Official art thread for "Dinosaurs!"

[Hulavuta]

I still think the head should be up.

[Mountain_King]

I still think the head should be up.

Yes, I have not forgotten. I was going to try and keep the old one for use in some sort of format (like an idle animation) but didn't work out. I'm taking on the problems one at a time. Made some major changes to the base-frame, detailed below.
Here's take 3:
Removed hump on back
shrunk legs
changed head/neck area entirely
and I think I used anti-aliasing on the lines. (did I?)

Voila!

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Is this looking better?

[Golden_Soldier]

hmm... looks pretty good!
the only input Id put is you may want to make the scales pointy insted of round-ish

[Hulavuta]

Hmm, I like it much better.

BTW, quick news on "Triceratops" that everyone should find very interesting:

http://blip.tv/file/3985304

[Leid]

Now I love your stegosaurus!

And I have founded this at the franken-pack.


It is a triceratops, but I don't know what have it under the head, they seem ears...
I don't like them, are strange.

[Hulavuta]

IMO, it looks like an elephant.

[pauxlo]

If you want your dinosaurs usable as "random monster" against usual Wesnoth units (and not only against each other), they should really be bigger - your dinosaurs are sized like horses, and the real ones should mostly be definitely bigger than drakes or trolls.

Look here for a size reminder:
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 08#p416908
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 62#p403362
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 41#p334541
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 54#p335054

[Feufochmar]

I agree with pauxlo, dinosaurs like stegosaur are much bigger than a horse. Wesnoth sprites are not limitated to 72x72 pixel. The red dragon shown in the first links is 115x115. You should try the campaign A Rough Life to see it in game.

I've just drawn a quick sprite to show you what size you might use :

Big dino is big.

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It's a 100x100 sprite.

I can't do more for a stegosaur as the left button of my mouse does not work any more and I am not used to draw sprites with a tablet.
(Feel free to reuse/improve it)

[Dixie]

I say you should systematically reuse feufochmar's base for all your other dinos, it has the good SE angle.

[Mountain_King]

Now I love your stegosaurus!

And I have founded this at the franken-pack.

I myself was unsure exactly what sort of creature that was supposed to be. I'll go with my gut on it though, which tells me it is a mutated crossbreed of an elephant and a couple different dinosaurs.

I agree with pauxlo, dinosaurs like stegosaur are much bigger than a horse. Wesnoth sprites are not limitated to 72x72 pixel. The red dragon shown in the first links is 115x115. You should try the campaign A Rough Life to see it in game.

Funny, I found a thread on the forum just today, where the art developers were all discussing the size of the dragon in ARL. Ultimately, they decided 90x90 looked best because it didn't cover up the other units that way.
Personally, I don't like your sprite as a stegosaurus. However, it does work rather nicely as an outline for some bigger dinosaurs, like this one:

I reveal my true colors as a frankentriener. muahahahaha!

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I do know that stegosaurus is (was) much bigger in real life, but they were quite small in comparison to the Ultrasaurus, Supersaurus, and Brachiosaurus. Plus it looks better to have those smaller IMHO.

[Leid]

The Diplodocus is more similar to grey and brown...

I don't now for any red dinosaur

[pauxlo]

The thing is, from all the dinosaurs all which is left are some bones and foot prints. So all colors seen in depictions are guesses.

[hhyloc]

But many scientists agreed that the dinosaurs would have the similar colors to the modern reptiles, so I guess a green or a gray dinosaur seem more real than a red dinosaur.

[Dixie]

color considerations aside, it's really, really nice, though! Good job on the shading

[Hulavuta]

The colors don't look very Dinosaury, IMO. But no one really knows what dinosaur skin looked like, everything now is just an educated guess, so do what you like.