AuthorTopic: Tanuki (WIP) (Read 9610 times)

Rawsushi · **on:** October 22, 2005, 11:59:13 pm

This is based off of a Tanuki that Frank Jaeger created. I started it a long time ago, and it's been in the works for... ugh... months. I did it entirely within MSPaint, and vowed that I won't work on it again until I've learned how to use a different art program. I have ProMotion now and plan on using that to finish the picture. Unfortunately, I've had a busy schedule, so I'm going to have to put this off for a while... again.

The bowl is nowhere near done and I'll probably kill off what shading I've done until I work on the background and the foreground so I know what should be reflected. I need to make the casted shadows on the prawn a little less crappy, and the noodles in the bowl (on our right) a little more full.

I'll also include a "making of" gif when I finally finish this.

Sawtooth · **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2005, 04:24:43 am

damn, I don't know how you do it. this is amazing. I'd have given up long ago if I only used paint. You'll be happy with promotion, for sure.

Also, this could stand pretty darn well on its own, without a background; having one is just icing on the cake.

pixelblink · **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2005, 06:44:16 am

holy crap! I really couldn't offer any info as to how to make this better. It's complete in my eyes! Maybe some chopsticks?

Panda · **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2005, 09:26:01 am

Wow, looking really smooth and great.
My only crit (on the stuff that you apparently finished) is the texture of the fried "core" of that ebi-fry thing, seems a bit overdone, and looks like full of scales, rather than fried stuff.
But other than that, coming great, and looking forward to see it finished.
Keep rocking

miascugh · **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2005, 09:53:37 am

hah, that's too cool and, uhm, huge

i do have a small advice though: the texture of the prawns crust, it doesn't work too well for me. it's got this mosaic thing going that makes it look a tad flat. i think making less defined intersections would help that a lot, having the small grainy stuff merge a little closer to the center of the current shade using the area where it's bordering the next shade more to define the surface. a custom texture-dither sort of, if that makes sense at all

anyways, try not to go insane doing the background

*argh, panda stole my thoughts, but i'll hit post now anyway

Rawsushi · **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2005, 02:47:22 pm

Cool. Thanks for that. I had my doubts on the prawn as it looked more like your typical "american-style" batter, and not so much tempura. I'll make sure to adjust that in the final version.

Oh, and chopsticks poking out of the bowl is a must.

CrematedPumpkin · **Reply #6 on:** October 23, 2005, 08:25:02 pm

Yes, chopsticks would look awesome. Decorated chopsticks, since your so good at everything. I can't crit on anything...nothing at all...

Silver · **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2005, 07:28:13 pm

I like this moonsoon
there are no cirts , im not sure of the red plate shading
but overall very nice work

crab2selout.png · **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2005, 08:31:03 pm

Meh, I've seen better...

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ok, that was a joke, please don't strike me down, oh mighty pixel God.

I've always been a fan of your great dithering and AA skills. To this day you remain one of the few artists whose dithering I actually like to look at from a 2-3x zoom. I'm not entirely sure how, but somehow your colour choices, contrast levels, AA, line design, dithering and a bunch of other stuff come together in this way that makes your pieces smooth and texturious(a word?), while avoiding the typical grit and yuckiness one notices in most dithered pieces.

The others have all raised some good points on what could be improved so I won't bother repeating anything. I'm just going to continue staring and studying this.

David · **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2005, 02:52:36 am

There's the original so people can see the humble start.

As for my critiques, I've already given them to you as has the board.

Rawsushi · **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2005, 03:58:18 am

Cool. Thanks, David.

Conzeit · **Reply #11 on:** October 28, 2005, 11:45:05 am

Quote from: crab2selout.png on October 25, 2005, 08:31:03 pm

pixel God.

every time you say that, a kitty dies...a cute one, so please, think of the kitties.

Nice, I had never seen that sort of semi-reflective effect you have on the bowl there, and it is spot on, I have one of those and looks JUST like that.

the tanooki guy is a great idea, looks like some loser who cant get over the fact he cant play mario3 all the time anymore so he g0t a costume :p , it's kinda disturbing in a good way to see some grupy fart in a tanooki costume.

hmmm, something that bugs me is how flat the prawn looks when compared to the bowl and the tanooki guy, I can understand with the noodles since that kind of fits their smooth texture, but it just looks wrong when something that looks as solid as the tanooki is standing on the flat prawn. that is not to say I dont love the color ramp of the prawn, but it just ruins the balance of the depth of all the elements.I dont know exactly what a prawn is supposed to look like, but I do get a wrong feeling for it, it reminds me more of the granite in the entrance to my building than any fried food I know.

when you add a bg, add something with a cool pallete, it's all looking a bit too warm right now, maybe you could even do a little purple reflection on the tanooki or the bowl.

PS: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aes-AR%3Aofficial&q=ebi-fry&btnG=Search for great justice

sedgemonkey · **Reply #12 on:** October 31, 2005, 07:35:17 pm

I've said it before and I'll say it again... art is meant to be delicious.

Really amazing work on the noodle bowl and the straightforward composition. One of your signature backgrounds would certainly take this piece to the stratosphere of pixel goodness.

Werewolf · **Reply #13 on:** September 23, 2006, 01:08:15 am

Not your fault, but Kenneths, that bears way too much resemblance to Super Mario 3 "Tanooki Suit", I don't think he deserves the credit there.

Godslayer · **Reply #14 on:** September 23, 2006, 01:13:37 am

Why raise a dead thread?

Werewolf · **Reply #15 on:** September 23, 2006, 01:25:55 am

Didn't realize - I was just looking at Monsoon2d's posts. Sorry.

hawken · **Reply #16 on:** September 23, 2006, 01:31:30 am

my only crit is that tanuki have massive bollox

Rawsushi · **Reply #17 on:** September 23, 2006, 03:06:06 am

Yes. May as well lock this bad-boy.

.TakaM · **Reply #18 on:** September 23, 2006, 03:13:21 am

so you didnt ever finish this one? I must say I was looking forward to the final result

Rawsushi · **Reply #19 on:** September 23, 2006, 03:20:41 am

@.TakaM: I'll be redesigning it and redoing it completely. This thing is too mirrored and stagnant to be anything other than a design. I'll be starting on the new version soonish.

@Werewolf: I don't post too often. If you want to see art stuff, you can always go to http://www.monsoon2d.com.

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Update!

See? It begins.

Bo · **Reply #20 on:** September 23, 2006, 04:07:47 pm

while i did like him better thin i gotta say i do love them B-sack.

VictorR · **Reply #21 on:** September 23, 2006, 04:56:23 pm

Very nice, I like the noodles..really detailed stuff

ptoing · **Reply #22 on:** September 23, 2006, 06:59:53 pm

Ka-chink goes the lock.

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