Unit Pictures

[Robear]

Guys, he has has the Terran and Protoss charts on deviantart for some time. He seems to have forgotten us

I definitely haven't forgotten!

All of the new units that showed up in those deviantart update were ones I ran by you guys first. And I was originally planning to have a Zerg chart update done within a couple of weeks of those, which is why on the previous page I was doing things like the sac. I still have a half-finished Abathur lying around, and an uncolored cerebrate. I'll always be running new stuff by this site first because you're the ones who know all of the games and the books and everything, so I don't screw things up because I forgot about something.

Two things happened which got in the way of me updating more: I moved to a different city, which took a couple of weeks of moving carloads of stuff (today was the first day we got internet in the new place) and I got a Heroes of the Storm Alpha invite, so there were a couple weeks when I spent my drawing time playing that instead. Eheh... sorry. It was just too much fun (although the last patch was not so good...)

I also spent some time making a new Valkyrie model for the animation I want to make, which, once I have it textured, will replace the old one on the chart. It doesn't actually look that much different though.



So, this thread is not forgotten! I just kind of ended up taking a month off from it.

[Nolanstar]

Completely understandable, I wasn't meaning to sound rude, but wondered where you had gone, moving is tricky.

The charts were high quality and I cannot wait to see the swarm in all its glory
(And the Odin)

[Nolanstar]

I FOUND A CINEMATIC MINOTAUR FROM BLIZZARD!

From one of their pre HoTS Q and A sessions. One of the photos was 3 minotaur class battlecruisers.

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[Gradius]

^----I'm pretty sure that's fan art. I've seen it before.

[Robear]

It is indeed a piece of fan art, of an original "Revenge-class" battlecruiser. Sorry to dash your hopes!

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/media/fa...ew=fanart-0115

Here is another Starcraft work of his:




(Hopefully I can do even better!)

[Nolanstar]

Blizzard used it as a photo in a description though...

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Blizzard used it as a photo in a description though...

[Visions of Khas]

(Hopefully I can do even better!)

You totally can. This is a compositional wreck.

[Robear]

You totally can. This is a compositional wreck.

Well, you know, the way I've decided to look at it is like this: I can watch something like Freespace's Final Metamorphosis and spot all of these little things that I think could be done better. But just because I can see improvements in my head doesn't actually mean I can do better until I've actually made something of my own— right now I have no evidence that I can make a finished project out of anything. So, until I get past the stage where I have a bunch of half-textured models and no lighting, I won't criticize that guy for actually finishing his fleet.

Speaking of finishing things, I colored my cerebrate drawing. It's alright. Not one of my favorites.



Here's how big I scaled it for now...



Most of my Starcraft-playing life I would have assumed that cerebrates were building-sized, because the Overmind is so huge, and the cerebrate sprite is as big as a building. So, that makes me want to make it bigger.

The Queen of Blades book is the only source that describes Cerebrates as far as I know, and it basically just calls them "massive sluglike creatures" as far as I know. But, the fact that Zeratul can kill Zasz with a single blow sort of makes me think they shouldn't be too huge.

Maybe a bit bigger than I have it here, though.

[Zarxiel]

I think Cerebrate head is the bigger part, and the smaller is the tail, in the SC1 Cerebrate portraits they show a something like a brain inside a transparent skin, and they don't have eyes. Other thing, I noted your Scarb in backward :P

[The_Blade]

Cerebrates are closer to their Zerus past than other creatures in the swarm according to the sC manual. IIRC they were just dormant worms, waiting for a host. There's no evidence that cerebrates do not have eyes, but they do have a complex sensory system. Eyes might not be needed. I would support an idea similar to the sensory system of deep sea worms.