Wednesday 14th March 2007 -

This render is my first using Dante in his Devil May Cry 4 costume. I had the costume mostly done back in November after I saw the DMC4 trailer for the first time but it was missing a few details. Now, after stumbling upon the games official site the other day I decided to finish work on Lego Nero, who I also started back in November, and when I finished him yesterday I thought it was time to go back and finish Dante too.

The image maps are pretty much done, all except the detail on the buckle on his belt and those across his chest, but I haven't got any images that show them well enough so they'll have to stay like this for now.

This image started out as a showdown between Dante and Nero, with the main focus on Nero, but I ended up putting Dante in a pose that I liked so much that I had to do a render, and this is it. I really like it.

Tuesday 14th November 2006 -

This image is simply a drawing in Illustrator of a render done with Lego Dante back in March.

The drawing took wasn't that difficult to do, simply time consuming, taking a couple of days to complete. I like it though.

The original render can be seen on the next page (click here).

Saturday 5th August 2006 -

This image was based on a render that I, once again, got from the official DMC3 website and that I decided to copy the pose from to show off my new model of Dante's Rebellion equipped devil trigger state.

I decided to have a go at making Dante's devil trigger because I thought that Lego Dante wouldn't be complete without something to properly represent his demonic side. I did originally want to have a go at making his DT as it was in the second game (due to my most used Dante costume being the one from that specific game and the fact that the DT in that game looks so damn cool) but, although I have a few, I haven't got any images that show it in any detail so even though I could probably have a go at it I wouldn't really be able to make it to look how its suppsed to. I wouldn't be able to do it justice, so I thought I'd go for second best (never a good thing in any other situation) and made Dante's DMC3 DT instead. But it don't matter, its ended up looking cool anyway. I'm just not sure if I'll be able to use Dante's DMC2 costume as undemonified (if theres any such word) Dante in any images where I might use this alongside. I'll probably have to stick with the proper DMC3 costumed Dante when used with this DT :-( Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait till I can come up with some decent pics of the DMC2 DT that would allow me to properly have a go at making it. Its gonna happen though, come on, do you doubt me? DMC2 DT will become legofied sometime, sooner or later its gonna happen.

Friday 4th August 2006 -

This image was based on a render of Dante for Devil May Cry 3. I don't quite know what purpose the render initially served but its on the back of the cardboard slip-case I got for preordering the game and could possibly be in the game manual aswell (but don't take that for certain). I first saw it on the official DMC3 website though, in the section where you can download loads of renders of the games characters, enemies and weapons.

If some of you are thinking that its a bit weird to have a Dante in DMC2 costume recreating a pose from the third game instead then I can just say that I think the pose is a cool one and because I prefer the DMC2 costume, both for Dante in the games and for Lego Dante, I decided to use it instead of the DMC3 one. It doesn't matter though really, I think its a cool pic no matter what costume Dantes wearing.

One difference you may (or maybe not) notice on Dante in this image compared to the other images on this page is that hes got a new collar. His old collar was just an image map wrapped around his neck and I didn't think it really looked right, so after making Lego Cloud, who has a collar that I couldn't really do anything about other than to model it, I thought I'd go back and do the same with Dante. The collar is actually pretty much an exact copy of the one on Cloud but it still looks good :-)

Friday 4th August 2006 -

This image was based on a render to show off Dantes different costumes available for Devil May Cry 3. I got the original image from the official DMC3 website along with many other images of characters, enemies and weapons.

The reason behind making this image is simply that I felt like making more renders of Dante in poses. I was running out of decent poses though so I decided to use those from already existing images of Dante made for the games, like this one.