Campaignscreen inspired

[Solaris]

Beside the Rexxar campaign screen, I really like
the Nightelf Expansion Campaign Screen. Inspired by
that I made one of my own. But it still needs some
improvement (it was a 20min work).

 

[fladdermasken]

I would say that the key to a great concept screen is the sky. Check out void's tutorial on advanced lighting if you haven't already. Might go for a different angle as well to show off more sky. The cliffs to the left looks weird, most likely due to stretched out textures. Try stacking smaller rocks on eachother.
Great start though, keep it up

 

[Solaris]

As I see now I´ve chosen a bad angle, so that you see all the stretched textures and from this perspective there is not much sky to see. So I´m working on an new version, I´ve started last night but was too tired to finish, think I´ll update that later.
Hm about the lightning, I´m using the UTM light model, but im not satisfied - I think its too bright - even after lowering it into the ground.
Still havent tried to tint it down, maye this will solve the brightness.
But thx so far

 

[Solaris]

Here it is the updated pic, hope you will like it.

 

[Dr. House]

The waterfall seems to come out of the mountain. Also maybe put that NE more in front you mostly see units big in a campaignscreen and not small. Besides that it looks nice

 

[fladdermasken]

Yeah the waterfall looks odd, and I'd create a sun using void's technique to add more drama. And again the textures look a bit stretched, but I suppose that's life. Better angle this time though, keep working on it and this'll look really good.

 

[Solaris]

So I´ve made some changes, thanks to you. I´ve read Voids Lightning-Tutorial several times, but I never touched the sun thing, cause I thought it would be too hard. But as I see its not that hard, I need just some practice.
So far I´ve just indicated a sun, since it is an Campaignscreen it should not be the main part of the picture. The origin of the waterfall is now hidden from the eye, so you expect that somewhere else will be the well. Also I´ve chosen the Shandris model, looks better than the normal archer. And before I forget to mention it, I used the cloud model from the Utm.

But still not satisfied

 

[Dr. House]

Im still not happy about the waterfall yet i see more inprovement it looks way better now. About that sun hmmm i supose its day light so you might wana add som shines or whatever they call it. Anyway the way Shandris stands is nice and its closer than the other NE you did. good inprovement

 

[Solaris]

Allright here comes the latest version, I´m still not sure if i like it...
I was thinking about the idea to make a terraining contest with the Campaignscreen subject...
For now it will be the last pic, can´t spam my own thread that much.

 

[Dr. House]

Looks much and much better yet i would like to see som sky on the right side but thats all for now +cookie for you for again inproving

 

[fladdermasken]

Looks better! The textures are at peace, the waterfall makes more sense
+rep

 

[Oziris]

Hm, about the last updated picture, i don't like the broken column. It is going in the rock, move it a bit and make its direction towards the water fall (or try towards the other column that's opposite of the broken column).