Kenneth Scott is remaking "Birdie".

That,

Doom 3's art director Kenneth Scott seems to be in the mood of resignify his relationship with this critter he made back in the days, who was only seen in 2001's Macworld Doom 3/GeForce3 technology showcase:

Cool.

Splendid! Birdie might have aged gracefully even after 20 years, but a facelift is always welcome.

Nice! Will he release the result as a custom model for Doom 3?

3 hours ago, Tetzlaff said:

Nice! Will he release the result as a custom model for Doom 3?

Reading the comments on instagram and twitter, he seems to have the intent to release this to the public as a game ready asset.

YESSSSS 

Birdman is better than any of the monsters that actually made it into Doom 3 and I will defend him and his beak until the day I die

Oh that is really cool from him :)

Nice to see some Love for Doom <3

Latest update:

Based on Kenneth's replies in the comments, he's considering uploading the model once its done and "making it [the mod community's] problem". Which is really goddamn cool of him.

Yeah, and he did the retopo work and also seems to be taking care of texturing (which is great, his texturing is unmatched). Getting the model into Doom 3 should be a straight forward thing, although if he's using UE4 I fear is also using standard normal mapping calculation, as anyone should, but Doom 3's is sadly different.

He's comming.

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Hmm what could his Behaviour and Attacks be?

Just from the Look, something mixed between Imp and Archvile.

What could this new monster be bros? A new Baron of Hell, or maybe the Nightmare Imp from Doom 64?? Also there's no way that flying robot head is the Lost Soul. I'll quit gaming if they ditch the skull design for the most iconic monster in the franchise. 

From what Kenneth Scott has revealed on twitter, it was supposed to be the Baron of Hell.

He's back:

This is so cool.  From myth to model.  I can't wait to see how the community will incorporate it into the game.

Now in full motion:

I wonder what gameplay will people give to the monster, since it was originally an HK design or some sorts.

I think it would be cool if it's given an unexpectedly unique role.

i wrote something about the Birdman shooting ghostly projectiles that can go through walls and being able to turn lower tier enemies into lost souls but that's just an example and me being an ideas guy again.

if he ever gets incorporated in modern Doom, i can see some lore making connections between him and the Gargoyles.

there is already a mod with birdman/baron of hell but sadly it's just a skin on hk
https://www.moddb.com/mods/birdman-doom3/downloads/birdman-doom3-v11

i hope kenneth scott also remaking spider mastermind with cyber0rc  and this guys will be  work to remake too them.