Hill Top Zone

And I wasn't trying to to take the piss either Gambit. I saw MaximusDM post as what he has just described it.

 

I thought it was a 100% joke post because of the line "You want a tree? Here's your stinkin' tree." After test-object's rant about people bitching about tree art, I would be absolutely shocked if Irving was extremely serious in that post.

 

Holy shit, you people are fucking disgusting. Ross actually had some decent input and suggestions and W.A.C, Maximums, Steveswede and Nineko are fucking laughing because it was presented in a concept stage. This is absolutely fucking insulting.

The atmosphere in this thread is a fucking joke.

 

Ok whoa. Are you joking or is this serious business?
Because honestly, I am COMPLETELY offended if you, Gambit or anyone else thinks I was poking fun at Ross-Irving or the idea of concept art or the ideas proposed. I was just rolling with the energy he brought with his post. This is ridiculous. I don't need to defend myself. Ban me forever I don't care. If that will make you feel better and make you feel like you won.
Delete this post, your post and lets all just pretend this whole thing never existed. Because Chimpo, you are starting an off topic flame war by taking his clearly nonchalant post as the gospel.
My last post was sincere. And if you can't trust my word. Then ban me.

 

ok...wtf just happened. here's my 2¢

I just want to express the great extent of my concurrence with this. also:

as much as I love the idea of the tree having a more organic look (especially the 'ring' near the bottom), unless there's an array of different tree palette objects which are chosen at random to be placed in the HTZ levels, it might look a little weird having that same conspicuous tree everywhere. as far as the warmness of the colors go,...well I just don't see HTZ as a level with warm hues; the sky is a blue-to-semi-turquoise-blue, and it's in the mountains not during a sunset...sooooo....yeah that's it. ^^

 

I would just like to say right now that Ross was rather offended at your responses to his concepts earlier when he was in the irc. Nineko was the only one joking around.

 

They weren't polished drawings but Ross-irving's art would look excellent in a correct setting. With a little adjustment it would be great for HTZ. The art style clashes in terms of definition and sharpness but what he says about color scheming has lots of merit if you are to apply it to drawing in general. Just because the original trees have flat pillow shading doesn't mean they necissarily need to - a little extra color wouldn't hurt, or even have the trees not all be identical (minor variations, and as they are drawn by the engine perhaps pick from a palette of different trees all with tiny differences).

 

In my opinion, Ross's concepts look beautiful - very artistic. I'd love colouring like that, but it doesn't match any of the work already done. So any work done in that style would surely look out of place. Anyway, if you're sick of the trunk, just work on something else... Honestly.

 

It was Ross himself who asked me to post my tree here. I can dig up the #retro log if needed. It was meant to be a joke and I didn't want to offend anyone.

 

Gambit's idea.

 

I liked that idea applied on the trunk, but I'm not too keen on this one. I feel it kind of destroys its volume. =\

 

Nice. I don't know which one I think would be better. It would help if it was with some other finalised art.

 

Ya know what? I actually like the way this tree looks kinda.

Just clean up the top part of it (the green part) up somewhat (maybe give the thing an outline or something? I dunno) , give that blue-ish base a more metallic look to it, and maybe try something with that pattern thing you showed in that other pic with this, and I think this could probably be a winner.

But that's just me. :v:

I also likely that idea for the columns used at the two ends of where the vine-held platform goes through. But instead of using it everywhere they appear in, why not some variety? As in, use the first one in some places, and the second one in other spots?

In fact, why not do the same with other stuff, like trees, rocks and other things? I dunno, could take some more work to do, but it'd give some variety to levels and give a more unique....ish look to it.

Oh, and that watercolor-esque look in general actually looks very nice. I'd say that with an outline an a couple tweaks, well.....wow, that'd be awesome. :v:


Oh, and after the tree and swing are done, what's possibly left to do? I mean, what hasn't been dealt with yet?

 

Check first page. Care to do any of those?

 

I know, that's why I said you were joking around. I was around for all the talk about the trees the other day.

There's one more variant of this I'd like to see before I decide which of 'em I like best, and all that requires is turning each big checker on it now into five smaller ones. It might look way too busy, but I'd like to see it.

 

Yeah, that looks like a mesh now. Just stick with the other checker pattern. As for which I prefer, I was just looking at some screen shots of hill top and I noticed that some (possibly all) of these posts are directly above checkered columns, so that might look strange if they're checkered as well. I'll probably end up looking at both versions individually when I get to fixing up the layout for hill top.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and you're using a shopped background someone did a long time ago because he/she didn't think the hills were saturated enough or something, use the official thing.