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I wouldnt have a timetable but at least some kind of an achieveable deadline of something small, I,e emerald hill zone by september.

 

Guys, I would LOVE to set up deadlines, but not until we have a formed a proper "working team".

It could happen next week someone presents a fantastic level art-set, we decide that art style to be the lead and it will be done in one month.
Now, it's still too early.

 

It took Sonic Team working each day over a year to do it from scratch. Ideally this project will not take longer than a year, but it depends of the dedication and consensus of the community.

 

No one wants to comment on title screen Sonic?

 

Scaled down, it looks nice, but I hope you continue to smoothen it out because it looks awfully ugly once you blow it up.

 

<!--quoteo(post=193801:date=May 6 2008, 08:16 PM:name=Vangar)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Vangar @ May 6 2008, 08:16 PM)
...There's a lot of stuff that looks different.

 

Ooh ooh, spot the differences!


I've circled the areas that need fixing, such as how in the original it looks like the nose is attached to the face whilst yours looks like the nose is floating out in space

As well as the smile/grin conversion

 

Also, both pupils look wider.

 

I've seen this floating around once:



Who did this? It's pretty damn accurate.

 

If by accurate, you mean god damn ugly, then yes.

 

I like it, but also shade more the muzzle and spikes!

 

Ok guys, some people want me to do the "regular side sizes emeralds" but I created new emeralds =P

... Here they're:

Clean gloss version:


and the "Real life emeralds version":


PSD: http://www.mediafire.com/?gukzlinszdt

Later all.

 

<!--quoteo(post=193170:date=May 4 2008, 01:11 PM:name=SANiK)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SANiK @ May 4 2008, 01:11 PM) [/quote]

Congradulations on making yourself look like a complete jackass.

Guess what happens when most people want to prepare a working image for public display on the web. They flatten all of the layers or rasterize the vector art, sometimes even shrink it down, and export to a jpeg or a (usually) non-transparent png. When this happens, lots of artifacts are usually added, along with a solid background, but due to the anti-aliasing, you can't just copy and paste it into MSPaint with a transparency color selected or use the magic wand tool in photoshop without getting the fuzzy outline that you got. It is feasible to jack up the sensitivity of the wand tool to get a much cleaner selection, but that's beside the point.

You could pass all that off and say "Oh I know about that, I was just letting you guys know that", but to say that these artists who are creating their sprites for this game don't know about alpha channels or transparencies is to insult them to a horrifying degree. I don't mean to tear into you, but really, putting together some quick shitty mockup to mock Tweaker (who is right, but I'll critique that in a moment) and inadvertantly insult every artist that's worked on this so far is ground for a good verbal beating.

As for what Tweaker said about the text being non-sequitor pixelated junk (my paraphrasing, not his exact words), is absolutely correct. Yes, they look great for 4x resolution sprites, but not in a game where all the other edges of every other piece of art is anti-aliased. If we were to alias every edge in the game, that'd be an artistic choice that may work incrediby well, but to spend all that time cleaning each edge to an opaque color is absurd. I think that Tweaker was a little harsh with his words, but at this point, I'm hardly one to criticize that.

tl;dr, Fuck you SAnik, you're a condescending jackass.




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On topic, the starpost really doesn't need a three-dimensional star. The original artists could have implied shape and shadow in the original sprite, but chose not to. It looks nice, but I think you might be adding too much.

 

1) It's capital SAN, lowercase I, capital K

2) It's congratulations

3) Point taken

 

I <3 you too. :lol:

 

Maybe you can take inspiration from this?

 

<!--quoteo(post=193989:date=May 8 2008, 03:36 AM:name=Elratauru)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Elratauru @ May 8 2008, 03:36 AM) [/quote]

This is the first thing I've seen that captures the modern, reimagined 'feel' of that WiredOtaku image.

Excellent work!

 

<!--quoteo(post=193989:date=May 8 2008, 04:36 AM:name=Elratauru)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Elratauru @ May 8 2008, 04:36 AM)

and the "Real life emeralds version":


PSD: http://www.mediafire.com/?gukzlinszdt

Later all.[/quote]


Fantastic!!!

I would like to see a middle version of them, but anyway great job.

(Attaching the file is a great!!)

 

I like clean gloss but for some reason the cyan emerald has more noticeable light reflections.

 

<!--quoteo(post=193989:date=May 7 2008, 09:36 PM:name=Elratauru)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Elratauru @ May 7 2008, 09:36 PM)

and the "Real life emeralds version":
[/quote]I like the first set better... but the diagonal line still feels weird to me.