be updated often, as soon as there will be something new to show.

Some of the concepts shown here are actually modeled to 3d, and will be uploaded to steam workshop as a collaboration between me and Vermillion Wlad, well known steam workshop contributor.

[ for easier browsing - for those that do prefer imgur, here's the full album with newest piece on the top ]
Cheers!

mirana

vengeful spirit

faceless void

elder titan

outworld devourer

slardar

chaos knight (possible remake for dragon knight soon)

phantom assassin

slark

bounty hunter

centaur warrunner

magnus

antimage (dual wielded weapons)

axe

blood seeker

ogre magi



Welp, so i have just hit the 16 images cap... More updates will come straight to the imgur album.

Thanks for your time!

DefiledVisions

Love these man! good job on the designs. The sillhuettes are strong and the design relates well to the hero you've made them for. Do you have any images of your concepts turned 3d? would be cool to see as well

looking forward for more!

thetanapta

Huge update bellow:

Riki

Doom

Bounty Hunter

Faceless Void

Huskar

Phantom Lancer

Dragon Knight

Silencer

Wrath King

Disruptor

Radiant Tower concept (base customisation?)


As always - you can check full imgur album here

lotet

wow, great work! you really nailed the personality and style of every hero, for most of them I dindt even have to read the text to see what hero it was.

GhostJaw

Nice pieces!!! As lotet said I didn't even have to look at the text to know which hero it was. However I thought I would take a chance to give you my thoughts. I believe that the Riki blades have too much fine detail around the hilt to make it in game, looks great though. The slardar weapon I thought was a Skywrath Mage item, actually would work perfectly I think. Slark usually has thicker and curved blades, I love the idea, but it kinda would look funny to me with Slark wielding a thin and straight blade. The Silencer shield looks like it is missing something. And lastly, Phantom Assassin doesn't really wield swords so it seems kinda odd to imagine her wielding one, I love the butterfly reference though! Hope this helps and I hope that your stuff makes it in game!

JelleS

Though I'm not really familiar with Dota 2 characters, I really like some of the designs! Makes me wanna paint some as well.

ArtViktor

Brilliant light work! Even though lots of the designs have the same sillhoutte you did a great job creating diversity and interesting forms All the thumbs up!

ZeroCartin

Great work! Lovely style, and each item has alot of strength and nice proportions. Good job!