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I don't like the gradients, I'd would just add 2 new colours where the dithering was used.

 

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To add to what I said, I just noticed that when I scale this down, it's 1 pixel too high, and I have to move the head down. 




Also, I noticed that Sega used the dark red color from the shoe to use in the "tan" areas of shading to sub in for the lack of third brown shade. Should we continue to use this red, or just use a darker brown?

 

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I don't think that feels "solid" enough, to be honest...
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Ya I'm going to work on that, it was a quick rendition, to make especially the 'rock' areas feel more rocky. not very many gaps between.

 

<!--quoteo(post=191463:date=Apr 28 2008, 08:36 AM:name=SwissCM)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SwissCM @ Apr 28 2008, 08:36 AM)

Some things probably need to be adjusted as well. But I think its looking pretty good.[/quote]
Great, but I agree about removing the mega drive cartriage part. Also, the grammar on that one part isn't quite right. It should be:

Don't just sit there and
waste your precious time.
When you want to do something,
do it right away. Do it when you can.
It's the only way to live a life without regrets.

(I absolutely love the quote though, btw)

 

Someone should fix Tails' nose, or snout, or whatever.

 

But that's how the official art is.

 

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I don't think that feels "solid" enough, to be honest...
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Ya I'm going to work on that, it was a quick rendition, to make especially the 'rock' areas feel more rocky. not very many gaps between.
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I think that is beautiful.
It reminds me Renoire, and that's personally a great artistic contribution

Unfortunately it needs to be detailed and "solid" to be put in use, and more work needs to be done on it.

 

Blast Processing, your starpost is coming along brilliantly. Keep working on it and it can eventually be perfect. As the others are said, more shading would make it look great

theSTHguy, those springs are coming along great too the gradient might be a bit too high though, I'm not sure. It does look good to me though.

 

Here is the SVG for that Sonic 2 Japanese Boxart:
http://www.dairyfarmers.info/sonic/boxart.zip
Havn't really done anything since I last posted. I'm useless with Kanji so if someone else could add that it would be great.

 

You always provide a perfect "contribution pack" SwissCM!

Suggestions:

-Sonic & tails are too squared inside the composition, I believe it's a resizing problem
-The 3 upper right black boxes are not aligned to the text below


If anyone wants to modify it in oder to reflect our Sonic 2 HD into it, please feel free to do!

 

Awesome checkpoint.

Also, I know the title cards have been done to death, but I actually /like/ the yellow part in the glossy version. The red and blue parts look crappy with gloss, but it fits on the yellow part IMO.

 

I'm working on the credits font now. Should be pretty easy since it's quite basic.

I seem to have a knack for fonts so I guess I'll stick with it

 

Here's an old lamp post I did four years ago. Tried some different colors just now. The two on the left are the originals.


I'm not happy with the coloring of the base though, so here's the vector in case anyone wants to play with it.
lamppy2.ai

 

That looks great! We should definitely use that one.

 

<!--quoteo(post=191716:date=Apr 29 2008, 03:02 PM:name=grap3fruitman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (grap3fruitman @ Apr 29 2008, 03:02 PM)

I'm not happy with the coloring of the base though, so here's the vector in case anyone wants to play with it.
lamppy2.ai[/quote]

It's looking good, but the 'wheel' in-between the starpost and the body is done incorrectly
like here [circled]:



Also, the shine is still too large on it's head - and actually, the dimensions aren't even the same either.


Actually, I'll just say "no." to these, sorry.

 

These lamp posts have excessive gradients I think, particularly the grey pole. The average number of colours in each lamp post is 1,400.

 

SwissCM: this is no surprise if I tell you that your title card typeface is exactly how I imagined it. I don't even need to scan that school manual anymore. And Bank Gothic seems an excellent choice for the "Sonic the hedgehog 2 HD" text.

About the recreated box art:
Original typeface for "Don't seat there..." seems to be Futura Condensed Bold to my knoledge But I can't remember exactly.
Original typeface for "Mega Drive Cartrige is Futura Condensed Bold.
Original typeface ofr "The hedgehog" (below "Sonic 2") and "Sonic Team presents" IS Univers (ZurichBT can be used, too, as it is a clone). Might be bold or Black, I can't really tell since I can't find a hi-res scan of the Sonic 2 box art.

Other than that, it looks very accurate. ^^

 

<!--quoteo(post=191716:date=Apr 29 2008, 03:02 PM:name=grap3fruitman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (grap3fruitman @ Apr 29 2008, 03:02 PM)

I'm not happy with the coloring of the base though, so here's the vector in case anyone wants to play with it.
lamppy2.ai[/quote]

I don't get what's with the two black bars.

 

I made this like months ago, do you think something similar might work, if rendered with the right lighting. I'm not talking about the logo, since it's bad looking, but the background, if textured right, has a cartoon feel, that fits with the vector art.



here's a better example, but still to many colors.

 

Jimmy, I do not think a 3d title screen would be suitable, no matter how well it was rendered.

I think the title screen should simply be remastered 2d art in order to introduce the theme of the game properly. A 3d title screen would give the impression of 3d game, which would be misleading.