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[Pstemarie]

This is a WIP that I started today for Project Q. Is a remake of the CCP Remorhaz - higher poly, new texture, improved animations.

 

 

Head details - new skinmesh fins.

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Some texture work laid in...

 

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Head texturing completed...

 

[Draygoth28]

Very nice. Can't wait to see final.

[Mecheon]

Looking nice so far

 

Gotta ask, will you modify the legs so they're more insectoid and not reptilian? The artwork I can find has them as huge ol' centipede likes

[Pstemarie]

Looking nice so far

 

Gotta ask, will you modify the legs so they're more insectoid and not reptilian? The artwork I can find has them as huge ol' centipede likes

 

I have artwork that shows two types - spider-like and then what is attached now.  For now its got the original legs, but I plan on adding spider-like legs in a future update to the model.

[Mecheon]

Haven't seen any of the reptilian types! Huh.

 

Looking good so far all the same

[Pstemarie]

Haven't seen any of the reptilian types! Huh.

 

Looking good so far all the same

 

These were my primary sources:

• Old School Remorhaz 
• WotC D&D Minis - Remorhaz
• Insectoid Remorhaz

Plus a few other images off Google search. All three images clearly show large frontal scales; hence, the reptillian nature.

[Bluebomber4evr]

These were my primary sources:

• Old School Remorhaz 
• WotC D&D Minis - Remorhaz
• Insectoid Remorhaz

Plus a few other images off Google search. All three images clearly show large frontal scales; hence, the reptillian nature.

Those all look insectoid/arthropoid to me.

[Pstemarie]

Those all look insectoid/arthropoid to me.

 

One bomber's arthropod is another man's reptile 

[Carcerian]

^{I always thought of remohaz as "Ice worms"}

 

 

^{Action-Packed YouTube Video of Dos-Era Remorhaz pownage from SSI's "The Secret of the Silver Blades" :} 

[Bluebomber4evr]

^{I always thought of remohaz as "Ice worms"}

 

 

^{Action-Packed YouTube Video of Dos-Era Remorhaz pownage from SSI's "The Secret of the Silver Blades" :} 

Yeah, even as far back as the 1st edition monster manual they've been described as "ice worms".

[Pstemarie]

Only worms I ever saw never had legs 

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The finished product is available via the Q Updater.

[Bluebomber4evr]

Only worms I ever saw never had legs 

Lots of worm-like invertebrates are commonly referred to as "worms" even though they are biologically unrelated, such as velvet worms, maggots, caterpillars, and various beetle grubs, all of which have legs. The fact is that every D&D monster book published since 1st edition describes the remorhaz as an insectoid creature. You're mistaking the arthropod body segments for reptilian scales.

 

However, your model would make an excellent behir.

[Pstemarie]

Dunno, looks like a Remorhaz to me.

 

 

 

If you're that convinced its not a Remorhaz, feel free to use it as a Behir - its no chitin-plate off my back. I chose the dragon texture because it was the closest I could come to what I was seeing in illustrations - large flat plate on top, large flat plate on bottom. I'm sorry if the top part of the model has tiny scales when you zoom in - just imagine its blemishes on the chitin. Really, it's not like we're making a genuine animal here. It's a monster, which over the years has been open to a VAST number of interpretations. I just started with someone else's model, redid the head (or at least Rolo did), and added some details.

[Mecheon]

Fun mysterious CCP development fact!

 

The model? Remake of ATOM's Behir model

 

(Still reckon centipede-like feet rather than the reptilian ones would make it clearer)

[Bluebomber4evr]

Fun mysterious CCP development fact!

 

The model? Remake of ATOM's Behir model

 

(Still reckon centipede-like feet rather than the reptilian ones would make it clearer)

Well that explains why it looks like a behir to me! xD

[Carcerian]

Atom's Purple Worms also looked like might have some reskin potential for desert/ice/sea serpents, etc...

 

[Rolo Kipp]

<pulls out...>

 

Ok, now you've done it!

Instant response to that screenie? "I have *got* to skin that baby..."

*scooches over a few things and makes room*

 

Edit: After looking at the model... Uh, no.

Sorry, but just no.

 

*shakes head and buries the remains*

 

I'll rebuild it from scratch... =)

 

<...a small curved knife>

[MannyJabrielle]

And a bit of linguistic trivia to go along with the CCP trivia.

The old english word "wyrm" (or  it's old high german spelling, wurm) is the name for dragons in older germanic mythologies (as opposed to the modern word "dragon" which is derived from the latin word "draco").  Wyrm meant both dragons, and snakelike.  The modern word worm has it's regular zoological definition, but could also be a loose reference to anything with a long, slender body with no limbs, or short/stunted limbs...

So yeah, great wyrms are really just oversized mutant worms with a bad case of acid indigestion  Um, don't say that to their faces though unless you got plenty of elemental protection and some dragon slaying gear handy.

[Carcerian]

The English word "dragon" further derives from Greek δράκων(drákōn), "dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake"

 

 

Early European Dragons also typicly were chimeric affiars mixing aninmal parts onto one monstrosity...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Etymology Extras:

From Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drakōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δρακεῖν (drakein), aorist active infinitive of δέρκομαι (derkomai, “I see clearly”).

[MannyJabrielle]

The guy in the third picture looks entirely too relaxed for someone being gobbled up by a dragon. In fact, it kinda looks like he overdid it on the halfling pipeweed and is kinda entertained by his own imminent digestion....

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The guy in the third picture looks entirely too relaxed for someone being gobbled up by a dragon. In fact, it kinda looks like he overdid it on the halfling pipeweed and is kinda entertained by his own imminent digestion....

 

He's obviously a cloistered monk who is no doubt relieved he will no longer have to illuminate medieval manuscripts.