FOA test

Vel · Mon 09/06/2003 13:10:16

Here's a test image I made in FOA style. C&C welcome.

scotch · Mon 09/06/2003 13:14:27

Looks like a photo.. Especially the water. Try copying some colours and textures frm a FoA background.

Vel · Mon 09/06/2003 13:16:32

Scotch, thats what I did.

Neole · Mon 09/06/2003 13:19:26

That looks like a Gabriel Knight 2 background.

Vel · Mon 09/06/2003 13:22:26

OK, but how can I optimize it?

Neole · Mon 09/06/2003 13:30:09

I dunno, I'm really bad at FOA type or pixel artwork. (GK2 used photographs for backgrounds)

Vel · Mon 09/06/2003 13:33:27

I know that GK2 used photos as backgrounds, it is full motion video.

Miez · Mon 09/06/2003 18:54:34

There is a photoshop trick you might use to make bits of your picture look more "handdrawn" (the water for instance). Select the part of the picture you want to alter (use the lasso or marquee tool), crank up its' contrast and after that apply an artistic > cutout filter. It doesn't work wonders, and especially with surfaces like the water you may have to add some detail afterwards, but it is a nice and quick technique for "downgrading" scanned photographs.
The landscape looks good though!

Vel · Mon 09/06/2003 19:05:00

Sorry Miez, for I am using PaintShopPro. Look what i did to the water though. It looks a lot better now.

I did a trick to the photo after resizing it and adding the textures - i reduced the colors to 128 and then increased them to 256 again.

Miez · Mon 09/06/2003 19:16:22

Ah ... hmmm .... PSP probably doesn't have one of those handy filters. The trick you used works well! but the water looks very blue and flat - maybe you should add some reflections of the coastline in the water?

Vel · Mon 09/06/2003 19:23:25

Can't wait to see your tutorial, Miez!

Miez · Mon 09/06/2003 19:27:23

hehe - it's done, all 16 pages of it. As soon as the FoY website is up again (somewhere in 2016, I guess) we'll make it available. You can have a sneak preview of the finished tutorial image:

Good luck with your picture!

Privateer Puddin' · Mon 09/06/2003 19:28:54

surely maaaarrrkkkeeehhh can find some where else to put the site while its down like most sane people

ThunderStorm · Mon 09/06/2003 19:59:19

Miez, I would be glad to host the tutorial for you until the FoY page is up again. I have 1GB of traffic per month, but I doubt my own homepage uses much of that. I can't wait to see (read/study) that tutorial either!
What d'ya think?

Miez · Mon 09/06/2003 20:03:28

That's a very nice offer, and I could host the tutorial on my own server as well. However, it IS part of the FoY website, so I'd rather wait for the website to come back online ... put it in its' proper place, so to speak. If it looks like the FoY website is going to stay dead for a VERY long time, I might host the tutorial somewhere else, in which case you'll be the first to know

ThunderStorm · Mon 09/06/2003 20:11:38

Yeah, I understand about that. Hey, it's always good to have something to look forward to.

Hope that the site is up again really soon.

Vel: I really like your background. The only problem I can see is that there's not really much room for characters to walk around, but it surely would look great in a cutscene!

Vel · Tue 10/06/2003 12:45:27

:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

danny* · Tue 10/06/2003 13:23:40

it seems that....lots of people will be expecting your tute,Miez!

BTWY,that BG looks great Vel!!!!

Vel · Tue 10/06/2003 13:55:25

Miez, i tried to make a reflection with a low-density brush, but that doesnt seem quite right.
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Vel · Tue 10/06/2003 13:55:48

Miez, i tried to make a reflection with a low-density brush, but that doesnt seem quite right.