A Spiral

[EyeCraft]

Well I've been busy lately working on a game of mine, not to mention life insisting on butting in all the time. The game could be said to be something which often seeks to push my abilities beyond what I normally do. I try hard things, in a sense.

I began what could be considered a somewhat tricky piece today; what it is is a rock thats based around the structure of a twisted square pyramid. So I've started out by building that basic form, and I hope to turn it into a rock from there, here's how its looking:



My main concern is; does the shading look correct? It's a bit of a weird shape and I'm not 100% sure...

[Ragnarok]

The shading looks good to me, in fact, it looks near 3D. But that's just the opinion of an amateur. I hope you get some more crits.

[Xion]

Well, it looks cool to me, but not as much of a twisted pyramid as much as a twisted...piece of thick paper? I mean, don't pyramids have like, 4 sides? This one looks like it's just boasting two.
Well, that's the wierd thing I'm seeing.

[EyeCraft]

Aye, I think that impression is coming from the top, which I think is incorrect. snader did an edit over at pixel joint:



I get the feeling it's more on the mark than mine.

[Rydin]

Ah damn, made this edit before I saw the snader edit.

I think your's looks ok, but could do with some highlights (as my shitty edit shows).

This reminds me of a Frazetta piece...called Torment.

Good job, and keep up the great work.

[EyeCraft]

Cheers Rydin .

I finally got around to working on this more; developing it into an actual rock. Here's how it looks:



My brain is a bit out of the zone at the moment, so I haven't looked over it properly, so there's probably some problems with the shading, but for now I'm quite happy with how its going. C&C is welcome

[snader]

i only just thought of this....

took me a whole 2 minutes in 3Dmax. =P
hope its of use

[Stwelin]

Cheers Rydin .

I finally got around to working on this more; developing it into an actual rock. Here's how it looks:



My brain is a bit out of the zone at the moment, so I haven't looked over it properly, so there's probably some problems with the shading, but for now I'm quite happy with how its going. C&C is welcome

This looks really really good. you nailed the rock forms perfectly. Not very much crit, you've executed this one very well. maybe make the rock at the very top more of a pyramid-like point? something about it just seems a little off. very nice work.

[ZoSo]

I would probably go for adding even more texture, just player around a bit, hope you dont mind. And mixed around with the colours to.. Might help you, if you need help O_o, anyway really nice work.. Love it

[Helm]

Haha, oh wow, that last update... you actually made it like you wanted it to be. What a successful experiment. I am not sure about zoso's stoven palette, I think purple shadows are overdone in our little pixel art world here.