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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5565 on: August 04, 2015, 05:18:42 PM »

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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5566 on: August 04, 2015, 05:46:50 PM »

This doesn't add real volume, it only makes your ship look like a glass cotton candy ball...

Yummy-Class.  :o

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Settled with this for my owl, for now. using black and trans cause the wings look much better on dark backgrouds, like, you know, space.

Feedback appreciated.  ;)

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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5567 on: August 04, 2015, 06:54:44 PM »

That's really neat :)
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5568 on: August 05, 2015, 01:43:07 AM »

Those thin wing connectors made the ship look fragile to me.............
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5569 on: August 05, 2015, 04:01:55 AM »

Baslag-Class Destroyer
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5570 on: August 05, 2015, 01:02:40 PM »

This thing only have four small turrets. A freighter i guess?

Also i just made... Something... I suppose...



Hmphh. Not sure it was worth posting.
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5571 on: August 05, 2015, 01:06:39 PM »

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This thing only have four small turrets. A freighter i guess?

Also i just made... Something... I suppose...



Hmphh. Not sure it was worth posting.
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5572 on: August 05, 2015, 01:43:11 PM »

Eh, it's clearly not as huge as some of your ships. And while it has a lot of weapon mounts, only 2 of those are medium and large.
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5573 on: August 06, 2015, 06:28:40 AM »

looks similar to a ISA ship from Ironclads
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5574 on: August 06, 2015, 12:48:48 PM »

@HELMUT:

I think that might have gone a couple of places that are interesting as learning experiences:

1.  It's the epitome of greebles for their own sake.  It doesn't have clear functionality, but like it's clad in an elaborate facade, like a fancy office building :)

2.  I think that somewhere in there the contrasts defeated the sense of height.  I think that the particular issue there is that there are side edges lit with the same values as the front edges, robbing it of a specific lighting that would have really helped it feel more 3D.
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5575 on: August 06, 2015, 01:18:13 PM »

Started recording me create a hypothetical new mod ship in GIMP using, essentially, three major tools.

- Mouse
- Lasso (not the cattle restraining kind)
- Airbrush

To try and demonstrate a really simple method to create and help define form.

This is about 45 minutes of sketching compressed in to 3ish, and the output is thus:



There's clearly a lot more work to do; engines, bridge, flux capacitors, lighting, cocktail lounge etc. and some contrasting areas of value / saturation, tweak lighting and so on - but I think it's a pretty good return on the time.

The main reason for showing this was because the method is so simple (you don't need to be able to draw as such, just create shapes and have a bit of patience / be willing to experiment) - and I see one of the main criticisms for some of the sprites here as being the lighting / shading and this seems like it could help.

https://youtu.be/cQRzihG2RTA
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5576 on: August 07, 2015, 02:16:12 AM »

45 mins and it will take patience? Wow, it would take me hours to get to that point.
Nice method! I think i'm going to try it.
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5577 on: August 07, 2015, 05:10:59 AM »

Same here!  :o Except when I'm doing cheap kitbashes, I generally count my work time on a ship in days and sometime weeks rather that minutes.
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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5578 on: August 07, 2015, 10:16:27 PM »

hows this look for a slow moving heavily armored and armed frigate?

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Re: Spriters judgement thread [non-sprite art allowed]
« Reply #5579 on: August 07, 2015, 11:34:16 PM »

That thing seems to be a size of a destroyer. It also has nearly a destroyer-level arsenal. Add another medium turret and a small turret, and you'll get same number of guns as a Medusa-class.
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