New mtw icons for .org?

[Kraellin]

i realized that these shld go in the mtw forum rather than the stw/we/mi forum, so here they are:

http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/saladin-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/henry-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/generic-k-1.gif

http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/knight-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/princess-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/spearman-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/eventspre-k-1.gif

these were taken from pics on .com, cropped, enhanced and i had borders on them as well, but goofed on that part, so i'll have to fix those up later, maybe.

as far as i know they are all copyrighted by creative assembly.

the original artwork is quite impressive. i was particuarly impressed by some unfinished line drawings of various riders on horses. i've been working with a couple of those to try and turn them into icons for use here, but it's a LOT trickier than the above ones, so they may come later. we'll see. :)

folks, these are just submissions to the .org personnel for their use in the .org, if they want them. if not, well ok.

oops. just tried to post this and got a message that i've exceeded the maximum limit for images per post. limit is apparently 8. not sure how i got 10 or 12 or whatever it was over in the we/mi forum then. lol. anyways, i'm removing 3 of these and i'll post them later on.

allright, this is pissing me off now. removed the 3 and i'm still getting that message.

K.


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[Papewaio]

Sweet! Choice! Cool! Keep em comming http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Schultzy]

Hi chaps.

I had a go at making a few as well. Cropped from MTW artwork I found on IGN.
I'm not sure they're up to the standard of Kraellin's above but, here we go. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p506215c7c78d86cdd8e8269deea284f9/fd67b7d1.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/pbc05f3715173165570b043f73bc617d4/fd67b7d0.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p8062535a1912ee84b541c68b34717da6/fd67b7cf.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p42df724511862263932f7a4144698fc5/fd67b7ce.jpg


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[Kraellin]

whelp. couldnt sleep, so here's a few more.

http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/mtw-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/mtw2-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/mtw3-k-1.gif

http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/mtw5-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/mtw6-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/mtw7-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/mtw8-k-1.gif

damn, this image limit is annoying.

K.


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[Hirosito]

nice! some of those are right grim looking. schultzy yours are just a bit blurred apart fromthat excellent

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Hirosito Mori

Hirosito the Baptist of the Babbiest Babe Thread.

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[Itonami]

Yea nice job Krae and Schultzy, they look great

[Toda Nebuchadnezzar]

damn cool. Schultzy's first pic could definately be used as a no. of posts pic for everyone. It looks very good. Just try upgrade the detail a bit perhaps Krae can do that for you.

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Jaguara-Spoken like a TRUE SPAMMER Toda!

No Fear Legend.

[NagatsukaShumi]

I like all the icons, if I ever had one I'd prefer one of those drawings to be one of the skecthes, they just look good I feel.

[Kurando]

Excellent finds K^2.

I'll tell you m8, we had to make a lot of consessions over the years because we had to add borders to all the icons; the difference between what you can do in 44x44 with a border and 50x50 without a border is more profound than most people realize + making a custom icon in 44x44 is like writing on the head of a pin sometimes...

-It looks like for better or worse the borders are being phased out now though + I often think that if I'd only made the first batch 75x75 how much more we could have accomplished with the extra elbow room.

[Schultzy]

Thanks for all the great comments chaps!

Yeah, I know they've turned out a little bit on the blurry side, sadly it happened during the resizing.
I'm working with Hypersnap as my only Graphics editor, http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/eek.gif since my PSP7 30 day trial ran out.....a loooong time ago. lol

But, i've gone back and had a fiddle, tried to get the first one looking better, also had a go at a couple of others.
If you like them, please feel free to use em, fiddle with them to get them looking better etc etc.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p061a0b1450c0e58fa47846e8c1adf9d3/fd679255.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p79806c7b5c399b043dc82b120fae3ca2/fd679253.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid28/p9f2e180eda8f139933618dfc463b0938/fd679252.jpg

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"Jetzt ist der Winter unserer Rabattpreiszelten."

[theforce]

I would like the icon of "Constantinou Palaiologoi" plz aka the last emperor of the Byzantium http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

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[Stephen Hummell]

I'd like the saladin one or El Cid.

[Toda Nebuchadnezzar]

I want doesn't get...well at least thats what I was taught.

I think these icons are for general ORG use not personalised ones.

But you guys have the right idea.

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Jaguara-Spoken like a TRUE SPAMMER Toda!

No Fear Legend.

[Kraellin]

thanks guys :)

and nice work, schultzy. i recognize those pics ;)

k-man...44x44? ugh. tough enough at 50x50. i hadnt realized you made some of the first icons for the .org. cool. which ones did you do? post em?

and what's with this 8 image limit in this forum? i posted 12 in the we/mi forum without any problem, but in there i'm limited to 8 per post and my own personal icon seems to count as 1 of them, so i can only post 7 new ones at a time.

anyways, more coming later on.

K.


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[Emp. Conralius]

hmmmm.........I'de like one of El Cid or Sulieman the Magnificent....

[Kraellin]

here's a few more.

http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/spy-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/mtw4-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/manuel-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/knight-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/joan-k-1.gif

i'm also going to post some of the original art and transition pictures that got me from the original to the final versions. but that's all for now.

K.


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[This message has been edited by Kraellin (edited 08-14-2002).]

[Kraellin]

these are a couple of the original art works i pulled off the .com site. i am in awe of the person that does these. i've always loved black and white line drawings. i had a friend that could do these free-hand and it always flabbergasted me how she could capture each important feature and line of a person's face in such remarkable clarity with just a series of lines.

i'll post the original art on a line and then 1 or 2 of the transition pieces i did in order to render them into icons. these were a LOT harder to do than the full color icons. many more stages to put things through to get a final product.

and shld the original artist see these, i can only hope he/she takes no offense at my alterations of this work. my only reason for doing this was to make something that would show up a little better when reduced down to the sizes used for the icons. i have nothing but respect for the original work and the artist.

the original:
http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/c6.bmp

the transition:
http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/c6-k-1.bmp

the original:
http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/c3.bmp

the transitions:
http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/c3-k-2.bmp http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/c3-k-3.bmp

if for any reason, CA, or the original artist objects to these being here, i'll remove them immediately. the same goes with kuma. say the word and they're gone.

K.


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[MagyarKhans Cham]

jeeez u really upload bitmaps?

and what are the flies around that person?

[Sir Kuma of The Org]

Thank you guys. I have added them to my Org icon folder. Maybe some of them will made to generic icon, that is if you don't mind that we use your work http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

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[theforce]

They are not giving me my icon...
Admiral...
Prepare the landing troops.

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[Kurando]

Quote i hadnt realized you made some of the first icons for the .org. cool. which ones did you do? post em?[/QUOTE]

I pretty much did all the icons except for the force, soly, Jag, and kocmoc (and anything without a border that has shown-up recently). The rare ones are listed here (http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/Forum6/HTML/002431.html).

P.S. I did not do Shuko or the The S:TW League on the rare list.

[Ii Naomasa]

Excellent choices and making of the icons, Krae & Shultzy. It does sadden me to think the samurai ones are going away (being naturally quite partial to them), but change is inevitable.

Perhaps when a Shogun II comes out in 2015, I'll have eventually worked my way up in post counts. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif

Kurando-dono, I do have to applaud your past work. I never thought about just how small the icons were. Having done icon/button/otherwise-tiny graphic work for a programing friend of mine, I was nearly driven insane by trying to work in such small confines, whether I start off the small originally or work larger and then try to make a shrunken version look good.

Anyway, great work all around by both.

[Hirosito]

yeah fabulous and schultzy's 2nd batch are lot better well done guys.

[Whitey]

how about ranks then? keep them the same?

[Kraellin]

thanks guys.

and kuma, feel free to use them, as far as i'm concerned. it's my contention that these still belong to CA and not me. the original art is all theirs. i'm just a forger ;)

and k-man, i dont know why yer out of the biz of making icons. you're obviously good at it. very professional stuff.

i also went browsing last night for more medieval art work. only this time i went outside of the game stuff to actual medieval art sites. quite an eye-opener. there's tons of stuff out there.

K.


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[Kraellin]

couldnt resist doing a few more. some of these are from the game sites and one is one that soly posted in OT and i *gasp* tampered with and there's a couple off those medieval art sites i mentioned.

http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/woman10.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/fem-warrior1-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/knight3-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/kraemedi-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/praying-joan-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/serf1-k-1.gif http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/warrior1-k-1.gif

K.


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[This message has been edited by Kraellin (edited 08-16-2002).]

[NARF]

http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/cool.gif his helmet is really really shiny

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[FasT]

Nice work to all http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif

[JulioIP]

Great work guys.

[Loras]

wow, these are great, i want the screamy guy on the end there. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

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[FasT]

More http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif FasT is collecting these in his picture Folder http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif

[Sir Kuma of The Org]

Now open in the focus forum:

An open discussion about the orgs icon policy, what should it be with the release of MTW.

Speak now or forever hold your tongue.

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[Kraellin]

bump! just because i'm a vain old fart :)

K.


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[solypsist]

nice work Krae. I just sent in the icons that will probably be used once the site switches over. If you (Krae only)email me, I'll attach them and you can have a look over. They're within the accepted size/restrictions, but no longer square. Just to get things going: the Mod icons are all religious heads.


[This message has been edited by solypsist (edited 08-27-2002).]

[Kraellin]

soly,
you have mail.

K.


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[solypsist]

got yer mail, Krae. Check the mods forum for a look at what's in development.
BTW, there may still be some graphics up for grabs (ie. little images used throughout the main-page links)

[Kraellin]

cool beans :)

K.


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[Kraellin]

here's one i did made from 3 separage images from the game files. i call it "Desert Night"

http://home.domaindlx.com/takiyama/kraellin/desert-night-k-1.gif

K.


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[This message has been edited by Kraellin (edited 08-29-2002).]

[solypsist]

LOL
wow! it almost looks like a screenshot from an old Commodore 64 game
you should try Flash, and make it an animation

[Kraellin]

too grainy, soly? (the reference to the c-64) i havent played with animations in a while. i've only ever done one. i get too impatient with them. i suppose i could use the psp animation thing though. havent tried it yet. still trying to learn all the features of psp 7.

K.


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