Zeagull help

[Lawrence]

Seriously guys, I know the word 'cel' comes from 'celluloid/cellulose acetate' but it's abbreviation doesn't have two 'L's.

This is looking marvelous so far .I would have it's beak cast a shadow though. I think it had a certain charm without the aa. I would say that cel-shading is to shading what aliasing is to a continuous signal and so leaving the aliasing would synergize both aspects. It doesn't bother me much though, I know it's good to mix & match, and something like this should be entirely at the artists' discretion.

I like the colours, they portray a sunny daylight environment quite well.

[Ryumaru]

damn, having actually done work on animation cels, i should have been the last one to make that mistake lawrence!

[Gnarf]

Okay, I did a quick shortening of the legs and added shading under the beak w/ and w/o aa.

w/ AA, w/o AA, short legs w/o AA


Thanks for the suggestions, I feel more satisfied with the piece too.  Heh, I remember someone correcting me when I said "cell" a while back, so I should have remembered.

[Godslayer]

Have you tried caricaturing  four striped horselegs on the underbelly? That might look cool.

Could you post your references?

[CrematedPumpkin]

I'd keep the longer legs, and the AA.
I like the design, but I'm a tad confused by the wing; the segment that looks seperated from the rest of the wing below it. If that makes sense. I don't get it.

[Gnarf]

References: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/graphics/zebra.gif
http://www.jaffray.org/feb2001-seagull/large/43-seagull.jpg

The segment above the wing was originally another part of the seagull on a reference I used, but I couldn't find it on google, which is what I originally searched for seagulls on.  I'm sticking to the longer legs, as well.  The underbelly (as seen in the ref.) has less stripes so I figured I would reduce them in that area.  Also, I don't quite get what you mean Godslayer.