Hill Top Zone

So you don't like the idea of labeling your work as either a serious candidate for being included, or just a mockup of an idea for a serious candidate?

And I thought Vectors weren't required for everything.

Wait, so no stick at all? Just this huge green rock but transparent. I know we're supposed to have fun with it but is that going "too" far from the original idea?

 

Yeah I did think of that (being more fitting in HPZ) while I was working on it, so I'm sure I could adapt it at some point for something or other at least. Still trying to think up some more ideas! Actually that rock was going to be an actual rock at first (a bit like the other in the zone I was hoping). But it didn't turn out that way so I kept it green and shaded it as an emerald :P.

I'm not so sure about extending it all the was down the post, but that did make me think of possibly adding little crystal fragments/shards around it (the post). But then, it's probably not really necessary at this point. I might leave this one and try and come up with something else if I can. If not I may just polish up the seesaw part a bit (for completeness' sake).

 

Now that I am aware we don't have to use vector...I wanted to take a slightly different approach to the gate. I didn't add the lights/lava because I wanted to see what people thought of it thus far. So...?

 

I like that concept. You have given it a great industrial look.

 

I like that concept, subsubstantive.

As a potential suggestion, I wonder if it might look better with longer links for the left half (I'm interpreting it as something similar to a bicycle chain). With proper proportioning, it would look more similar to the original. I'm not sure if that would be better or worse, however, but it's a potential direction.

I ask this with honesty and the purest of intentions: It's round metal. Could it look any different?

 

I'd also like to see them a bit longer for comparison. Maybe something similar to this? (from side on)



Edit: I don't know if that's actually much longer :P... Hard to tell from this angle (I'm sure you'll know what looks "right" anyway).

I'm definitely having trouble thinking up anything for the seesaw post. Hope other people are thinking about it too. Because you wouldn't want anything too out there. I guess it just needs some sort of little detail.

 

I don't like subsubstantive concept at all.
I can't see that design as anything other than a metal watch band. They use the same exact design.

 

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That's the first thing I thought of too. I think it's too different from the original.

 

Ok, here's a sad resizing of subsubstantive's door. This gives a rough idea of what it would look like with longer links and thinner outer pieces to more closely match the original art:



...And look slightly less like a watch band =P

I think if there was a bit more contrast between the metal colors, this door could look pretty nice.

 

I think that looks better. I did get the idea from a watch band, but I don't think that makes it bad, I mean the same argument could be made that the original looks like a metal band also. I thought the extra pieces made it look stronger, and more advanced then a few simple plates.

 

Neither do I. Lots of things look similar to other things. That's no reason not to use them. I think it's a good idea.

 

Seconded. It makes sense in a way I can't explain.

 

Do we have any inivative ideas for the lights?

A single pressure gauge, that ticks into the red might be cool, indicating a tight seal...

 

Look man, these are all concepts. There, I just organized everything. And what's been agreed upon as final? Edit the first post of this thread to show what objects no longer need to be worked on. There, now I just gave a place where people can see both the stuff being used in the final and links that show what sprite objects need to be expanded, worked on, etc.

Any more than that and it's just going to become unnecessarily cluttered.

 

Not that my opinion holds much sway, but I'm not a fan of that concept either. Granted, the original doesn't look very much like a door, but this one even less so.