The Inside of the Mouth isn't textured.

Really nice model and icon! My favourite part is its eyes, the color and the texture is really amazing. It really gives us the feeling that it is not a rideable fighter grypon but a younger one used as courier! But I'm afraid what Mister_Haudrauf says is true, but nothing that can't be fixed! Good luck in the contest!

Mister_Haudrauf said:

The Inside of the Mouth isn't textured.

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Yeah indeed, sorry about that! Was done to save a few polygons, I'll probably get around to fixing that in the future! My apologies.

The Warchief said:

Really nice model and icon! My favourite part is its eyes, the color and the texture is really amazing. It really gives us the feeling that it is not a rideable fighter grypon but a younger one used as courier! But I'm afraid what Mister_Haudrauf says is true, but nothing that can't be fixed! Good luck in the contest!

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Thanks for the kind words The Warchief!

This model is so dope! Simple and cute - still top tier quality in every aspect, mate. Hope you win the contest!

Even my coal charred heart skips a beat when gazing upon this adorable little creation!

Thanks you guys Really glad you like it! Had to be submitted right now for the contest but I have planned some updates for it in the future, with particle effects and that mouth fix!

So crisp. I just love it! Though it has unfortunately very niche usefulness, just because of the letter/hook? it's holding

This is beyond top quality. You are truly talented, I hope to see much, much more from you in the future.

Please continue your work!

The texture and model are amazing... I think the inside of mouth or scroll being empty is fine. They totally can be overlooked in-game

this is adorable

brilliant idea and execution.

Look at that cute eyes

This is truly fantastic. You really nailed that 'pet' feeling. The only flaw with the model (didn't test it in game) is as other mentioned the inside of it's mouth, it isn't visible in game but if you look at blizzard models they made inside of the mouth much because of the portrait. But great job, though.

Would be great to have a portrait too.
4/5.

wow, this model is looks like gryphon hatchling from wow

Noice.

Absolutely perfect, besides that little missing mouth texture.

4/5

I also forgot to mention the filesize. While the polygons are low as much as posible, the size of the texture is pretty huge. 300 kb is huge file size considering this is a little pet model and a companion to a hero. I'm sure you're gonna work on it. You could always use blp library to decrease the file size of the texture.

Stefan.K said:

I also forgot to mention the filesize. While the polygons are low as much as posible, the size of the texture is pretty huge. 300 kb is huge file size considering this is a little pet model and a companion to a hero. I'm sure you're gonna work on it. You could always use blp library to decrease the file size of the texture.

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The texture is a normal 256 x 256, I only compressed by about 10 % to keep the quality up for the contest, but if you want to reduce the filesize it can easily be done.

Looks like model from Dota 2. Marvelous.

Traggey said:

The texture is a normal 256 x 256, I only compressed by about 10 % to keep the quality up for the contest, but if you want to reduce the filesize it can easily be done.

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Resources should always be uploaded at their maximum quality. There are easy to use tools to compress if the user wishes to do so.

The texture work is fantastic.

The mesh & texture, as we may all assume at this point, utterly top-notch. You not only made a great model, you nailed the idea of 'familiar' in my opinion. Quite a cute little dude. : )

I could see some adjustments/additions to the animations, as well as the mouth-fixing. Other than that, I think my only issue is that it's really too good for Warcraft; I know you stick to the poly limits in the game, but it's just soooooo good. The texture quality really makes it pop in a way that fits (in my mind) more in HotS or WoW or something. Compared to the other units (esp. the Gryphon Rider), this guy stands out.

But it's a good problem to have, I guess. Just my $0.02

He is so cute.
Though his mouth is full of feathers.
Nice animations, could be greater if there were a non flying version.

Nice Marvelous textures! that isn't wow textures.

Fantastic as always!

Holy blyat!!!! Can i pet him please? :'(
Good Work 5/5.

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Holy blyat!!!! Can i pet him please? :'(
Good Work 5/5.

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Of course! Do be carefull though, he does bite. At times.

Great work there Traggey! And congratulations on your first fully animated model It's adoreable!

And good to hear that this mini contest offered a chance for you to learn

Amazing model! Great work

Beautiful mesh and animations, but some essential things are missing or are faulty.

- Please add more and proper attachment points. Look which one units contain and name them appropriately. Remove or name the 'Hook Ref' attachment point.

- Make the death animation a bit more fleshed out. You might want to add event objects to create effects or add particle emitters.

- Add proper geoset animations that make the model disappear correctly.

- Add one or more collision spheres to the model to have proper and assured clipping.

I set the model to 'awaiting update' until you make the suggested improvements and changes.

Great model. You could add an animation of it standing and unfolding the scroll, it would look great in a cutscene .