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Again orc

on: December 07, 2007, 10:21:53 pm


need comments

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Re: Again orc

Reply #1 on: December 08, 2007, 12:29:05 am
Since this is clearly a Warhammer Fantasy (or similar miniature wargame) inspired piece, im going to give the same advice i gave another:

one thing i've wanted to say for a while is that the reason army men pose the way they do is because they are cast in a two-sided piece-mold, which means that they can have relief on two sides but at the same time they are restricted to building off of a single plane (or modified plane) without undercuts.  they are basically cardboard-cutout soldiers with a little texture.  real soldiers do not flatten themselves to the viewer like toys do.

...realizing of course that yours is an orc and not a nazi, the advice is the same.

few other things - your colors could use a little more depth (right now it is very "this part is green, this part is red...").  Even just breaking up each of those sections into "light and dark green" and "light and dark red" (as you've begun to do a little) would be a great help.



see how light and shadow play up on these figures?  (a little overdone actually, but they enjoy that style of photography).

see also the slight desaturation of colors. 

These two things go a long way when it comes to making cartoony fantasy characters look semi-believable.
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Re: Again orc

Reply #2 on: December 08, 2007, 12:58:56 pm
Here, I made a little edit:

This should asses most points Adarias mentioned before.
I added volume, better colours and textures.
(Unfinished, was gonna take too long to finish.)

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Re: Again orc

Reply #3 on: December 08, 2007, 03:03:55 pm
thank you very interesting variant

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Re: Again orc

Reply #4 on: December 08, 2007, 04:18:58 pm
I think you can push the lighting even further:



colors here are oversimplified, but you can see what i mean about like.....late 80's comic book lighting.

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« Last Edit: December 08, 2007, 09:41:42 pm by Adarias »
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Re: Again orc

Reply #5 on: December 09, 2007, 11:56:56 am
how many time did go away on this coloration?

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Re: Again orc

Reply #6 on: December 09, 2007, 01:03:42 pm
how many time did go away on this coloration?

I doubt he spent more then 15 minutes.

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Re: Again orc

Reply #7 on: December 09, 2007, 04:46:01 pm
how many time did go away on this coloration?

I doubt he spent more then 15 minutes.

that sounds about right, it's really unrefined if you take more than a glance at it
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Re: Again orc

Reply #8 on: December 09, 2007, 06:31:52 pm
but looks potentially more interesting and I outlaid on the variant much more time and went out worse. if to finish off your will be cool

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Re: Again orc

Reply #9 on: December 10, 2007, 03:59:29 am
I don't mean to be rude, but who has the name of their race on their shield? ??? Just a question...