Artwork!

Black_Knyght · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:15 am Post subject:

Excellent race portrait. You did a great job there.

Kwayne · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject:

Kana · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 15, 2005

Kwayne, Henk how are either of you with human/humaniod portraits...? Or is it easier to make aliens look this good.... Wink

I will be in the hunt for some human/humaniod portraits for my mods...and wanted to know if someone has that kind of talent that they would be willing to lend at some point...

Kwayne · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject:

Right now I'm doing a humanoid race for E3, but yeah, aliens are much easier (hands... brrrr). Rolling Eyes

Hey Henk, do you have plans for another neutral? I really liked the Jirwick. Even conquered them once. Wink

HenkBrouwer · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 24, 2005

I'm working on one, but I don't have much free time in the comming days,
I hope to finish it next weekend. The portrait is allmost finished, I still need to do the background and all the flags. It will have a custom speechfile as well (should be usable for both the new race and the Jirwick, or any other neutral race)

It will be a starfish-like alien, the evil kind of starfish alien.

To Kana: I'm sorry, I don't have much free time at the moment. Also I don't usualy draw humans and the ones I do draw are far too cartoony.

E3 · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject:

Well lets be honest.. I am a human and hate human hands... LOL
The work Kwayne has done on the race I asked for is amazing so far. Even with the hands behind its back, its an amazing pic. He even did an amazing flag for me.... now if only I could make the single large pic into the smaller pics needed for flags.

HenkBrouwer · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 24, 2005

Here's a portrait of my new neutral race, the Othosk:

I'll release it sometime soon, together with an update of the Jirwick (adding a speechfile etc)

Mystic · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 16, 2006

Wow, these are beautiful. Neither of those look like things I'd want boarding my ship, thats for sure. Xenocide ftw!

Seriously though, great pictures, it would be very intresting to see a shipset to go along with them, especially the fungus-thing.

Kwayne · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject:

Sometimes your sense in positioning and scene buildup can really bring me to my knees (reminds me my all-time favourite race the Ur-Quan). Absolutely great!

HenkBrouwer · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 24, 2005

Thanks for the compliments Smile

Mystic: For now i'm not making shipsets. Modelling, especially the uv-mapping and texturing takes a lot of time, I do have time to release a neutral race every now and then, but a full shipset would take me a very, very long time.

I want to release the Othosk as soon as possible, but I've run into some weird stuff while testing the speechfile, I'll have to look at that later this week.

Edit : Looked at it and I'm not happy, it seems like a custom speechfile needs five entries for each type of message, and I have only two or three for most of them. If it doesn't have five it will use the default messages. It does not matter if I copy paste the same message five times, which means that I have *lots* of copy-pasting end renumbering to do. I hope I have time this weekend.

Another edit: I finished the speechfile, and there seems to be an additional problem. I have to compile an AI to get this to work, I had hoped to avoid all that.

HenkBrouwer · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 24, 2005

The Othosk are finished, see the other thread:

http://www.spaceempires.net/home/ftopict-2149.html

Kwayne · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject:

This is what I have done for E3. Not exactly according to the original concept (the background is completely different), but I had done everything to get close to it. This is also my first attempt to fuse different techniques, some elements are rendered images that I had to overpaint in a separate layer. Also I brought a hand to the front Rolling Eyes

I hope this portrait will finally be part of a shipset, but that is not my work this time Smile

CapnKy · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 01, 2005

I think you'll find plenty of people willing to use that image for their race. Wink

Black_Knyght · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:56 am Post subject:

Oh hell yeah !!!

Love your work, and hope we see much more of it.

E3 · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject:

You mean that wasn't my original concept? Well uh.. forget that bunk... thats my original concept now! LOL

Absolutely amazing dude. I am speechless.

Thanks man.

Kwayne · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

This is something I done for Riptokus' new shipset. I hope everyone is satisfied with my very first Gas Giant dweller alien design.

Santiago · Space Emperor Joined: Apr 26, 2006

That's really very very good!

Riptokus · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 22, 2007

Well, I asked him to "Make me a gas giant oxygen host"
and all I've got to say is HOLY COW!

Man It gives me great ideas for my weapon platform, and is nothing like I expected, in a very good way.

Expect to see a Weapons platform based on this in a few days Wink

Deer · Space Emperor Joined: Apr 07, 2005 Location: Hungary

Yes, this race portrait is perfect as always which is made by Kwayne. Smile

But Kwayne, I will kick your ass if you don't answer my email. Twisted Evil

albi_joe · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Location: USA

WOW. That is amazingly good. I want one! Smile

Black_Knyght · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject:

Wow, very very nice. Ever considered an land-based octopoid or a crystalline alien? Bet you'd do them justice

albi_joe · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Location: USA

I need a crystalline portrait for the YGath, btw. I try to keep as similar as possible to the original, but I don't have a 512 x 512 pic Sad

Kwayne · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

You mean that chrystal fairy? According to the description and portrait I got from the SEIV version, doing a 100% remake of it in a 512x pic could only produce a cartoony outcome. I could try to make a concept with less human features, but that's still quite a challenging task (since chrystalline creatures are another thing I didn't do before).

Black_Knyght · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject:

Not so much in the way of a crystal fairy (?), but rather a unigue crystalline entity. One example might be a Tholian, but that's just an example.

Out of curiousity - what kinds of things are you "Good at", as opposed to maybe "Not so good at" ?

albi_joe · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Location: USA

1. Anything crystalline would do.
2. I would personally like something vaguely humanoid in shape, to try to keep in my "I'm just upgrading, not creating" mindset.
3. I agree the crystal fairy, specifically, would look very bad if just resized literally.

4. If I get something, I will be resizing it down. If alternate (different) pictures were provided, a high contrast and lower detail version for the really small picture, for example, it could have benefits over a low-contrast, detailed picture during resizing.