Markdoc Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art and another - this is just a doodle; playing around with the clothing and jewellery. It's something I often do but I liked this picture enough to keep it. Now that I've got it all fitting and moving properly, I need to make decent textures for it cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Well then, here's a headline piece from the website for my new FH game. I'm doing one picture for each of the important pages which runs across the top, to kind of set the mood. cheers, Mark Wow! That is really nice! What's your sites URL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Wow! That is really nice! What's your sites URL? Heh. I'll tell you in a couple of days - when I've gotten it worked out myself - it's a new site, to host a game which is just starting up, on space kindly provided by BBlackmoor and nothing's been loaded up as yet. I hope to get it up this weekend. In the meantime here's a picture I threw together last night, for another of the pages... cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Nice work as usual, Mark! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Heh. I'll tell you in a couple of days - when I've gotten it worked out myself - it's a new site, to host a game which is just starting up, on space kindly provided by BBlackmoor and nothing's been loaded up as yet. I hope to get it up this weekend. In the meantime here's a picture I threw together last night, for another of the pages... cheers, Mark Thanks! I will look forward to it. Just threw together. That is a beautiful pic and definitely makes me want to know more about the scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Thanks! I will look forward to it. Just threw together. That is a beautiful pic and definitely makes me want to know more about the scene. Actually there's a reason I wrote "just threw together" - the first scene is 100% 3D. The waves, town, mountains, clouds, etc are all models, and it involves a fair number of them (several hundred, in fact). The only photoshop work is the sea-foam. It's more satisfying to do it like that - this is a hobby after all, and I like the challenge of making models and generally messing about trying to make it "look real". But it's also more work - the sea and ship image took two evenings to do, most of which was spent on trying to get a sea that didn't look like curdled jello (and I learned a fair bit, in the process). The Forest Man image, in contrast took about an hour - during part of which I was making dinner. It's a simply a photo of forest plopped on a backdrop, with a couple of tree models and a priest of the Forest Man in the foreground. I didn't even spend very much tme on lighting - all the lighting colouring, shading etc was done in photoshop afterwards. It's the difference between building a movie set and doing a blue-screen shoot, I guess. I *am* pleased with the way it turned out, though! Next image (tonight) will be a Temple and some priests of the other religion. cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Nevertheless, it is a beautiful pic, and certainly required some talent. I bet this is going to be a really great game to play in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyxclaw Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Awsome Mark! Here's all I have at the moment as far as new stuff goes. Gen Analysis was boring today so I worked on session. This is the Jepal Orb, the item our thief needs to steal, our detective needs to find, and our freelancer needs to keep out of thier possesion. It's one of a set of 13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Mark, for a backgound for a quick pic, here is one I found on another thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Argh, no! The Dread GAZEBO!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Mark' date=' for a backgound for a quick pic, here is one I found on another thread.[/quote'] You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Tim again. "You just can not get what you want" QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Mark' date=' for a backgound for a quick pic, here is one I found on another thread.[/quote'] Dang! That's nice. Consider it stolen And here's the promised pic of a priest of the Twelve. It's OK, but I may redo it when I get home (I'm in Ethiopia right now) - I'm not that pleased with it. Still, right now I have nothing better to do than post it (late at night in the slum quarter, ya know...). cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Thread necromancy! Here's another header for the game site. I've been home sick (very sick) the last week or so and did this (and the pic below) yesterday while in the recuperating phase. This is another header for the current game. cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art And this is just a screen-doodle playing round with a rogue concept. cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art What is the guy holding in the background there? Is that a sword? I like the emotion that is represented. Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Markdoc, sorry if you've already answered, but what program do you use for those pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art What is the guy holding in the background there? Is that a sword? I like the emotion that is represented. Very cool! The angry guy has a sword. The degenerate longhair has a lute. cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Markdoc' date=' sorry if you've already answered, but what program do you use for those pics?[/quote'] The figures are generated in a program called Poser (I use version 6) which is specifically designed to produce images of humans and animals. The more complex program is called Bryce (I use version 5), which is designed specifically for "environmental" settings. There's a whole variety of similar programs, but these two are among the most popular simply because they have relatively easy learning curve and *relatively* low entry price. We're talking a couple of hundred to get started, but I've spent several hundred of dollars on this in the last 5-6 years - and I've been lucky in that I have been able to win hundreds of dollars of cool stuff as prizes in competitions for this kind or art. cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Cool. I've been tempted to get into 3D work for a few years now, off and on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvar Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art You might want to try Daz 3d which is free, uses Poser figures, and comes with a fair amount of free content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art I agree. Daz is a great place to get free stuff and a lot of inexpensive things as well. If you join the platinum club, you get huge discounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantriped Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art Here's two more for ya'll to enjoy, the first is just random Eye-Candy, the second is a PC I'm playing in a PbP game and his DNPC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a285/Katal3/DeamonSiblings2.jpg -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a285/Katal3/Siren_sized.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitz Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art This is a revamp of one of the maps for my ancient and creaking fantasy campaign world, that I've been using off and on since the early eighties. It was originally done with ink and watercolour, but I've scanned it and tittivated it up a bit in Photoshop and CorelDraw. Now that the basic work is done, it should be a piece of cake to make any campaign-relevant updates as needed. http://mojobob.com/roleplay/hero/fantasy/highfantasyhero/maps/north.pdf The link points to a PDF file, about 775 kilobytes. If you're interested in what the original looked like, the scans are on my site too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art In my spare-time game world project, there's a weird thing, created by magic, that is half-alligator and half-horse (a play on the boasts of American frontier era boatmen and woodsmen). This is the first thing I've drawn in about 20 years or so. The general crudity of my untutored technique works fairly well in this context, because it ends up looking like one of those crappy 17th century drawings made by explorers. I ran it through Picasa to give it that sepia look old drawings generally seem to have. I'll post again in another 20 years when the muse strikes me again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfred_Death Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 Re: Herophile Fantasy art In my spare-time game world project, there's a weird thing, created by magic, that is half-alligator and half-horse (a play on the boasts of American frontier era boatmen and woodsmen). This is the first thing I've drawn in about 20 years or so. The general crudity of my untutored technique works fairly well in this context, because it ends up looking like one of those crappy 17th century drawings made by explorers. I ran it through Picasa to give it that sepia look old drawings generally seem to have. I'll post again in another 20 years when the muse strikes me again. That's fantastic! Some peasant comes up to the PCs and says "Please Help, this thing is attacking our village........ PCs: More details! And How Much? Peasant: I never got too near it!, and I'm just a peasant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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