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low battery..

on: August 24, 2010, 07:40:13 pm
hey everyone..

working on resurrecting something from my dump:



yet i feel that i should breath some more life into the palette..
on the other hand, though, a too saturated/fresh palette would probably
destroy the low battery feel

i maybe just need a few more second opinions on that issue..
edits heavily appreciated :)


(just in case: the grafx2 fake-layer-gif is here:
 http://www.piexeln.de/_wip/rob022ld.gif)

cheers,
tomic
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Re: low battery..

Reply #1 on: August 25, 2010, 12:19:15 am
i really like it, especially the idea.  the thing that detracts it for me, while perhaps the color, is i can't decide what emotion to feel.  Is it urgency?  how can that be conveyed better?
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Re: low battery..

Reply #2 on: August 25, 2010, 12:34:53 pm
Hello,

for me the battery doesn't work too well in that corner (the joke works though, i like the idea much). Maybe if you add it to the chest or the glasses of the robot it would be more integrated in the whole. Just my 2 cents.

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Re: low battery..

Reply #3 on: August 25, 2010, 05:56:53 pm
Whether it's a mobile phone or a digital camera or something else, we usually see other icons on the screen in addition to the battery icon, so the lack of other icons makes it stand out too much, making it too gimmicky. For reference check the screen on your own gadgets..

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Re: low battery..

Reply #4 on: August 25, 2010, 11:02:39 pm
I find the flesh toned eye display to be reeeally unsettling, for reasons that should be apparent. if it was meant to be a cyborg then ._. good job

I think the hand is really effective, the sense of helplessness and anxiety is conveyed very well. c:

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Re: low battery..

Reply #5 on: August 25, 2010, 11:18:44 pm
I find the flesh toned eye display to be reeeally unsettling, for reasons that should be apparent. if it was meant to be a cyborg then ._. good job

I think the hand is really effective, the sense of helplessness and anxiety is conveyed very well. c:

I don't really see it as fleshy, i see it like a LED screen but maybe it looks more like flesh than I realize ?  ???
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Re: low battery..

Reply #6 on: August 26, 2010, 05:17:27 am
My suggestion, inspired by Borderlands (this is what happens when you're close to death):



I think it improves the sense of urgency, as if he needs to plug himself in before everything completely fades to black.
« Last Edit: August 26, 2010, 05:11:43 pm by skamocore »

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Re: low battery..

Reply #7 on: August 26, 2010, 02:51:45 pm
My suggestion, inspired by Borderlands (this is what happens when you're close to death):



I think it improves the sense of urgency, as if he needs to plug himself in before everything turns completely fades to black.
It adds the depth but you cant see the plug.

You could change the tint from green to red with an little add of blue, it could work i hope.

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Re: low battery..

Reply #8 on: August 26, 2010, 04:20:09 pm
Don't have anything new to add, just stopped by to say I really like ska's edit. You can feel the blackness closing in, really helps the mood.