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Re: Shield's Art

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Shield wrote:Image
Female Duelist. I made her originally so that I could play a female Duelist-like Vagabond in Bob's RPG Era, but now I'm thinking of making females of the Fencer and Master of Arms, too.
Looks good, I'm happy to add this to Bob's RPG Era if I can get the individual animation files.

May I use the rabbit too? :)
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Re: Shield's Art

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Bob_The_Mighty wrote:
Shield wrote:Image
Female Duelist. I made her originally so that I could play a female Duelist-like Vagabond in Bob's RPG Era, but now I'm thinking of making females of the Fencer and Master of Arms, too.
Looks good, I'm happy to add this to Bob's RPG Era if I can get the individual animation files.
Here she is!
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May I use the rabbit too? :)
You most certainly can! I'm happy that it's such a hit!
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Re: Shield's Art

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Faerie Storm has recently redone many of the Besieged Druid sprites recently - zealot, mage, and initiate have new sprites, wisp has basic animations, and archmage now has noticeably pointy ears. I haven't released a new version with them yet, but if you want you can view them here. I believe there were three more things Faerie Storm was planning on doing — improving the treewalker and replacing its staff with the one the Wisp now uses; replacing the priestess's sceptre (or whatever it is) with the zealot's new staff; and making an orcish necromancer.
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Re: Shield's Art

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Celtic_Minstrel wrote:Faerie Storm has recently redone many of the Besieged Druid sprites recently - zealot, mage, and initiate have new sprites, wisp has basic animations, and archmage now has noticeably pointy ears. I haven't released a new version with them yet, but if you want you can view them here. I believe there were three more things Faerie Storm was planning on doing — improving the treewalker and replacing its staff with the one the Wisp now uses; replacing the priestess's sceptre (or whatever it is) with the zealot's new staff; and making an orcish necromancer.
I was also planning on adding melee attack animations to the wisp and mage but I haven't made them yet. I have some stuff planned for altering the treewalker. I also have plans to give the priestess the zealot's staff.

I have not started making an orcish necromancer yet. Also the archmage needs to have the same staff the new mage has. If you want to do either of those two (or both) that would be helpful.
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Faerie_Storm wrote:
Celtic_Minstrel wrote:Faerie Storm has recently redone many of the Besieged Druid sprites recently - zealot, mage, and initiate have new sprites, wisp has basic animations, and archmage now has noticeably pointy ears. I haven't released a new version with them yet, but if you want you can view them here. I believe there were three more things Faerie Storm was planning on doing — improving the treewalker and replacing its staff with the one the Wisp now uses; replacing the priestess's sceptre (or whatever it is) with the zealot's new staff; and making an orcish necromancer.
I was also planning on adding melee attack animations to the wisp and mage but I haven't made them yet. I have some stuff planned for altering the treewalker. I also have plans to give the priestess the zealot's staff.

I have not started making an orcish necromancer yet. Also the archmage needs to have the same staff the new mage has. If you want to do either of those two (or both) that would be helpful.
I'd like to do the orc necromancer; I've been meaning to do more orcs and goblins, anyway, and it sounds like a lot of fun. Celtic Minstrel, is there anything you had in mind for its sprite? For example, the units you think it would most likely resemble, or the types of attacks it has?

Speaking of campaigns I've managed to win, I've got some more sprites from a while back:
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Back when I played Archery Training, another very entertaining campaign, I noticed that its single custom unit didn't have any custom artwork; so I made some sprites and integrated them into the files so I could more easily tell the "Young Elvish Archer" from its default counterpart.

They're frankensteined from the Elvish Archer and Woodsman, with a little thrown in from the Elvish Druid and Sharpshooter.
I also made a complete set of animation frames for them, as well as altered their .cfg to fit.

I originally made these for personal use, but anyone interested can download them below:
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Re: Shield's Art

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Shield wrote:I'd like to do the orc necromancer; I've been meaning to do more orcs and goblins, anyway, and it sounds like a lot of fun. Celtic Minstrel, is there anything you had in mind for its sprite? For example, the units you think it would most likely resemble, or the types of attacks it has?
I imagine it would somewhat resemble the human necromancer. For orcs I suppose it would most resemble the archer or possibly the assassin, not sure. As for attacks... I don't currently have anything in mind there to differentiate it from the human necromancer, though perhaps I could replace the shadow wave(?) with a curse attack (based on the orc shamans from Son of the Black Eye). It does also have the draining, soul-sucking shadow drain attack. (As you might have guessed, this unit is for Kaden Kreuz. Whether I'll use it for anything else besides that, I'm not sure. I suppose it could show up in the sequel as an upgrade from Orcish Shaman.)

EDIT: Oh right, since soul-sucking is a very similar ability to the plague staff, I wouldn't mind doing away with the plague staff and replacing it with a normal staff or even some other melee weapon. Well... maybe it could keep the drains ability though.
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Unrelated to the last few posts, here's some attack icons I did a long time ago but never posted:
an alternative to that one with the lips
an alternative to that one with the lips
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plenty of campaigns have mosquitoes, right?
plenty of campaigns have mosquitoes, right?
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bug bite sequence initiated
bug bite sequence initiated
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Just thought I'd throw these out here. Feel free to comment and/or use!
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In my opinion your second mosquito attack is a little too colourful. I personally would make it so you weren't entierly sure what was going on, perhaps forgoing some of the skin detail and only having a hint of red.

I'm more interested in the female duelist though. I think you've done quite a good job of her and look forward to seeing other female versions of mainline units [stridently avoids mentioning topics which could get me into trouble] Can I suggest you play around with the decoration though?
Duelists are not camoflaged units, they're over the top and probably reek of all manner of purfume waving their frilly lace handkerchiefs around. The male duelists would be what we now call "metrosexual" and what was previously known as "dandys", if that's so why not go even further on the frills and ribons with female duelists? How about a cruly wig which looks like a spaniel's hair, a completely unreasonalby proportioned ostrich plume in the hat, a little veil and a corset? :twisted: ;)
...apparenly we can't go with it or something.
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Celtic_Minstrel wrote:and making an orcish necromancer.
I myself is in need of orcish necromancer.
And what I did today.
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I hope doofus and god of sprites will forgive me so plain stealing and frankenstaining of so decent art but when I saw an Orcish Stalker from Archaic Era I understood that this figure looks really fearful and he looks right the way as orcish necromancer should look like.
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Re: Shield's Art

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Looks okay, but needs animations.
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Celtic_Minstrel wrote:Looks okay, but needs animations.
Ups, that going to be a challenge. There are no animations for Orcish Stalker in Archaic era. At least there are animations of that staff in different positions from mainline necromancer. Still I am not sure I would be able to do that, I will try nevertheless, but not in the right near future.
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If it helps, I consider the minimum set of animations to be fairly small - one or two frames for the ranged attack animation, one frame for the defend animation, maybe one frame for melee attack (but melee has the sliding animation by default, so it's not a huge deal if there's not a separate frame). I feel like I might've forgotten one though...

By the way, Shield, if you still want to make your own orcish necromancer, feel free. I might like it better than this one. :)
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Re: Shield's Art (TGA)

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I like your units :) , i am currently working on an era called The Golden Age (i hadn't released it yet), i already included the Elvish Adept (lvl0, who can advance into Elvish Shaman, and Elvish Acolyte, has a 5-2 faerie fire attack, and heals+2 ability ),Sprite and Peri (renamed faerie fire into pixie dust, recruitable in the Sylvan faction(Basically Elves, without human mages, and with a bunch of new units)), Rabbits (not recruitable ,but they were just TOO good not to be included . made a Killer Bunny version basically a white lvl1 rabbit with red eyes),Messenger, can i use them please?

EDIT: removed the emojis, due to an excess of them being quite childish
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Made a female Messenger for my era (keep in mind, i am not an artist, but a WML coder)
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Re: Shield's Art

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Forest Dragon, unless you are working with someone (in the case Shield) on art, post your sprites on your own art thread. It will make it easier for people to comment on your artwork, instead of Shield's. If Shield logs on and see new posts on his art thread, he will think people commented on his art. But when he gets there it'll all be on yours. You'll attract more attention if it says "Forest Dragon's Art", instead of Forest Dragon commented on "Shield's Art"
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