Am I going in the right direction? NEW IMAGE!

[Nacho]

A nice project mixing a time travel stuff I had in mind and Maniac Mansion came to my mind and I start making some remakes of the old DOTT images.

I need a bg with this odd upper perspective... I am going in the correct way? the plain below the house and the river are unfinished, as some of the parts in the house, etc... but I'd like most a crit of the perspective... Of course, if some old lucas' games fans are interested in being involved in such a take-it-easy-project make me know.

One day work.

Thanks.

UPDATE: A new image for the intro I have in mind.... It's Weird Ed, on his knees because his Hamster is dead. I know he has no arms, but they will be there, holding the dead body of the little poor animal... Am I going in the right direction?



And yeah! The cat of Shrek 2 inspired me...Ã, 

[Krazy]

Looks great, almost like a real DOTT background!!

[YOke]

Looks, like Krazy said, as original DOTT artwork. The semi top-down perspective should, however, result in showing almost only ground, with the horizon close to the upper edge of the image and the dark green hill in the foreground should not be visible I think. Unless both time and space are warped, of course.
But you have emulated the style perfectly!

[Darth Mandarb]

Yeah it looks great!

I dig the warped perspective.  It's hard to achieve (I have tried before and failed miserably) but you've managed it quite effectively!

Please post the progress on this one as you go!

[Mr_Frisby]

Theres something wrong with the bottom left - the tree looks squashed flat in the wrong direction. With that much of a skewed perspective the tree should be pointing out instead of up.
Your probably right its just bugging me a bit.

[jasonjkay]

The house looks too angled to me. It looks like it should just fall of the hill. Still the rest of it is amaziing and the style is spot on.

[Nacho]

Tiny changes that try to fix the crits you staled... better? 

[jasonjkay]

Loads better. Still nnot sure of the house.

[Igor]

Looking very good The only thing is... the original is so perfect that it will be hard to reach its quality.

Thing that bothers me: while the original background is warped, it still preserves the main perspective rules, in that, that it never confuses viewer where virtual "camera" is set... Your image is much less clear. When i look at it, i'm not sure from which point i'm looking at the house and its surroundings: you drew every element in different (!) perspective... So, in short, perspective is not warped but changed completely in different parts of picture. This reminds me a little bit of Escher's spatial illusions (though the point of his graphics and illustrations was completely different), but i don't think that was the result you were after.

[Nacho]

Yeah, you're all right, and it's tricky, because that are problems to be solved in the very early squetch and not it appears to be close to the finish...Ã, 

The original squetch had a lot of landscape in the left bank of the river, removing some of the "warp effect"... but I wanted it in that way because my intention was to focus the atention on the house (Do you remember that the original scene was used for an horizontal scroll?). The idea is to use this bg in a 1 or 2 seconds unzoom were you hear a shout . (A shout of pain and sorrow... Ed's son has lost his pet, the hamster)

I hope this clarifies a little bit more why it's so warped.

Thanks for all the comments!

EDIT: FINAL VERSION?

[Nacho]

Here it is... Weird Ed Edison...

[Babar]

hehe... weird ed looks like a bulldog . Seriously, maybe you could make the "pouches" on both sides of his chin a little less prominent. About the background, the only thing I noticed is that the polluted water looks like it is going a bit uphill

[Nacho]

Here is the last image of Weird Ed Edison holding his dead pet... Will it be more critized than the previous? who knows...

[YOke]

Looks great as I would expect from you!

But:
- His shoulder seems very low.
- His nose has more depth than the rest of the face. if the side of the nose is shaded, surely the side of the head should be equally shaded. The same goes for the upper body.
- I would like to see him with a more protruding, squared jaw.

But the only thing that REALLY bugs me is the shoulder.

Keep it up!

[aussie]

It looks excellent. A couple of quick crits:

- He appears to have only one cheekbone.
- I think you could remove that grey bit of scalp on his head. It doesn't add much and it doesn't look all that great.

BTW, I wish you posted your art more often. It's usually fantastic. 

[Nacho]

Some of the points you staled are now so... evident! I really like when CL works, thanks for the crits.



To the final version: Fixing the shoulder made the position of the neck moving to the right, so I had to paint the t-shirt, adding more detail to make the neck sprout from the now fixed position of the chest.

[Nacho]

Sorry for the double posting... my fault. Explanation of the mini-tutorial above.

1. Rough pencil sketch... I realise of the main poses, leaving spaces for the gaps where I know I can go on with computer (I am lazy for doing all the pencil sketch, yeah)

2. Start working over the layer of the sketch, and I look for some references.

3. Post on CL... I remove some bugs. Look for references for the pose of the pet (G'Lord, I made the hamster with the sixe of a Chiuaua! Well... this style is goofy, who cares?)

4. Discuss with DG in gen gen... Make a "very-close-to-definitive" version.

5. Final version.. I hope!

[InCreator]

I like the whole thing.
I hate the way tears fall from eyes, it's gross!
Usually, tears came from UNDER the glasses, not through them.
Right now, tear is spoiling whole cutesy look.

also, add Ed's thumb to rightmost side of pet. About where his forearm is visible.

[James Kay]

Spumco-licious!!!!Ã, 

I agree the tear is a bit over the top (even for an over the top image like this one). Why not go the whole Spumco way and remove the tears, make the glints in his eyes animate moistness and have his bottom lip quiver. You won't need tears then.
Mind you, the tear is not really bad, though.....

[mornin (away for quite a while)]

This is just great!!!
I'm not bothered by the tears at all, but by the fact that his legs kind of look like they were chopped off underneath his knees.
Other than that, I simply love it 

mornin