Phoenix Trial #5 - Hero Ability Icon Replacements

[Dentothor]

@Dentothor
It looks as if you ripped the icon off Obsidian Destroyer's Devour Magic somehow :S

i based it off of the Obsidian Destroyer's Devour Magic

 

[UnholyDobry]

Here are my possible finals, I'm still a noob at icon makeing so my goal here is to be closer to mid place than to last place, anyway i like goblins and paladons icons altho frost nova is not nearly good as your others goblin so if that were your finals i would have voted for paladon, anyway i got icons replacements for paladin, from left to right is: Holy Light, Divine Shield (on and off), Devotion Aura, Resurrection.

 

[FrIkY]

UnholyDobry, to be honest, I don't really like them. They don't have that Blizzard feel and they look kinda, messy. The cross is greenish, fingers look weird and colors are not right. I think you should work more, and do some practice.

 

[Devine]

I like the hand =/

 

[Avator]

I can understand Holy Light, but the rest doesn't look like their abilities at all. Resurrection and Divine Shield are just the same, except for the border (One is hard, the other sort of fades). The hand was in my opinion not making me think of the ability and its fingers are way too tall to be real. Check your own hand and try to match it with that.

 

[UnholyDobry]

I can understand Holy Light, but the rest doesn't look like their abilities at all. Resurrection and Divine Shield are just the same, except for the border (One is hard, the other sort of fades). The hand was in my opinion not making me think of the ability and its fingers are way too tall to be real. Check your own hand and try to match it with that.

all u said its ok but how come divine shield and resurrection are the same!?!?

 

[HappyCockroach]

Wipy
rocket launch spell ... the goblin dude has that.

The missile looks too flat.

 

[Avator]

Oh, wait a minute. My browser didn't load the last image, so I thought the 2 icons you made for Divine Shield were actually 1 for Resurrection and 1 for Divine Shield. Forget that comment then.

 

[Caeyra]

V1:

V2:

Is it too similar to the blizzard icon? =/

DevineArmy, I'd add a sharper, brighter highlight to the bottle, it should look more like glass then. I wouldn't say the bottle is "wrong" at all, though, it's looking good.

 

[a7xpwns3]

Speedy response
Looks hella sexy.
Keep up the good work!

 

[reza sword2]

Am I in?? Damn... been busy.

Anywho and anyways, here's my version of Death Coil and Searing Arrows!

 

[Just_Spectating]

the searing arrows is kind of blurry, background kind of camoflauges it as well.

The Death Coil is pretty funny looking, looks a little more like some nature spell or shadow strike

 

[Caeyra]

Death coil reminds me of those bomb guys from final fantasy, the ones that explode if you don't kill them quickly enough.

Love the bg of searing arrow, but the arrow itself could do with some more definition.

 

[reza sword2]

Blizzard's Searing Arrows is also blurry, but I see your point. I'll give it more definition.

Yeah, the Death Coil is meant to be funky.

 

[Caeyra]

There's no reason why you can't make a better icon than blizzard.

 

[reza sword2]

Yeah true that. Man your icons pretty awesome as well. I like the wolf V1. It's pure awesome. Btw, do you use tablet?

 

[Caeyra]

Yeah, I do.

 

[Hawkwing]

Boy, have I got some critiques for you!

EDITED - I am NOT out.
Probably (Definately) won't win, but I'll give it hell.
Heres second icon for the contest. (Storm Bolt)
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/resource.php?t=126915

Honestly, it looks like a marshmellow on a stick. The angles of the edges of all the shapes are wacky. The shades are a bit off too. The hammer head needs to be darker - especially the bottom of it. Also, that background needs to go.

Lovely! I think you should add some brighter lines on the tornado to make it stand out better though. Not too bright though! You could destroy the atmosphere.

Cold... soooo cold,... D:

FROST NOVA!! pew! pew!

Eh. I really dislike it. He just looks like a blue man that lacks proper shading. I honestly think you should redo it. If you do, make him actually have some ice shards on him.

Oh, you and your spell icons! It looks great, but all it is is an ominous blur, hovering in the air. And that's all I've ever seen from you. The exact same icon with a slight change in colour and shape each time.

Nice! What is it though? A replacement for the Avatar icon? If so, darken the mouth a bit and reshape it. Right now it stands out way too much.

War Stomp?! MK!!

Lovely! My only concern is that the lightening is too blue. It looks like he's just having a fun time, splashing around in the water.

Looks like fun. This is what I have so far.

I like it. I think you need to work on the hammer/crown though. Right now it's very simple. Make them look more 3-dimensional, but don't rid the icon of the silhouette effect it has.

Could this be a replacement for the "Sleep" ability icon?

Opinions please.

I really like it! No complaints. Not one.

Endure Aura

Okay. It's a nice drawing, I must admit that much, but it doesn't have much to do with movement and speed.

Uhm. What is it? ><

You know, that's the most common comment I've seen in this thread. Take some time to figure it out. That, or try reading maybe?

Yeah i will see what i do with endurance, but movement endurance is difficult to make on a small size like this.
Anyhow WIP for Big Bad Voodoo:

Now i have one for quality, one for creativity and one for blizzard style

Looks sort of messy and lacks proper shading, if you ask me. It doesn't look as 3-dimensional as it could.

Okay, i think this are going to be my entries, but i will work on remakes and the other versions.

For now, this is what i got:

BTNRainOfFire

BTNInferno

BTNHolyLight

BTNSilence

The quality will be even better, since his are .jpg images.

Silence has got to go. It looks pretty bad. It lacks contrast and definition - especially considering Warcraft III's style. I'd like to see that Sleep icon in there too. I think it's your best.

Rain of Fire is great! Holy Light is decent, but it lacks something - something I can't pick out. Perhaps you can make the background brighter?

I've already lost (my icons suck D but here they are.

From left to right,
Hurl Boulder
Storm Bolt
Monsoon
Critical Strike

They're all awfully messy and the shapes aren't very defined. You also need to work on controlling which object is the subject by making it stand out more. Your backgrounds seem to be more important than what I'd assume the subject should be.

hum.. vampiric aura?

EDIT = DEAD AND DECAY!

It needs some work. It's poorly defined and the flower is hard to see.

I think you should try to be more original. The whole dying flower thing is nothing new to the world of Lich spells.

Here's a WIP from me, guess the spell and win a hug.

Hopefully it will retain some detail when reduced to 64x64

You will NEVER get anywhere with that icon. It's way too big. Hell, it would be too big if it were a skin! I wouldn't even recommend you work in anything above 150x150. The smaller the better. That's the challenge with icons.

V1:

V2:

Is it too similar to the blizzard icon? =/

Well, what are you trying to recreate? They're nice - especially the first one. I think you need to fix up the mouth on the second one. I recommend you change the colour too. There's no such thing as a green wolf, sadly. We live in a dull world.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

wow, thanks alot hawkwing

 

[Hawkwing]

wow, thanks alot hawkwing

No problem.

:]​

 

[reza sword2]

Aww, you forgot mine.

 

[Hawkwing]

Aww, you forgot mine.

Yeah, I kind of stopped at the third last page but I just happened to notice Caeyra's.

Anywho and anyways, here's my version of Death Coil and Searing Arrows!

They're rather simple. The shape of the Death Coil icon is rather strange. It resembles some sort of cool-emotion emoticon rather than a skull or anything of that sort.

As for the searing arrows, well, you need to show the arrow more. Work on making the fire a part of the arrow, rather than the arrow being something within the fire. I hope you get my drift. It really makes very little sense.

 

[reza sword2]

Yeah I didn't make the Death Coil seriously. Lol smiley.

Gotcha on the flame thingy.

 

[Caeyra]

No green wolves? ;]

And if Bliz can have purple

, I can have green, no? ;]

In all seriousness though, thanks a lot for the crits, Hawkwing. Of the two spirit wolf icons, I do prefer the first I made, but it was mentioned it was generic looking, so I tried to approach from a different angle. I really had trouble with showing the teeth, as you can see. I'll work on them a little, and see if I can improve on them.

For resurrection I changed from the hammer and crown symbol to a dude rising up

 

[Just_Spectating]

deng, thats reallly good.
id like to see the full pic.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Resurrection looks awesome.
About the wolves, the one with a moon background is much better.
It fits better the Far Seer.

 

[Hawkwing]

No green wolves? ;]

And if Bliz can have purple

, I can have green, no? ;]

In all seriousness though, thanks a lot for the crits, Hawkwing. Of the two spirit wolf icons, I do prefer the first I made, but it was mentioned it was generic looking, so I tried to approach from a different angle. I really had trouble with showing the teeth, as you can see. I'll work on them a little, and see if I can improve on them.

For resurrection I changed from the hammer and crown symbol to a dude rising up

I think the problem with the second one is that it doesn't look feral enough. Look at the cheek hair on the original one for example.

The ressurection icon is awesome.

 

[Devine]

Hawkwing? I wan't sum damn'd reviews too.
edit: evade wip.
i think ima replace the weird looking sword with an arrow.
I know it's very bright ... was just playing with exposure shit.

 

[Dentothor]

Here is my next one for mana drain

 

[HappyCockroach]

evade wip.
i think ima replace the weird looking sword with an arrow.
I know it's very bright ... was just playing with exposure shit.

It looks bad. The problem is the drawing itself. The demon hunter looks too weird there. His pose doesn't suggest evasion...
also his shape is pretty deformed, like horn-shaped ears and straight lines in the abs outline

@Denthotor, looks interesting, but will hardly fit wc3

 

[Dentothor]

should i make the backroud black instead of red then?

 

[Dentothor]

ok i did it anyway MY BAD srry for double posting i thought i clicked edit!!!

 

[HappyCockroach]

black rather than the grey you just put. You should put something concrete into this other than just the hand.

Evasion is cool. I may give a try to this contest with my GIMP
This is just a sketch so I know what to do...not an Icon WIP.
But I dunno about the other 3...

 

[oh_snap]

Hawkwing, could you critique my Death and Decay WIP?

~Snap

 

[Paladon]

Hmm, i have 6 icons now.
I wonder whether i shall enter with them or all just with a few?

 

[Slaydon]

This is awesome icons you got there

 

[Devine]

It looks bad. The problem is the drawing itself. The demon hunter looks too weird there. His pose doesn't suggest evasion...
also his shape is pretty deformed, like horn-shaped ears and straight lines in the abs outline

@Denthotor, looks interesting, but will hardly fit <acronym title="Warcraft 3">wc3</acronym>

The contrast shit did fuck up the shadings ...
I don't see what you mean with the hornshaped ears ... I made em like samwise does.

 

[Dentothor]

So here is My Icons So Far

Howl Of Terror:

Mana Drain:

 

[HappyCockroach]

The contrast shit did fuck up the shadings ...
I don't see what you mean with the hornshaped ears ... I made em like samwise does.

I didn't mean the effects, but the drawing. The shape is messed up. Avoid using lines, the visible side in his belly looks weird. The ears are weirdly upwards looking like horns, if weren't by the purple color.

 

[Caeyra]

deng, thats reallly good.
id like to see the full pic.

This is the full pic.
I've been working in 64x64 because in my experience, when I shrink something down, I'm always horribly disappointed by how it looks. >_<

Hawkwing? I wan't sum damn'd reviews too.
edit: evade wip.
i think ima replace the weird looking sword with an arrow.
I know it's very bright ... was just playing with exposure shit.

Evasion kind of looks like he's been surprised by someone tapping him on the shoulder with a sword than him evading anything. =/
I also agree that the lines defining his muscles are too...defined, for lack of a better word. >_< You want to show the shape of his form with light and shadow, not hard lines.

So here is My Icons So Far

Howl Of Terror:

Mana Drain:

Howl of Terror is my favourite of yours, it looks awesomely gruesome, and I like how wet and shiny the tongue looks.

Mana drain looks pretty good, they way you rendered the mana looks awesome, but maybe you could show it actually entering/being absorbed by the hand? Just a suggestion.

I think the problem with the second one is that it doesn't look feral enough. Look at the cheek hair on the original one for example.

Old:

New:

Any improvement? I think it looks a little meaner, at least. Still prefer the one with the moon though.

Thanks again to everyone offering help/suggestions.

 

[Pyritie]

The mouth on the new one is better at least. The cheek hair looks a little messy now though.

 

[Dentothor]

K how bout this guys!

Mana Drain:

 

[HappyCockroach]

@Caeyra: I prefer the moon one a thousand times. It is much more original. Well... Oh noes! Both are just awesome! What a difficult choice you have there.
I'm rooting for ya! Your work so far is incredible, Far Sight, Ressurection, the Phoenix, the moon wolf, all of them are so great! You should do a Chain Lightning and Earthquake, and your done with Far Seer xP

@Dentothor: I like your style, it is very artistic. This mana drain is scary yet very good-looking. The red hand version is better though. But the sides should be black.

 

[Dentothor]

Idk i sorta like the black one. the red was kinda blurry and i think the black will fit in better with the rest of the <acronym title="Warcraft 3">wc3</acronym> icons

I like your style

thanks! im just sad that i still have little to show at the moment lolz

 

[Hawkwing]

This is the full pic.
I've been working in 64x64 because in my experience, when I shrink something down, I'm always horribly disappointed by how it looks. >_<



Evasion kind of looks like he's been surprised by someone tapping him on the shoulder with a sword than him evading anything. =/
I also agree that the lines defining his muscles are too...defined, for lack of a better word. >_< You want to show the shape of his form with light and shadow, not hard lines.



Howl of Terror is my favourite of yours, it looks awesomely gruesome, and I like how wet and shiny the tongue looks.

Mana drain looks pretty good, they way you rendered the mana looks awesome, but maybe you could show it actually entering/being absorbed by the hand? Just a suggestion.



Old:

New:

Any improvement? I think it looks a little meaner, at least. Still prefer the one with the moon though.

Thanks again to everyone offering help/suggestions.

The mouth on the new one is better at least. The cheek hair looks a little messy now though.

Pyritie is correct.

Hawkwing, could you critique my Death and Decay WIP?

~Snap

If anyone wants anything critiqued, please post a link to the post.

 

[oh_snap]

I'll just post my newest WIP.

~Snap

 

[Hawkwing]

It's nice, actually. I think the skull could use some work though. The shading seems to be a bit strong and thick and it seems a bit misshaped.

 

[Dentothor]

K guys heres my next one for Vortex tell me what you think!

Hawking can you tell me what would be good for my first 3 icons?

 

[Caeyra]

->

I think I need to take a little break from this, get some fresh perspective and work on some other ideas maybe.

Edit: More Contrast:

Ok, seriously leaving it alone for now >_>;;

Dentothor, it look cool, but could maybe be swirlier?

 

[Dentothor]

How much swirlyer can it get? :S and the second one is great but just but the glow on that one!

EDIT: No just add the glow not more contrast!