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Menu Screen

on: June 04, 2014, 10:13:20 am
Alright guys so I need little help with the background for Menu Screen for a game I am working on.

Here is the idea:


And here's what I have got so far:


Struggling with clouds at the moment as I am not sure how to make them.

The mountain and castle are at the left because the menu will come as an overlay and in the middle so to keep the focus on it is in the left.  Anyways, right now I am struggling with clouds as I am not sure how to make them. Also the style has to be kept cartoony to match the style of other sprites and work I have done - sorry can't show other work as I do not have the permission to show them yet..

The mountains are blue as I haven't changed the palette yet but I'll make them brown so that castle stands out.
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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #1 on: June 06, 2014, 06:39:40 am
How can I improve the look of scroll?

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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #2 on: June 06, 2014, 06:02:21 pm
scroll: first and foremonst - by improving contrast & coloring



try to capture the materials, even if you stylize try to keep it overall somewhat consistent.
If you are unsure about colors get photo references.
Regarding to color photo references are usually plain bad (if you try to colorpick colors out of the photograph), but they help you at least to get on the right track.
Afterall you anyways want to stick to the big color idea off your picture and you just try to get stuff right looking.






For the mountains and the grass
that's badly oversaturated. THe mountains don't have any perspective or depth and they rather look like cardboard on a stage

look up environment photographs and paintings and learn something about basic perspective and the overall impression will improve greatly.
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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #3 on: June 11, 2014, 09:34:44 am



There is a possibility that Scroll will not be added that's why I want to focus on making background as good as I can. Please push me, critique me, sue me, be mean or whatever it takes for help. I know my previous threads die because I had to put too much work on them but this time I promise it won't be that way!
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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #4 on: June 11, 2014, 11:53:13 am
Very nice. I would add more crumbly details to the paper if it's an old scroll.

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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #5 on: June 12, 2014, 08:34:49 am
Thanks Fizzick.



I am struggling with textures on the nearest mountains. Also I think I should change palette a little bit.



I tried to add little wear and tear. However the crumble effect that Fizzick talked about, I am not sure how that can be done.
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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #6 on: June 14, 2014, 03:27:27 pm


Completely clueless about how to do mountains and what can be added to scroll to make it look better. I can't even find proper references.

In this update though, I detailed the trees, tried to add mountain texture to one in the right. I tried crumble and crumple effects but they didnt turn out well.
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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #7 on: June 14, 2014, 04:02:16 pm
There is no specific way to 'do mountains'. Look at some pictures of the kind of mountains you want to emulate, and mimic the patterns you see there. Don't think 'mountains', think 'rock' 'snow' 'recesses' 'crags'. That's what helps me.

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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #8 on: June 29, 2014, 06:15:32 pm
Continuing with this design. Oh and the colours are not final! Please keep that in mind.



Let me know if the updates are good or not.
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Re: Menu Screen

Reply #9 on: June 29, 2014, 07:42:27 pm
Continuing with this design. Oh and the colours are not final! Please keep that in mind.



Let me know if the updates are good or not.

The mountain is starting to look less mountainous and more like a very detailed spearhead (by shape, that is.)  Perhaps try taking a step backwards in shape to an earlier edit:



with the same detail level as the new.