Ancient Sylvan V.2

[Edge45]

Aaaand another bloody awesome model!
Looking odd in their tree form, a little stretchy, not seen the animation yet, but I really like the mesh.
You're on a spree man! 4/5

 

[Mike]

With this model i can improve one of my mission in my campaing.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Still little time, but again I'll say a few words:

Love it. This guy is pretty schweet; lots of love went into crafting this guy, making him reasonably different from the in-game Ents and Treants and stuff. I particularly like his back; all those twisty trunks & tree bits. Also his tree-rib-cage & tree-crown-of-thorns; very cool!

I like how he has an interesting look while rooted; almost normal enough to stand in, but cool enough to stand out at the same time.

My complaints would be thus: while it's good you put some (leafy) texture in the mouth to contrast things, aside from that there's literally no 'face'; like, I can see it carved in the wood if I zoom in, but from a distance it's impossible to tell. For whatever reason, Blizzard made sure all there Ents/Treants had very defined, recognizable faces; heck, even the meaningless, mass-summonable Treants the KotG summon do! So lined up with them, this guy becomes even *more* faceless & character-less as a result, whether that was your intention or not. I'd say some face would do him good.

Alternatively, as a sort of weird 'campaign' unit you only see once, it's probably just fine. It just strikes me as quite different from the Blizzard ethos in this thing (not like I'm an Ancient expert or anything).

Still, a great model (& importantly, a great & fitting name! You always had a way with that). Keep on keepin' on!

 

[Emm-A-]

wow, this is so great! I have been searching for a skinnier, morphable treant like this one for my project. Thank you so much for sharing! this is a biased 5/5 for me.
no seriously, this model is awesome!

When it comes to this face thing, I think the complete opposite of what Kyrbi0 said. Despite he is probably the one, you should listen to instead of me, I actually like it, that they have no real face. It looks so much spokier than the usual treants.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Awww... : )

What I was saying, though (about the face) is, essentially, that I hope it was intention, because it looks quite different from the rest of the in-game AnciEnts. If the point was to make something that could slip in alongside all those, then that's not ideal (IMHO). If not, then more power to ya. : )

 

[JesusHipster]

the idea with alt. animations is cool, the model is decent

 

[Archian]

Awesome stuff there. Looks great!

 

[sarumanthecursed]

My only comment would be to make two spell animations out of the stand 3 & 4 anims would really make him more versatile but over all he's incredible!

 

[ShadowMidas]

wow groot model awesome!

 

[JesusHipster]

Review: Needs Fix

I think you know how good and creative of a model it is, so i won't rant about it right now. But keep in mind that's it's an amazing work. Let's instead talk about the things that need to be improved Briefly: attachment points are fucked, death animation is.. Anticlimactic to say the least, you can click only around 20% of the model and portrait is rather meh. Attachment points and clickability are most important things here 'coz they practically make the model unusable in a good map.

 

[The_Silent]

Also, it lacks a protrait a animation.

 

[Sellenisko]

I will work on improvments.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Sellenisko, this is a rather nice model. An unique asset in our database. I'll ask you though, do you plan updating it? It wasn't changed after JH's review.

 

[Sellenisko]

Yes. In time I will update it. Gotta lot of things in progress right now. Updated Fallen onea models, Moarg brute, Azsharas, Sargeras and other things. But I plan to update and add more models from my "Ancients" series.

 

[HappyCockroach]

As said by JesusHipster:

Review: Needs Fix

I think you know how good and creative of a model it is, so i won't rant about it right now. But keep in mind that's it's an amazing work. Let's instead talk about the things that need to be improved Briefly: attachment points are fucked, death animation is.. Anticlimactic to say the least, you can click only around 20% of the model and portrait is rather meh. Attachment points and clickability are most important things here 'coz they practically make the model unusable in a good map.

Awaiting an update then.

 

[bobadoo2]

So you could have a whole forest of these guys and then they all wake up and surprise attack you, epic indeed!

 

[Sellenisko]

So you could have a whole forest of these guys and then they all wake up and surprise attack you, epic indeed!

Yep, that was the plan "Done mess with the nature!"

 

[LISBOAH]

I like it very much! It is truly a high-quality model!

Thanks!

 

[Nortander]

Absolutely love it! Warcraft III lacks of 'realistic' living trees Thank you!

 

[General Frank]

Please add a proper portrait animation along with a team coloured back plane to the model.
Also, there is an issues with the birth animation. Bird and scrub show up during it which I think is a mistake.
Please fix those issues.