android272 wrote:Does not the ninja wear cloths? or is the katana a magical sward that really turned you into a black Tee with ninja skills?
My guess is that it magically turns into a black furry ninja kitty .
This statue was not supposed to be the ninja from tee worlds but a samurai or a monk.
Well, we do have a ninja kitty. AFAIK the difference between a ninja and a samurai is that ninjas were mercenarys and samurais were nearly the same, just from the upper class.
Ok you are right here I did not use the right perorations for the eyes. I do not understand what you mean by ninja eyes however. the ninja has the same eyes as every other tee except that they are white... So you want me to make the statues eyes white?
Nah, the proportions of x_ninja is different. We can make them white, sure. But we need to make sure it fits to the other tilesets (for compatibility reasons ).
Frist I copied the legs from your statue in the panda set so I figured this point would be fine. second the Tee in this statue is not standing like the statue in the jungle or winter sets, this tee is meditating like many many Japanese statues.
The graphic shows you how I work to create one result. And that's what I did for a community tileset. Regarding an official tileset I do have higher demands. Besides you did not copy exactly the feet I did.
1. The shapes differ slightly
2. You put them in front of the gray platform
3. You added unreal shading
In addition I made a non-teeish graphic. It's a panda bear wich has a body and a head. It was supposed as an inspiration for a community tileset. This is a no-go for an official tileset!
Sometimes even very minor differences can change the whole appearance. Teeish feet are IMHO one of the most difficult parts of tees. To make them look good I need to experiment a lot.
The hands I used in the arriginal statue where copied from the default skins hands. So they were normal Tee hands they were just in the wrong perspective.
Yeah, here comes the part that really sucks. Tee hands cannot really be copy pasted for doodads. Why? It's always been that way, I dunno why. I've done countless tee graphics and whenever you use the original shapes it will suck. Really!
The contrast is quite high. A high contrast should only be used for the game layer.
I don't understand why you think my last statue looked flat as I think the new statue looks too flat, and so does the jungle and winter statues.
The winter statue looks flat due to historical reasons. Compare it to the original one and you will see that we improved it. We won't rework all tilesets with every update so we need keep the same style. This means every new tileset has to adopt the current teeworlds style. Otherwise we will have lots of different styles and this totally sucks. As long as I am responsible for the graphics this won't happen.
When we did the jungle tileset rework we did not make one graphic for one idea. Everyone made one or two mockups. Then we discussed the graphics. Which one is the most teeish? Why is it teeish? Which part is not teeish and how can we improve it? So step by step we found a solution which we all considered to be teeish. (Keep in mind that Crises, Zatline and I are self educated "artists", we did not study it)
So what happens if I work on that statue. Well first of all I'd copy the last approach of the statue I did for the panda theme. The base needs a little modification (less details). Then I'd take the x_ninja body. Add the ninja eyes. I experimented with the meditation position of the feet and hands until they look okay. Then I will add some details. Which one looks best.
Is this teeish? I do not know. I will sleep over it a couple of days. If I am satisfied, then I will sleep another day over it. ... And then if I really like it, then I'm glad
1. I prolly need to check the colors. My goal is to use as few colors as possible.
2. Maybe he feet need some shading (But it's pretty hard to do some good looking shading)
3 ... tbc...
NEXT TRY:
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry: It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Besides - I am the gfx guy!