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Left Hand Magic Art Style - Poll
🕑 Added 2021-09-21 03:23:15 +0000 UTCAlright! This has been waaayyy too delayed. The truth is I had a lot more trouble than I'd hoped in getting a consistent application of anything but photoreal results. As is, I'm not entirely happy with the alternative style option, as I couldn't quite get the more anime/comic style I was going for to be replicable across all of the test images. Which, given that there will be hundreds of images in the game eventually, wasn't a good sign. Instead, what I had to settle for was a digital oil paint style, which I'm just not so sure about. The photoreal option (which is what Haven's Port uses) actually appeals a bit more to me, I think And not just because it won't give me as many headaches.
Still, ultimately, the choice is yours! Because Patreon is stupid and I can't make an image post a poll, here are the two links to compare the two styles! Note, these are BIG images, probably better viewed on a monitor, else you're going to be doing a lot of zooming -_-.
Style 2 - Digital Oil Paint Style
So...which style would you rate see for Left Hand Magic?
P.S. Oh yeah! The Blue Haired girl on top is the game's Blood Mage, I think this is the first time I've actually shown her to you guys! I might still be tweaking her a bit farther, but only to add tats if I choose to. I haven't decided yet.
Comments
Novus
Sadly, due to the number of images the game will have(and the fact that I'm a solo developer with no staff), the process needs to be one that can be automated to a reasonable degree. And, after days of fiddling with photoshop actions to do that, I couldn't get a style like what you're talking about to consistently apply to all images without having to tweak each individual image to a degree that would utterly cripple production speed :-(. Trust me, something like that was what I was actually trying for, it just didn't work out.
Bababbak
Per se i‘d think that a non-photorealistic style or comic style like in boarderlans would be great, however this Digital Oil paint style just looks weird, and adds no real value to the renders compared to the photorealistic. One easy way to achieve such a style would be to just add black boarders to objects and around the character outlines. And adding a bit of grain over the whole image post rendering also looks great. Also reflections should have clear defined edges, so that they don‘t look like airbrushed on.
