Castle Paradox

Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

This is kind of like advertising, but here is some before and afters of cutscenes I'm doing for my game. PHC's comments as well as mamoru's made me consider that the animeish style that is used for the cutscenes in my game is not best for a horror survival. So I'm in the process of slowly updating most of the cutscenes to be more fitting. All critique that are not one liners are welcome.

The left is before, the right side is after.

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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Improvement! It'll be a lot easier to take your cutscenes more seriously now since you switched to a less-anime like style.

Uncommon · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject:

These look amazing. They have a fantastic and unique style, though there's something about the second one that doesn't feel sincere. I have no idea what it is about it, because everything I can think of to fix it other than total facial exaggeration looks like it's already in the picture, but it's like there's a line between slight panic and horrified horrification that the old version's crossing but the new version's merely toeing.
The new version of the corpse, however, is infinitely more horrifying and a lot less grainy!

LongeBane · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 312 Location: Tomorrow

Very nice duke. But I see you still have a problem with shoulders, they aren't defined. You could imagine your character turning to face the side, and that's about the approximate location where the shoulder should begin.

Also, the second image in the second set, his mouth should be opened, as if he was screaming. That would make the scene more intense.

Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

Thanks guys. I do notice there being an issue with the second one. It's a she by the way Longebane, but both you and Uncommon are right... she seems like she's freaked out, but not intensely fearful. I guess it's the eyes and mouth, I will work on that. Maybe if I make her nostrils more dialated, it'd add a sense of fearfulness?
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

The nostrils are fine. It's just her facial expression in general. Needs more jaw dropping, head tilted to her left a bit... Basically, the same as the old picture, but better looking, heh.

Battleblaze · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject:

sweethouse Smokin'

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LongeBane · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 312 Location: Tomorrow

Don't forget eyelashes! A few pixels will change your boy into a girl. As far as I can tell, you de-womanized your character. And I don't find her "cute" either. (She kind of looks like....you!)

Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

Lame... so not true, she was not drawn in my image fool. Was it you who would always say all my characters look like me?
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Uncommon · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

If your idea of feminizing a character is adding eyelashes, Longebane, you have a lot to learn. For what it's worth, I was pretty sure it was a chick, just not an overly feminine one. There's no reason you have to fit her into some box of what some people believe a female image should be.

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

I thought the main character was a 12 year old boy, because that's what his sprite came off as.

Heck. I didn't even know the main character was even a teenager until I saw the cutscenes that involved other characters.

EDIT: My silly mistakes in determining gender aside, I agree with Uncommon.
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Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

It was your walkabout sprite that threw me off in the beginning of the game. The cut scenes made me realize, "I was playing as a teen the whole time?"
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TheGiz> Am I the only one who likes to imagine that Elijah Wood's character in Back to the Future 2, the kid at the Wild Gunman machine in the Cafe 80's, is some future descendant of the AVGN?