Art Requests

[manikus]

Yes! My original goblin layered file had a santa hat and bag. As you mentioned above, it's all about doing what we find to be fun.
The other benefit (aside from changing weapons) is changing colors of selected parts. It's much easier to do a color change to a layer than selecting the particular pixels again and again each time you want to make a change (assuming that you're either doing different parts or doing the same at different times).

[Arminius]

Originally Posted by Uatu No promises or anything (of course!), but I am wondering what people out there want to see in terms of new art for Dungeon Craft. (If I am in a good mood and I also like the request, I may go and make whatever was requested - maybe. ) But in any case, a list for me to see when I am bored and just need to draw something is always nice Working List of Requests (finished icons marked with an asterisk): Outer Realms Creatures: Devils & Demons, Etc. Kamadan Penangallan Lammasu, Cellestial Lammasu *Ki-rin, *T'uen-rin *Couatl Oliphant, Maelephant, Hollyphant Titan Warden Beast Forgotten Realms NPCs (*Elminster, *Khelben, *Laeral, Driz'zt, Bruenor, etc.) Forgotten Realms/Egyptian/Greek Avatars Drider Mephits *Achaierai Golems (*Flesh, Clay, *Stone, Bone, Glass, Snow) Giants (Frost (shaman, chieftain, female)) Frost Man Hoar Fox Cryohydra Yeti Thanoi (Dragonlance) *Polar Bear Ice Lizard *Giant Lynx *Yuan-ti (halfbreed) *Remorhaz Kraken Flind Ettercap Yellow Musk Creeper (and Yellow Musk Zombie)? Volt? Measel? Caryatid Column? Elemental Princes of Evil? Iron Cobra? Thessalhydra (Others I don't know what the names are, so I can't search for them!)

Do you only do fantasy? I'd like to see remakes of the enemy portraits from the 1989 classic CRPG Wasteland by Interplay/EA. And icons for them.

Another game I'd love to remake is Bard's Tale - so naturally I'd like to see those enemy portraits redone and icons for them too.

I'd also like to see characters from action/horror/sci-fi movies like:

The 'more human than human' replicant Roy Batty from Blade Runner

Alien hunter and resistance fighter John Nada from They Live

Agents Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, John Dogget, Raes[sp?], Skinner, Smoking man & his group of old man conspirators helping aliens replace humans with alien clones so they can colonize earth...

The Lone Gunmen

The Terminator would be cool too in his various forms. I like the original best - with and/or without the outer layer of organic blood and tissue. Didn't like that liquid mercury stuff [though that would be cool to actually see the face of an NPC who is a terminator morph into the face of someone they just killed or someone they saw or touched recently. I guess with the new 3d morphing software available that is possible to do for a brief animation effect. But If I used that in a game I wouldn't explain it qith liquid metal that somehow moves by itself at the molecular level. I would explain it the same way Chris Carter did the alien-bounty-hunters who could change their faces because of their much different muscle tissue under the skin.]

Ash from Evil Dead and some of the floating demon possessed people-monsters.

The monks from Name of the Rose - those were some really interesting looking characters which I think could be made to fit into just about any game world.

[manikus]

Originally Posted by Arminius The monks from Name of the Rose - those were some really interesting looking characters which I think could be made to fit into just about any game world.

Have you read the book, by Umberto Eco? It's masterful. since I know your into conspiracies, I will also recommend his book, "Foucoult's Pendulum", which I canosider to be one of the top five books of all times.

To be a bit more on topic, I would like to request the following related icons-
Raven
Ravenkin
Wereraven (or is it Ravenwere?)

[Uatu]

Ha ha - funny, if I saw a goblin with a Santa's hat and bag, I would try to kill him first (to make sure that I get all the goodies that are most certainly in his bag) (Sorry, Santa-goblin...)

Arminius:

Weeeell, I am concentrating on AD&D critters, so although anything in AD&D (especially standard campaign worlds) is fair game, I am not really interested in doing sci-fi or works based on other preexisting material (especially since one needs a large volume of material to begin making a game of a specific genre - I don't even have enough to do an AD&D game as it is). Since I am doing an AD&D game myself, doing other AD&D critters also helps my own game (two birds with one stone, eh?)...

I would also rather not do "remakes" of old portraits and such (since that feels like "fanart" or copying).

Plus, I just don't watch that much TV or movies, so I am only vaguely familiar with much of what you mentioned above! (Wasteland... sounds familiar... and vaguely fun (did I play that? I can't even remember...)

That said, there are some AD&D modules that include robots, androids, and other futuristic "creatures" as well - I have been considering adding a few to at some point, actually... (Greyhawk and Blackmoor have included such creatures in the past.) But we will see...

Manikus:

What is a ravenkin? (Maybe it's Ravenloft - I don't have the stats for that one...) I have been thinking of doing ravens soon, though I guess that one goes somewhere high on the list, then...

[manikus]

Ravenkin (which might actually go by another name) are half-way between ravens and men. Kind of like the mid-stage for lycanthropes.

[Uatu]

Wouldn't just doing an icon of a wereraven work for both, then?

[manikus]

It would, except that they're like half-way in between on size, too. I'll have to hunt down what I'm thinking of. Maybe I'm delusional again.

[Arminius]

Originally Posted by SilentThief But if you are interested in learning this I could show you what I know about this (it isn't much but its a start)

Yes definately interested. Thanks ST

[Arminius]

@Manikus - yes to Umberto. . Actually I listened to the audio book of Foucault's Pendulum since I have to be kind of selective about what I actually decide to sit down and spend time reading. But there are so many I really do want to read so I usually end up compromising by finding the audiobook and listening in the car or on a portable headset or on the computer speakers or something while I am busy doing other things. I can absorb a lot more literature that way.

But yeah I am familiar with the works of Umberto. Definitely a master of the craft in deed! I used to have a lot more time for actual reading. I have the complete works of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle which I couldn't put down untill I'd finished for some reason. Guess I've always liked most kinds of crime drama or murder mystery stuff.

Still though for entertainment I actually prefer something more along the lines of Dean Koontz's Dark Rivers of the Heart or 'The Bachman Books' by Stephen King. I really enjoyed reading A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller Junior and Battlefield Earth by L.Ron Hubbard was a fun read [much much better than the movie]. I could go on all day about books so I'd better just shut up now. lol

[SilentThief]

HP Lovecraft (any), Steven King (any), Sci-fi: John Steakley's Armor, Hienlien (spelled wrong?), R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books, Hickman Weis, Tolkien...

ST