Campaign portraits again

Post by **quartex** » January 6th, 2005, 11:24 pm

Elvish Pillager wrote:And why do all these Li'sar portraits have her in armor? She's got negative resistances to physical damage, what's this armor stuff about?

I think of Lisar as a female warrior/leader, and her in armor looks a lot more appropriate than normal clothes (or the bikini's female warrior tend to wear).

These do look good, but I think you're going to have difficulty convincing people to replace the current artwork for HttT, whereas many other campaigns (such as Dark Hordes and EI) still need portraits, and any submissions would be gladly used.

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » January 6th, 2005, 11:28 pm

quartex wrote:I think of Lisar as a female warrior/leader, and her in armor looks a lot more appropriate than normal clothes (or the bikini's female warrior tend to wear).

No matter how appropriate it is to her role, it still makes no sense with her stats.

Post by **Pickslide** » January 6th, 2005, 11:28 pm

I decided she should be wearing armor is all. Probably cause I looked at the battle Princess sprite and got an idea and I drew it. I wasn't really worrying about her play characteristics when I drew it.

I think Lisar's nose is correct, she's not really at full profile so it doesn't go way out

Anyway, heres the Elvish Marshall from the first mission too. I experimented with the shine, and it looks really good. I might go back and change the shine of the other guys armor too.

Edit: Elvish Marshall, not captain...

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » January 6th, 2005, 11:31 pm

Looks nice. Only problem is that Captains do not wear blue armor, only Marshals do.

Post by **Darth Fool** » January 6th, 2005, 11:45 pm

Hmm...Maybe once the Content Server replaces the Campaign Server (http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 06&start=0 ) maybe their will be an option to upload/download artwork to replace existing artwork in campaigns. These do look awesome...Keep up the good work, after all free software is about scratching itches.

Post by **freim** » January 7th, 2005, 12:27 am

Pickslide wrote:I decided she should be wearing armor is all. Probably cause I looked at the battle Princess sprite and got an idea and I drew it. I wasn't really worrying about her play characteristics when I drew it.

I think she looks good and you shouldn't change it. I see no reason to be so concerned about getting it as close as possible to the stats, better that the artist has a little freedom to draw it in his own vision. They tend to get better that way.

Mkgego · Post by **Mkgego** » January 7th, 2005, 2:25 am

BOA... they are sooo coool...

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » January 7th, 2005, 9:13 am

On the "need another Delfador" issue, I remember the previous Deflador portrait by you (Pickleslide) being very good and facially very similar to the one in this thread. Could you not just recycle that one and save yourself the "pain" of rehashing him again?

vartagh · Post by **vartagh** » January 7th, 2005, 9:56 am

Orc and Marsahll are REALLY COOL!!!

CaÃƒÂ§ada Selvagem · January 7th, 2005, 6:26 pm

You did them by hand, scanned and then colored by computer?

Post by **Jetrel** » January 7th, 2005, 10:09 pm

For archival purposes, could you post all of the most polished versions of the old portraits you did?

I have a collection of all the meaningful work people have done on portraits, and it's darn near complete except for those.

Post by **Pickslide** » January 7th, 2005, 10:32 pm

Yeah, I still have delfadors lineartbut the CG part is what takes the longest. The lineart and scanning are the easiest part. I'll try to think of something more appropriate for talking though.

Yeah, I drew lineart in my sketchpad, scanned it in, traced it and colored it on the computer.

Jetryl, I don't think I kept any of those. I came back to the portraits, and I disliked them so I deleted the CG stuff and started from scratch x_X. Maybe someone else has them?

So do you guys think these should replace the current ones?

CaÃƒÂ§ada Selvagem · January 7th, 2005, 10:44 pm

Pickslide wrote:So do you guys think these should replace the current ones?

yeah, except delfanor's, he looks meanie

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » January 7th, 2005, 10:59 pm

Pickslide wrote:So do you guys think these should replace the current ones?

I don't think Delfador and Li'sar are good enough... Li'sar is really different from both her unit graphics and description, and doesn't even look good that way IMO. Delfador just doesn't fit either...

Other than that, I really think they're high quality.

Unfortunately, it's not generally a good idea putting some new portraits in and leaving others in the old style. So, could you make some better Delfador and Li'sar portraits?

Post by **Jetrel** » January 8th, 2005, 9:20 am

Pickslide wrote:Jetryl, I don't think I kept any of those. I came back to the portraits, and I disliked them so I deleted the CG stuff and started from scratch x_X. Maybe someone else has them?

Anybody else have copies of pickslide's old portraits?

I had them installed in an older copy of wesnoth (being that I'm one of those freaks out there that, at any given time, has like 3 different versions of the thing on my computer), but unfortunately they got deleted when I nuked the old version.

I didn't expect the forum crash to nuke all our stuff.