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[Clockwork Owl]

Hmph. :l

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...Hey wait did you just...

[xenoargh]

@CrazyDave:  Photoshop term.  It's one of those things that's very easy to do in PS or GIMP, but very few other suites have that tool. 

Basically, it's a fancy way to manipulate contrast in a specific range of grays, whilst leaving the rest of the values where they were.  It's a very handy tool for quickly and efficiently re-leveling a piece.  It took longer to write this than to do it.

If you don't have Photoshop, download CS2- you can get a valid serial for free.

@Tartiflette:  Yeah, I agree; I boosted saturation when I hit it with Levels and didn't bother paying attention to the reference hues, lol.  Easily fixed, though

OLDER >> OLD >> NEW >> EDIT >> EDIT SATURATION

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[Xanderzoo]

Wow, decreasing the saturation really improved the sprite.

[MesoTroniK]

That is a nice upgrade to Dave's sprite Xeno, but it had very messy edges where the entire perimeter of the ship was transparent and I just cleaned that up real fast.



Anyways, if I was to nitpick in an effort to help you out more CrazyDave I would recommend trying to reduce the amount of true gray colors on it and try to define the height changes of some parts of the ship a bit more like the sponsons as one example as an area that could use help. Also reduce the harshness of the hard pixels that you tend to have defining different parts of the ship and try to go for a more subtle look in general.

[xenoargh]

The Fenrir: a pirate ship.  Basically, it's a pirate Brawler- two built-in Medium Energy weapons and two Ballistic mounts.  Speed and maneuverability and a hefty punch.

I really like this 3D workflow; it makes things a lot simpler and it's getting to be routine to do something like this from start already.

[Nanao-kun]

The Fenrir: a pirate ship.  Basically, it's a pirate Brawler- two built-in Medium Energy weapons and two Ballistic mounts.  Speed and maneuverability and a hefty punch.

I really like this 3D workflow; it makes things a lot simpler and it's getting to be routine to do something like this from start already.

Huh, that's a pretty unusual design.

[xenoargh]

The design idea is that the engines, including the ones mounted on the guns, can turn rapidly to re-orient the ship to wherever it wants to go; if it was a real thing, it'd constantly be turning the guns while it turns to rapidly change direction, hence why everything is gimbaled

[kazi]

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Scribbled this one out in about 3 hrs today... really needs some cleanup, but whatever.

[Xanderzoo]

Hey, that looks cool. What's that he's holding?

[MesoTroniK]

Looks like a giant space gun with a bipod attached.

[kazi]

Yep.

Mostly just trying speed painting in order to improve my skills. Originally started out as a concept for a smaller sprite, then I was like wth, lets just add a background. Didn't spend too much time on the giant space gun  

[MesoTroniK]

Heh, so what does the giant space gun shoot?

Also, any news on that Mayorate update Kazi?

[kazi]

Hah, honestly I don't really know what it would shoot...

But yeah, update hmmmmm.... I should get working on that 

[Sproginator]

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Scribbled this one out in about 3 hrs today... really needs some cleanup, but whatever.

Looks fantastic!

[Clockwork Owl]

Heh, so what does the giant space gun shoot?

Giant space bullet.

Looks more like a sniper beam rifle tho. Nice job kazi.