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General Discussion / Re: Tutorial to draw Walking Avatars
« on: July 22, 2007, 04:05:13 pm »
Thanks to you all for taking your time with commenting the article (especially Conceit for constructive criticism).

However, I'd like to briefly address exactly Conceit's statement about "do this more effortlessly, using instinct instead of rationale".

Assume you were to do such  a series, say, 20 different female characters. Of course one can go and do all the designs 20 times, or one can attempt to reuse certain "components", just slightly modifing diameters, lenghts etc., ithout caring too much for angles (which still should be ok for later characters when the frst one is). - Don't get me wrong: I do /not/ criticise your critics (en contraire!). I just want to point out, that the "purely artistic approach" might be too time-consuming when compared to a "semi-automatic design" approach. - The latter has the potentital to get you somewhere within a "useful time". The former, however, definitely will look better, if an artist is at work ;)

No offences intended. - Thanks again for all your comments, the /are/ appreciated.

Regards
//Donar


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General Discussion / Re: Tutorial to draw Walking Avatars
« on: April 30, 2007, 08:29:38 am »
Adarias and drangonrc, I will attempt to address the tilt/rotation topic as well (assuming you speak of the chest, involving the arms). Thank you for the input!

Helm, the tutorial was actually done to show the non-artists out there (like myself) that we can "do it" as well, just by observation and measuring. However, as said somewhere in it: "I am no artist – if you combine the presented techniques with your artistic skills the result might look better, of course." - If it looks robotic, then it's due to my initial assumption that the trunk does not move too much (plus the desire to keep the number of re-usable parts high and the total number of parts low to increase designing and execution efficiency in say, an isometric game: after all, it affects garment as well). Anyway, thank you for your critique!

Thanks to all for your feedbacks, was motivating, looking forward to more ;)

//Donar

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General Discussion / Tutorial to draw Walking Avatars
« on: April 28, 2007, 09:35:15 am »
I like to inform the community about a tutorial which just was completed. It's a series of 3 comprehensive articles with the goal of designing moving isometric avatars, like the one shown here:


The index file of the article series can be found at http://herbert.gandraxa.com/herbert/dia.asp.

Let me know if there's something you miss and I might address the issue. And thanks in advance for your feedbacks.

Regards,
//Donar

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