This has been intentional because the in-game sprites are small and not much room to depict much and they need to match the player sprite. Everyone in the mockup will be the younger (smoother) looking version of the paintings. Even the old lady in the wheat fields has this younger and smoother look. Games often employ this technique and even the old characters are commonly smooth and lean to the cute to match the sprite.

In my experience its better to make the smallest version of a sprite and make the bigger portrait version afterwards. Going the other way is for me frustrating.

Maybe the pointer can be a white brush instead? The arrow is kinda too cubic for Van gogh..

Umm... But your Picasso, Warhol and Medici mockups have GUIs that are very well blended in the piece, which looked like very tasteful choices to me.

I like it very much : )

Nothing to point out, looks good for me, except maybe you meant "scythe" instead of "sythe"?

Also I liked more the previous youthful look of the lady. Especially the old nose.

i like the museum styled hud idea.. but at this moment its not working for me at all...
i think its mainly because of the font u choose...
the squigglieness in the titles looks like some 1920's french lettering and the bold, serifed letters for the options look like signs of antique shops or something... maybe something else but definitely not gallery ish
i think u should go with some minimalist sans serif style

also white (maybe light grey) bg with black lettering would work better imo

i quite dig the idea of having a frame. like those bigbaroque golden ones.. but decent to not take away from the pictures of course

the items should share the same bg

the new portrait looks no good
actually i dont really like any of the portraits right now (the strawhat girl looks ok tho...).. but i think u should try to work them over quite a bit :/

Edited by onek - 28 October 2011 at 3:21am

I think you got the idea with the frame. Quite simple but a bit more attention - perfect.
Maybe you should center it in the middle of the screen to so that the icons are switching (at the moment it seems that the frame is moving)

I really like the new version of the old lady, love the "old" nose and the general expression, it's so well fitting.
If it comes to the player portrait the new version is also better,  but the mouth seems to be very small - even compared to VG's very small mouths.
Also the hat doesn't fit exactly, seems to be to wide at the left side.
Also the portrait is looking to his feet and becaus eof this he seems to be unitnterested or shy. I'd go for an eye-contact with the player or at least something in the style of the two ladies.
The shirt looks fine, althouigh his head isn't centered, the distance of both shoulders is a completely diferent one and for a kid in this age the shoulders seems to be to strong (they are usual a bit thinner)

I have a suggestion for improvement in regards to the portraits.

I think you have a tendency of drawing the eyes and mouth more narrow than the original paintings and, to a lesser degree, with a more pronounced chin. Some of the characters look older in your version than the original because of this. I may be biased though, as I often draw people with eyes that are too big.



Child:
- Made the eyes bigger. Children have rather big eyes, and the original by VG does too. I notice that you use a blue with high saturation for the eyes, which looks odd to me. Makes everyone look like the fremen from Dune.
- Made the lips fuller and more pouty, as the original.
- Tried to make the jaw more broad, though I'm not sure how closely you want to follow the original if you're turning this boy into a girl.
- Tried to tone down the eyebrows a bit, yours looked a bit angry to me. EDIT: I still think the eyebrows look odd in my edit, compared to the original by VG.
- Lowered the ears slightly. Even if we're looking at the child slightly from above, the ears seemed high to me.
- Broadened the nose 1 pixel and worked on the shading.

Woman:
- Eyes bigger
- Made some changes to the mouth.




Edited by CELS - 30 October 2011 at 10:00am

Touched up eye areas and stuff pointed out be CELS.
I kinda liked the 'beedy' eye look as it seemed to add some mystery but the more opened eyes do look better.
Also, added the timer which I think works on time of day and time left. I think this is all I will need to suggest that some things are done by day and others at night. thx Gecimen.

About centering the icons. They are moving along the bottom. When I tried centering them (original idea), the bridge lost too much of the water below it and so I off centered them to not lose the impact of the bridge.



Edited by jalonso - 31 October 2011 at 2:14pm

Thank you onek, you've been such a great help.

I was not feeling the reds and yellow ramps too well but had to wait till the a red screen began to tweak it. Note these refs show a much duller red scheme than the true paintings.

Maybe I'll throw that thing in several screens as puzzle stations

That thing looks like a ship's compass. (Pic here and here), but that's probably not it. Seems like a kind of modern way to decorate a pub.


Edited by CELS - 13 November 2011 at 3:51pm

Can you explain the last shot's puzzle? It looks like an abstracted slot machine but I don't get how the game is played.
 
Also in the actual pub screen there is some confusion when it comes to the wall/ceiling spatial relationship. In the real painting there are clear lines that denote where the walls end and the ceiling begins as well as the different wall planes.

My other issue with this, is a lot of the portraits seem to be thoroughly integrated into the bg/playing field. Maybe that adheres to the genre of this mockup, but in my experience portraits are a separate entity from the playing field that are clearly separated in terms of priority. Part of that, in this specific shot, is the use of close up of the counter top with the bottles. It looks like she's in the physical space, just closer up instead of being a layer on top.

@King of Games. These are logic puzzles that should make no sense at first glance. Very much what MYST games do.
The portrait does look like its part of the scene but I think its just this screen. I can live with it :/
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Far too many edits to list, cept all new color palette.

Looking real nice :) Is Groot-Zundert based on a painting? For the Maison d'Rachel thing, what about Chez Rachel (at Rachael's house)?

Good, that hat adds some well needed complementary green to the imagery, as well as making the character stand out.

I should visit this forum a bit more regularly ^_^

Big improvement!

Thanks you takikazama :)
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Not sure the clock dial GUI thing is working :/

Impressive work Jalonso! 
Do you know the  "Adam au Chromaland" comics? (http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-16113-BD-Adam-au-Chromaland.html)
It's about a small boy that enters paintings of well known artists: Picasso, Dali, Munch, Van Gogh... Your work reminds me this great book!

Oh man. I've been inactive, but I just want to say, this is looking awesome so far!

:O that's so ******* awesome.  I love the new time gui too.   lord jalonso