The Sierra VGA Background Remakes Thread
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The Sierra VGA Background Remakes Thread
EDIT on MAY 16th, 2007:
Instead of just being a Space Quest II VGA thread, I've changed the title to the "SIERRA VGA BACKGROUND REMAKE" thread.
In here we can workshop various backgrounds from Sierra games that we love.
This will provide insight into the artistic process - and it's fun for all involved. I'll be posting a screen I've been working on.
Bt
Okay folks,
I got a funny little idea last night.
There seems to be a good amount of people who practice art, and can do amazing things here. So, I had an idea - to remake all the backgrounds in Space Quest II. This would be a great fun, and practice project for all involved, and then maybe someday a remake could be finished.
Here's what I'll do - I'll post an AGI version of a screenshot from Space Quest II. This time, I've made a quick VGA version of the pic. Then, I leave it up to others out there to download the pic, and work on it further, to see if together, we can all make good looking VGA pics for the game. When one has been completed, we vote to see if it goes on - then we move on to the next one. This is really just a way for many artists to practice, and for noobs to see how it can be done. This won't happen over night, but maybe we can keep this thread going for sometime.
Anyway, here are the pics.
The Docking Bay, Space Quest II - AGI
A quick version, VGA by me, Bt.
As you can see, it's incomplete - but it has an idea where to go. Now, your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to paintover, it could be large scale, or it could be just one thing. (I never finished any kind of landing gear, for instance, or the ladder and rails in the background)
So, maybe we can get some people involved. Happy painting!
Bt
Instead of just being a Space Quest II VGA thread, I've changed the title to the "SIERRA VGA BACKGROUND REMAKE" thread.
In here we can workshop various backgrounds from Sierra games that we love.
This will provide insight into the artistic process - and it's fun for all involved. I'll be posting a screen I've been working on.
Bt
Okay folks,
I got a funny little idea last night.
There seems to be a good amount of people who practice art, and can do amazing things here. So, I had an idea - to remake all the backgrounds in Space Quest II. This would be a great fun, and practice project for all involved, and then maybe someday a remake could be finished.
Here's what I'll do - I'll post an AGI version of a screenshot from Space Quest II. This time, I've made a quick VGA version of the pic. Then, I leave it up to others out there to download the pic, and work on it further, to see if together, we can all make good looking VGA pics for the game. When one has been completed, we vote to see if it goes on - then we move on to the next one. This is really just a way for many artists to practice, and for noobs to see how it can be done. This won't happen over night, but maybe we can keep this thread going for sometime.
Anyway, here are the pics.
The Docking Bay, Space Quest II - AGI
A quick version, VGA by me, Bt.
As you can see, it's incomplete - but it has an idea where to go. Now, your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to paintover, it could be large scale, or it could be just one thing. (I never finished any kind of landing gear, for instance, or the ladder and rails in the background)
So, maybe we can get some people involved. Happy painting!
Bt
Last edited by Blackthorne519 on Wed May 16, 2007 11:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Very nice and great idea Blackthorne You seemed to have missed out the stairs... are those important? (I've never played sq2). Anyway, I might do something to it tomorrow, when I'm not so tired
Rog - Quite nice. I don't like the large lens flare though The font is good, and I think the composition is good too. If you're interested in making space art (with filters and all), tutorials at http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html are quite easy to follow, and can produce some neat results
Rog - Quite nice. I don't like the large lens flare though The font is good, and I think the composition is good too. If you're interested in making space art (with filters and all), tutorials at http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html are quite easy to follow, and can produce some neat results
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JLM,
Wow! Your background looks wonderful! I'm glad you're participating in this forum. I did a quick little paintover, to give it some more Sierra-like overtones, I feel. I also darkened the background a little, to give the cliff a more defined feel.
I hope you continue to participate in this, because you are surely talented!
Cat,
Thanks for your enthusiasm! It does matter!
Rog,
I wouldn't really worry about a programmer yet. For now, I think that this is just a forum for doing art - and remember IT'S OPEN TO ANYONE.
Okay folks, So we have two active backgrounds at the moment, JLM's CLIFF, and My Docking Bay. Hope to see more work soon - remember - feel free to paintover something, if you think you can add to it.
I did another quick edit to the docking bay -
Bt
Wow! Your background looks wonderful! I'm glad you're participating in this forum. I did a quick little paintover, to give it some more Sierra-like overtones, I feel. I also darkened the background a little, to give the cliff a more defined feel.
I hope you continue to participate in this, because you are surely talented!
Cat,
Thanks for your enthusiasm! It does matter!
Rog,
I wouldn't really worry about a programmer yet. For now, I think that this is just a forum for doing art - and remember IT'S OPEN TO ANYONE.
Okay folks, So we have two active backgrounds at the moment, JLM's CLIFF, and My Docking Bay. Hope to see more work soon - remember - feel free to paintover something, if you think you can add to it.
I did another quick edit to the docking bay -
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Not bad paintover. It was a good idea to darken the background (forest), but it seems also the picture has lost almost all of its details. Did you use some kind of blur-filter on whole picture?Blackthorne519 wrote:JLM,
Wow! Your background looks wonderful! I'm glad you're participating in this forum. I did a quick little paintover, to give it some more Sierra-like overtones, I feel. I also darkened the background a little, to give the cliff a more defined feel.
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So, actually, I resized it larger first, the made several layers of the same picture. One layer I had pixelized slightly, while the other had a sort-of-paint effect on it. I then blended the three layers together, by reducing opacity - I then resized it to 320x200 (with no pixel resize) so that it was a little softer.JLM5 wrote: Not bad paintover. It was a good idea to darken the background (forest), but it seems also the picture has lost almost all of its details. Did you use some kind of blur-filter on whole picture?
The picture could probably be blended once more with the original to gain some sharpened details, but also - these pictures look a little different when a monitor is changed to the actual 320x200 mode.
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Well, I dont like tutorials really, you only learn by good advice from vizzi and blackthorn, I just took my brush and started, take a look at my progress on my background thread.Uhanimar wrote:*sniff* i wish i could do this.
I can't do a thing of graphics and the tutorials that i find end up not making any sense.