[WIP/RELz] Dagoth's Ash Antagonists

Tried to be efficient in creating as many characters from one base mesh.
I warped a zbrush body to the shape and scale of a dunmer provided by eloth and happychap.

I intend to bake some of the colour from the skyrim body to the high poly

Seeing as how its red mountain, lets assume all the creatures of dagoth ur are derived from only Dunmer.

From this base sculpt we can create at least 4-5 creatures:

Ash Ghoul: Add sculpt detail, collapse face, add snout, add clothing.
Ash Slave: Add sculpt detail, add cloth.
Ash Zombie: Add sculpt detail, collapse face.
Ash Vampire: Add sculpt detail, add armour/claws.
Ascended Sleeper: Use arms, make thinner, clothing.

Corprus Stalkers: modify heads, add corprus detail.

Here's the thing.
What the hell does Dagoth Ur do to make Ash creatures?
Does he use the power of lorkhans heart to harden the bodies of the dunmer and enslave their minds? perhaps some hardened ash on the bodies that act like armour?

I get confused between that and Corprus/Blight.
Get talking, I wanna get to grips with the details/concepts.
I'm up for expanding on original morrowind designs and having more than naked dunmer with no faces.

Last edited by grumpycat on 15 Mar 2014 - 01:45.

NEIN! I'm doing a batch

NEIN!

I'm doing a batch file for all ash slave/zombie/ghoul varients, and then they will be merged all together.

btw read somewhere that a

btw read somewhere that a second animation can be added to the main player animation, similar to the tail animation.

would be sick if a secondary animation can be set for the nose/trompe thingy ^^.

My two cents: I'd say it's

My two cents:

I'd say it's great thing you are using such a wide variety of "skeletons" for your creatures for many reasons.

Different skeletons have different "abilities", some can cast spells, some cannot, some can even use "shouts" and so.

Using falmer body base for ash slave sounds cool. They are after all "slaves", not some noble majestetic creatures, so the "shy" base of falmer should be just perfect. It looks shy, curious and hideous, whereas draugr body would be more like "COME HERE AND LEMME STAB YOU IN FACE WITH GIGANTIC AXE", and falmer is more like "just.. can I.. Can I stab you? Just a little?"

I didn't read all posts, but I assume you used draugr as base for some of the other ash creatures, this would allow them for wider range of weapons, maybe some kind of "Shrieks", or ally buffing "shouts".

I just wonder if we could

I just wonder if we could please get a female dunmer form of these wicked looking creatures? There are male and female dreamers, so it would make sense to have female slaves and ghouls. Not really sure you could tell the difference once they reached 'Ascended Sleeper', and the Ash Vampire form seems to have been reserved only for high ranking members of House Dagoth, but I think it would add a lot just to see males as well as females running around with these transformations.

I agree; it would make sense

I agree; it would make sense lorewise and add a bit of variety to the enemies without changing too much. Could also be applied to other male-only enemies like Dwarven ghosts, corprus victims, etc.

I think the ash enemies are some of the best models I've seen so far btw, awesome job.