Show off your graphics!

Matokage · Post by **Matokage** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:31 pm

I'm amazed by what you have done for it!

kylekrack · Post by **kylekrack** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 2:30 am

@BMR: I don't think the roots on those trees are too unrealistic. I'm not even sure what that means. In a fantasy world, anything can happen. However, those are some really uniquely drawn trees, which is a good thing. They'll stand out. I think instead of trying to change the trees to work on the background, find a background that fits with the trees. There are more environments than just grass. Either way, I think the trees are really eye-catching and interesting. I like them a lot.

Post by **TMC** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:19 pm

"A background that fits" could also include a featureless circle of dirt around the base of the tree, on a grassy field. And yes, they're not so unrealistic, though I guess trees with roots that large will generally be much larger.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:38 pm

I like drawing trees

Foxley · Post by **Foxley** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:40 pm

Those are some fun tree branches.

Reminds me I need to look at actual leafless tree branches and get a better understanding of how to draw them. In a way I'm still stuck in my grade school put-an-isosceles-triangle-on-a-rectangle phase when it comes to drawing tree pixel art.

kylekrack · Post by **kylekrack** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:59 am

Man, those trees are great! I hate drawing trees. How do you choose colors for the trunk? I always just used the typical brown ramps in Neo's and they always look super bland.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:44 pm

Thanks!

@Foxley: I spent some time browsing through the google image results for "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch& ... ling">snow covered pine sapling</a>" before I started on the small pine trees. It helped immensely.

@kylekrack: Here is a gif showing the ramp I used. I only used a 3-color ramp. More would have been overkill. Notice that I mixed two different brown ramps. That is a (very simple) example for the cross-ramp stuff that 0ion9 and TMC were talking about in the palette thread. Mixing your own ramps out of colors from different but similar ramps can produce good results

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/CGImquo.gif">

Specifically for tree trunks, I like browns that lean towards grey or white, and avoid browns that lean towards red (unless it is supposed to be a cedar, or a manzanita, or something that is *supposed* to be very red)

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 3:11 pm

Going to have to agree and say that those are some nice looking trees. Feel their bases are a bit disconnected from the ground, though; maybe putting some snow around the tree bases would make it look better.[/img]

Post by **Mogri** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:31 pm

I could nitpick and point out that branches point towards the sun unless they become too heavy... but those are very nice trees even so.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 7:17 pm

Adding some snow to the ground at the base of the trunk helped enormously.

And yes, that is a good point-- northern hemisphere trees should have branches that tend to favor south-- but I can just say south is down, so they are all leaning towards the screen ;)

Spazman · Post by **Spazman** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:06 am

And, lastly, not really much of a graphic, more than it is concept art, for the player-character.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:17 am

Very nice!

Matokage · Post by **Matokage** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:30 pm

I like your style.

Fenrir-Lunaris · Post by **Fenrir-Lunaris** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:33 pm

Because Halloween Contest, dangit!

Post by **TMC** » Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:16 am

Oh yes! Vampire's Curse deserves more recognition. And you can finally fix that super loud rain ambience! But are you going to do up anything else?

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Hi Spaz! Working on something new? Actually I think you might have mentioned it before, but can't remember. Excellent work!