Tourist center background

[Mats Berglinn]

I have made a background for my latest project (yes, I have put Hawaiian Treasure on the side but just for now because I written the game ever since 2001 when I still was in Gymnasium School before I ever encountered AGS, at that time I first played The Curse of Monkey Island, the favorite of the series) Caribbean Mysteries. It's in that game the pirate captain Pepe Roni will be featured in (remember the guy that I asked about choosing a beard for?).

Anyway, here is the first background in the game.



I have draw the picture by hand, scanned it in my PC, cleaned and coloring it. I'm not 100 % satisfied with it so I ask you guys: What do you think? Is there anything I can do to improve the picture? Let me hear your opinions.

And yes, the style is cartoonish, it's meant to be.

[Johnny Odd]

  I think it's cool - although there isn't actualy a lot on it - it doesn't allow for much interaction. except the vender and tourist booth - perhaps the tree. Could you put more in?
   I like the bold, cartoon style - but the palm tree leaves don't look too great - if you did them in the same way as that little bush it would look better - more texture.
Just a little C & C.
Good work

[Johnny Odd]

  I think it's cool - although there isn't actualy a lot on it - it doesn't allow for much interaction. except the vender and tourist booth - perhaps the tree. Could you put more in?
   I like the bold, cartoon style - but the palm tree leaves don't look too great - if you did them in the same way as that little bush it would look better - more texture.
Just a little C & C.
Good work

[Johnny Odd]

  I think it's cool - although there isn't actualy a lot on it - it doesn't allow for much interaction. except the vender and tourist booth - perhaps the tree. Could you put more in?
   I like the bold, cartoon style - but the palm tree leaves don't look too great - if you did them in the same way as that little bush it would look better - more texture.
Just a little C & C.
Good work

[Johnny Odd]

OMG! sorry - my com pooter crashed and i though it wasn't sending!!!!
OOpps!

[Chicky]

i like it but not the copy and paste shells, try having less shells. And if oyu need to copyand paste them, rotate them a bit , add different detail.

apart from that looks good, maybe add a little detail?

[..]

You got the perspective wrong on the bottom of the vending machine and hut the bottom line needs to slope diagonally up from l to r..

[Pet Terry]

The things that bother me:
1. Perspective in the booth and vending machine is wrong.
2. I suggest you use more darker outlines and add shading.
3. I think clouds could use a more lighter colour.
4. Palm tree's branch looks weird... try to make it so that the higher end is thinner so that it gets more shape.
5. Forest looks like there's a hill and wooden fence in front of it... make some of the tree's darker, I think.
6. Make palm's leaves bigger.
7. Lighter green looks too bright.
8. For that kind of art style, resolution 800x600 is too big in my opinion.

There. Hope it helps

[InCreator]

Um, It's not bad...! But this is how you could improve:
1) Start making all bright tones darker
2) repeat step 1 that until your eyes don't hurt anymore
3) Try adding color two and three to things. Single-colored bg looks alot worse than bg with every thing drawn at least 2-3 colors on it. I other words, shade.
4) make outlines on bush at the left-bottom side darker and give variety to colors of leaves, like make some brighter and some darker
5) Little shadows would add alot to this scene.
6) Listen to Petteri

[Phemar]

May have been said before, haven't checked:

1. Perspective wrong on vender and booth.
2. Rotate some shells if you copy and paste them.
3. Add shading.
4. Fence obviously copied and pasted. Try doing it every 2nd one.
5. Palm leaves are too small.
6. That red is too bright.
7. That's all!

There we go! Otherwise, good!

[jannar85]

Wrong colors. Sorry, they just hurt my eyes. Simply as that.

First of all, the sky does NOT look like that. The sky is blue, with some white clouds.. What do they look like? Ask Google!

The beach and the water has also been colored wrong. Ask Google again, my friend.

Now there's this thing with perspective, but I won't mind that, since other's already mentioned it.

Everything can be looked up in Google. Google is your friend.
Btw, I'm not saying you should do this and this I'm just saying how I'd like to see the coloring done. Unfortunatly, I'm not good with DOING it, so I ask google.


Hey, Google?

[Jayel]

all the advice above, plus the horizon must be horizontal.

[Mats Berglinn]

Thanks for the opinions.

I have done some changes here.

1: Altering the color so your eyes doesn't hurt anymore. (How come that I'm the only one who doesn't get my eyes hurt for watching a picture of basci greens and reds?)

2: Added shadows and shading at a lot of places.

3: Changed the leaves on the coconut-palm and the tree-trunk.

4: Changed the seashells and starfishes.

5: Made some sandeffects.

6: Fixed the hoirson.

7: changed the perspective of the soda-machine and Tourist-center.

8: Gave the clouds a lighter tone (clouds aren't plain white in reality, they're more like whitish lightgray.

I haven't changed the thick jungle though becuase I wasn't sure on how to tackle the problem. Maybe I will fix it later. I will add some more stuff to make it more interactive in the game even if this is not a so importaint location (the game starts here but you need to return here for a thing or two).

Janar: Sheesh, you're so annoying when you advertise Google, besides Altavista is my cup of tea. About the sky color, I tried to make a tone to actual sky where you see it goes from light blue to whitish lightblue as you look from the sky to the horison. Besides, I have seen other games where the sky isn't dark blue like your Google examples.

What do you think of this one?

[Darth Mandarb]

Getting better!Ã,  The shadows on the beach need some help!

I did a quick paint-over


- added some guidelines to show the perspecitive problems on the two structures
- added dimension to the window of the tourist shack
- added some darker shadows from the two structures
- added some shading/wetness to the sand at the water line
- added a lighter shade in the water to show waves/water motion
- darkened the water towards the horizon
- added some shading to the background trees
- added some shading to the palm tree as well (trunk and foliage)

You might want to add shadows from the shells and starfish as well.

I did this paintover too quickly for it to be something you can use ... but more something you can look off of to get ideas!Ã,  I hope it helps!

~ darth

[Mats Berglinn]

Well, your example isn't in the right size, but what the heck! You made a very good reference though. Not to disapoint you but the toursit center doesn't have any window, it's just a guy that will be sitting there. Well, I can't see the window thing anyway.

Thanks for the reference, Darth! 

[DanClarke]

i would move the vending machine along side the bar,it just makes more sense. Realistically you wouldnt have the machine set a couple of feet in front of the bar.

[Mats Berglinn]

Here is my latest version of the Toursit center. I have tried to make the shadows like in Darth Mandrab's example. Also I have changed the soda-machine a bit, changed the seashells and added some posters on the tourist center.

[HillBilly]

The coco nut machine's shadow is a bit out of perspective.

[Darth Mandarb]

Much better!Ã,  The shadows could use a little tweaking (as was mentioned) on the Soda machine, but that's only a small issue.Ã,  Make it extend out from the back corner of the machine, rather than the front, and that should do it!

I like the addition of the posters on the tourist center!Ã,  I recognize the read headed/bearded guy from a former post of yours in the CL!

The dimension you've added to the hole in the tourist center is a little off, but not annoyingly so

Good work!

[Mats Berglinn]

Could you show me an example, Darth?