I am a professional game concept artist / art director who has been obsessed with Deadlock and it's art direction/character designs lately. I wanted to do my own take of one of characters that have an old model which hasn't been updated yet. I chose Vyper and based her design on being a Gorgon, some bits of her lore / communications she has in the game and some Easter eggs related to a certain character It is a sketch so it could be more polished for sure, but it works well on his own as a concept art for a redesign.
I would love to work for Valve on Deadlock so if any Deadlock/Valve Devs like my work, I'm available for job opportunities!
I’m glad you did something different with the hood, the jagged, slightly pinned back design looks good. If vyper were to have a hood I’d want it to be like this.
My head cannon is she DEFINETLY got it from lash throwing it to the crowd.. and no she was not the one who caught it, she stabbed that poor girl for it.
EDIT: Immaculate art, my favourite iv seen yet for vyper concepts
The weapon could definetly be bigger ingame, but in the concept it was hiding the hand a bit too much. And she does have the cigarettes, a strap on her chest would add too much noise, there are already lots of elements.
For sure, this also looks like a complete reimagining. Her personality is just so memorable in game. You definitely feminized her a lot in this concept.
Reptiles don't also have humanoid arms, shoulders, abs, fingers, voice box, etc... idk why you're pointing out the milkers (which are basically non-existent)
The picture is awesome-- the problem is it looks too good. The mess that viper is, and the solid gold that is the phenomenal voice lines and voice acting that paint the picture aren't reflected in this picture. Viper is the drunk aunt that has been tp jail. This picture is way too cool to be that person.
It hasn't been confirmed if Celeste is Equine or not but I was gonna make jokes about a horse with Tatttoos.
Platypus barely make the cut for being a mammal seeing as they lay eggs, are venomous, have a bill, use electrolocation, don't have teats and cell division for the embryo is more closely related to reptiles and birds than mammals. All without a magic apcolapyse making a furry's wet dream come true. I think some vague snitties on a character that is known to get extra freaky is excusable. Plus I can totally see Vyper throwing on a crop-top and some pads if it gets her a little more "attention".
This is absolutely amazing work.. wow. I hope they seriously consider you or use this with your credit of course cause I love the design. 10/10 would slide around as again and again
I love the attempt at elegance with rags, it really shows her personality of acting like something she isn't, so confidently she almost is. If Valve can manage to portray that same feel in the updated character model, she'll easily be in top 3 of character popularity everytime.
Edit: Have you tried how the jacket around her waist would look if it looked more like prison garb? Either black and white stripped or the current orange but without the cuffs and stiffer sleeves?
Thank you! It is actually an orange prison jumpsuit around her waist, I didn't go with the stripes because Seven has them. She has cuffs around a wrist as well ;)
She's my 3rd priority, but this would make her my first regardless of tier lists. I think if her scarf were a more obvious old lash T-shirt it would be perfect, as right now it's just a tad too bougie for my Vyper head cannon, but that's an extremely nitpicky thing to say.
My only disappointment is knowing Valve had their own redesign. Hopefully someone mods this in!
Only thing I disagree on is the boobs. I think part of Ivy's and Vyper's appeal is that they very clearly aren't trying to resemble human ideas of gender.
I want them to remain boobless and maybe keep the waists unsnatched, personally. Everything else looks amazing and I love the Lash purse.
That's fair! From what I recall her current model is from a previous game prototype called "Neon Prime" and it was a male character so this is definetly different.
When Vyper gets reworked, she should get a spell that lets her squeeze people. It wouldn't do that much damage, but it would slow them, and stick her onto them while she stays immune to damage from that particular hero for the duration.
Good thing the game is still in developement. I highly doubt they are finished with animating, and will still have more scenario specific actions for the characters before release.
The little crumpled cigarette in her mouth is such a fitting touch. Simplistic, yet impactful enough that I appreciate it being incorporated into the design. Hella props.
Some people thought it was a bit too much, but she seemed crazy about Lash in the lore and voicelines so I thought it would be fun to integrate that aspect in the design.
Actually no but it is related, this is based on a US prisoner outfit with white top and orange jumpsuit. Chell is actually a test subject and that's why her outfit is based on one of the prisoner's outfit as well :)
In Deadlock lore, Vyper is supposed to be the one that's always sneaking out of prison and I would imagine she would wear it as a trophy for pride!
No it is inspired by prisoner outfits with the white top and orange jumpsuit. But Chell does have the same color scheme and I'm pretty sure her outfit is also inspired by the same thing since she is a test subject ;)
Man who ever is actually in charge of vipers redesign must be sweating buckets there are so damn many amazing designs for her now and they can't legally us any of them (idk could buy the rights but that's probably a legal nightmare)
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u/No-Designer-6533 Mar 31 '26
I’m glad you did something different with the hood, the jagged, slightly pinned back design looks good. If vyper were to have a hood I’d want it to be like this.