Sauron the Deceiver

[Moderator]

11:55, 19th Oct 2015
Misha: hive him an 'overhead' attachment point, and other ones if you missed any

lol Hive? anyway, good job

 

[BalkanLuka]

Nice model, i see that you based it on the LOTR War of the Ring concept art of Sauron which is very nice combined with othel lotr models one can easily make a good remake of Wotr in wc3.

Love the stand chanel animation, but maybe make the ring glow a bit to make it more to stand out.

 

[InfernalTater]

The quality is pretty low, but at an appropriate scale in-game it's fine; it isn't any worse than the typical in-game models. It's just that Sauron is so epic that I'd love to see a high quality model of him.

This looks pretty awesome. 4/5.

 

[Direfury]

Fix the disspiate animation.

 

[jonbon29]

HerrDave is really good in making LOTR models that will still fit on Warcraft, this is almost perfect man.

 

[Dinodin]

I like it, but I still think olofmoleman's version is better

 

[TinkerLord]

This is good work
Just In my opinion the texture is a little too blur, Could be Sharper, but it might be limited due to the size of the texture to control the filesize

If the Detail Is Sharper, I am pretty sure this one Blends Well with other In-game Unit

Stand Ready Animation (according to Hive's Viewer) Could slow down abit, (But not a big deal)

Love the Attack 1 animation, Good work on tweaking the anim, it is awesome
I like the Mesh, Simple yet it get what it should be done
4/5

 

[WhiteFang]

HerrDave is really good in making LOTR models that will still fit on Warcraft, this is almost perfect man.

Truth

 

[Connacht]

Looks pretty cool from the pic.

 

[SNIper of DARKness]

Is there no way to make a death similar to the "Fire Lord" ?
Also should armor bleed?

 

[Kyrbi0]

Pretty snazzy, man; nice fit to the rest of your models. I particularly love "animated suits of armor".

Personally, my only issue with this is that he lacks the gravitas and grandeur of his namesake... That is to say, Sauron of all people shouldn't be loping about, or swinging his arms flamboyantly; I'd look for more cold, calculated & powerful motions in his character. The animation I have the biggest beef with is his Walk; replace that with a potent, slower Stride and he'd be 20% cooler. : )

 

[Radagast]

Any specific reason why he is a flying armor and the helmet is on fire?

 

[HerrDave]

Any specific reason why he is a flying armor and the helmet is on fire?

Yep - While I was in the War of the Ring editor looking for colour references and how to properly shape the models; I stumbled across an unused texture labelled "SKIN_Sauron"

While it was never used in the game, I was able to eyeball it and work out vaguely what the model would have looked like.
Well, all but the mace, that was purely guesswork.

I've since refined the concept into something more fitting of WC3's style, while remaining faithful to the original interpretation.

 

[Radagast]

And the Flaming head?

 

[HerrDave]

And the Flaming head?

The inspiration for the flaming head came from an old LotR cartoon and I rolled with it because t seemed strange to me that Sauron would be naught but floating armour - which strikes me as something that a Nazgul or Wight would be.

*note - This is the Witch King, not Sauron in the cartoon.

 

[Radagast]

Fair enough... For me it looks like some Fire Elemental or something and looks good, I've never been a fan of Sauron being a flaming eye or some sort of a ghost.


But Its your vision of Sauron, And as such it looks good

 

[Grey Knight]

NICE MODEL AND ANIMATION

 

[Palette]

The elden ring oh, elden ring...

 

[Ether]

He also looks like Dormammu.

 

[SonsOfSami]

Good update, looks much better than the old version.
I kinda wish that it looked more like a classic Sauron though.

 

[HerrDave]

Thanks

For models based on the movies, you'll find @Fingolfin 's models are much better than mine

When you get the chance, track him down and see what he's got on the model-menu, he's actually one of the guys who inspired me to take up modeling

My own models chase the themes of older LotR games, like Fellowship of the Ring (2002), The Hobbit (2003), and War of the Ring (2003)

 

[SonsOfSami]

Yes, I know most of the models made by Fingolfin, but I am pretty sure he hasn't made a Sauron model : (
There are only 2 Sauron models on the hive, yours, and another one that looks more classic although frankly it looks outdated in terms of quality.

Plus you already made BFME-like models, like some of the Gondorian soldiers : P
(Not a request by the way, I don't have plans for a LotR project at the moment, so feel free to keep Sauron as is : )

 

[Regent_Artiman]

Sauron in bikini?

 

[Lich-KING222]

thank you for this magnificent model 5/5 it looks just like the reference. although i liked the older one in some way, i loved the attack 2 animation on the older one, and the mace looked pretty cool. is it possible to post the older one with the new head and the new walk animation as a separate model ?

 

[HerrDave]

If you have a copy of the old one laying around somewhere, I could splice them together for you

Archivists kind of want to kill me because I almost never keep older versions of models due to not having a huge amount of space to work with

 

[Lich-KING222]

sure thing.

 

[Lich-KING222]

also i was wondering if you have some hobbits hiding around some where

 

[HerrDave]

Alas, I don't have any hobbits just yet - though I started working on them twice, it didn't go anywhere

Here's what they'll be based on

Spoiler

 

[Lich-KING222]

Robbin Hood

 

[konvan5]

Its amazing!

 

[HerrDave]

@Lich-KING222 Here's your splice

Sauron Splice | HIVE

 

[Lich-KING222]

Thank you. your awesome ummm words cant think of any due to excitement cant wait to see what you do next.

 

[HerrDave]

I'm gonna eat some spaghetti-o's

*edit
I ate some spaghetti-o's

 

[Lich-KING222]

while you were eating spaghetti-o's I was thinking of something that would suit the floating helmet theme you got going on. have you considered making guardians of middle earth type of witch king

 

[HerrDave]

I thought about it more than once, but what turned me away from it each time was I couldn't find a properly retro looking Iron Crown that'd look right floating without a hood

 

[Lich-KING222]

< (Not Good at sketching)

I had a little Fun with some Sketch work Thought i should share it.

 

[General Frank]

< (Not Good at sketching)

I had a little Fun with some Sketch work Thought i should share it.

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That's pretty dope. Love the runes and engraving.

 

[GrandMaitre]

5/5

 

[Malifestofphelis]

so cool can i use it on my campaign?

 

[HerrDave]

By all means, dude

 

[Lich-KING222]

With Each revisit the model becomes better and better. Its astonishing to see Artists improve there work over the years Keep up the good work HerrDave

 

[kiveU]

I love this model!!

 

[Hegucz]

i love this model so much great job but when i try to play with it i can see only the flames and the rest is only white does anyone know how to fix it?

 

[HerrDave]

i love this model so much great job but when i try to play with it i can see only the flames and the rest is only white does anyone know how to fix it?

Sounds like the skin wasn't set up correctly in the map
You have to import the skin and delete the "war3mapImported\" part of the .BLP's file path in the Asset Manager

Once you've done that, save and re-open your map and it should be fixed