Forest Troll Blood Drinker

Personal 'Lore':

"Those fearsome warriors of Zul'aman feast upon the blood of their enemies, and sometimes of their own troll brethren. A blood drinker is a troll warrior whose power comes from his unharnessed rage, which the troll unleashes upon his enemies. The blood drinker's axes are enchanted by the elder shamans of the tribe with voodoo runes, which give the wielder of such an axe a never ending thirst for fresh blood, thus increasing the brutality and efficiency in battle of the blood drinker. Royal guards to Zul'jin, the Blood Drinkers are very important assets in the Amani tribe."


Currently, the model has only Stand animations and a walk animation, but the mesh and UV are pretty much done. Uses Blademaster Stand\Walk animations, probably will use Forest Troll death\decay and Footman+Bandit(same animation, different hand) attacks\stand ready.

NOTE: The screenshot shows the model in it's 'unanimated' position.



Some critique on the mesh\UV\anything else will be appreciated.

I critique this, based on two points:
1. Those animations are horribly overused
2. Trolls do not show off their heroic chests when they stand. They are hunched over.

On the other hand the UI seems ok. The back and legs are a little meh but I blame that to the low quality of the used textures. Love the axes and the leather straps around his arms. In fact, the leather texture used there could also work for something on the chest, in case you want to give him something more than a bare chest with nothing to attach those shoulder pads to.

Do you really think it would be better to use the Forest Troll animations for that? It would be very unoriginal and repitive... Nty, I'll stick with BM.



Thanks, but I prefer the chest this way. I don't see where those kind of bracers would fit on the chest.

Lemme rephrase what I was trying to state earlier since you didn't get my meaning fully.

The STAND animation is going to look bad since trolls just don't stand like that in warcraft. For the walk you could have anything you want.

See, I didn't wanna mess with your quote back there.

Well... I didn't want it to get too repetitive. I mean, almost every troll model uses Forest Troll animations.

The pants UV is kinda bleh... but as Ikum-Bokum said, there's not much you can do about that anyway... other than that, it's a good model.

May I ask where is that leather from? A campaign-menu model?

The bracers are from the campaign screen grunt, yeah.