Samus Aran WIP [Archive] - Anime Forum dot Com

-Batman-

01-15-2007, 01:24 AM

Alright, I'm rather content with the right half of the wallpaper, but the left half (the starfield) Seems lacking in something. Any ideas? Anyone?
Note: A majority of the starfield is one layer because of some...creation difficulties.

http://www.animeforum.com/image/thum_3039245ab1df09a509.jpg (http://www.animeforum.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=3329)

Heartless Soul Eater

01-15-2007, 01:35 AM

Adding Samus's starship on the left side wouldn't be a bad idea.

Princess Minako

01-15-2007, 06:33 AM

starfield is too busy and intense. Go look at real pictures of space, it needs to be randomized with large empty places.

Its too uniformly cluttered. Not a bad start!

-Batman-

01-16-2007, 08:28 PM

Alright, now that I had time to actually get to the wallpaper.

Tried to find a decent 2-D stock of Samus' Gunship, but they were all too small.

As for the stars, Is this better? I just left the Nebula clouds and blurred them a bit, and removed a bunch of stars. From there I took Minako's advice and just...Followed it differently. Since creating an actual Nebula in a computer program is incredibly difficult, I took bits and peices from a photo of an actual nebula and intergrated it into my nebula. Basically making a new nebula. I also duplicated my original nebula first and played around with some distortion filters.

So this is what I have now. Still needs something. Also, should keep the nebula blending infront of Samus, or remove it?

http://www.animeforum.com/image/thum_3039245ad7b3658f5d.jpg (http://www.animeforum.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=3435)

Princess Minako

01-17-2007, 06:48 PM

take off the white layer stars, they look wierd

what tut did you use for the starfield. Take a look at Greg Martin's tutorial if you get a chance. He also has one for making a nebula

Faceless111

01-31-2007, 10:03 PM

Really, since when do video games and realism match up? The first one was just fine, even if there's too many stars. It doesn't have to be a realistic depiction of what actual space looks like. I liked the first one more since the space wasn't bleeding into Samus. I actually think it's great.