A Voyage into id

[Janizdreg]

The Bethesda Blog recently published a blog post and a Flickr photo tour featuring the id Software office. Among the contained Doom highlights are the Doom shotgun (aka TootsieToy Dakota), as well as most likely the best public photos so far taken of the original latex and metal models of Arch-Vile, Mancubus, Revenant and Spiderdemon, all in glorious high resolution.

[Vordakk]

I hate to be that guy, but you misspelled Revenant. Sorry, it's the OCD talking :)

[Janizdreg]

Damn. I guess that's my punishment for being a lazy ass and copy/pasting the model photo links from this thread.

[geo]

LOL @ shareware awards...

LOL doesn't your office have a shotgun in plain view of the public in the lobby?

[Csonicgo]

*looks at the revenant pic*


NO PANTS?!


noooooooooooooo

[Maes]

Heh TBQH, these models would simply make me laugh if I saw them in full resolution in-game. They look like 80s action figures.

The downscaling into sprites and colorization process gave them a "grittiness" and a "dirty" appearance that also made them so convincing.

So that closes the "High res models/sprites" argument for me.

[jute]

The spiderdemon's mechanical base looks very similar to some of Doom's wall textures.

[boris]

Janizdreg said:

Revenant

Clearly doesn't wear pants!

[sgtcrispy]

Or a shirt.

Nudists.....

[hervoheebo]

Wicked sick, finally some high-res reference pics to replace the ones released ages ago at rome.ro.

[PRIMEVAL]

This further helps my theory that the Arch-vile was inspired by Pumpkinhead.

[hobomaster22]

I never realized the mancubus has six tits.

[Hirogen2]

boris said:

Clearly doesn't wear pants!

Neither does the Archvile. Take it this way - it's warm enough in hell.

hobomaster22 said:

I never realized the mancubus has six tits.

They are there, although almost lost in the downsizing to the few pixels that the in-game mancubus is big.

[Stygian]

The little hydraulic-doohickeys on the spider mastermind's legs appear to be taped together. One of them is broken, too!