Of art

[xmen510]

I have now sent a Formal (and formally written) Invitation to Zerver to join the team. I am waiting to hear back from him.

I have kept the PM sent, so If you are interested in seeing how I worded the request, feel free to PM me and I'll send you a copy of what I wrote.

 

[Berenthor]

Lets use FFH2 art for now as much as possible and for the leaderheads, just get static leaderhead pictures, preferably compatible with each other: not movie leaderheads mixed with drawings mixed with black and white etc. Try to find a common sort of images for these.

 

[xmen510]

I agree. If we do a mix it wouldn't look right. All art is the way to go then until someone is able to make movie quality images. Or, if they can be made good, ones like what Zerver has done, make them specifically for the Mod. That can come later however.

 

[T_F]

For now we can just use some Alan Lee and John Howe art for the leaderheads. If we want we can revisit them later, but they may be sufficient by themselves.

 

[xmen510]

By GeoModder: Ethnic Citystyles:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downlo...o=file&id=9422

We might be able to use some of this for some of the Human Civs. I doubt that we will be having the Citystyles change from beyond the Middle Ages, so hopefully this will help cut down some of the work. I am also posting this in the Featurelist thread.

 

[Berenthor]

I would suggest to use the city styles from FFH2 for now. They already have quite a lot of diversity and then later on we can add our own to make them even more distinct and unique per civ. Also, maybe it is good to post some suggestions of art wants someone finds it. Especially for the leaderheads and maybe for the flags of the civs (bannors and sigils and stuff).

 

[xmen510]

Allright. A page or two early I posted quite a bit of stuff for devices and flags and such. Hopefully that will also help.

I'll start winnowing through my art collection and seeing what I have available.

 

[xmen510]

A Gil-Galad Flag:

 

[xmen510]

I have now updated the FTP with the above flag and a Folder full of possible art for Leaderhads, Heroes, etc.

Team members: If I have yet to share the FTP Info with you, please PM me to get that information.

EDIT: Updated possible Leaderhead art Folder at 11:28am with another 29 Files.

 

[xmen510]

More great work by Walter Hawkwood on the way.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=315398

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=12012

 

[Berenthor]

These are also really great. We can really use a lot of these.

 

[xmen510]

Walter Hawkwood has granted us permission to use his work. He also suggested mining his Total Realism Mod for stuff.

 

[Berenthor]

That is good news. We're going to have to keep a list of contributors so we don't forget anyone

 

[T_F]

Wonderful! The Barbarian one looks good for maybe Harad, the Dwarf one looks like a more solid Haradrim one, Elven looks great for Sindar, Human looks great for Númenor and its descendants (maybe with modifications the Noldor too), and the Undead one looks perfect for Mordor.

 

[xmen510]

I found this great picture of Aragorn by John Howe. I uploaded it to the FTP.

 

[xmen510]

Walter Hawkwood has just released his Human fantasy Pack. Great Stuff. I have downloaded it and updated the FTP.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=315821

With a little Colour changing these could work for all of the "Good Men" Civs.

 

[Berenthor]

Yeah they look really great. Maybe not for all, but for Numenor/Gondor/Arnor these are great. For Rohirrim, Haradrim, Easterlings, Northmen we need some different ones. Edain I'm not sure. Maybe we can use these ones for the Edain as well (not sure if it was more stone or wood or what style).

 

[T_F]

I think Edain need wood-ness. The ones with blue roofs are really best for Númenórian civs, though the brown-roofed ones are OK.

 

[xmen510]

Walter Hawkwood has released his Wood Elves pack:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=316041

 

[Berenthor]

He is going great with these packs . They look really awesome and definetly usable.