Long have I desired to see the ubiquitous Zelda opponent brought to WC3.
I started off with the Sea Turtle; its animations are approximately right, but it's massive and its skeleton is a complete mess (considerable confusion as to what bone-chains are right and left limbs, for example, and some bones that I could never quite work out what they were meant to be at all). But that turned out to be a dead end.
Then I went to the Lobstrokk. For a start, I've always imagined the octorok as a slightly crabby sort of thing (before you beat me, I grew up with
Link's Awakening, and its imagining of an octorok is quite different from what came before and what has come after), so that's a plus; the Lobsrokk also has an appropriately short wheel-base (a factor which ruled out the Nerubian).
So a while of clearing out the bullshit (lets face it, I only really needed the legs, and the Lobstrokk has a lot of additional items) and naming the skeleton (Blizzard can't name skeletons for balls) later, and I had a decent basis for my little octorokky. The only downside is that he swings to the left slightly in his attack sequence, a remnant of the Lobstrokk's silly giant right claw; but it's only minor.
As I said, he's a
Link's Awakening-style octorok, though I've given him an overhanging and solid carapace and slipped the eyes under there to make him look a bit meaner than all the
cute artwork of him that image searches turn up (when they're not turning up more octopus-like imaginings that I don't prefer). I wanted to do something a bit closer to that image for the eyes, but I couldn't settle on style or textures, so I hacked off the Lobstrokk's portrait eyes and buggered them about a bit. Satisfactory, if not exceptional.
So yeah, here he is, at long last -- the octorok in WC3. Can I say, five years too late?
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