FINAL | ARTWAR 2 | 2D | Saturday Knight | MDashow

[rgdraw]

"What is this?? Naked guys on my screen?! I'm gonna report you!!" XD
Nice work dude!
Can't wait to see you paint the background !

[mdashow]

Thanks for the notes as always, Robert!

I'm now pretty much done with all of the characters (aside from whatever lighting tweaks I need later and any feedback you all give me) and can start working on the environment... not just what it looks like, what materials and colors, etc., but all of the disco lights reflecting off her pauldrons, lens flares, glows, etcetera. But here's where we're at right now:

Please feel free to leave any feedback, suggestions, etc.

[rgdraw]

You're welcome dude ! (BTW it's Guillaume, Robert is my family name, but don't worry it happen all the time xD )

I think maybe you should do a quick final lighting test to how it would look like once it's done, to give us an idea, so it'll be easier to help

[wanna]

Like the composition and very much the little touch of rainbow on her clothes. I would do more rainbows ) ^_^. Looking forward for your work!

[mdashow]

@rgdraw Whoops, sorry about that, Guillaume!
Yes, the next thing I plan to do before rendering the background is putting all of the lighting in, as that will inform how much rendering I actually have to do in the background. No use painting all that and finding out that it's all obscured by bloom and lens flares and disco ball reflected dots!

@wanna Thanks for the note! I don't plan on putting more rainbows on her outfit, but I am planning on lots of little rainbows all over the screen as part of the lighting effects... Not curved rainbows, just reflected light. I don't know the name for it, but you'll see it in my image soon enough!

[rgdraw]

No problem
Can't wait to see that then!

[mdashow]

Lots more work on the rendering and lights. I'm not done yet. I still feel like I should be adding even more light effects! Plus some of the ones I've thrown in here may not be working - please let me know what you think! And I'm open to other ideas of lighting effects that might work here.

(And then, very last, I'll do some background rendering. More detail to the columns to make them look less perfect-3D, and of course the floor really needs some attention.)

Cheers!

[rgdraw]

This is pretty cool!
few ideas that could help maybe:
Disco floor, you with the squares that lights up with the foot steps/ or the ryhtm of the music
The background with different colors, since we're in a church like place, to have the painted windows effect (sorry i don't know the word for that u.u ) I hope you understant what i mean x)
And the little guy in the foreground, i think he should be darker since he's the one holding the light he should be in the shadow

I hope it helps, nice work so far keep it up !

[kimsokol]

If you're not already planning to, take another pass at the mirrorball armor with reference - right now the squares don't separate and flatten out like an actual mirrorball would, so it's reading less like that and more like it's got a grid/mesh overtop the shiny plates.

And dang, you really painted the hell out of that boombox!

[Tesat]

Wow your character looks nice! I forgot to check your progress since the early stages.I like the reflections all around but I'm not sure what the background is. I really wanna know what type of background you're going for so I can really say something about the background early on. If you ever thought of changing it maybe you can try a disco bar or following @rgdraw 's suggestion might work as well

[mdashow]

Thanks for your notes, folks!
@rgdraw I thought about a disco floor and/or stained glass windows but it feels like too much color might take too much focus away from the characters? But I can easily throw in a colorful floor and see how I like it. Good point about the foreground angel (although there is another light source off screen to the left and up, it's not just the flashlights!)

@kimsokol, I'm definitely planning on taking another pass at the mirror-ball armor. What you see there is a rough color pass and my construction lines. But I don't want to finish that off until I have a more final background for the balls to reflect. And yeah, I think I overdid it on that boom box, in fact!

@tbrk, Thanks! My goal for the background is more classical, to complement the angels. (If I went with a straight up disco lunge, everyone would be like "what are those angels there for? They don't make any sense!" At least they do more in a classical setting...) So vaulted archways, columns, etcetera.

Cheers!

[kimsokol]

Noticed one more thing, hope you don't mind this slight messing around with your face... some of her features are a little off-kilter. I know you're very stylized so I don't know if any of it's intentional, but the eye, at least, doesn't read as if it was on purpose. =)

[mdashow]

Thanks so much for the paintover, @kimsokol! I've been looking my piece for so long, I stopped seeing it properly... but looking at your paintover, it looks so much better! Muchly appreciated!

And for those of you (@rgdraw and @tbrk) who asked about how it would work with a Disco floor... I threw one in as a test to try it out. It's not as bad as I'd feared. What does everyone think?

[mdashow]

I'm thinking the ultra-colorful floor is too distracting and pulls away from the characters. I tried a pass with the disco floor but emphasizing the cool colors so that the warm tones of the skin ad the gold can take center stage. What do you think of this?

[rgdraw]

Looking much better now!
Not what l had in mind when I said disco floor, l was thinking about something like this:

Which made me realised it's not a disco floor, I'm sorry x)
But this is getting really cool! Nice work

[mdashow]

@rgdraw Disco floors definitely had lighted panels but the one you posted doesn't look very easy to roller skate on!

But here's a pass for more of a lit disco floor:

I also added some rim lights to the cherubs, but I really need to do some more painting on them to situate them in the scene. And to an earlier point, I think I'm finally ready to re-render the disco-ball armor.

[rgdraw]

Yeah sorry sometimes what we have in mind don't work at all x)
Anyway, I like what you did with the floor, it's working great!
Good luck with the dusco-ball armor, this is gonna be tough!

[mdashow]

New mirror-ball armor that actually reflects the environment!

What do y'all think?

[rgdraw]

So disco! I love it! Great work !

[Tesat]

way better than before keep it up!