As always, amazing work from the great jalonso :P

Breathtakingly smooth work, jal.  So you say this started as a small project?

Ok, now you are officially totally crazy! :D

I love this. It is remarkable and very inspirational! :)

Not sure I'm liking how every rock has a shading going across it.


But I do love you for this.

I think the problem with the rocks is the color. It seems out of place.

The dark gray/black on the left side, I think all the rocks should be that color.

Also, the purple shading on the rocks seems out of place as well. It suggests a night time setting, while the rest is clearly is in day time.

But I know you can do this. We're all behind you 101%.

You, sir, are amazing. 

Damn, bro. I had my doubts about the shading and palette on the rocks but it's looking wonderful. Great stuff.

Souly, what color rocks, I don't see what you mean.

That's a beautiful perspective, really *-*
The shading work is looking awesome, but I don't really get that green thing in the bottom left.

This project now has a title, 'Indigo Rock' :)
More work shown plus I am submitting it to Pixeldam once its finished so that weird thing in the bottom is to blend into the template.
Overall lighting and coloring doesn't match the Pixeldam base but I don't care about this too much. The lighting and coloring on this is whatever it turns out to be using this palette and eventually removing colors. Its a fantasy thing so I not really caring about the 'realness' of it.

tinypic has jpegs my pixels >:(

Agreed!. I will wait until all the rocks that will actually show are determined,
rather than pixel needlessly now.

Question: Where should the flying car/zeppellin go?
Hiding hehind some rocks at the top or on that metal base I can't figure what to do with?
I'm thinking 1/3 antique roadster car, 1/3 Victorian Zeppelin and 1/3 fantasy.
also, is that new green glass building looking ok?



Edited by jalonso - 28 September 2008 at 9:25pm

Those are green glass bubbles :|

soooo...

yeah, you could put that they shred some light out of them, that'd make them useful. :)

I really really love this pic.

Just an idea, you could probably put some observatory on the top of the highest rock..? :)

This is very good jalonso amazing how much it transformed from the very first pic.

Good job.


Cheers

Death-Droid

Well, the roof is just meant to be architectural decoration. Seeing as how its not coming across too well I'll make a new roof :)

I don't know about an observatory because the whole thing is meant to be secret and hidden from public view. This is why all the buildings have a Victorian normal looking exterior. An observatory seems to kill this idea, no?

This is for those who wonder and like to learn from others.
Making odd shaped iso stuff is easy when you treat them like you would a figure sprite and start by making a skeleton first.


1- 2D circles based on the widest diameter to be used.
Drawn in different colors just to view easy.
These are then skewed to 26.5 (iso angle). Then 74% on the width. (74 + 26 = 100)
2- These circles are placed on the axis
3- I save all shapes I make for future use so this is an old shape done as above.
4- both shapes together. The reason for the shape is that I want the vehicle to be seen and a traditional zepellin shape would cover the car.
5- Based on #4 I then draw the shape. Notice that my 2Dcircles have center lines. These are how I know from where to where how lines go. General lighting is added and the tail fins are done just like #1.
6- Basic shape to begin from.
7- Axle from my iso stuff dump. (time saver)
8- Draw basic shape, could be anything, but again it all starts from the skeleton. This insures that everything remains in scale.
9- combined
10- Pixel fun can begin now. Even tho, for me, the fun is in #1 thru #9.
At this stage you can and should add as much as possible to increase visual interest. In this case I added small round mini balloons

*11- post in WIP thread, get feedback, then add more and fix or even start from scratch.



Edited by jalonso - 30 September 2008 at 5:46am

Glad my effort did not go wasted. I'll expect to see some non-boxy iso pixelart from you soon.

About the observatory. Notice my white mini drawing showing overall design shape. Adding any height outside my 'canvas' is not something I want to do here. Putting it any lower makes no sense so no observatory for this project.
The zepellin landing dock is kinda an observatory :|

Yu may have noticed I keep chnaging BG colors with every update. Well this is it this is the PJ gallery BG color \o/

Added sculptures in the garden, remade the ship (#11), new glass roof (thx guys, y'alls rock), more walkways and fixed stuff as I caught them.



Edited by jalonso - 30 September 2008 at 5:12pm

i love it! it's amazing!

and it's okay for the observatory, sry didn't know totaly where you were going with this. But this is even cooler.

great work with the colors, now they all make sense, and the new glass roof rocks! :)

btw. you betcha you're gonna see some of that iso from me :P

nice tip on circles jal, I find it annoying making them iso :P

O_o!

@fawful, I don't see why c+c needs to come from 'some' level. All c+c is equally valid and ideas are not only for the the technically skilled, creativity and ideas are the most democratic thing on Earth.

@Lollige, you sir are quite correct. I have been noticing this myself even though I was not changing style I was consiously trying to have the right side overall fit into the Pixeldam base and then getting progressively darker as I would have done the whole thing. I will brighten things up a bit here and there.

@fenne,... then marry me :p

@Met, I kinda thought the Zeppellin being visible is ok because they did exist in Victorian times. I just hid anything 20th Century...just fantasy, gimme a break, mofo!...

How about Prof. Met gets it at Brokeback Mountain

Prof. Met at Emo Mountain 
*Steam will be the last thing added.


Edited by jalonso - 01 October 2008 at 3:32pm

"@fawful, I don't see why c+c needs to come from 'some' level. All c+c is equally valid and ideas are not only for the the technically skilled, creativity and ideas are the most democratic thing on Earth."

Yeah that was silly statment really,i tend to not give any critisism if they surpass a rare level of impressiveness,but anyhoo it's a short lived habit that shall die an early death.

 
I cant help but think the rocks are a bit flitstone-ish(the cartoon not the stone),also i think the rectangular pool at the front should go around the rock,the way it is now it looks as if the rock arose from the ground after the water came about,i'd expect it to happen the other way around genraly.
 
There,a bit of c&c.
 
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@ greenraven
 
Thats strange,when i think of steampunk i think about victorians with chimnys in there top hats.

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Why the fck is mah writeing fudgein huge!

Edited by fawful - 02 October 2008 at 4:47am

Rocks are too smooth for me still. Need more variety...ECHO echo echo echo...

I don't get it B.O.B.,...not yet ahyhow :/

@JC, that is moss growing on the rocks. All yellow rocks there looked really wrong to me so I added the water to justify the moss growing on the rocks.
I'll make the moss patchy instead of all over :)
The zepellin is dark bronze and wood, but I see your point. I'll polish it up, thx.

Patchy moss is def the way to go.