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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #10 on: May 22, 2008, 09:36:13 am
TrevoriuS: Your edit looks worse. It's noisy and messy and doesn't really have any more depth than the original.

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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #11 on: May 22, 2008, 07:13:52 pm
Note to self: never post 4 minute drafts made on a touchpad before your class starts  :ouch:
Okay, Evil-Ville, who him what you've got then instead of critisizing my critisism (which is offtopic)  :D

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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #12 on: May 22, 2008, 07:57:28 pm
Your work shows a lot of evidence of working from outlines and adding shadows and highlights to edges.  This is not a good way to work, because generally areas of shadow and light describe form far more than outlines do.  Aside from that I don't think the black interior lines are working and they look noisy, like these black lines running along the animal's back crystal do not seem to help showing the planes of the crystal.  Black lines like this come across as very dark, nonsensical shadow.



I'm trying to show you what I mean with my edit here.  In addition to generally using more contrasting shades, I am portraying your animal as if it were made of actual physical shapes like a cylinder and a sphere.  My rendering is not the most accurate and I may have misinterpreted the shape of his limbs, but do you catch my drift?  If there is a single light source one side of a form must always be in light and another in shadow.  I think you owe it to your character design to try and make it appear solid, and not flat like a cookie.

I just read that the crystal is not a crystal but a fish spine.  Silly me!
Like this?


If so I think your anatomy could use some work, but you can also suggested these spinelings running along the fin just by using the dark and light shade of the fin.

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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #13 on: May 23, 2008, 02:46:40 am
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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #14 on: May 23, 2008, 03:10:07 am
Without transparency you can use shading to suggest translucence by making it go from dark to light from the base to the end of the fins, as the thin parts would let more light through.

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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #15 on: May 23, 2008, 04:26:51 pm
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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #16 on: June 02, 2008, 10:50:51 pm
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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #17 on: June 03, 2008, 06:57:00 am
on the teroc, the body needs a bit of shading on the chest, and the head... well i think you could lose all the spikes from the back of the head (the shoulder ones are okay) the spikes make it hard to define exactly where the neck is and the thing on top seems conflicting (think of it on a different angle). lastly you need to fix up the light on the tip of the tail and on the shoulder spikes

one last point, your sprites are all in different styles, you really need to get all your artists to work in a similar style.

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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #18 on: June 05, 2008, 05:11:48 pm
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Re: Antaros Chronicles Work Dump (C&C Welcome)

Reply #19 on: June 13, 2008, 09:53:37 pm
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