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http://www.lumaf.se/11048/riot.ogg

Very rough!

It looks like the latest version is closer to what you wanted to achieve. It is more dramatic and action-filled, but I think the original one has a serenity, an almost dreamlike quality that I prefer in some ways.

In the first image, it wasn't so much about being attacked by monsters, but more about encountering these strange beings. It wasn't clear that the guardians were aggressive, or who was attacking whom. Their expressions were almost tragic. Oh well.

Well put! That's exactly how I felt about the original (and still the best IMO).

The faces of the monsters were deliberately made so they wouldn't express the ordinary human kind of wrath, but some sort of spooky, excited expression. Some inspiration taken from the Shadow of the Colossus, if you've seen those monsters.
Now that I've seen Krysis' version, I understand it would still work better to have them pissed of in the regular sense

No! Please don't change this. The hollow gaze of the monters is the soul of the painting. Very expressionate! I also liked the scene better with the guy rowing the boat facing the monsters. I also like the roughness of the original version. Nice work!

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Also, I think the "calmness" of the men in the boat has a certain effect on the scene. It gives the impression that they are experienced habitants of the land and know its creatures - maybe even used to running into these kinds of monsters.

Great work, I was really touched by this!

This is pretty good, but it doesn't really remind me of Warcraft II.

Yes, if anything it reminds me of the original Zelda (NES) theme.

Very moody theme. Great feel. I wouldn't change anything except for another slight variation of the main theme. It gets a little repetitive when queued up like that. Maybe you could try just to vary the last measure (4/4) of the lead melody line. Nice work.

Jimmy is right!

In my experience, I wouldn't start on any artwork until I have about 9 songs completed, otherwise I don't have a feel for how the artwork should fully portray the music. Punk rock ska, with a dark cover? Let me show you some covers, and you tell me what kind of music you'd expect:

Ah, this is fun! For the first cover, I would expect some sort of Creedish emo, for the second cover I would expect some sort of brit/surf pop. For the third cover, I would expect some electro/synth/industrial mojo. I don't know these bands, so these are wild shots.

It never seizes to amaze me that so much starting bands are worrying about their album names and covers, before even having enough songs to fill an album, and sometimes not even having a complete line-up.

First get a complete band, then practice until you get enough songs to perform, then perform some gigs, and then maybe you can start about thinking about how to call your album.

Somehow a lot of starting bands have more website than music.

Wise words...

Wich softwares have you used for registration?

Cubase, or else?

Violin orchestration is good

This is sequenced in Propellerhead's Reason 2.5. Thank you.

[DOING?]

And just what do you think your goingÃ,  LOL what is thisÃ,  Do you know grammer?

Can you read? It says "And just what do you think you're DOING?".

Thanks Geoffkhan, very helpful.

Great suggestions! Thanks.

Yes, this is like a clash of two genres, that's why I was wondering about the drumming. I'll post a drumless version later. Thanks for the comments!

Hey all!

I need criticism on this piece. WIP. Rough. No custom tempo map yet.

Dynamics, arrangement, etc.

My biggest concern is the dynamics and especially the drumming. Too obtrusive? Should I scrap it altogether?

Thank you!

http://hem.bredband.net/galactic/flt02.ogg

The technique is very personal and it's well performed...however, I don't find it very interesting. Basically, it's the lack of expression; most interesting portraits convey some sort of feeling or attitude. This woman displays no emotions whatsoever, except for some kind of "I dunno, and I don't care" attitude.
But again, very nice technique, great colours and composition.

I will have to completely disagree. I think this portrait is very expressionate, as Nikolas points out. And, perhaps the "I dunno, and I don't care" effect that you discard as useless is just what Ildu is after here. Then again, it's difficult to criticize something as abstract and subjective as the emotional conveyance of art.

These are great rules, I wish I had time to enter.

This pissed you off enough to call her a "stereotyping bitch"? Considered therapy?

Hey oz! Where did you get that "scratchy" guitar that sounds in "coconut_greek"? It's great! total reggae!

I recorded it.

Thanks!

Yes, as n3tgraph pointed out, the main problem here is the lack of a solid beat. There are no set measures. You need to make sure (unless you are very avant garde) that the track follows a certain time signature (4/4 = four beats per measure, etc). You need to sort this out. Right now the track is a little chaotic with random spurs of activity. If you fix the beat I think it might turn out great, because I really like the melodics!

Here is a slightly tweaked version of the caribbean ballad track:

http://hem.bredband.net/galactic/sunset_wharf.ogg

And another WIP track for the same project:

http://hem.bredband.net/galactic/hip_rag.ogg

Thanks n3tgraph!

I agree the bass line is a little flat in the second track. I actually "sketched" it briefly as a guideline for the arrangement, but I never got around to embroider it. It needs some work, even though I don't want it to stand out too much.