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MaximusDM, would you care to try creating this trunk in 3D? If so, I would suggest giving it a slightly flat, plastic texture. Then dulling it a bit on the sides with some slight atmosphere. Alternatively a more reflective lacquered texture may also look sharp.

Come on you guys, lets try and make a decision. I know this ultimately falls to the staff, but perhaps they are expecting us all to come to a census.

 

I always got the impression, though I'm sure its not the case, that staff peeks there head in to the topics for the lulz of seeing its users argue with each other over something that isn't even their decision to make. And then in time staff will come along and make tree along with its trunk the way they want to, making all 30-whatever pages about a tree pointless.

 

I don't think we argue. Just have slightly heated conversations and ideas. And what's wrong with that. No idea is a waste because it doesn't get used. There's one thing guaranteed by doing multiple art concepts. That when this game is done. All the artwork was never half arsed and the satisfaction from knowing that everyone worked their ass off for it to be it's best. So 30 pages of talk and concepts are never a waste, period.

Just look at your tree MaximusDM. I think it looks bloody fantastic. It took it's time but it fits perfectly with the rest of the final work. It shows that if we just get on with it. It will pull through in the end.

Anyway can we get on finishing this trunk.

 

The trunk is such a so much harder than I expected. Because you want to add the detail but at the same time, it needs to look clean and its like two conflicting ideas. You can texture, but if it interferes with its cleanliness of the art style its a problem. So going with that, its a pain in the ass. The top was much simpler on that front.


And here is just to see what it started as from maya before the photoshop work.

 

The trunk is very blurry. The shades on the sides change too sharply (unless you're still going for the pencil look which in this case looks bad).

 

You know, I wouldn't be surprised. In the past 3 months, none of you have managed to complete a tree.

I'm sick of seeing this shit go on and on that I'm willing to throw my hat in the ring and work on my own tree and not listen to any of you bicker on over minute details.

 

The problem that I see is that the designs aren't geometric or abstract enough. Perhaps a series of octagonal prisms rotating different directions?


Shitty mockup done in MS Paint with a laptop touchpad.

 

If they wanted to make the trees have rotating trunks they'd probably have made the trees have rotating trunks in the original, so why would they add that now?

 

You people are hopeless.

 

Well, fuck it. I've given my final tree on this page, and I'm fed up with the idiots who honestly think the trunk is the fucking problem. The trunk was easy as shit and was over with. The chequered pattern was a cute addition, but fuck this is getting far too ridiculous. A SERIES OF ROTATING OCTAGONAL PRISMS. The very fact that this even had a chance of being brought up, boggles my mind to a boiling point. Isn't there enough work out there? We're not making Sonic 4...5, we're making Sonic 2 HD. We need to stick to the material handed to us. A simple. cylindrical. tree. How can this possibly be hard?

I'll be working on the escalator-ish thing again, and it's somehow being less of a bitch than you people are.

 

You want a tree? Here's your stinkin' tree. It's real rough and not meant to be a final of anything, but it has a point. And that is to give the damn thing some warm shadows. Don't just make it a darker shade of green, and the change in value on the tree shouldn't be so wide a range, otherwise it looks like shiny Play-Doh. That's why the edges are brownish-red. I did the same for the trunk. Someone had a good idea with the checkers and bark and shit, so I added bumps on the side so it doesn't look quite so sterile. Just throwing this out there. Whatever else you need help on, I will try and lend a hand. Let's turn this motherfucker OUT.



Edit: So Gambit showed me this cool trunk design and I'm totally sold on it. Again, concept. Make of it what you will. The lines of his design are shown on the right.



Also working on the ro-- no wait test-object already made a complete rock. No two ways about it, I found that keeping it blue and shades of blue was very monochromatic and boring, so I tried sprucing it up with some brown. The contrast in value could be a little more than what it is now, though.

Aaaand the dividey door thingy.

 

Hahahahaha.

 

In response to my concept of mine that Ross posted up there, there will probably be a couple other concepts that crop up from us in the near future. I might make a variant of that one as well.

 

I need to work on the shading a little bit but obviously the twisted vine idea wasn't working so I tried to bring it back its its roots. (pun intended)
I tried to give the platform a bit of perspective so it almost pops out at you.

 

LOL At least there's still a vibe of humour lurking in these forums.

 

That blue platform with vines and the tree art by Ross Irving totally need to make it into StH2HD.

 

What I'm gleaning from these last few posts in this thread, you guys don't think people should be open to experimenting and drawing up their own concepts. And if someone does, they should get made fun of. Does this create a good creative environment for people to work in?

 

Here's the tree. And this is final.

 

Is this a joke too because I don't know if I should be laughing.

Ross-Irving was maybe 1/4 serious. At least that is the impression I got from his post and it made me smile so I just wanted to return the favor to others with my joke post.
I wasn't making fun at all. I love his artwork. No sarcasm there. <- Or there.

It put a smile on my face.