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ilguido

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 Posted at: 2020-04-18, 23:38 UTC+2.0

Hi there, I managed to recover the password of my old account, so I am going to use it now.
In the meantime I am working on Khantrukh, he is not much different from the old one:

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ilguido

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 Posted at: 2020-04-19, 20:37 UTC+2.0

Ok, this is the new Khantrukh, I think:



I made a composition with the portraits so far, in-game size:
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Posted at: 2020-04-19, 22:37 UTC+2.0

I love Khantrukh's new look. Very good work. Do you have portraits of the other in the same res than Khantrukh?

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ilguido

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 Posted at: 2020-04-20, 09:42 UTC+2.0

Of course, that is the resolution of the source GIMP files.

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Posted at: 2020-04-20, 09:49 UTC+2.0

Could you make Khantrukh's hair a bit less glaring? It looks unnatural and a bit eerie IMHO. Other than that, great work face-smile.png

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Posted at: 2020-04-20, 10:33 UTC+2.0

ilguido wrote:

Of course, that is the resolution of the source GIMP files.

What I meant was could you provide a link to them. As for the others we have seen only in game screenshots

Edited: 2020-04-20, 10:33 UTC+2.0
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ilguido

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 Posted at: 2020-04-20, 13:02 UTC+2.0

OK, one final retouch and I'll post them all here.

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ilguido

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 Posted at: 2020-04-20, 20:17 UTC+2.0

Here they are:



I think that the campaign could use both Boldreth's portraits: the first one before the start of the war (e.g. first mission, second mission before starting building military buildings), the second one after the start of the actual war.

Note: I cannot post the XCF file as an attachment.
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ilguido wrote:

Here they are: [list] [] [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=10cFCvKs_ku_22JLZ2sP54e21KSGm5lVV]Thron[/url] [] [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=1m9TfM7SHN_5oy8ECDazt-xS-QXXQO5dZ]Boldreth[/url] [] [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=16Nf5FP_gYxpBcMDtiXhJXOfp_AmKyqto]Boldreth (uneasy)[/url] [] [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lJehm0NpfRE0SwKgWrx5lorIjbv6KwM4]Khantrukh[/url] [/list]

I think that the campaign could use both Boldreth's portraits: the first one before the start of the war (e.g. first mission, second mission before starting building military buildings), the second one after the start of the actual war.

Note: I cannot post the XCF file as an attachment.

thanks a lot: I really like Khanthruk as he has a lot of expression and experience in his face. Thron is ok I believe, although I would like to have a verion where he is looking at the player. I like the idea of having two images for boldreth. But still I believe the smile in the easy picture looks a bit silly. maybe you could try to make hios smile smaller so looks a bit more serious while still happy.
Basically having more pictures of each person would make for greater variety that is at least indirectly noticed by the player. I already tried this for empire but I am not an artist and so it ended with just mirroring tricks and moving the eyes, which looks not really good. Anyhow I would like to have the images in b21 as they are so good. (even if boldreth still has this smile ;-))

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ilguido

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 Posted at: 2020-04-21, 20:29 UTC+2.0

I post a link to the archive file containing the picture source files (XCF).

=> barbarians.xcf.tar.gz

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