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Med'an

son of Medivh and Garona
Human, Orc, and Draenei, all in one :>

anyway, this was a request by @MagicCampaign

so.. i'm happy with the mesh, and not so happy with the animations. even though i tweaked the anims to remove major clipping that i had with his staff, i can't really do much with his walk. so yeah, you get this as it is. (this is basically Jaina, just with new mesh)

one warning tho.. this model uses the hair provided by the requester, and its a slightly edited hair geoset from one of the WoW hairstyles. don't ask me to change/improve it, because i seriously think that geoset is 'haunted'; it'll just annoy you to have to manually type the 'code' for the geoset animations in the mdl file, each time you edit the model (especially the portrait)

other than those few 'small' annoyances, the model works nicely ingame, so.. Enjoy, and give credit to Misha if used. Otherwise.. hm.. what does Med'an do to people that vex him? lol
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Med'an (Model)

Med'an Portrait (Model)

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General Frank
Excellent model edit and very reminiscent of the template. Looks very good and performs very well in-game. Good work only using in-game textures.
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That's actually very very cool! I like his face and scarf. That's about time we get more cool and rare Pepeslore characters. Man, you really should keep this work up.

Some suggestions:

Change the camera angle so he looks less like a priest reskin. His face is pretty beautiful and different enough from blizz models to be memorable, but the angle kinda ruins it;

In portrait his ears are attached to something they shouldn't - they pulse and it's quite funny;

Maybe work on tinting a tiny bit more to make his face less of a grass-green and more of an orc-green (and maybe use the same texture and coloring for his chest and face, 'coz they look noticeable different;

Are you sure that fire effect fits theme-wise? Not too familiar with this dude's lore, but i'm pretty sure that he might be more of an arcane magic guy than fireball guy.
 
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Never understood the Med'an hate I think he's a pretty interesting character. Love the model, however. Could use some work on the face maybe some more details but regardless I love that it's ingame textures.

Always a solid model from you, Misha. 5/5 +rep
 
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Never understood the Med'an hate I think he's a pretty interesting character. Love the model, however. Could use some work on the face maybe some more details but regardless I love that it's ingame textures.

Always a solid model from you, Misha. 5/5 +rep
The only major problem with him is that he's just a total "special snowflake" type character. I mean, seriously? Son of the Guardian of Tirisfal with orc/human/draenei blood and a blending of shaman/mage/paladin powers? It's just kind of ridiculous. That, and the idea of Garona/Medivh is just... Eh. Never fit for me. That's just my opinion, though.

EDIT: I should note, just for clarification, that even with my misgivings on the whole Medivh/Garona thing, I wouldn't have such a problem with him if he was just their child and a pure mage. But giving him shamanistic and Light powers just because he has orc and draenei heritage is kind of lame. That, and didn't he end up becoming the new Guardian of Tirisfal in the comics? I thought Medivh's whole purpose was to show the world it no longer needed Guardians, so that always bothered me as well.
 
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alright guys, quit talking about your opinions on Med'an, this was a request and i can just as easily take it down, as i put it up

chiiiill don't- :c

one thing I want to mention is that Med'an has three little draenei tentacles on his forehead which, aside from the two on his chin, give away the fact that he's a Draenei. Perhaps you'd consider adding them? I know you said it's a request but hey why not, right? ;)


Reference:
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@DaHomieG
3 little forehead horns on top of his existing chin-tacles? I don't know.. the portrait is buggy when editing and that looks as a too small detail to bother with.. not to mention that i'll have to transfer the whole head to the body so it matches

you're an OG my guy it shouldn't be a problem for someone of your level of skill
 
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I think he looks great. I would like him a little more yellow but I still enjoy him this way.
And I'm very surprised that this model has been made. I didn't think that anybody liked him enough to make a WC3 model of him.
 
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