DreamEater2.blp

[Moderator]

15:38, 2nd Sep 2008
Hawkwing: Requested changes were not made.

Kimberly: The wings look far too out of place, basic and boring, the colour is the issue. The body of the skin is also very flat. Fix these up please.

 

[FrIkY]

This can turn into very good skin, only if it wasn't so blurry and try smoothen it a bit and it should be great.

Not much Faerie Dragon skins on Hive and I think this one is the first.

4/5 - nice skin

 

[Misha]

Whoa! This looks as if it were colored with those.....color pencls?.....how do they call 'em? anyway looks good but lacks shadows and highlights

Overal 3.87/5 ^_^

 

[Cavman]

little to dark

 

[Hawkwing]

Yes it's quite hard to see.

And it's a bit messy. Look at the wings, for example. And the 'webbed' things on his back.

 

[StaberFire]

Yeah, I kinda got lazy with the wings because they were the last thing I did.

I'll lighten it up a bit, too, and maybe work on retexturing some parts.

 

[Lord_Firage]

Oh my God ... Great !!!
But ... the Eyes need to be more bright...
Maybe use a light red or something

 

[Rhodesy]

kwl looks zergy 4/5 but not great

 

[Jack_Sparrow93]

I agree with Hawkwing, it looks to messy...

 

[StaberFire]

I'll work on straightening out the textures later today, just been busy lately. Oo

 

[Hawkwing]

Keep up the good work Staber, you have great potential.

 

[StaberFire]

Better or worse?

I kept the original in case this change is a horrible flop.

EDIT: On a side note, I was considering changing the wings to a dragonfly-like texture.

Good idea?

 

[Hawkwing]

I'd say better but it's still a bit messy. Also, do not make shadows on the upper side of it. Only on the underside. And the parts holding the Wing Membrane together need to be bigger.

Keep it up!

 

[StaberFire]

Updated, I gave it a bit more volume, sharpened up the holes and widened the fingers on the wings. I also added some more shadows and highlights.

 

[goldenjuan1]

it needs to be more.... I don't know (I'm Peruvian and I don't know how to say "baba" or something like that in English)

 

[Misha]

Kinda wanted to redo this....... but it's a tad too messy.
Why don;t you create another one, and this time by folowing the original skin more closely.

tad blury U_U

 

[Hawkwing]

Yes, it's quite blurry. I like the concept, and the colours but it was executed poorly.

 

[StaberFire]

I have the original from before I lightened it, I can spin off differently before that.

I think lightening the whole thing is what screwed me up so badly, because the holes got lightened too.

This time I'm going to change the wings to an insect type of thing, because the wings seem to be what's making the whole thing seem very sloppy.

EDIT: Is there a way to make a texture transparent, but still slightly visible?

I've been trying to do this for the wings, but it doesn't seem to work.

 

[Misha]

EDIT: Is there a way to make a texture transparent, but still slightly visible?

I've been trying to do this for the wings, but it doesn't seem to work.

Alpha, but if yo make models. and also...models need to be very, very diferent that the original one. i have some good ideas myself, but i can't get the damn program to work

 

[Hawkwing]

Taking a low opacity eraser brush wont work. You'll have to do some modeling to give it a nice transparent effect.

 

[StaberFire]

I can't model in Magos, only Milkshape, but I don't feel like buying it.

The skin looks terrible with the insect wings either fully transparent or fully visible, so I'll just give up on that idea entirely.

 

[StaberFire]

Updated, I know the pigmy wings look gimpy in the screenie, (hey, gimpy and pigmy are anagrams! =D) but they look better in game.

I sharpened it up with the original, dark skin and toned the highlights.

I hope this is better. =/

 

[StaberFire]

What else must this one man do for acception? D=

 

[StaberFire]

Alright, updated AGAIN, added more depth to the wings along with some fingers to make it more realistic, changed that stupid webbing on his back to look like it actually took effort.

 

[varsaigen]

Reminds me of Ridley. XD The wings especially.

 

[StaberFire]

Oh yeah I never noticed that. =B

Well, updated ftw, down to Hawk's last speculations. =P

 

[Big Dub]

Work with the wrapping a bit more, its messing up your spots! Also I suggest making it a little darker around the edges on your fin thingy, What would you call those? Not on the top edge but the edges where there is a... spine? That would make them stand out a lot more.

 

[StaberFire]

Work with wrapping? I don't fully understand what you mean, because wrapping has to do with textures applying to models, and this is not a model, just a texture, so I can't change the wrapping on the faerie dragon then submit it to be a texture, it'd just be a poorly edited model.

 

[Misha]

one question: what would happen if you erase those "ears" on its head?
plz keep a backup if it turns out a fail.

 

[StaberFire]

It'll just be TC. That's a seperate mesh with underlying TC. So don't do that. Same with the tail portion.

 

[SomeRandomDeleted Dr. Cabbage0]

Hmmm I actually like where this is going, keep working on it, shadows, lightning, etc

But I dont like that the "wing-texture" is the same as the overhead & back =/

Anyways good skin 3/5

 

[FrIkY]

Ok, here's new comment for this, I see you changed this a lot since from the start:

GOOD
[+] It's changed to better since last time ^^
[+] Wings look amazing
[+] Looks kinda real
[+] Hand on the unwrap also looks great
[+] Red thing on tail looks also great
[+] And the face looks good

BAD
[-] ''Ears'' need some outline
[-] Back is kinda messy, and blurry a bit

NEUTRAL
[=] Partciples that model is using don't really match with the skin
[=] It would be better if wings have some tiny holes on some places
[=] Use some other colors too, especially on those... let's call it ''holes'', on the back and rest of the body

RESULT
4.75/5 - Great work StaberFire, fix the [-] and it will be perfect

FINAL RATE
5/5 - Highly Recommended

 

[StaberFire]

You wouldn't believe how much effort I put into that red part on the tail.. about 6 seconds worth of work. =P

Anyways, you're right about the "ears" (I believe they are antennae, but what do I know about faeries?) they need some better definition.

I can try to make some holes in the wings and such, but I'm not too psyched about how it may turn out, the Dream Eater isn't really supposed to be undead so I'd like to keep it neat.

Lastly, I'm not quite sure what you mean about the back being messy, could you please clarify?

Thanks for the feedback. =B

 

[FrIkY]

Actually... you're right, it's not messy, but it is a bit blurry.

 

[StaberFire]

Okay, I'll get to work on sharpening that up. =B

 

[BrotherDog]

Is any part of this skin TeamColor?

 

[StaberFire]

No. I couldn't really think of any ways to implement Team Colour that still fit the theme of the skin.

 

[NorthSpirit]

nice skin, but i think fairy dragons just can't look agresive of evil (exeption for the Little Frost Wyrm Skin)