Kiwi's Bday: results

Well, this is the day. Let's see what i got shall we?

The entries:

• 1 - Colors by Ghost-Silver:
  This was a pretty big surprise, knowing so many artists the first submission i got was from someone i didn't know.
  
  I know I've been stressing "don't go pure green scheme if possible", but this actually looks cool, reminds me a LOT of the female Orc grunts in WoW, the ones in those lil remote villages. i think in this case the clothing colors helped me like this scheme more.
  
  
• 2 - Colors by Zach:I can't tell if he was serious about it, I'm not saying it's bad, but he made it rather quickly.
  
  The fact her skin is only 1 color is pretty bland, the blue used it pretty dark and unexpected, and i kinda find it interesting for it, but i think this would had worked better if she had a lighter secondary color.
  
  
• 3 - Colors by Jimmy:
  Jimmy has been involved into redesigning like 15 characters lately (shhh! itsa secret...) and he's been losing his sanity. The other day he told me "and i could swear the cat spoke to me", and i think he was serious.
  
  As for the colors, Jimmy just doesn't halfass it, he went straight for the evil look. It kinda feel like what Akuma would look like if he was an anthro female lizard. I gotta admit the dark eyes with a glowing iris is something i never even thought about, kinda cool but feels too evil i thinks.
  
  
• 4 - Colors by Undies:I had to pester him to try it, i really had... And u know what? i regret nothing. Because his take on Kiwi was much lighter than everyone else, and quite colorful in fact too.
  
  This was very light compared to all the other ones, the colors are a lot easier on the eyes. It has a mellow feel to it, maybe too mellow for Kiwi, but I totally could use this for other people of her species.
  
  
• 5 - Colors by Bittenhard:Only person to use the chibi version for the submission. Bitten wanted to go with an albino look, which sounded cool. Albino animals always look very beautiful and distinguish themselves a lot.
  
  That sounds pretty cool for Kiwi. Bitten was also the only person to use stripes on Kiwi, which is a cool idea as well. But overall it looks very very grey-ish, it lacks a lot of saturation and just doesnt look appealing the way it came out. It needed a tweak somehow.
  

The verdict?

Well, to b honest, i hoped for more entries and more colorful and diverse submissions. Although i'm not 100% happy with any of the entries, I have to say that even though Ghost silver did the most generic one, it's the one I'm linking the most right now.

Most of the other ones are just too monotone and seriously lack color saturation.

of this lil contest, Ghost-Silver wins, sorry everyone else. But I'm not quite satisfied with the look yet. i might make a color scheme based on all the aspects i liked.

Such as the dual colored skin that Ghost-Silver did and the colors for the clothing a lot too, am seriously considering the stripes Bitten did, I might use blue in her color scheme like Zach did, but mixed with another color like i mentioned before, might go with might lighter and colorful colors like Undies did, and am really gonna try the glowy eyes that jimmy did.

Thanks for all of your guys that took a shot at this, i got a ton of ideas for Kiwi now that i had never considered before.

WUT

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.



This is an interesting idea that has no real good application yet, and as you can tell by the date, I am completely behind on everything videogame related.

"Top 10 Least-Played D&D Classes"

This is a rather hilarious 4 page article on IGN that Jimmy found a few days ago.


And yea, i think the necrophiliac is fucking win, just cause of the picture they used for him.

ENDOSCOPY ARE F***KING HORRIBLE!

MOST! PAINFUL! MEDICAL! EXAM! I'VE! EVER! BEEN! THROUGH!

it lasted 2 mins, and during that time, i was only able to breathe 5 secs! it was terrible, suffocating is so stressing... good lord... who the hell came up with this procedure!?

so yea, am alive... thank god...

Random update

I think the portuguese is whoring the blog a bit... so C-c-c-combo breaker!. How do you make a sickly Albino who happens to be a sorcerer, prince, and swordsman? I still do not know that answer, but this is my attempt.

Kiwi contest: update

So far I'm pretty pleased with the lil contest I'm having for kiwi's color scheme. I've had 4 entries so far and all of them look very distinct from each other.

Remember guys, I'm taking 2 entries per person. As for those who haven't tried, here's a lil research i did:

Pretty much any color that one can think of may be used by a reptile, some are plain, some have really weird and interesting patterns. dual colors seem to make them seem more intresting though.


Remember that reptiles have the particularity of standing out a lot in the wild when they're dangerous, the vibrant color being a warning for other creatures to keep away from them. with that said, don't go overkill on the vibrant part.

As for picking a color scheme for Kiwi, I'll do so based on a couple of factors, such as it has to look good (most important factor) and reflect her personality (antisocial and dangerous warrior chick with deep rooted hate for men). Also, there's 3 plans (2 Backups) to pick her color scheme:

• Plan A - There is a color scheme that fits and looks cool, and so that is that one i use, yay!
• Plan B - There bits of several color schemes that i like and i make one based on those, not a good plan.
• Plan C - I take all the submissions, and merge all of them into a single picture using soft type blending. (it's actually looking pretty cool so far.)

Preferably, i wanna go with plan A though.

Intresting Warcraft 3 variation

As some may know, i play (unofficial) Warcraft 3, i worked for the longest time on a map for it, and was getting pretty damn good at making what i wanted with it due to the engine being extremely versatile. So i like to keep my eye on the new stuff people still make for it.

I heard and seen footage of a cool project some time ago, it's not a map per say, but an engine mod that lets u play WC3 as a FPS. Back when i saw it, i was pretty good, but that was over a year ago, currently, it's fucking amazing.



That's a demo of their newest project, I'm especially impressed by it because it has the concept of floors and stairs working in it, something u couldn't really do in the game. The changes to the engine sure are extensive.

Bellow is a more traditional FPS like demo of the mod, it even supports melee combat.


This could lead to great and interesting stuff, mostly because the Warcraft 3 world editor is incredibly easy to use and very cool and interesting things could b created with this. i wouldn't think too much towards multiplayer shooting, although it does seem to have been implemented, but people making their own FPS/RPG games with their own stories and plots. Could Lead to cool Co-op games on LANs, etc...

You may want to check the other videos that youtube user has uploaded, features more of that mod and some of it is pretty cool.

7 days...

Maybe less now.

There's now 1 week til Kiwi's Bday. The "contest" still stands, u can use either of the pics i posted for it.

I'd just like to mention a couple of things about what I'd like to avoid in her color scheme:

• Complete green (either as a single color or as double tone), it's just too cliche. Green coupled with another color(s) is ok though.
  
• Complex/silly patterns. (patterns are ok, it might b cool, but nothing like zebra stripes)

That's about it.

a couple of u guys showed interest in trying out for this which is awesome. others just really don't want to try at all because of lack of confidence, you guys had nothing to lose or win, but i understand. The point of this is just to help me decided on colors for the character.