@ airstyle - no fissure - plug and plughole (tried to make that clear... may need to make it clearer. Will probably put a chain on it. If an adjacent hex wants to have something pulling the plug let me know.

You guys are making some amazing stuff. I feel out of my league!
Here is my edited one, shark is more iso, and added wave effects from jal.

Update:




messy WIP... improved the iso perspective and changed things around a little. Took out the lotus leaves since they weren't working for me.

no you didnt miss it :] ... i'd say i'll take #39.
There are still enough free adjacent tiles for you (and evtl. others) to continiue that underwatercity-theme.

Update:




Added a few more plants and bubbles to fill some of the empty spots. Also made the light inside that cave a little brighter.

It almost fits on the tile you placed it in, although it was made for 66.
Can you move it over one please? Thank you.

@Gecimen: I was trying to make it look like the shark is turning into the bait, or towards the boat, but I will try working on the head some. I do think it looks a little off somehow.

@Gavralcraw: I like that idea, it may add some more action and depth. As for the depth, mine could be any amount, I have a cliff wall in the back that recedes to nothing from jals tile. But I can change mine to match yours if need be.

Lots of great stuff everyone 

I'm still open to a mini-collab.

@Levaunt, I'll try to make a rough lineart of a shark at that angle so you can work that area out better. Isometric uses no perspective, it is an angle view. Also, the fishing line in that color appears heavier than the pole. Try a shade or 2 darker so it 'reads' thinner than the pole.

@all, try experimenting with the palette. There are plenty of options beyond the 3 blues, mkay.


Edited by jalonso - 29 December 2011 at 9:30pm

Decided that I needed something in the water to make the angles work. Open to crits and comments.

This is once again more in context. I'm not sure I want to put the wave dapples from the surface on the floor. I also need to work on the shadows I reckon.

Edited by Gavralcraw - 30 December 2011 at 7:25pm

WIP:



So rough and quick... Didn't had time to do more, sorry, but I wanted to post my idea at least...

@ gecimen / Jal:
I keep on thinking back and forth here..
wondering on what "scale" the city actually should be. Since a theme like that would include bigger buildings aswell. Just for a quick reference:

- already this construct - reaching into neighbourtiles aswell..would still 'not' really result in a big building.

Wondering if we should keep the aspect ratio for that mini-theme.. or maybe think of a further "down" sunken city, which one would see from a far distance.
So we don't end up needing like 8 tiles just to finish the Mainbuilding, and have some smaller ones surrounding, still just feeling like a 'small village'. Would like to know what you think about that, before making further constructions =)

Edited by codewarrior - 01 January 2012 at 11:47am

 

Edited by Gavralcraw - 04 January 2012 at 4:20pm

I kinda thought the problem with this idea was scale and size too. I think we need an item or object that can be self-contained somehow. Something like a mechanical whale for example or a ship in a bottle. I think anything 'architecture' will be hard to develop with just a few tiles.

Ok so; guess we can settle on one of these:
Nautilus
Mechanical Whale1  2

My early WIP

@ jalonso:
yeah guess a mixture would be nice, was thinking that when doing the first pixelstrokes. Since the extrem detailed model might be a bit hard on that scale, and the other one is nice but the surface maybe a bit boring over a bigger area. Maybe adapt the plate-design from the drawings and do breakes into its hull like in the model. Or simply a transfer from style to style by each participant. Whatever comes out of it :]

I reserved tile 39 for a start on it. As the neighbours are still free there too.

If you wonna make the start-tile let me know, before i pixel further, wouldn't have a problem with it ;]

 

Just go on making this, #27 is in early WIP stage, which means he can adapt his tile to yours.

@ Levaunt - I've tried to plot the shadows / ripples I was talking about on yours and angle the sand floor a bit more so it is more isometric (I went over part of your rolling floor that you could probably reinstate - I think long shadows might triangle / fade at the top due to diffraction ? anyone? . It's all very rough. I think you might want to tweak it some more. Any thoughts? I'm thinking the green purple surface waves above the sand bed doesn't look too good and may need to be minimised. 

Edited by Gavralcraw - 04 January 2012 at 8:47pm

Right, I'll probably get up a newer WIP tomorrow. It's amazing how suppressed on time I am right now; I thought I would have time to regularly update such a small tile. :(

@Jão
You're going to need extend your rocky wall the same angle as the monster if he's hanging off of the edge.



Yes, I do, but the neck curves in the other person's tile, not mine, unfortunately. I would fix it if I could.

Edited by mdog95 - 04 January 2012 at 11:21pm

@Levaunt, a little late 
When making any organic shape in isometric perspective always force several true 2:2 lines to 'read' iso.


@codewarrior and Gecimen, a base that is half whale(looks more like a dolphin or tuna tho) half ship to work from. We can all tweak the lineart as a collab too :) The tail is a mess but whales are mammals so the tail goes horizontal. Gecimen's WIP above is a fish tail.








Edited by jalonso - 05 January 2012 at 9:28am

My WIP is just a base to work from. It can certainly have some Nautilus look to it. I think I'd rather go with an original mech whale ship but I'm OK with a ref. You can take the tail. I'll pick last so codewarrior can take whatever he likes and whomever joins as the fourth can take from the other 2 and I'll take whatever is left :D

I think its best if the 4 develop the lineart together so each person gets their own tile as a piece on its own that just happen to work together...right?

@Jalonso; Well I'd rather have you start before we do, so that we can get some guidance for perspective and color use. I'll add some original design elements to the tail.

@codewarrior; sure dude, just go on with working on it if you've got time.

  I think I'm done with this Hex... will update based on what my neighbours do though. Any thoughts on scale of 007 Lotus carsub? I think the right one is better...   And for anyone that wants to keep consistent with floor shadows:

Edited by Gavralcraw - 05 January 2012 at 7:19pm

Very funny! Not entirely iso eyes tho.
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Didn't want to be first but if I must then I'll work on the fin on 48


Edited by jalonso - 05 January 2012 at 8:19pm