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LisaCunha — Ba'ast Grotto

Published: 2010-10-01 15:11:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 2240; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 39
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Description Lots of fun. Baby's first dedicated environment painted that I can remember.

Critiques welcomed, encouraged, and paid for handsomely in rupees.
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Comments: 5

nicholaskole [2010-10-04 14:42:04 +0000 UTC]

I defer to Sam. But I'm just jazzed to see you doing some environment work!

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samburley [2010-10-03 00:55:36 +0000 UTC]

Yes! Come to the dark side! Or the light side... I don't know which environments would be on, but welcome! I might actually have something useful to say on this for once, so I'll try.

First, this is looking cool - great colors and concept, but there's a few things throwing it off for me. The perspective on individual objects looks sound, but as a whole it's inconsistent (mostly the x-axis). Most notable is the relationship between the two statues. Because of our viewing angle, the one on the right needs to look farther away, so I would scale it down about 10% more and show us a little more of it's side than the one on the left. Also the left one needs to be brought down, or the right one up so that their perspective lines are even, specifically the horizontals that their paws are sitting on.

The path going from the stone tablet to the bottom-right corner stays the same thickness throughout, but it should widen as it comes toward us.

I'm reading the area where the green light is reflecting as water, but it could use some clarification because the texture is very similar to that of everything else.

Finally, watch the strong horizontal of the walkway at the bottom. It's just close enough to parallel with the bottom edge that it feels awkward and there's not much else around it to help activate the space so it gets a little static.

It's looking good though, Lisa so don't take my crits too hard. They're really pretty small things, and more to keep in mind in the future than anything. I know it's tough to come by feedback since school though, so I hope it helps!

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LisaCunha In reply to samburley [2010-10-03 01:17:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for the feedback Sam :3

I actually preserved the layers for the individual objects so I can go back and alter the perspective and texturing- I'll probably tackle that this week and do some quick fixes, maybe expand the view so you get more of a feel for the room. I'll definitely keep those crits in mind.

Unfortunately as I was doing this and some assorted sketching I realized how clueless I am on general perspective- But most of the tuts and tips I stumbled across before doing this were related to speedpainting a quick environment, not how to build a convincing structure. I have a lot of studying to do D:

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samburley In reply to LisaCunha [2010-10-03 04:31:56 +0000 UTC]

You and me both. I got scolded on my perspective earlier today.

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silentsymphony21 [2010-10-01 15:13:40 +0000 UTC]

wow thats lovely

great colors, love the glow


keep up the good work!

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