Author Topic: [FILLED] Looking for artist(s) to develop new style for A Valley Without Wind.  (Read 159297 times)

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I'm liking what I'm seeing, tbh. Might not be perfect, character wise, but that enemy is downright SEXY. Relay this to the artist. Love the work. Seriously :P
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Okay, so here's a couple of pieces that Studio G is working on.  More cartoony than I'd like for the characters, but there are some interesting new techniques in here that I think we can make work from a technical standpoint.  Having some depth to the ground layer is pretty cool, although it would require introducing some new rules to the actual procedural generation to prevent grounds that are too small, etc.  That's a substantial amount of technical work, but it would just really be a layer over top of what we already have, so that's not the end of the world.
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1st picture looks pretty decent.
2nd one the person is just... wot.

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1st picture looks pretty decent.
2nd one the person is just... wot.

Yep.
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1st picture looks pretty decent.
2nd one the person is just... wot.

Yeah, the first one looks cartoony, but could be fun to play in, but the 2nd one seems to have gone to a new level of weird.


I mean it's the difference between this:



AND


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Yea, exploratory art efforts go pretty far afield :)
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Yea, exploratory art efforts go pretty far afield :)

Couldn't have said it better meself.
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Ooooo, that's a pretty nice mockup. The character has kind of a GI-Joe action figure feel to it, and I like the design of the sniper balloon. It is a balloon, THAT IS A SNIPER. Even if though it is cartoony, it's good in its own right.

Also, if you ever release the lego version of AVWW, you know who to contact.

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That looks pretty incredible! A bit of an unfair comparison given the other style is just a couple of sprites instead of all of that together, but it looks great. :)

Can the guns on the balloon rotate? I think that would be pretty important for getting a really believable enemy.

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In terms of gun rotation, we're talking a lot more coding per enemy to make that sort of thing happen.  While technically it would be possible (other enemies do something kind of similar), for this particular enemy type it can only shoot horizontally by design anyhow, so the gun not rotating would be the goal.
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Second picture is a big NO :P
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The most beautiful game ever made in my opinion is Heroes of Might and Magic II.

The art of Studio K is in some ways reminiscent of that style. Therefore I approve.

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Second picture is a big NO :P


Yes, I'm gonna just try to pretend I never saw that.


Though honestly, both of them are waaaaay too cartoony for my taste.   They're not BAD, but they look like one of those western shows that's trying way too hard to be an anime, and not quite managing it.  Never could stand that sort of style.

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That second picture...holy.  Crap.

I hope it was a joke?



Also, in the first one, why does the guy have bright pink armor?  Seems kinda...un-manly.