Diablo II - the original Lacuni / Pantherwomen CGI renders!
6 years ago
I just discovered these on Mobygames - damn, I wish I had these to use for reference back some 12 years ago when I was drawing my Werewolf druid vs Lacuni Huntresses comic!
As those familiar with Diablo II probably know, the various enemy and character sprites were originally created in 3DMax as CGI models, animated, then "pixellated" from an isometric view and turned into sprites. Some of these showed up as promotional artwork and wallpapers - and it was there I first saw the sexy 4-breasted Lacuni gals back in the day. Guess it has been a while that I looked them up on google as the original "Pantherwomen" designation and not as Lacuni (as they have been called since some Diablo fiction books, as well as in Diablo III). That's how I found these, and woooow. Yep the various armor types sure leave aa lot of exposed quad-boobs aand nipples for all to see. I call them Light armor - small corset that ends below the lower breasts, Medium armor - longer corset that half-covers the upper breasts with some nipple slips, and Heavy armor - more like an apron on the belly affixed by straps to the crotch, back and neck. Those tiny sprites left a lot to my (dirty) imagination, but now I can see that the plumed helmets are actually not made of metal, and far less armored than I thought - as well as how the Medium armor type apparently has no leather straps to cover the pussy!
Their faces are also nice, and we got a lot of shots of them plus even a wireframe aand model rig with bones. The wide, cat-like noses actually remind me of the Na'vi from Avatar. There is also a collage showing how they got made from sketch to concept art to CGI
Here, I uploaded all the pics into a Google photos gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iBBkGNJT8ea5SnJR7
As those familiar with Diablo II probably know, the various enemy and character sprites were originally created in 3DMax as CGI models, animated, then "pixellated" from an isometric view and turned into sprites. Some of these showed up as promotional artwork and wallpapers - and it was there I first saw the sexy 4-breasted Lacuni gals back in the day. Guess it has been a while that I looked them up on google as the original "Pantherwomen" designation and not as Lacuni (as they have been called since some Diablo fiction books, as well as in Diablo III). That's how I found these, and woooow. Yep the various armor types sure leave aa lot of exposed quad-boobs aand nipples for all to see. I call them Light armor - small corset that ends below the lower breasts, Medium armor - longer corset that half-covers the upper breasts with some nipple slips, and Heavy armor - more like an apron on the belly affixed by straps to the crotch, back and neck. Those tiny sprites left a lot to my (dirty) imagination, but now I can see that the plumed helmets are actually not made of metal, and far less armored than I thought - as well as how the Medium armor type apparently has no leather straps to cover the pussy!
Their faces are also nice, and we got a lot of shots of them plus even a wireframe aand model rig with bones. The wide, cat-like noses actually remind me of the Na'vi from Avatar. There is also a collage showing how they got made from sketch to concept art to CGI
Here, I uploaded all the pics into a Google photos gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iBBkGNJT8ea5SnJR7
Anyway, here is hoping we do get the remake. D4 I don't much care about as I kinda lost my faith/interest in D3 a long time ago. Grim Dawn is my utter favourite now.