I really love the current design. It just looks evil. A new skin might help, but the model is fine.

Well, there's two options when I'm concerned:

Either:

1) I model a new axe, somewhere in between our current Gen axe and the original, and whip up a skin for it.

2) We keep it as it is, including skin.

I vote for the current Gen axe, or C. It might be good to thicken the shaft of the axe a bit though.

I am in agreeance with Shambler.   The current axe and skin is fine, but I would choose C if you're willing to create a new model Tabun.

The hands look good, they seem to take on different poses really well. It would be cool to see them 'in position' for the next version even if they don't animate. Like, right now the strogg MG is held in 1 hand only, which looks slightly akward, IMO. I know it's probably because you guys are going to have idle animations and stuff where the 2nd hand moves around, grips the gun, stretches its fingers, etc, but until the animations are ready perhaps it'd be better to just keep it on the gun all the time?

I don't really have a problem with the current axe. I never noticed it was any different from the original, but then I didn't exactly use the axe much in Q1.

Angst: If you are referring to the middle-finger shot - that's a skin-wrinkle.. it'll all make more sense when smoothing is applied, combined with a skin, in Quake3 :]

If you're referring to the fist shot from the front (but that's not the middle knuckle), you're right. Like I said: not perfect :[
I sacrificed some areas that would be less visible ingame (namely, the front of the fist (gotta be one hell of a weird punch if you end up swinging towards your own face ), to make sure the outline of the knuckles was a bit more acceptable when viewed from the back.

Also, be aware that these are renderings of the flats, no smoothing applied whatsoever. Applied onto that are several spotlights to define the shape. Setting lights is definately one of the things I still need a lot to learn for :]
This is NOT a forgiving way to show renderings, and lots of the edges appear really sharper then they are in a game. I would've done smoothed shots, but these show the structure of the polies better. Plus, you'll all get to see the smoothed effect eventually, anyway ;]

Tab: yes I was talking about the pinky in the middle-finger pose, and I wasn't sure if it was the render you used or the model itself.

And I'm liking what I see of the strogg adrenaline and invuln thus far

Is the invuln going to have the classic wings? or can we opt for a headphone-wearing skull?

Love the models, yo. I was gonna comment on the hand before, but the slippy axe sidetracked me. Looks awesome.

As for the q2 powerups... I was never one for q2, but that skull.. omg. I like it just the way it is... screw the wings.

And speaking of skulls... I think you need your skull back in your sig. But hey, don't mind me... I like skulls...and zombies...skeletons...anything undead except vampires.

ooo, I like!

Just don't forget to make the skins the right color, to avoid confusion.

Yes. The thumb is a bit too short, and the little finger is a bit too large. Both are already fixed (resizing bones make my life that much easier).

Earth is the toughest class, when it comes to powerups. Nothing to go on, a theme that doesn't allow for very logical symbolism and definately no original versions to build upon. Indeed, all Doom powerups will be orbs, and even slipgates stuff can be turned into runes of some sort (although it remains to be seen whether this'll be intuitive ingame). I'm going to do the obvious stuff first, and the rest as we may or may not go.

If you'd like to contribute concept art (and yes, crappy sketches count), by all means, start a thread on it, if no-one else has yet. I'll start thinking about the designs when the straightforward work is done.