Hi.
I am currently learning Blender (nothing serious, just a hobby) to make a biblical accurate angel skin for Mercy, and oh god, now I know why it won’t happen officially, it is freaking hard to do, lots of moving parts, animations, textures etc…
Even oficial skins must be extremely hard and time demanding to do, lots of sculpting, modeling, retopology (oh god, retopology is a pain!!!), rigging, textures, bakes etc…
The sad thing is that many OW players don’t even count skins as content, I used to be one of them, not anymore; it must frustrating for OW’s 3D designers…
So, TLDR, now I trully understand how hard must be make a OW’s skin… Let’s drop a 
for all OW’s 3D designers who bring lots of new skins for, trust me, they trully deserve it… 
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If someone is practiced, it is easily possible to create a skin completely from scratch within a week.
But you have to note that each skin exists twice. First the variant that you can look at in the menu and the one used in the game. The latter is extremely low poly in some areas (especially legs).
You also have more work than the devs, every character already has a skeleton and the animations on which the skin is simply put on. You have to do animations and skellets in addition. If you spend a lot of time inversing your skin, it will be more detailed than any ingame skin.
In addition, as a beginner, you don’t know many tricks that simplify and speed up the work considerably. Custom programs / addons will also be used. Not to forget that there is more likely to use Maya and other expensive programs that have different advantages and disadvantages to Blender.
I don’t count skins as actual content either, as there’s absolutely nothing to gameplay like new maps, heroes, and modes.
Yes, if you take it seriously, it’s content, but not a game changer and thats the improtant point.
If I were at home on my real computer again and had the time (currently exam time) I would also work on a few projects (e.g. a realistic and theoretically functioning version of Widow kiss, which I will probably do as a 3D print )
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Ok but why would you want Mercy as a biblical accurate angel
To give people nightmares
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Because it fits Mercy’s concept as a character and it is an interesting ideia…
Welcome in the 3D amazing world… It’s a love and hate relationship.
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A biblical accurate angel? You know all angels in the bible are described as men and they don’t have wings right? You must be referring to people’s assumed biblical appearance for angels, which isn’t biblical at all.
Could change the name to Cherubim or Seraphim then.
A biblical angel looks nothing like the generic human looking ones. Biblical angels are more-so described as having many eyes and no real form; a form humans cannot comprehend, thus they just drew something that makes sense to them.
… some of them are. Some of them are described as flaming wheels or just wings with eyes and so on.
There’s supposedly a good reason a lot of them start their introductions with “Do not fear!”.
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That’s not an Angel, to my knowledge. A similar being, but not an Angel.
A Cherubim, I think.
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I Can BE ur DEVil or Ur ANGle…
you’re swapping letters in there yo.
Cherubim are one of the “tiers” of angels and the ones people think of a lot.
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No… a “biblical” angel is literally a human shaped person with no wings. That literally is what they are as described in the bible. Nowhere in the bible are they described as having many eyes and no real form. I don’t know what bible you got your description of an angel from but clearly its not the Christian one.
Umm… verse please? Because yea… thats literally not in the bible.
Ezekiel 1
Dude describes angels.
Lots of faces and wings. Some flaming wheels in there.
Scary!
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“No real form” because they’ve been described in many ways.
Ezekiel 1:15-21.
As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
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Yea thats not angels. Nowhere is the word angel mentioned there. That is the throne of God with the beasts beside it as described in other parts of the bible too. Every time an angel is described in the bible, especially interacting with humans, they are described as men and without wings.
a biblically accurate angel would actually be Ryan Reynolds, i think thats what OP means guys
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Ok.
Considering I’m just going with what I’ve been taught and I’m not willing to read the entire bible.
But that is what OP is referring to. The very odd “agents” of God who show up and do stuff.