Working on some aquatic sprites.

dipseydoodle · Post by **dipseydoodle** » February 24th, 2011, 9:36 pm

Hey all.

I'm in the process of working on some aquatic sprites and was wondering if anybody had some examples of medieval houseboats, artificial islands etc... I did a quick google search but everything was modern. I'll be using these sprites for my era which I hope to finish this year.

Thanks (and mods I'll use this for posting my art aswel).

Reepurr · Post by **Reepurr** » February 24th, 2011, 9:38 pm

Cherry Island, Loch Ness, is the only example of a man-made island that I can think of.

(The crannog link on that page looks like it could be quite useful.)

dipseydoodle · Post by **dipseydoodle** » February 24th, 2011, 9:50 pm

Thanks Reepurr. I should have mentioned that I checked wikipedia aswel

February 24th, 2011, 10:55 pm

Reepurr wrote:Cherry Island, Loch Ness, is the only example of a man-made island that I can think of.

(The crannog link on that page looks like it could be quite useful.)

Did you forget about Holland

Hong Kong airport?

Reepurr · Post by **Reepurr** » February 25th, 2011, 7:11 am

thespaceinvader wrote:Did you forget about Holland

The whole of Holland is effectively a modernised rice patty?
Freaky...

dipseydoodle · Post by **dipseydoodle** » February 25th, 2011, 3:03 pm

Well, I guess I'll do some more research then

H-Hour · Post by **H-Hour** » February 26th, 2011, 1:00 pm

I believe the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was built in a lake and involved a certain amount of terraforming.

dipseydoodle · Post by **dipseydoodle** » February 26th, 2011, 7:15 pm

Wow, thanks... That's what I was looking for.

Virgeist · Post by **Virgeist** » March 3rd, 2011, 12:14 am

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Post by **Zerovirus** » March 3rd, 2011, 12:22 am

Virgeist wrote:The Road to El Dorado has several scenes that feature aztec cities, since it is an animated movie it will be easier to adapt the pictures into sprites.

...I'm not so sure about that. Sprites generally don't become easier or harder to make based on the medium of their references.

Post by **Atz** » March 3rd, 2011, 12:53 am

Also, using a drawn reference rather than a photo brings with it the possibility of propagating errors or exaggerations which were present in the reference drawing.

dipseydoodle · Post by **dipseydoodle** » March 3rd, 2011, 3:04 pm

Atz wrote:Also, using a drawn reference rather than a photo brings with it the possibility of propagating errors or exaggerations which were present in the reference drawing.

Yes, you are right on that.

I've done a lot of nature sketches, and I must say it's quite hard to judge proportions, shades, shapes, etc.. Without being up close to the actual thing.

I'm gonna start out with a bigger sized village type sprite and scale it down.

dipseydoodle · Post by **dipseydoodle** » March 11th, 2011, 5:05 pm

Well, as I said I'd use this for my artwork... So here's a little sketch I did today. Please critique, it's not finished but will serve as a base for the sprite and portrait...

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