Icey Monsters?
Icey Monsters?
What type of monster should I make for the Snow area? It seems a bit empty only having 4 different types of monsters unlike the other areas.
How about some yeti-like white and hairy creature?
Or an ice golem - a golem made of ice cubes.
Or an ice golem - a golem made of ice cubes.
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I seriously love the game, but he is a bit to human really.AxlTrozz wrote:What about a Glacious (from Killer Instinct game) style char with a Ice Hammer...
Something like that would be cool. [Ice climbers: yeti]Crush wrote:How about some yeti-like white and hairy creature?
Or maybe something like an the arctic fox .
An ice-themed bossmonster from ragnarok online:
You shouldn't rip it off, of course, but maybe it gives you some inspiration.
You shouldn't rip it off, of course, but maybe it gives you some inspiration.
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My suggestion:
Conceptualize about 30 different monsters of the theme (rouch sketches at first), then start to push forward (more detailed sketches) 20 or so of the most popular designs. After this phase there should be 5 to 10 monsters that stand out enough to be worthy of pixellating.
We should make this workflow a standard. So far no one has had the patience for this. Let's hope you're the first one to be willing to cooperate with me on this.
Conceptualize about 30 different monsters of the theme (rouch sketches at first), then start to push forward (more detailed sketches) 20 or so of the most popular designs. After this phase there should be 5 to 10 monsters that stand out enough to be worthy of pixellating.
We should make this workflow a standard. So far no one has had the patience for this. Let's hope you're the first one to be willing to cooperate with me on this.
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someone should I suppose make the stadards comply more. that is, be more ruthless about it. I mean come on so far here we have cool stuff like snakes scorpions and maggots which all look pretty real and decent to me, and then we gots stuff like spikey mushrooms and pinkies which are just sort of off to my taste, in relation to those other creatures.
That's a good idea. I think I'll try that.Rotonen wrote:My suggestion:
Conceptualize about 30 different monsters of the theme (rouch sketches at first), then start to push forward (more detailed sketches) 20 or so of the most popular designs. After this phase there should be 5 to 10 monsters that stand out enough to be worthy of pixellating.
We should make this workflow a standard. So far no one has had the patience for this. Let's hope you're the first one to be willing to cooperate with me on this.
@Crush: Thanks for the monster. I had an idea but I couldn't just visualize it. Thanks.
I like the frozen torso idea, it could wield a giant ice-blade as well, moving about headless, or perhaphs with a head (depends how it would look, you could do both if it's not too much work and get a vote later here for which one is better), scary stuff
Ice cobras (or any snakes at that, but perhaphs not being 'just' a recolour of our other snake models already available) are definetly cool as well, I can picture it with sparks about it's silky frosty body, and deep blueish diamond-like eyes. Definetly cool!
Ice wolfs and other ice canine/feline creatures seem definetly rank, I like that
Ice bats? Ice rats perhaphs? For the weaker players. I'd add that in icy caves. They could breathe ice clouds and what not once we get a spell system up too
Definetly the ice dragon is a nifty idea, but something in the lines of a small flying lizard - dragon hatchling it could be called. Not sure if a big dragon would fit well on the map, since we need proportion - dragons are generally big creatures, they'd have to be about 3-4 player's heights imo.
Ice cobras (or any snakes at that, but perhaphs not being 'just' a recolour of our other snake models already available) are definetly cool as well, I can picture it with sparks about it's silky frosty body, and deep blueish diamond-like eyes. Definetly cool!
Ice wolfs and other ice canine/feline creatures seem definetly rank, I like that
Ice bats? Ice rats perhaphs? For the weaker players. I'd add that in icy caves. They could breathe ice clouds and what not once we get a spell system up too
Definetly the ice dragon is a nifty idea, but something in the lines of a small flying lizard - dragon hatchling it could be called. Not sure if a big dragon would fit well on the map, since we need proportion - dragons are generally big creatures, they'd have to be about 3-4 player's heights imo.
Here's the floating torso by itself. At the moment it's just a recolor of the normal person sprite. I am still confused however on how to create the mist, will I do this with an airbrush and then color it like normal? Or will I do some special blur effect?
Btw, should I do something like add ice crystals to it's body?
http://wiki.themanaworld.org/images/1/1 ... gtorso.png
Btw, should I do something like add ice crystals to it's body?
http://wiki.themanaworld.org/images/1/1 ... gtorso.png
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