Calling graphics artists for the Thief EP!

jtr7 on 2/5/2011 at 04:09

Yes, rusting.

Xorak on 2/5/2011 at 07:30

It seems odd to me to use that metal there as trim, but I also don't really know what else it could be, because the rust is kind of convincing.

But here's a beta I've spent the last few hours on. First time ever using the airbrush-tool so it's not perfect yet (and the perfect R-shape still eludes), but this is what I have so far:

Before:

Inline Image:

http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/1210/gbanner.jpg

After:

Inline Image:

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3121/rambannersmall.png

Nameless Voice on 2/5/2011 at 12:36

That's looking good.
At the moment, the symbol in the centre looks glued in front of it rather than a part of the banner, since it's not wrinkled. The whole thing is also a bit too bright overall.

Fala on 2/5/2011 at 18:17

Aye, the trim around the banner should be darker, closer to brown than gold. As for the symbol, I'd say simply adding the fabric pattern overlay would make it look less like it's been stuck on.

Xorak on 4/5/2011 at 02:08

What about something like this. I tried two different effects, a distort around the emblem, and the vertical fabric-line effect:

Inline Image:

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1753/bannerdistort.png

Nameless Voice on 4/5/2011 at 09:00

It still doesn't really look like fabric.

The dark parts in the outer ring are too dark, they should be more of a darkish brown like in the original, rather than black. That would also let them show off the lighting difference from the wrinkles better.

Maybe you should overlay the symbol with more of that fabric pattern that's on the gold sections at the edges?

nicked on 5/5/2011 at 05:50

Yeah there's no fabric texture over the central motif which makes it stand out more than it should. Adding a canvas-y texture overlay should solve the problem.

Wille on 5/5/2011 at 07:40

To me the original banners seem to be made of wool rather than textured canvas. Golden frames are probably velvet. Maybe using plain wool layer for most of the banner and then some silky material for frames and possibly for the R emblem too. Rather than using stock Photoshop textures I'd look for source images of certain materials and make more accurate textures that way.

Xorak on 5/5/2011 at 09:25

I think this is moving in the right direction. Previously I wasn't using any default textures built into Gimp. The curtain parts were made out of textures I find on the texture sites. However, picture 1 here is using a GIMP built-in canvas texture on the crest, while picture 2 is using the texture of the background curtain on the crest.

Inline Image:

http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/8268/banner7c.png

Inline Image:

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2707/banner7otherd.png

truz on 5/5/2011 at 10:10

I really like the 2nd one :)