Save us, oh Lord from the portraits and animations!

[thespaceinvader]

He's big. Nice =D

And yeah, TC trousers - the green would clash with some of the tc colours and look confusing.

[Cloud]

Very nice and good to see you back

[Girgistian]

Blam! Thanks for all the comments, here's a hopefully fixed version. Moving the head might have decreased the intimidation value slightly, but personally I can live with it. Enjoy.

[Eternal]

Very, very nice.

These units are easily the best in the art workshop right now.
I did a minor detail tweak to your carl. Here ya go:

[Girgistian]

Some brightening and detailing - I can even see the edge of his jacket now. Thanks a lot

[Girgistian]

A necromancer dropped by and recovered me from my artistic death. Here's fana cultivate, a L2 leadership unit with an impressive piercing attack (9-4).

[Turuk]

Is his attack based on the spike on the back of his banner? Nothing about him seems particularly deadly enough to have a strong attack.

[Girgistian]

Yes. The spike was originally a speartip on the top of the banner, but then I remembered tsi's halberd animation, and thought that a swing similar to that would look more powerful. I'm still open for the idea of a spear-type of attack, if the swing seems unfitting.

[Turuk]

I can see what you are thinking, but my only thought is that a spike being swung followed by a cloth material is likely to snag a bit while a spear thrust might be better suited to a banner-bearing man.

A nice big metal spear tip on the top would emphasize how much damage he does too, or a thicker shaft.

[thespaceinvader]

Moving the spike to the top and thrusting it like a spear would probably be more apt, to be honest. Something like that wouldn't really have the weight behind it that you'd need for an overhead swing, I don't think. But I like the idea of a banner-bearer USING its banner to attack. It makes it so much easier to animate than the various other mainline banner-bearers, which tend to end up wearing them on the back because other ways are too awkward to animate.

[Vendanna]

The problem is that is unfeasible to "hit" with a banner, not only because well you are using the banner to signal things to the rest of troops, but its also a clumsy and heavy item usually and worse the leather/silk whatever of the flag is a variable weight that distorts the movement of the pole.

all in all, yeah you could swing that thing if they want, but it wouldn't be as effective as a "real weapon"

[Aethaeryn]

Very, very nice.

These units are easily the best in the art workshop right now.

I agree 100% with this comment. I can't believe I didn't notice this thread for so long.

Nice job on both the quality and the speed, Girgistian.

[Cloud]

Nice to see you back on these folks again (gives me more reason than Kitty's and TSI's portraits to visit the forum and not play the newly purchased Mount & Blade/GTA4/The Witcher).

Once again great work, nice use of the skull shoulder pad too .

[thespaceinvader]

Once again great work, nice use of the skull shoulder pad too .

...i totally didn't notice that. Very unobtrusive, which is rare for bone-themed stuff. Nicely done.

[Lord Ork]

Once again great work, nice use of the skull shoulder pad too .

...i totally didn't notice that. Very unobtrusive, which is rare for bone-themed stuff. Nicely done.

Neither me. Maybe should make more contrast to be more noticeable, yet equally unobtrusive?