BTNLightningElemental

[Moderator]

11:52, 27th Mar 2014
Sin'dorei300: Great work!
I especially like the red var.

 

[Heinvers]

It's nice. But I don't like that team-color on his helmet. It just doesn't fit there. Anyway good concept.

 

[David]

Ugh, I still can't tell what it is without seeing the model.

 

[Mad]

It's nice. But I don't like that team-color on his helmet. It just doesn't fit there. Anyway good concept.

Thank you :> Do you have any ideas what color would be better?

Ugh, I still can't tell what it is without seeing the model.

Sorry for that :I it wasn't easy to draw this.

 

[Binsu]

Looks useful but some critics (not really a good one for I am not an icon maker so feel free to reject some parts if you find fitting and acceptable to):

Maybe you could change the teamcolor of the icon to neutral if that would be possible as what Heinvers suggested on a teamcolor changes but I really think the team color is pretty much fine. And if I am to guess how the icon exactly looks like, the elemental's eyes are those two small lightning space above. I would suggest making it much more bigger or open, give some more emphasis into the eyes. The top head looks too flat and I do know it has thorns, right? You should draw that as well instead of the flat top.

But overall, this is approvable and I give you +rep for the amazing icons you're making so far.

 

[Mad]

Looks useful but some critics (not really a good one for I am not an icon maker so feel free to reject some parts if you find fitting and acceptable to):

Maybe you could change the teamcolor of the icon to neutral if that would be possible as what Heinvers suggested on a teamcolor changes but I really think the team color is pretty much fine. And if I am to guess how the icon exactly looks like, the elemental's eyes are those two small lightning space above. I would suggest making it much more bigger or open, give some more emphasis into the eyes. The top head looks too flat and I do know it has thorns, right? You should draw that as well instead of the flat top.

But overall, this is approvable and I give you +rep for the amazing icons you're making so far.

Thank you
You're raising valid points but why I didn't do spikes on the helmet is because of the perspective. I usually go after the same perspective as the portrait, since blizzard tend to do this and here is a comparission:

But I might as well add spikes, since I seem to have accedently changed the perspective :I

Thanks again for the wonderful feedback

 

[UgoUgo]

Ugh, I still can't tell what it is without seeing the model.

If you do not know the person, then a painting of him wouldn't help either; the icon is meant to be like that.

For the icon, the blue outline at the red armor (forehead part) kinda doesn't match in my opinion.

 

[Mad]

If you do not know the person, then a painting of him wouldn't help either; the icon is meant to be like that.

For the icon, the blue outline at the red armor (forehead part) kinda doesn't match in my opinion.

Agreed, I kind of went overdrive on doing these lightning outlines. I'm kind of addicted to them.

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Looks much better, but u could change the mask's color to red like before, cuz now it's too monochrome.
Also, a good idea will be to make color vars.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Awexome! Glad you uploaded!

...But I don't like that team-color on his helmet. It just doesn't fit there....

...Maybe you could change the teamcolor of the icon to neutral if that would be possible as what Heinvers suggested on a teamcolor changes but I really think the team color is pretty much fine. ...

Umm...

Looks much better, but u could change the mask's color to red like before, cuz now it's too monochrome.
Also, a good idea will be to make color vars.

Yeah, while the current "steely gray/blue" is pretty cool, I'm afraid it blends too much with the side-armor. I would definitely go back to a Team Color (Red was a good, simple contrast); most the buildings & several units have TC in their icon (though granted, not a whole lot do; then again, most units don't have TC on the face where the icon is).

Super job, man. I love the extra lightning highlighting the eye-holes.

 

[Heinvers]

Umm...

I merely stated my opinion of it. Don't get me wrong for that:/
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Anyway the improvement looks better now

 

[David]

If you do not know the person, then a painting of him wouldn't help either; the icon is meant to be like that.

For the icon, the blue outline at the red armor (forehead part) kinda doesn't match in my opinion.

Let's say you have an altered melee map, and you have this unit ( the icon of Mad ) and you see him but you can't tell what it is, you don't know what you're about to summon. Your point is invalid in this situation

 

[Kyrbi0]

I merely stated my opinion of it. Don't get me wrong for that :/

I wasn't "getting you wrong for that" (I'll assume you mean "being rude about our difference of opinion"), merely stating that I had a different opinion than you & the other person I quoted.

I agree (aside from the TC); the improvements are good.

 

[Heinvers]

Well, ok, I guess it's just a personal taste then.

 

[Mad]

Made some color variations, Just click on the icons to download their respective .RAR packages with BTN, DISBTN and SSH files:

Variations

Blood Red

Sapphire Blue

I-can't-come-up-with-anything Teal

Mysterious Purple

Banana Yellow

Molten Orange

Forest Green

Fabolous Pink


Like-the-original-but-worse Grey

Havn't-I-seen-this Light Blue

I'm-running-out-of-names Dark Green

Shitty Joke

 

[UgoUgo]

Let's say you have an altered melee map, and you have this unit ( the icon of Mad ) and you see him but you can't tell what it is, you don't know what you're about to summon. Your point is invalid in this situation

Like I said, if you don't know how the model looked like, how are you supposed to recognize the icon itself? You have to know this model doesn't have humanoid feature, therefore it is natural not to be able to tell what it is on first sight.

When I first saw this model few years ago, I thought to myself 'where the heck is the face?'. But then again the model itself doesn't exist in real life, doesn't even have a features of a real life living object (but rather a concept art), so how would it be recognizable anyway?

In my opinion, Mad has done pretty damn good job to make it very similar to the model.

 

[Heinvers]

In my opinion, Mad has done pretty damn good job to make it very similar to the model.

I fully agree

 

[Kyrbi0]

...

When I first saw this model few years ago, I thought to myself 'where the heck is the face?'. But then again the model itself doesn't exist in real life, doesn't even have a features of a real life living object (but rather a concept art), so how would it be recognizable anyway?

In my opinion, Mad has done pretty damn good job to make it very similar to the model.

On a side-note, I'm curious; I've heard this "where's the beef face" argument before for this guy. I'll admit, it's weird that he doesn't have one, but I don't remember ever being confused about it; it's just like, the face is behind the metal bars (like an ancient medieval helmet). The "eyes" were always obvious. 'Sides, the Water Elemental ain't got no face.

I dunno, just me. But I agree; Mad's done great with this.

 

[Mad]

Thank you guys

 

[Chaosy]

truly a great icon. 5/5

 

[Edge45]

Maybe try naming the
I-can't-come-with-anything Teal to Crystal Teal
Havn't-I-seen-this Light Blue to Sky Light Blue
Like-the-original-but-worse Grey to Worse Grey (Ever)
I'm-running-out-of-names Dark Green to Natural Dark Green
and
Shitty Joke to I don't know what Brown

Any ring of Golden Bell to you dude

 

[Mad]

I kind of wanted the joke to be there
But to be honest, I couldn't come up anything for teal and I planned to have the sillier names appear later :>

So thanks

 

[Heinvers]

LOL. Anyway it's a good variation to this. So keep making icons Mad

 

[StrikerGaming]

Sooooooooooo nice better to improve my ai map right now (oh I forget that is night so I need to go to sleep maybe next year)

(lol)

Reminds me of tony stark
Forget about the lol thing is just for fun
But dude thank you very much for the icon