Matt Barrett on Asura Design 3

Asura, the little goblin-y, flappy-eared tinkerer creatures… They make magic machines, right? They’re tinkerers, yes, but also intuitively powerful masters of the elemental energies surrounding them in the caverns of their native sub-Tyrian world.
The talents of the asura carried their civilization through ages of harmonious existence beneath the lands of Tyria. When the destroyers forced them to the surface, their truly exotic d3 gold technology and traditions flooded out and changed the world.

The asura represent a force of explosive change, cutting traditions and forcing adaptation. With no investment in the heritage of the world above, they impose their will without restraint. They apply their technology in ways never before dreamed within their rock warrens, let alone in the lands of sun.

Their essence diablo 3 gold can be summarized thus: Nobody is prepared for the asura except the asura.

The little people themselves were conceived originally as scrawny, creepy, Gollum-like, gnome-y creatures, with pointy red hats, arcane mutterings, and pale skin. They were to be mischievous, dwelling on the fringes of society, scavenging mysterious artifacts of their advanced neighbors.

This was my first crack buy d3 gold at the asura (below), before they’d been given a larger part of the story. Note the idol he wears as a pendant.

Their role in the story changed, however, and demanded that their appearance reflect a deeper complexity. The asura were to be underestimated by the first sun-siders to encounter them. For this new role, the asura needed to be at least a little sympathetic, or even cute, but not too cute. They gw2 gold needed to give the impression that condescension would be imprudent. Thus, they gained their present feline-reptilian-alien aspect.

This next asura design (below) was headed in the right direction, but it’s really pretty creepy. It’s got an alien look, but it’s not even slightly cute, nor does it suggest anything resembling ambition.

Physically, asura are mostly unintimidating, with scrawny shoulders, pencil guild wars 2 gold necks, short legs—all hands and feet and noggin. At first glance, one might see a childlike individual, with wide-set eyes, a round head, and stumpy legs that waddle-run in the most adorable way.

However, look any longer and one will see the disdainful, scheming eyes, the unsympathetic reptilian mouth, generally sophisticated gremlin-like bearing…and the five-meter-tall stone golem standing behind him. You don’t want to call the asura cute buy wow gold unless you also want to see how hard that golem can clamp your throat while a mad-genius gremlin hisses insults into your eyes from between pointed reptilian teeth.

This asura design (below) popped out one morning- the first thing I drew that day, and I knew I’d nailed it. This would be the Ur-Asura.

Now that you’ve seen some of the concept art behind the design of the asura, I thought you might like to watch how I draw these little guys. We’ve put together a video that shows the creation of a piece of asura concept art in Photoshop in quasi-real time, narrated by yours truly. Take a look!

Here’s our final piece of asura concept art (below). That round head is full of ambitious, feverishly analytical brain. This is an entire race of mad scientists hell-bent on world domination, and designing their material culture is as daunting and subtle as a finger on a missile switch. That’s the subject for my next post…