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Offline I-KP

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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #45 on: May 22, 2014, 12:06:27 pm »
#1.  Happy that these sprites are turning out to peoples' liking.  (Still plenty more to do; the support cast is quite large.)

#2.  Happy to let Chris do what he wants with them, including including them. 

#3.  Disappointed that the Obscura aren't simply one of the Hydral's heads going rogue.  ;)
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #46 on: May 22, 2014, 12:16:49 pm »
Very cool!!  :)

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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #47 on: May 22, 2014, 01:23:22 pm »
BTW, are you going to do new version of Hydral ships as well? I mean, hydral sentinels/golems/missile launchers/labs/outposts/whatever are currently only ships that have completely unique style to them instead of tron line style other ships have. If you are going to do new version of them as well, I'm going to be really curious what will they look afterwards :)
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #48 on: May 22, 2014, 04:32:31 pm »
I'll certainly have a stab at doing the Hydral ships but I'm not planning to do any of the turrets or bases.
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #49 on: May 22, 2014, 04:33:25 pm »
We're also going to be working on that sort of thing, so it's not all up to you.  Blue is going to have some spare time on her hands (relatively speaking) after the main art for the two expansions (AI War and TLF) is done, so we'll see.
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #50 on: May 22, 2014, 07:17:32 pm »
How about this for the Hydral Golems (and Sentinels following along similar lines)..?



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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #51 on: May 23, 2014, 02:32:13 am »
Quote from: I-KP on May 22, 2014, 07:17:32 pm
How about this for the Hydral Golems (and Sentinels following along similar lines)..?



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It looks so good I feel guilty trying to look for any flaws.
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #52 on: May 23, 2014, 04:47:12 am »
I'm not sure about the 'talons'.  I was trying to make the outriggers look like limbs on a beast but I think that works even without the talons; might replace them with something a bit more toward the 'tech' side of things.
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #53 on: May 23, 2014, 11:49:12 am »
Hmmm... a little bit too much like praying mantis arms, in my opinion. Ship like that could do with a melee grappling weapon. I'm pleased by the main body.

Would a more faithful rendition help, with a both front and back wing segments?
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #54 on: May 23, 2014, 12:41:01 pm »
Maybe but that same nacelle pattern is repeated throughout the original silhouettes and I wanted to try and pull away from that for the Hydrals, whilst not diverging too much from the original shape.

After having a day or so to look at it I'm feeling a bit more comfortable with it.  I may yet still replace the talons with 'tech' gubbins.
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #55 on: May 23, 2014, 02:46:01 pm »
Quote from: I-KP on May 22, 2014, 07:17:32 pm
How about this for the Hydral Golems (and Sentinels following along similar lines)..?



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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #56 on: May 23, 2014, 06:45:40 pm »
Right.  Definitely changing it now!
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #57 on: May 23, 2014, 10:56:01 pm »
holy shit dude these are awesome. congrats on possibly getting them in the game
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #58 on: May 24, 2014, 12:05:48 am »
Hmm, yeah, your version of Hydral ship does look cool, but talon/mantis claw things look so... Organic. I mean, old hydral ships just look like really high tech ships while this looks like organic ship. I'm not sure that really fits Hydrals even though it looks cool
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #59 on: May 24, 2014, 10:43:22 am »
Less dancing chicken; more biomechanical instrument of interplanetary oppression...

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