#aghanim's labyrinth

[shoomlah]

Just cleanin’ out all the drafts with some more Agh Lab logo work for Dota 2! SO MANY REPEATING LETTERFORMS I was very tired after tweaking this one

[sajedene]

Thought I would share the Patreon rewards I made for DotaCinema for the month of August. It is the great Aghanim himself! (stickers and magnets)

[the-grandest-magus]

“Lanaya, Akasha, and Slark?? Why are they allowed to have fun in Father’s nigh-insurmountable labyrinth of deadly challenges? Why must I be condemned to merely speculate?? Doubtless they’d rub it in my face if they were still active here - these days, heroes are likelier to accuse me of petty familial issues than afford me the respect my title warrants.”

“Speaking of heroes these days...I knew there’d been rumours of a stitched facsimile of the Butcher, but I never expected the Ancients to confuse it for the real hero. Nor did I expect to encounter the magic animating the construct. Loathe as I am to leave the mystery behind Father’s return unanswered, the implications brought about by its existence are much too concerning for me to ignore. It’s past time that I learned who this toy Pudge’s creators might be.”

[shoomlah]

Got to hand-letter the logo for the Dota 2 Summer Event, as a treat! 🧙🏼‍♂️ I was looking at a lot of 70's/80's fantasy paperbacks for lettering inspiration, to match Aghanim's whole Intense Wizard Energy™—definitely makes me want to design some monster manuals or something. 

(and HEY the boon of doing a ton of Cyrillic lettering for Half-Life: Alyx meant I got to do the Russian logo as well! God bless л and A for having a similar shape language, it made my life infinitely easier)

Motion design and final treatment are all Scott Hudziak, who might be an actual wizard.

[the-grandest-magus]

>when you find out that only a very select few are allowed inside your father’s deadly labyrinth of unforgiving challenges and horrible monsters, and you aren’t one of them

[the-grandest-magus]

“Quite unexpected that Father would rather invite random groups of heroes to help solve his problem in the Continuum Vault, instead of calling upon those either powerful or intelligent enough to understand what he’d done to himself.” “And by unexpected I mean completely expected.”

[thileban-n]

Magician Difficulty! Aghanim's Labyrinth

[shyce-overgod]

A minor fucking mistake is no reason to throw the whole damn game away, for fucks sake