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Phoenix Trial #5 - Hero Ability Icon Replacements

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Heres the remade version of the Howl of terror Icon...
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And the altered Wip...
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I love it!
 
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The colour scheme and look of the bat were loosely based off a breed of vampire bat that have white fur (except I got it wrong, they tend to be whiter underneath and browner on top lol). I know it doesn't have the 'swarm' effect (i started adding little bats in the background but it just seemed to clutter it) because it was just supposed to be a close up of a single bat of the swarm, as it always bugged me the icon for the carrion swarm ability had some blurry looking insects in it when the tool tip said they were bats. BATS DAMN IT BATS :mad:

Thanks for the comments tho (lol, a pig like creature holding a knife :p)
 
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I decided to try to finish the Bash icon, as i cannot get any good inspiration for another one.
Dunno if this looks good. I still have alot of shading to do, but does the overall picture look good enough?

It's bash again.:xxd::xxd:

EDIT: Added a newer WIP, where i made the hammer glow as in the MK's bash animation.
 

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banana, your opinion of mr.goblins death coil icon is completely inacceptable, because it is completely different from the blizzard one aas well as from da's...

1st: looks a lot better
2nd: high quality, better use of lightning, looks more realistic

and additionally your icons completely suck compared top his

sry. this post of yours made me really angry...
 
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but the problem is that most of thw blizzard icon fit perfectly to the skills and heroes.

so there are two possible ways you could aim:
1. show what the skill exactly does in combination with the hero who does it or with the missile or with a summon ( just how blizzard does it)

==> not that creative, but fits the skill perfectly

2. make something abstract which is related to the spell in some way, but which isnt so obvious

==> creative but does not fit the skill by 100%
 
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