Dwarven Mortar - Myth 2 Soulblighter

Legacy passion work done back in 2013\2014 of a Dwarven Mortar hero for real-time purposes. Character is based on unit in the real-time strategy game called Myth 2 Soulblighter created in 1998 by Bungie. Based on official reference images and additional references gathered from the web I've created my version of the character.

Specifically:
- Created a sculpture in Zbrush
- Retopology in Topogun
- UV'ed in 3ds Max
- Textured in Quixel Ddo (Specular\Gloss)
- Rigged in 3ds Max
- Created animations in 3ds Max
- Renders in Marmoset Toolbag
- Integration into UDK (UE3)
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Full gamedev video that includes this and other characters that I've done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DD4Hot9kM&t=967s&ab_channel=VsevolodKamenetsky
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Separately in 2014/2015 did revamped version for UE4 with PBR textures with shader logic to customize the look of the characters.
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Lore:
Dwarfs are creatures of the Myth world from the game Myth TFL and Myth SB (Bungie). Unlike usual dwarfs from diferent fantasy books or games, these mostly do not live under the mountain but rather with humans in the human citites. These dwarfs usualy are men of science, research and knowledge and they are great blacksmith aswell.

Description of dwarfs:

"A diminutive race of sturdy craftsmen. The Dwarves delight in the elements of Fire and Stone, and are unrivaled masters of both.
They share a deep hatred and countless years of war with the Ghols. Driven from their homelands in Myrgard and Stoneheim, they returned to reclaim them following the defeat of the Dark at the end of the Great War."

During the time of war they became demolitionists, stelthy pathfinders and strategist.
They use explosives as they're main weapon of choice. Withing the ranks of dwarven soldiers there is a small elite group of dwarves know as dwarven pathfinders.

Description of a dwarven Hero:

"Iri trekked for three days through Ghol haunted hills, eating as he walked, sleeping between footfalls; he ran for the last 5 hours, traversing the 26 mile wide corpse-filled morass ringing Covenant..."

In the second game, due to the technological advancements dwarven mortarist appeared.

Description of a dwarven mortar:

"The sixty years of peace since the end of the Great War have not seen the Dwarves idling about. There is still great concern over what they refer to as "the Ghol problem" and much research has been done into new technologies of mass destruction. Their mortar technology is still in its infancy, and there are a scant few Dwarves trained in its use; many of them blow themselves to pieces before they learn to use it properly.

Dwarven mortars are wildly erratic...and utterly devastating."

Best of them became dwarven mortar heroes.

Description of a dwarven mortar Hero:

"Vnarin, son of Snorro, best explained the character of the men of the elite mortar brigade when he said, 'It takes a certain kind of maniac to carry fire in his fist and death on his back.'"