Oh Depthz’ Art Depot

[He/Him] This is a place where I put my work, whether I finish it or not

[ohdepthz]

ULTRAKILL THEORY (again but more likely):

ULTRAKILL’s God is a Gnostic Demiurge.

In Gnostic faith there exists a being known as the Demiurge. The Gnostics described the Demiurge as an inferior, ignorant and malevolent deity who created the physical world. The Demiurge strived to entrap aspects of the divine within materiality. The physical world is also beholden to flaw as the Demiurge aimed to recreate the pleroma (albeit poorly) but also due to the fact that the Demiurge isn’t omniscient, omnipresent, nor all-powerful.

In ULTRAKILL, God is VERY much shown to be a flawed individual. He makes a ton of mistakes and feels both powerless to fix it as well as immense guilt over his creation of Hell. In Fraud we are shown a statue depicting God. I feel like this is symbolically calling God a fraudulent creator. Plus God’s statue depicts Him with the world in one hand and a hammer and chisel in the other harkening back to the meaning of Demiurge. God directly states that he cannot unmake Hell, showing that God isn’t all-powerful either. The world that God created was inherently flawed and everything in it was flawed; humanity was flawed with free will, war, and the eternal punishment of Hell, Angels were beset by apathy, vanity and pride, and Hell was never even in God’s control to begin with.

Eventually, God is gone. We’re still not sure if it was death or abandonment, though this makes me feel more the latter. Perhaps the Final war was the last straw and he left back to wherever he was from before Creation. Hell even pokes at God with this with stuff like the “The Fire is Gone”. I believe this is the whole reason we get the interplanetary part of 8-3. Dante’s Paradiso describes the different celestial bodies as the different planes of Heaven. It would then track if Hell is either

A.) Aware of God’s identity as a Demiurge and is calling ALL of His creation fraudulent, or

B.) essentially Hell is teasing God. God created everything but if Hell can create an imitation of God’s realm inside itself, then how important and/or necessary actually was God?

C.) Hell is directly calling out God for abandoning all of Creation. Putting God’s kingdom in Hell may be Hell’s way of essentially showing God’s fraud. He created ALL this and made people who needed Him and His light. Then He left, abandoning everything and everyone that needed Him.

[thedogeveryonehates]

[xxnessa-morgothxx]

OK, here comes my ramblings related to the Doomguy/Doom Slayer from a conversation I had yesterday with a friend:

My friend in question started trying to guilt-tripping me because he says that I always like ultra-violent characters and that they represent the dangerous male archetype. Obviously, he was not only referring to the Slayer but also to Trondo. Let’s see.

Regarding Doom Slayer (and I think more than one will agree with me) he is far from being a bad person. He’s not a villain, nor a bastard without feelings or a psychopath. The fact of not wanting to kill peaceful manifestants, of being completely traumatized by seeing the way demons killed Daisy (and although we don’t know for sure, surely his family too) of WANTING TO SAVE HUMANITY. We can see in many moments how he can become gentle, measuring his brutal strength with creatures or people he could break with just one hand. I’m also very fed up with him being seen as a senseless brute, like a “psycho killer”. Demons are a truly cruel enemy, moved by all those sins and all the evil that moves in the Universe. They have no mercy. If in fact he uses all that rage and strength against them it is precisely because they are an enemy that will only bend for the only thing they know: brutality. Apart from that, he is angry, very angry. If I were him, I would also be like that.

I have no doubt that our beloved Slayer is a highly emotional and empathetic person with the concept of innnocence. It’s not just injustice. He can’t stand that they use others or himself being used. He hates everything that demons represent not only for what they took from him, but because they represent the opposite of his ideals. And yes, despite everything, he hates himself for what he has become. For everything he has to carry. For everything he has had to see and suffer.

I’m really sick of seeing people who don’t really understand how much the Slayer psychologically carries inside and only see him as “a dangerous killing machine that if you get close will crush your skull.” But I think what makes me more angry is that they try to convince me that it is wrong that I like a character with those ideals, that indomitable strength of spirit to be a Savior... Just because he uses methods that are gore and a savage.

And do you want to know something? Precisely if I like this character so much, it is because somehow I feel identified with him. If it were him, I would act the same way...

[mask-knife-is-buggys-wife]

Wow so they have Doom guy under control and literally wiped all memories except hatred for demons? I mean hatred for demons was kind of his whole thing but even the Slayer has memories and opinions, thoughts and desires. They took a miserable existence and made it worse damn. If you asked him to kill demons he would just do it why is this necessary

[mikesterfake]

Melee combat in Doom The Dark Ages:

[ohdepthz]

Retributioner redesign. Im wayyyy more pleased with this rendition that the other one. I just don’t think what i was going for with it translated well into a traditional rifle body. Plus it gives me a good way to tie in those mods.

Also peep the NEW layout for these. Going forward, these will follow this design layout. Way sleeker and organized, if a little barebones.

[ohdepthz]

I just made a crazy realization.

So in 2016, we had the multiplayer map Empyrian. It was a floating set of buildings shaped like rings and was kinda out of place with all the Hell and UAC maps in that game. Then once Eternal came out, we rightfully recognized it as Sentinel architecture yet the exact location and purpose of the structure was always more of a question. With the Dark Ages, I feel like that has finally been addressed.

I believe that Empyrian is part of the Holy City of Aratum, or was an approximation of it before it fell. Aratum (if you aren’t aware) is a Holy City floating in the skies above Argent D’Nur. The Maykrs had outlawed worship of the Wraiths when they came to Argent D’Nur, yet allowed Aratum to be a central hub for all old Argenta knowledge, artifacts, and history. It (metaphorically and literally) fell when Azhrak layed seige to it for the Heart of Argent. Being such a high place of Sentinel significance, i would imagine the UAC came to learn of it and, somehow, put it into their VEGA-led combat simulations (DOOM 2016’s multiplayer in canon is a combat sim for UAC soldiers led by VEGA).

Below is a picture of Empyrian

And below is a picture of Aratum

Similar round structures with gothic architecture, floating through the air in a ring layout. The only difference between the two, aside from iconography (I chalk that up to 2016 being 9-ish years before TDA was in development) is scale. Aside from that there really aren’t many differences between the two.

I get that this is more of a headcanon but it still is a REALLY cool connection. It also raises some questions, specifically how much the Mars UAC knew about the Sentinel civilization and Argenta history. Its also just cool to see an outlier map design get turned into a huge historical point in Doom’s timeline. Really cool imo.

[but-a-humble-goon]

I know the whole meta gag is that the Doom Slayer himself could not give less of a fuck about the plot of the game he's in, he's really just here to kill shit because he understands that this is a Doom game and that gag is seriously great. That being said, is anyone getting really sick of the irony poisoned people who're mad at the inclusion of a plot at all?

"Who the fuck cares about lore in a Doom game?"

Me. I do. It's not the main focus nor should it be, but its existence does not detract from the game's experience whatsoever and it's a nice little tidbit for people who do want some context for the places and people we rip and tear through. A lot of it is even legitimately interesting and well written.

You're not cool for not caring.

[ohdepthz]

WIP of an art study from the screenshot of the imp redesign from DOOM: The Dark Ages. This is giving me a really nice understanding of how the design plays out and a nice appreciation for how well they managed to reimagine the classic design. I’d say that I would update when I finish but we’ll see if I get to that point.

Also May 15th (technically May 12th iykyk) CANNOT come fast enough I am so ready

[ohdepthz]

The Bleidrache-327 redone. Had to redo it a bunch of times so that I could redo the view angle so it fit better but I think it was worth it. Retributioner is next and I expect a few reworks with it so it might take a while (not that I post frequently at all). Anyways, enjoy

[ohdepthz]

Two more remakes. Im actually really happy with how these ones came out, especially stitches. Redoing both the Retributioner and the Bliedrache are gonna take a while bc tye Ret. needs some work and the Bliedrache needs it’s view angle fixed to match the others.

Anyways, hope y’all enjoy

[ohdepthz]

Redid some of those weapon concepts PLUS A NEW SET !!!

I want to get back into these/art in general but I am so not great at consistency but I am definitely still trying. Anyways, enjoy and hopefully one day I’ll get around to redoing the others and more general art stuff

[ohdepthz]

Some fanart, this time more Ultrakill. Claire De Soleil is one of my favorite levels and the feel of Greed as a layer is amazing. Anyways, back to the void

[ohdepthz]

Made a Perk-A-Cola. I’m pretty proud of this one, as rough as it looks. Anyways, back to the void :)

[ohdepthz]

I concepted out weapons for a game that probably won’t exist. I don’t have much else set in stone but the premise is a bunch of corporations and such fighting over different aspects of Hell and places in Hell. Weaponry consists of weaponry crafted by either one of the major Corporations or by Hell itself. Each weapon gets to choose one of two Mods per weapon and gets two per loadout, plus possibly equipment and some sort of perk/modifier system. The Four weapon classes are (for now) Brawler (Shotguns, CQC Weapons), Crowd Control (SMG’s, Grenade/Rocket Launchers), Precision (Railguns, Rifles), and Slasher (Scythes, Swords). Open to any ideas, concepts, questions or anything else about this.

[ohdepthz]

I forgot to add the stat differences to the Overdrive Hotshot 😬 uhhhhh I’ll get to that

[ohdepthz]

I concepted out weapons for a game that probably won’t exist. I don’t have much else set in stone but the premise is a bunch of corporations and such fighting over different aspects of Hell and places in Hell. Weaponry consists of weaponry crafted by either one of the major Corporations or by Hell itself. Each weapon gets to choose one of two Mods per weapon and gets two per loadout, plus possibly equipment and some sort of perk/modifier system. The Four weapon classes are (for now) Brawler (Shotguns, CQC Weapons), Crowd Control (SMG’s, Grenade/Rocket Launchers), Precision (Railguns, Rifles), and Slasher (Scythes, Swords). Open to any ideas, concepts, questions or anything else about this.

[waste-iisolation]