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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:05 am    Post subject: More photo manipulation than art... Reply with quote

EDIT: Hey y'all, I'm taking requests!

So we (my group and I) have been trying to find a piece of artwork that would accurately portray one of our PCs - a Rodian Jedi - that had the "feel" of the character.

The closest that we came was this (I knocked it together as one of my first real photoshop projects).

However, it portrayed an earlier version of the character and I wanted something that looked more like the character as he is in our upcoming sequel campaign.

Then I found this from the original d20 RPG. It was remarkably close, but their were a few things wrong with it. So I fired up photoshop and using this picture for a couple of "parts".

About 30 mins later I pulled this out of my @$$.



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

im betting you probably saw this, but figured i would post it anyway

http://www.swagonline.net/node/3773
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I saw that but I felt was a little ridiculous for the campaign and character.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:11 am    Post subject: Re: More photo manipulation than art... Reply with quote

hazardchris wrote:
Then I found this from the original d20 RPG. It was remarkably close, but their were a few things wrong with it. So I fired up photoshop and using this picture for a couple of "parts".

About 30 mins later I pulled this out of my @$$.



Good work! A big improvement on the original, IMO. I do a lot of photoshopping images to make characters for my game too.

I see that the original had a lightsaber that was removed from your game's character. Does your Rodian Jedi not have a lightsaber, or is it always kept hidden?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was a combination of not really liking that lightsaber hilt and thinking, "Why the hell is it at that funky angle?"

He also tended to rely on hand-to-hand most of the time, preferring to only use the saber when it was necessary.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So I made another version of the same character, this being his Jedi Knight/Adventuring Clothes. Check it out here.

This was the original picture that I built it upon.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yet again, I'm impressed. Good work!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unlike a lot of fan art stuff, I quite enjoy the tasteful choices you've made with your manipulations Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A lot of the stuff I find is so close to what I and the player want for a character. However, there's always a detail missing it seems (just not enough artists put turbans on their Rodians) so I worked out "what a photoshop does" and away I went.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm looking for a new challenge by the way, so if you have an image that you want to use for a character but, there's something about the image that isn't quite right. Post the details here and I'll see what I can do with it. I enjoy making Star Wars-based photo manipulations, and any chance to see what I can do with photoshop is a challenge that I'm willing to give a go at.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hazardchris wrote:
I'm looking for a new challenge by the way, so if you have an image that you want to use for a character but, there's something about the image that isn't quite right. Post the details here and I'll see what I can do with it. I enjoy making Star Wars-based photo manipulations, and any chance to see what I can do with photoshop is a challenge that I'm willing to give a go at.


Sweet! I might have to take you up on that sometime.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's my latest.

Click here to see.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One more for the road!

Here.

This is actually a vision one of the old players had, obviously inspired by Luke's experiences in the tree.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very cool.
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