Minotaur Faction Art

Post by **Quietus** » January 21st, 2008, 9:41 am

Ryorin wrote:I like the artwork, now to see if the final product is as good.

Lol one can only hope

fingers crossed though, as i would like them to be a good faction due to the amount of work put in.

diekil · Post by **diekil** » January 21st, 2008, 7:44 pm

I still think you should've just gone for the halfmen/half horse. This looks wierd.

anyhow whats up with it's mouth it looks like that of the minotaur king and they both look lika a crocodile beek.

Grtz,

Diekill

Post by **turin** » January 21st, 2008, 8:14 pm

Since Minotaurs are half man, half bull, why not just make a "Bull" unit? It would be statistically pretty much identical to this guy - pierce attack (horns), moves quickly, mounted resistances - but it wouldn't have the weirdness of a bull-man-horse hybrid that has a horse's lower body, a man's upper body, and a bull's head.

It doesn't need to be mounted, either - presumable the bulls are allies with their bull-man descendants/cousins/whatever.

Darth Jordius · Post by **Darth Jordius** » January 21st, 2008, 8:15 pm

I kind of like the minocentaur.

Post by **thespaceinvader** » January 21st, 2008, 8:21 pm

Alternatively, why not a bull centaur? Best of both worlds...

Darth Jordius · Post by **Darth Jordius** » January 22nd, 2008, 1:12 am

That'd be a little to humanoid in my opinion, he'd seem awfully weak compared to the others.

Post by **irrevenant** » January 22nd, 2008, 8:08 am

turin wrote:Since Minotaurs are half man, half bull, why not just make a "Bull" unit? It would be statistically pretty much identical to this guy - pierce attack (horns), moves quickly, mounted resistances - but it wouldn't have the weirdness of a bull-man-horse hybrid that has a horse's lower body, a man's upper body, and a bull's head. It doesn't need to be mounted, either - presumable the bulls are allies with their bull-man descendants/cousins/whatever.

I had assumed that was a bull's lower body, not a horse's. It looks too stocky for a horse, and it makes a lot more sense.

Minotaurs are half man, half bull. These are 1/4 man, 3/4 bull. <shrug>

Post by **turin** » January 22nd, 2008, 5:58 pm

irrevenant wrote:Minotaurs are half man, half bull. These are 1/4 man, 3/4 bull. <shrug>

Perhaps - but it still seems strange that the quarter of a man is sandwiched between a quarter and a half of a bull.

Post by **Quietus** » January 22nd, 2008, 7:44 pm

turin wrote:
irrevenant wrote:Minotaurs are half man, half bull. These are 1/4 man, 3/4 bull. <shrug>
Perhaps - but it still seems strange that the quarter of a man is sandwiched between a quarter and a half of a bull.

Well essentially it is a minotaurs body on a horse. Ideally i do want to keep the sprite as it does fit in with the faction. A man would stand too far out.

Below is some images that is what i was going for.

Maybe i need to re-do bits of him

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j295/ ... entaur.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j295/ ... radeur.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j295/ ... _nomad.jpg

Darth Jordius · Post by **Darth Jordius** » January 23rd, 2008, 12:14 am

Darth Jordius wrote:That'd be a little too humanoid in my opinion, he'd seem awfully weak compared to the others.

Edit: Added second "o" in "too".

Post by **Quietus** » January 24th, 2008, 1:25 am

God either im getting worse, or these sprites are getting harder.
And i really hope its the later lol

Ok here is the Roc. Its the lvl 2 and it doesnt evolve any further.

I really dont like the right wing (his left) Maybe i jsut need a fair bit more work on him. Any suggestions?

Cheers

Note this is only a draft of him

Lim_Arcadia · Post by **Lim_Arcadia** » January 24th, 2008, 1:57 am

he looks a bit too much like the minotaurs, they should probably be different colors.

Post by **Quietus** » January 24th, 2008, 2:02 am

Lim_Arcadia wrote:he looks a bit too much like the minotaurs, they should probably be different colors.

Initially he was a more yellow colour, but he looked far too out of place. The only colour that went well with the minotaurs, that still made it look like a bit was the browns. Ill try and add some yellows and whites in though

The Hidden Hippogriff · January 24th, 2008, 3:17 am

Roc looks more speckled then feathered, the eyes don't have much depth and the wings seem to jet out and bend abruptly you could always try the Grey used in the other units. Or maybe a medium tan? Are you going to keep him in the air? he looks really cool though. like the hippogriffs on the gnome team.

Post by **thespaceinvader** » January 24th, 2008, 6:12 am

Yeah, i'd switch in some of the greys and tans used in the gryphons. And make the standing frame with the wings closed - you simply can't have them wide enough to look right and not break the hex or make it too small - this guy should be at least as big as the gryphon, if not bigger.