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Troll Bonecaster

"I've got friends on the other side"

A troll spellcaster unit designed for my Troll Campaign.
Mesh is scratch-made, animations - a mix of in-game and scratch-made. Uses in-game textures.
Includes the main model, portrait, custom missile, and summonable totem.

This was a bottom-up design - I originally envisioned the unit's abilities and built the model accordingly.
When the Bonecaster dies, she leaves behind a Totem that attacks enemies for a certain duration.
The Totem's birth animation is slightly delayed so as to match the Bonecaster's death animation in a "whenever unit dies - create unit" trigger.
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The Bonecaster channels a storm of vengeful spirits, dealing damage to enemies around her (an activated/triggered ability based on Phoenix Fire)
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All open source as always. Feel free to modify to your liking. Credits will do fine.

23/06/2021
• Run animation redone
• Hair animations added
• Death particles updated
• Added a younger/more feminine version of the character + associated portrait

28/04/20201
• Uploaded
Contents

Troll Bonecaster (Model)

Troll Bonecaster Missile (Model)

Troll Bonecaster Portrait (Model)

Troll Bonecaster Totem (Model)

Young Troll Bonecaster (Model)

Young Troll Bonecaster Portrait (Model)

Reviews
General Frank
A very neatly made model with lots of detail and amazingly well made wrap and effects. Awesome job!
Level 48
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Apr 18, 2008
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The massive nose is really weird - but I like literally everything else about this. Nice choice of animations, really cool totem too. :)

A little hard to tell that this is a female, too - hard to work with the masculine textures. I don't know though, I think maybe the face can be tinkered with a bit more to look more feminine.
 
Level 9
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Jul 17, 2019
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The massive nose is really weird - but I like literally everything else about this. Nice choice of animations, really cool totem too. :)

A little hard to tell that this is a female, too - hard to work with the masculine textures. I don't know though, I think maybe the face can be tinkered with a bit more to look more feminine.
like that, when I think it's a man, when I read and download it to see it, I know it is a woman and I have to zoom in on something that needs to be big to see it is too flat to see women))).
 
Level 21
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Mar 29, 2020
Messages
1,237
very cool model. animations and everything. A few minor possible improvements -

  • I like the idea of face variation (trying to make something that doesn't just look like the same exact troll model with extra doodads) but that weird snout/beak thing makes it look like a different race than warcraft trolls. looks like somekind of bird/lizard person.
  • I also think it is difficult to tell this is supposed to be a female. don't know why, it does seem to have breasts.
  • it looks a little unnatural to be swinging arms so far back and forth while running, while taking such small steps (being constrained by the skirt and all).
 
Level 2
Joined
May 3, 2021
Messages
5
Great work!!! As Chucky said he doesn't resemble a troll (at least Warcraft's trolls) but it's a great work nonetheless. 20/10 great work!!!
 
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