Beard of pirate captain

Mats Berglinn · Sat 17/04/2004 14:44:13

I have made a main-sprite for a bad guy called Captain Pepe Roni. He is coming from an upcoming game that I have written on before I came across with AGS.

This is Captain Pepe Roni, a fearsome, cruel pirate leader with some LeChuck like influense (except that he's not dead or undead). Almost everyone pronounces his name wrong so they say Captain Pepperoni. His goal is to find the fabled LeDrake treasure to use it's power to take over the world.

As you can see I'm not sure about the beards so I made different kinds of beards to use for him.

The first one is obviously inspired from the CMI version of the zombie-pirate LeChuck. The rest of the beards I made up by myself.

Which beard do you think I should use? Opinions are welcome and so does your own beard suggestions.

Nacho · Sat 17/04/2004 15:54:51

My vote goes to number 1, but, man... what a funny name! ^_^ That's indeed an humorous archievement!

Moox · Sat 17/04/2004 16:00:00

3 looks good

Dart · Sat 17/04/2004 16:03:14

I'd use beard #2.

Darth Mandarb · Sat 17/04/2004 16:51:24

I like the one you have in the original picture.

If not that one I like the #4 option of the other choices.

I would also recommend a few things:
1) I wouldn't use the same color for the beard as for the coat. I would suggest making the beard/hair more of an orange/red color.
2) I wouldn't use full bright colors (red in the coat and blue in the trousers)
3) The belt looks odd ... seems like it should either be straight across, or going over the shoulder?

I like the character and I LOVE the name. That's really a cool name!

.. · Sat 17/04/2004 16:58:33

I like 2

Also I wouldnt have his beard the same color as his coat, make the coat or the beard just slightly different shade.

Iron Pirate · Sat 17/04/2004 17:23:47

I agree with everything that Mandarb and Scuthbert are saying. I'd really want to make his clothes darker shades. The colours right now hurt my eyes. If you darkened the clothing, not only to I think that would make him more intimidating, but I think you could keep the beard as is.

Oh, and I like the beard from the original drawing. That or number four.

magintz · Sat 17/04/2004 17:54:34

2 or 3

Mats Berglinn · Sat 17/04/2004 18:18:41

Okay, here is the changes for the original Pepe Roni and the different beards.

I have made the clothes darker and changed the "belt" around the chest and added a regular belt.

Well, looks like there different tastes around here so I wait with deciding which beard I'm going to use. I found a bit surprising that anyone like the original beard.

Oh yeah, don't mind about the eye-brows on the version 2 original, I just noticed that misstake and I'm going to change the color back to the beard's color.

Ozwalled · Sat 17/04/2004 20:07:15

Like the 2nd beard most.

remixor · Sun 18/04/2004 04:39:10

My vote goes to beard 4.

ElectricMonk · Sun 18/04/2004 04:49:07

#3. The shape looks unusual and yet very distinctive - gives the character a unique look instead of being a "generic" pirate captain.

Iron Pirate · Sun 18/04/2004 05:11:56

Actually, yeah, beard number two could be pretty unique and cool if you gave it more of a curve on the inside. Right now it looks kind of Pac-Man.

.. · Sun 18/04/2004 10:22:53

QuoteActually, yeah, beard number two could be pretty unique and cool if you gave it more of a curve on the inside. Right now it looks kind of Pac-Man.

Don't you mean beard 3? I don't see how beard 2 looks like pacman...

Iron Pirate · Sun 18/04/2004 18:09:35

Aheh. Oops. Yes, I meant beard three, like ElectricMonk was saying.

Iwan · Sun 18/04/2004 18:39:29

My vote is with #3 too

Mats Berglinn · Mon 19/04/2004 10:57:58

Here is a new version of beard number three. I have changed it so it looks like less "Pac-man" and added a bit between "the openings".

While I written the game which features this character, I talked about it to one of my class-mates in the gymnasium school (it's like college in a way) and he came up with the name Captain Pepe Roni and the joke about the missprouncing. I liked the name so I use the name for this character.

spoofer4ever · Mon 19/04/2004 11:06:12

No 3 looks MUCH better so i'll go with that. keep up the good work

ElectricMonk · Mon 19/04/2004 13:16:41

I like #3 even more now.

Penguinx · Mon 19/04/2004 16:00:01

I like #3, but it is a little to symetrical and sparkly. It would look a lot more realisitic if there were little tufts of hair sticking out of the sides of the beard (this really goes for all examples).

Just to prove my 'street cred,' here are a few pictures that show my level of personal experience. I am not often without some form of crazy facial hair.

Add some straggler hairs to #3 and I think you'd have perfection!