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Creative Production => Critics' Lounge => Topic started by: on Tue 15/02/2005 17:58:28

Title: Intro BGs
Post by: on Tue 15/02/2005 17:58:28
Hi!

Nothing more to say, I made some intro backgrounds which I wanted to show you. It's a bit more cartoonish than expected, but please just tell me what you think of it.

http://members.fortunecity.de/voodoolake/intro1.jpg (http://members.fortunecity.de/voodoolake/intro1.jpg)
http://members.fortunecity.de/voodoolake/intro2.jpg (http://members.fortunecity.de/voodoolake/intro2.jpg)
Title: Re: Intro BGs
Post by: Khris on Tue 15/02/2005 21:20:00
(http://members.fortunecity.de/voodoolake/intro1.jpg)

(http://members.fortunecity.de/voodoolake/intro2.jpg)


[img]http://members.fortunecity.de/voodoolake/intro1.jpg[/img]
Title: Re: Intro BGs
Post by: Scummbuddy on Wed 16/02/2005 01:23:11
They are wonderful!

If the second shot has a fire going, I would hope that there is a flickering type of shadows that play on everything around it, such as the tree bark, and the tent... as getting lighter and darker, to co-incide with the fire intensity.

Lovely work. Team up with someone who can code and write stories, or if you can do that yourself, you'd be unstoppable.
Title: Re: Intro BGs
Post by: Darcness on Wed 16/02/2005 02:02:03
Really great work!

The style reminds me so much of Day of the Tentacle, and in my books, anybody that can successfully emulate that style is a true artist.

Well done!
Title: Re: Intro BGs
Post by: on Wed 16/02/2005 17:37:07
Thanks! It's good to hear you like it. It was a funny thing how I got this style. I started out with something like the older lucasArts games were designed (mi2, foa etc...). I always liked this realistic way of pixel art, but my attempts were way too dark/light (They used a very complicated lightning in those backgrounds), so I decided to give the cutscenes are more comic-like style. The concept art I made for the pictures posted above were done in less than three minutes, with an enormous lack of detail, but after colouring the whole thing I almost jumped out of my socks for getting such a picture out of them, and all this in less than half of the time a 'realistic' picture took until completition.

QuoteTeam up with someone who can code and write stories, or if you can do that yourself, you'd be unstoppable.

Sadly, I've tried that a million times, but I experienced that it's very hard to find a team that is seriously interested in making an adventures.... I'm fairly advanced in programming, as well and I've always had a special favour for making music, but - just to be honest to myselft - it is too much work for a single person...