Artwork Needed for Heir to the Throne (Spoilers!)

wapcaplet · Post by **wapcaplet** » February 16th, 2005, 12:08 pm

Thanks for the compliments! You're right about the nose; I still am not quite happy with it. I will tweak his nose

I think my mistake, going into this, was making it 1920x1440 resolution. All these pixels to use, and I hate making them go to waste... but it's hard to keep an eye on the big picture (pun) when zoomed in so that his eyebrow fills the screen. I think if I do any more renderings like this, I will have to stick to 640x480 or less, or else I'm going to get lost in detail again.

And yeah, the wrinkles should be darker. I think the whole center of his face needs to be darkened quite a bit, to be more in shadow.

Mofy · Post by **Mofy** » February 17th, 2005, 3:07 pm

UM hi,, nice stuff, nice game.

Thought I would give a go at styling up the images, I can crank em out quite a bit faster than a render, but admitedly they don't look as good. perhaps as an "until the renders are finished solution"

the top one is a bit more finished, I am debateing on the paint effect (wether to use it or pull it, it takes loads of time but looks nifty when finished). This will look much better on the images with a back ground, i think....

sorry if these are posted wrong, (don't shoot!) I will do it right next time honest.

Jaron

scott · Post by **scott** » February 17th, 2005, 4:12 pm

I half-like the red background. I was just thinking that the staff should be going through his body (these look like Pickslide images).

Mofy · Post by **Mofy** » February 17th, 2005, 4:37 pm

(these look like Pickslide images).

thats just cause, they are, I just threw some texture in the bg.

/me goes of to put the staff in the middleof the poor man...

Post by **turin** » February 17th, 2005, 10:07 pm

The white border looks... odd. Could it perhaps be darkened or removed?

Mofy · Post by **Mofy** » February 18th, 2005, 8:19 am

ok adressed both issues a bit, the white border is out , + made the background look much more natural by addintg some cardboard textuers

note: should I be attaching all images?

Elvish_Pillager · February 18th, 2005, 10:10 am

Mofy wrote:made the background look much more natural by addintg some cardboard textuers

It looks very like tree bark now.

scott · Post by **scott** » February 18th, 2005, 1:14 pm

It looks pretty good. What does it look like if you perspective-skew the background so it looks like he's standing on the tree bark? Since there's a nice shadow it might improve things. Then again, it might not.

ZombieEater · Post by **ZombieEater** » February 18th, 2005, 8:28 pm

I'd say the colors (red, yellow, orange) symbolize strife and conflict very well. I'd stick with them.

wapcaplet · Post by **wapcaplet** » February 22nd, 2005, 3:17 pm

These look pretty cool. I definitely agree that some quicker method of cranking out story shots would be good. I'll try slapping some color on them to see if that is an improvement.

I've just ordered myself a 12x9-inch Aiptek drawing tablet (a gift from my wife, at my suggestion, as a reward for giving into her wishes for a set of Legolas' fighting knives

) so GIMPping will, I hope, become a lot more fun and productive for me.

Mofy · Post by **Mofy** » February 22nd, 2005, 4:35 pm

hehe understood, you can have my wacom when you pry it out of my cold dead hands. (Even then I will haunt the <<explitive>> out of you)

ON am more game oriented theme started work on the king image looks better than the last few, honest.

if anyone wants the pieces of this (layers) , or the others I can post them in your prefered format

note: I am still trying to figure out, what is the final rez are these going at? / should I be working on larger files?