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Mr Purple Explained?1 year 9 months ago
by shadowie
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Ok, so what on earth could the hidden purple creature have in common with Diablo? The answer might be Michael Dashow. He did a lot of work on Diablo II for Blizzard between 1998 to 2005 and seems to have a special love for purple Walruses.
His Diablo gallery: http://www.michaeldashow.com/diablo.html

Thanks to Xabora for the tip-off!


Update: Blizzard closed down his Concept art gallery with Diablo sketches in 2004 with this reason:
Michael Dashow wrote:Concept art is no longer viewable. Blizzard entertainment has a new policy which forbids the showing of any artwork for projects which have not been released. Even though all of the stuff that was formerly on display here was from long-dead projects which will never be relased, it still falls into the same category and is now considerred to be forbidden.

But looks like the game he did concept art for is very much alive and kicking, here is a snapshot of his gallery page in 2004 before the shutdown:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040806175115...ashow.com/concept.html


In case Michael Dashow is unrelated to the purple creature and it's not a Walrus, these might be better guesses ;) Made by Stn Toulouse.


13 comments

1 year 9 months ago

#1 Xabora United States(us)

 
Wow... nice post ya did. :D
1 year 9 months ago

#2 Xabora United States(us)

 
1 year 9 months ago

#3 Xabora United States(us)

 
Sorry about the triple post but I forgot one last thing.

The happy birthday dragon.

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Alt Text: This space intentionally left blank by Falthorn

And ss111.jpg was replaced with this:
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Doing a google search on this will turn some a result with someone talking about a Purple Walrus image that was there before they took down page 10 on the old fanart site.
(Ever wondered why it never showed up?) Archive.org it.
1 year 9 months ago

#4 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
Can't seem to find it on archive.org, you got any luck?
1 year 9 months ago

#5 Xabora United States(us)

 
Won't be able to.
They took it down a few days after it came up... then the page itself was nuked.
Stayed like that till the new gallery system.
Thats around when said Dragon Appeared iirc.
1 year 9 months ago

#6 stntoulouse France(fr)

 
1 year 9 months ago

#7 shadowie Sweden(se)

 
Haha awesome stntoulouse, best fakes by far! Are you the author?

Edit: Nvm saw your signature, I'll put the up for fun if that's alright with you? :P
1 year 9 months ago

#8 stntoulouse France(fr)

 
shadowie wrote:Haha awesome stntoulouse, best fakes by far! Are you the author?

Edit: Nvm saw your signature, I'll put the up for fun if that's alright with you? :P


Of course you can ... you saved my night. I was drawing a 4st one and : I saw the post ! Haha

Now I can go sleeping :)

(it's 2:09 AM in France)
1 year 9 months ago

#9 resonance-crea France(fr)

 
Hooooow about something as near as this ? :

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2132/104secretkq3.jpg

;)
1 year 9 months ago

#10 amdrac Germany(de)

 
Day1 Picture, Copy und move and RGB
http://heol-eus-albion.de/blizzard/day1spezial.jpg
It is now seen a Diablo Face
1 year 9 months ago

#11 mim France(fr)

 
new secret picture available:

http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/23.jpg

-> W

D O W ?!

edit: icy is the new css class name
1 year 9 months ago

#12 stntoulouse France(fr)

 
resonance-crea wrote:Hooooow about something as near as this ? :

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2132/104secretkq3.jpg

;)


I think you're right ! :worship:
1 year 9 months ago

#13 resonance-crea France(fr)

 
amdrac wrote:Day1 Picture, Copy und move and RGB
http://heol-eus-albion.de/blizzard/day1spezial.jpg
It is now seen a Diablo Face


I have no idea want kind of stuff you smoke to see diablo in there. Please share :D
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