Background C & C

Farsight · Fri 16/04/2004 23:36:13

This is one of my first modified, proper backgrounds and wonder if anyone could give me some help.

Ben · Sat 17/04/2004 01:31:51

What exectly do you want help with? The only real problem I see here is that it's obviously a modified version of the RON intro.. So unless you're doing a RON-game, it might kill the atmosphere when this background show up.

Farsight · Sat 17/04/2004 05:30:05

Quote from: Ben on Sat 17/04/2004 01:31:51
What exectly do you want help with? The only real problem I see here is that it's obviously a modified version of the RON intro.. So unless you're doing a RON-game, it might kill the atmosphere when this background show up.

I in actual fact am making a RON game and yes it is a ripped off modified version of the intro screen.

Moox · Sat 17/04/2004 05:31:43

above the L theres a white space

fransaskois · Sat 17/04/2004 08:16:11

It needs more cowbell.

Hehe, jk. I have no idea what RON is, but it looks good.

MrColossal · Sat 17/04/2004 08:35:35

this is the critics lounce, go away if you have nothing to contribute

as for the background, it's a gif but it looks like it was saved as a jpg at some point and then resaved as a gif, there are a lot of artifacts on the image.

also there are a lot of green specks inside the broken off piece

[Cameron] · Sat 17/04/2004 08:45:37

The white is already on the sign when its full, but... I think people might not realise this. When you look at the picture it draws your eye. Without this knowledge about the white already there, people might think your a lazy artist.
fransaskois: check out http://ron.the-underdogs.org/ for ron information. Its a great series so check it out.

MrColossal · Sat 17/04/2004 09:00:46

Lithium......... What in the world does that image have to do with Farsight's picture? Does it help him figure out what to fix on his drawing? Does it offer any criticsm of ANY kind? No... It offers absolutely nothing... You didn't even mention Farsight's picture in your post... What are you doing?

Bryan · Sat 17/04/2004 09:27:55

To me it looks like when writing the text, you ran out of space and had to squish end of "carefully" in. Maybe that could be tweaked. Then again, as is could fit with some of the styles of RON games that have been made.

Dart · Sat 17/04/2004 14:17:09

I don't know if it's supposed to be there, but...

Right when the sign's shadow starts, there's a thin layer of a brighter green surrounding that part of the sign. You should get rid of that.

InCreator · Sat 17/04/2004 15:26:27

Hm. I think that this picture is just simply lame. Not because you ripped it, but because It's far too boring.

I'd suggest a humorous element, such as put crosses from uncareful drivers around, or add a cat onto road who got drived over or just a tree which looks like It's been crashed into. Or all of them.
At the moment, there's very little of what you did, so you could rip the basic picture again to fix the overall quality and redo it, because it looks like someone got mad with using extrude filter. Or - you could remove these bright double lines from things manually (which isn't that hard at all).
It will be alot better at the moment when there's no trace of antialiasing anymore.

Moox · Sat 17/04/2004 15:32:00

InCreator hit the nail on the head. How did the sign get broken? maybe add a crashed car behind it withe debri from the sign.

Farsight · Sat 17/04/2004 20:50:52

Ok, I shall tell you how it got destroyed
As you walk past, the sign get hit by a missile from Iraq

Before missile

After missile (updated)

I updated the things that you thought could use redoing. All I have to do now is update the first picture.

[Cameron] · Sun 18/04/2004 03:59:06

The tomb stone kind looks like a cardboard cut out. The shards of the sign i dont think work to well, perhaps you could make the sign look like it got hit by missile by putting a blast pattern on it.

Moox · Sun 18/04/2004 04:00:31

or you could make a hole in the sign

[Cameron] · Sun 18/04/2004 04:11:54

With a blast pattern around it.

Moox · Sun 18/04/2004 04:18:16

Quick edit, maybe add some debri or burning on the sign

Iron Pirate · Sun 18/04/2004 05:12:51

Yeah!

I like it now.

Farsight · Sun 18/04/2004 05:43:16

LostTraveler, here is an updated version of your sign

(All my images look really, really bad because they were all done in Paint Shop Pro. I didn't use paint as it is very limited and ArtGem because it is shareware and you can't save in it.) I know the flames look dumb but it's because to tell the truth....I am not a good artist. :

Kweepa · Sun 18/04/2004 10:18:26

Actually that blackening is pretty good Farsight.

What I would suggest is to draw around the hole carefully with the polygon tool, then invert the selection, select the airbrush again, and fill in the white edges around the hole.