Pet Overhaul

Finally some reason I can't do anything about the angle apart from using a different render, of which there is none.

 

I like the carrier, it looks like a sword of some sort. :>

 

Quite a nice turnup at the polls. Now, we really should get on with this I think. I can't do much about the carrier except make it smaller, which I don't think is viable. DT pets suck I know, along with most of the Zerg ones. But I have a feeling the shop is specifically waiting for these icons...

edit: oh, yeah, I'll post smaller infantry and possibly a few other changes soon.
edit2:

 

Not perfect, but this carrier is much better

 

Out of those changes, I'd say the previous Ghost looked better, but all the others have definitely improved. I don't see anything horribly wrong with the Dark Templar, nor with the Zerg. You're probably just judging them harshly because you're the one who made them. Dunno if there's a name for that or not, but I suffer from it all the time, for one.

My judgement... One by one:

Zealot - Great.
Colossus - Great. Perhaps zoom out a bit to capture scale.
Double-scythe Dark Templar - Great.
High Templar - Great.
Immortal - Great.
Carrier - You've already fixed it. Great, now.
Mothership - Great.
Nullifier - Good. Just looks a touch off-centre.
Wrist-blade Dark Templar - Not as good as the other Dark Templar. Looks like there's a bit of a problem with the lighting and angle.
Observer - Great.
Phoenix - Good. Perhaps a tad higher.
Probe - Great.
Stalker - Good. Perhaps closer and centred on the face more.
Void Ray - Great.
Warp Prism - Great.

Fighter Viking - Great.
Banshee - Good. Perhaps centred more on the cockpit.
Marine - Fixed. Great, now.
Siege Tank - Good. Perhaps centred a touch more.
Medivac - Great.
Reaper - Great.
Ghost - I think the size and focus are better in the original.
Nighthawk - Great.
Battlecruiser - Perhaps edited in a similar manner to the Carrier. Basically needs to be zoomed out more, i reckon.
Jackal - Good, but I doesn't seem to be as defined as some of the other images.
Mule - Obviously a hard one to get. Focus, detail and colour just don't seem to fit with the other Terran images.
Marauder - Good. It is huge, though, so perhaps a midpoint needs to be found between the sizes of the old and edited images.
Thor - Great.
SCV - Great.
Walker Viking - Great.

Infester/Infestor - Great. Obviously will need to be changed soon though.
Queen - Great.
Overlord - Great.
Zergling - Good. Perhaps a bit too low in the image.
Roach - Great, though wondering what image you used.
Overseer - Great.
Hydralisk - Great.
Ultralisk - Great.
Nydus Worm - Good, though perhaps needs to be larger. Might need to be scrapped soon anyway though.
Drone - Great.
Baneling - Great.
Swarm Guardian - Great. Looks a lot like the Lurker though, haha.
Corrupter - Great.
Larva - Fixed. Great, now.
Mutalisk - Good. Perhaps a bit too high up.
Lurker - Great. Obviously will need to be changed soon, too.

Hope that helps!

 

I think I implemented everything from that list, but I still don't know what to do with the one-bladed DT. There is no other render of it, and the underlying problem is angle, which I can't change.

With Kerwyn nearing the phase in the work with the shop where pets are needed, I will be creating the final versions and sending them to him somehow. Crap icons are better than nothing Until Sunday evening (i.e., about 20 hours from now) I accept moans and wishes.

 

If you aren't happy with the render you have used up to now, then why don't you use some of the Dark Templar artwork until you can get your hands on a render you are satisfied with?

I have one suggestion by the way. Since the items are all gone, why not have some unique or very limited -pets- of kerrigan, raynor, zeratul, tassadar, raszagal etc.

 

Damn I wanted to do those too. Thanks for reminding me Although I think they'd be better as they were, like statues, dolls, sculptures, etc. Heroes as pets sounds a little irreverent of them

Maybe throw in a few critters, too, and if Kerwyn doesn't want them then he'll just skip them. And I thought I could sit back... I think we should keep pets SC2 themed... we don't know anything about SC2 critters.

 

Hehe, no problem. If you need me, I will be sitting back to watch family guy.

Browsing forums on a phone while watching tv is so awesome.

But seriously. If you put in some critters, then they will all be from sc:bw. I thought everything was supposed to be sc2? And I assume the list itza posted was a list of everything, but the archon is missing. Have you done that one yet?

 

I have... but it seems I didn't post it with the lot in the first post. It's just a blue sphere so...

And yes, everything is supposed to be sc2, hence the strikethrough

 

Lol, my typing was so slow that you edited that in while I was still typing my message. Crappy buttons.

Good thing that Archons are in, though. I used to have 1 or 2, not sure anymore.

 

Why not make each of the different racial units have different shapes of borders/the outline thingy (my mind's dead atm) such as terrans have square, protoss have a circle and zerg have a distorted shape of some sort.
just an idea, you don't have to do it :>

 

Sounds cool, but since they all still need to be the same size. --thinking-- That means that protoss and zerg would have less space for the actual portrait. Still sounds stylish, although I would rather have the avatar frames back.

 

If you're going to do racial borders i think they should be like the borders on the ingame UI, same shape just different look.

I would also prefer avatar frames.

 

i just want my ghost

 

Mini poll time again: I'm asking your opinions on the pets below. First is the current one, second with -40, third with -60 saturation, to make 1st editions more preferred over normal pets.

 

Hmm, if you are using saturation, then do it 100%. Less then that makes it look like the image quality is just really low. And how are you desaturizing them? I hope you are not using the saturation slide bar thing...

Desaturated images are a great idea, though. They look less messy then having two different borders.

 

the middle ones. -40.

 

The ones to the left for first edition, and the ones to the right for second edition.

 

Gassy the left ones are the first edition ones with the blue frame of course.

Forsaken: there's nothing wrong with the saturation bar, and AFAIK there isn't even another way to do it. If you're talking about going all the way to desaturating it then yes, black/white works better than the saturation slider. But I definitely won't fully desaturate non-1st editions. Also the frame distinction would stay... the reduced saturation would only serve to emphasise the differences between the two types of pets.