The Dark Elves

Disto · Post by **Disto** » July 31st, 2005, 8:29 am

The fighter probably has the best graphics of all of them, the breast are all a matter of shading... So i've removed the breasts.... btw i was self-taught to do this as well warrior-king, i might not be as good as the others but, i've been pushing pixels for a while and now it starts to look good.

Warrior King · Post by **Warrior King** » July 31st, 2005, 7:39 pm

thanks. that was the major fix that made the difference. i changed it just a tiiiiny bit to make it look even better, if anyone even notices.

Disto · Post by **Disto** » August 1st, 2005, 10:03 am

Warrior King wrote:thanks. that was the major fix that made the difference. i changed it just a tiiiiny bit to make it look even better, if anyone even notices.

You lightened it.

Warrior King · Post by **Warrior King** » August 2nd, 2005, 4:09 pm

what do you think of this fighter? do you think the coloring is better? i like the de-fighter3.

Combatjuan · Post by **Combatjuan** » August 2nd, 2005, 5:02 pm

Wow. A year and a half later and my Dark Elves are still struggling for existence, although it seems they have a new champion. Astounding.

I have to say that I preferred my dark skinned, gold and purple wearing dark elves and their spider and blob allies. They had more character. But hey, it's all good. (-8

Nevertheless, I applaud anyone who desires to make a faction, runs the gauntlet of scathing remarks and discouragement from the "I've been working with Wesnoth for 14 years..." crowd, and goes on to do it.

And finally, I agree on the mages. They look very much like human mages. Perhaps drop their hoods to show off those razor sharp elf ears.

-Charles

Warrior King · Post by **Warrior King** » August 2nd, 2005, 5:44 pm

totally with you man

PA · Post by PA » August 7th, 2005, 11:55 am

I can see u choosed (my) image.
Nicolas given me this image because he thinked all people says "Booooo!"
if he posted it personally.(the image is Dark elf sorceress)
(Sorry,but for the images i am working,i'm just back from holydays)

Nicolas · Post by **Nicolas** » August 7th, 2005, 1:28 pm

uff! i made an image (do you like it?) of a possible dark elf.
(do not jell me for pa's post.)

Post by **Jetrel** » August 8th, 2005, 12:29 am

Things that look cool:
Lizard Rider (color contrast with the bright green is a bit much, though).
Corsair

Things that don't:
everything else

I suggest you take inspiration from those two units in making the rest. I also strongly echo other people's comments about deleting the Enchantress line from the list. Good luck.

Disto · Post by **Disto** » August 24th, 2005, 12:51 pm

All i can say is don't give up, i can see you've left it too die,
Jetryl is right but i think the fighter will look good with work, and you need to improve the faces, it may be quite hard as no other race uses stark white, and don't let the quantity of art you are doing kill it off, as Wesnoth has done from the start, take baby steps, like everyday pick 1 image and improve it as much as you can, sometime you'll get lucky and you'd soon have a great set of base images, afterwards, do 1-2 animation frames a day, so say do the melee of one unit etc. Because the animation frames wizz past, they don't need to be as high quality, they still need some, but they can look as if they are slightly mutated, if you don't change the stance then it'll show, the eye follows movement so if you don't want the bad parts of the animation showing, make him move and then have speed of the frames fast and it'll look terrific.

Warrior King · Post by **Warrior King** » August 24th, 2005, 4:32 pm

i just got back from a long vacation so i haven't worked on them at all. the thing that needs to be decided is the color scheme. what do you think of the moldy green? or would the red of Nicolas' DE be better?

Post by **wayfarer** » August 24th, 2005, 5:46 pm

Warrior King wrote:i just got back from a long vacation so i haven't worked on them at all. the thing that needs to be decided is the color scheme. what do you think of the moldy green? or would the red of Nicolas' DE be better?

Nice to hear that this will be finished but why green or blue they are Dark elves = dark black at least grey.

Ryorin · Post by **Ryorin** » August 24th, 2005, 7:34 pm

Warrior King, good job. I agree with Jetryl on the artwork. The superior units would have to be the Lizard Rider (Dull the green a bit) and the Corsair. Keep up the good work

Assasin · Post by **Assasin** » August 26th, 2005, 5:07 am

wayfarer wrote:
Warrior King wrote:i just got back from a long vacation so i haven't worked on them at all. the thing that needs to be decided is the color scheme. what do you think of the moldy green? or would the red of Nicolas' DE be better?
Nice to hear that this will be finished but why green or blue they are Dark elves = dark black at least grey.

because it doesn't look good on cave terrain, though we will go with dark shades of green, blue, purple, and red, and some blacks and greys. Fall semester started for me, so I'm not sure how often I'll be working on the Dark Elves now, but I WON'T let them die.

Post by **wayfarer** » August 27th, 2005, 7:02 pm

Assasin wrote:
wayfarer wrote: Nice to hear that this will be finished but why green or blue they are Dark elves = dark black at least grey.
because it doesn't look good on cave terrain, though we will go with dark shades of green, blue, purple, and red, and some blacks and greys. Fall semester started for me, so I'm not sure how often I'll be working on the Dark Elves now, but I WON'T let them die.

Sometimes I feel like screaming nobody does listen to me. My Avatar was almost monochromatic but it works very well on a cave floor sometimes I know what I'm talking about.

/Edit this attachment size limit is slowly getting on my nerves I had to delete some of my old stuff.