Yes, dryads are lacking in quality – their standard textures and models aren’t.. well.. all that, so there’s only so much that can be done with them. Hopefully they’re expressive enough, still. Additionally on the graphic front, you may or may not be able to tell that the ways light and shadows interact is slightly different from before – there is a difference but I think it’s fairly minimal unless you look at two examples of the same render right next to eachother. The difference is that I was adviced to switch renderer from the default ScanLine one to mental ray. I actually don’t know what the particular differences are, nor do I think I’d ever actually make the most of it. For now it seems slightly better (and, actually, faster) so I’ll give it a run and hope it might actually seem to avoid some pet peeves I have otherwise.
As for this particular page, it’s been in the planning for some time. I like moments like this when there’s plenty of space for just character, both in dialogue and in expression. Since I obviously don’t have tone of voice as a tool, it’s pretty much entirely up to facial expressions and body language to bridge that gap. It’s a fun tool to play with.
In closing, I’ve idly noted that with recent upgrades to their system, wordpress.com and w.bloggar – the program I use to post updates – aren’t communicating as well as they used to anymore; specifically, so far it seems only to be the categories that’ve broken, but I’ll try to keep an eye out if more things end up going bogus. I’ll probably try to set categories manually in retrospect, but if I forget to, that’d be the reason why.
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on you subject of dryads, when you do (if you do that is,) go to northrend, there is a funny looking frost dryads thing i’m sure you could do something with :P
also, keep up the good work :D
Oh I’m aware of them alright. Haven’t checked, but I don’t think they have any form of regular dryad skin however, and as I recall they look distinct enough that it’d be difficult to pass them off as just regular Dryads.
I’ve actually been thinking of what manner of things I can sneak away from the new Wrath models, but with the Wrath modelviewer being.. Slightly Imperfect(tm) (or downright broken in places), there’s limits to what can be utilized and not.
I Just found this site and its cool …. Yea gota tell me how you did it
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Oh a 3D rendering program, an image editor, Wowmodelviewer’s model export functionality and a whole lot of spare time.
dryads. irritating as always :S. nicely handled tho XD
Ahhh, away for a while and I have so much glorious pages to catch up on. I can’t help but notice how well you do the dryads, like it comes entirely natural too you.
*grins and checks for hind legs* I can totally agree with our minute purplehaired friend though. That was goooood. *chuckles* The expression at ‘For lunch’ is just perfect.
I admit it didn’t take much thinking to go from first coming up with the idea of a pair of Dryads rhyming to simply saying “okay.. that’s got to be included there!”, though getting the actual dialogue right can take a whole lot more time than it might seem. The above dialogue was peered at, poked at and tweaked right up until the page itself was done, more or less – right down to me locating my main source of suggestions and advice I have only to go “What rhymes on ‘back’? >.<”.
Some of the dialoge just comes on its own, but equally much – if not more – is often a very iterative process. If it comes across as natural, then that simply means it’s served its purpose ;)
Been reading all your stuff in the right order now and:
LOVELY! I haven’t been reading your own comments,
I don’t get how you do this, but wow.
Both funny, enticing and cool :)
I’ll keep reading!
<3 epic, simple as that :)
lol i liked this one
Oh, well DONE, Tee!