A few skins ~Kaitech

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Hai!

I'm working on a Demon Hunter at the moment, dunno what he's gonna be though...

If you have any useful critique just say..

EDIT: Sec, I'll go sort out the image... I won't bother attaching with tags, people find it annoying..

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5185/herodemonhunterrd1.png

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

Looks too soft... Way to blurry and messy. You need to sharpen it.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Well, messiness I can't explain, is it the shading?

I'm using the smudge* tool, but you cant just go ahead and say that's unprofessional, it's professional if you know how to use it, have you tried wrapping it? I wanna see pics of it wrapped :3

Vista + WC3 Viewer = No... Are there any other ways I can wrap?

I might give up on this one, I just remembered the back of it is so bugged up that it's almost unskinnable... Some decent modeler should fix that...

Meep... Got an update and a massive start on my Armoured Dragon.

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6388/reddragonsk9.png

Lots of it is still untouched or mapped out...

Yet another update bump, I can't attach these through the site, my internet has dodgy written all over it :/

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5789/001ms4.png

 

[LiOneSS]

Very nice, but the Armored dragon has these random lines... i don't like them. And the spell braker, what's he supposed to be? It is too random ATM, but it's a good start! +rep!

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

You mean the gold lines? Yeah, they're gonna be armour platings...

The spellbreaker is gonna be a naga spellbreaker, the mask he has on at the moment is a Coatl Wing Mask

 

[SuPa-]

You drastically need to work on your metal, as well as your brushwork in general. Also, your lighting is completely off on the dragon. The underbelly shouldn't have highlights facing downwards, it should be the other way around, because lighting comes from above not below. The face is also rather flat

 

[LiOneSS]

You mean the gold lines? Yeah, they're gonna be armour platings...

The spellbreaker is gonna be a naga spellbreaker, the mask he has on at the moment is a Coatl Wing Mask

it needs far more shading and detail---

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Woah, have you seen the detail on the coatl wing? There's mainly wing and veins, nothing else...

 

[INF3RNO]

im gonna shoot the next person who says smudging is good for skinning >.< (just joking)

anyways the Supa has said some stuff on the dragon i dont need to say but the head is very flats stilll =\

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

I don't see what's wrong with it, the only place you don't want smudged or anything is the face...

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

You have no sense of texture to make it look like it is scales, or it is a wing. And it is too soft, you need contrast.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

smudge is very good when used in the applications it was made for, which doesn't include a size 300 brush over the entire thing.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

smudge is very good when used in the applications it was made for, which doesn't include a size 300 brush over the entire thing.

The point in that post was? You can clearly see I havn't used a size 300 smudge all over it...

Anyway... Skinning will be in short supply, GIMP crashes when it tries to load the fonts...

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

UPDATE BUMP

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/596/fadefilterci0.png

A fade filter for Redillusion's hero arena which I am helping him with!

Got GIMP working again btw, so I am skinning again

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Lol, wasnt saying you did use a 300 smudge over the whole thing. I was defending the smudge tool, everyone seems to think it is horrible, I think you use it quite well from wut I have seen so far.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Oh I see what you mean now!

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Smudge is only useful to get cheap results. But it would be a miracle if someone could make a perfect art with the smudge tool.

Examples of images with smudge used

Even though these aren't excellent examples, see how horribly smudged the third pic is. The highlights on the face and hair is messy.

Blending with brushes (with low opacity) gives more effective results, and imo, is more fun to use.

 

[Kaitech[SanD]]

Cheers for the tips Dan!

I'm currently (and slowly) working on Undead Arthas, y'know the one in the undead campaign screen?

 

[Callahan]

I've made a skin once with smudge using gimp the result was not that bad.

textures

 

[markone]

hey smudge isnt so bad, its just borring cause u cant make fast color change... or maybe is? alt is reserved for using color...

 

[Dionesiist]

Dan, smudge isn't bad if you know how to use it. A strong example are professional texture and 3d artists.