Graphics

[Buster's Uncle]

Interesting thing - there's no particular reason but random chance that Bases8 is such a good-looking collection and this one only okay; I'm going through the files of GalCiv structures by filename, and E-F just didn't have nearly as many stunners that reduced prettily.

Both enlarge when clicked on, BTW.

I'm having that problem with Bases10, too: there's lots of beautiful structures there, but many lose so very much in reduction and pasted into the SMACX pallet.  A lot of light pixels pop up, because you get funny color translations sometimes that really stand out.  It's tough to compensate for and when you're arranging so many, you hate to spend excessive time on any one base sequence.

[Buster's Uncle]

Bases10



11 structures adapted from Age of Empires II, laid out to copy/paste into the .pcx of your next custom faction.  These are a lot of work to put together, so please be sure to credit me in the empty space of the .pcx.

[Buster's Uncle]

A little project I played with this afternoon, just to see how well I could do it.

The first shot attached turned up in a news story the other day.  I'm not sure, but the model may be the same woman I turned into Dr. Nerdina for the SMAniaC Genesis faction, as seen earlier in this thread.  That big mannish chin - but not sure at all.  It still struck me as possible future leaderhead fodder, so I saved a copy.  I was curious how well I could feminize and make more attractive this rather less-attractive-to-begin-with shot.

The second attachment is my result.  She doesn't do as much for me as the Nerdina did, but I'd say it's a decided improvement.

I still got it?

[Geo]

She definitely looks more rounded (softer) in her face.
Not sure if the glasses don't look a tad too big though. Perhaps its the enlarged eyes?

[Buster's Uncle]

Dunno - they suggest a high-tech faction, and that could be enhanced with lens coloring and trick like that.  Part of the interest in the shot is in the distortion of the lenses - which I enhanced by making her eyes even larger, slightly.

(I mostly was doing this as a photo-manipulation exercise with no real leaderhead purpose in mind.)

Quick alter of the lenses...

[Buster's Uncle]

Is this better, or am I over-complicating it?

[Geo]

Four is better IMO. The red is more recognizable then in five.

[Nexii]

I would have went with Zakharov colors (right eye red, left eye green)

[Buster's Uncle]

It's mighty derivative already, don't you think?

[Nexii]

Naw Zak's got it going on

[Buster's Uncle]

I'll redo in red and green, then.

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[Buster's Uncle]

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[Geo]

Now give 'r a scifi outfit.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmmm.  I'll have to think about that awhile...

She needs a SF background more...

[Buster's Uncle]

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