Project: Avatar reskinning

[Amadaun]

So, since I'm technically supposed to be painting a color wheel for art class, I need something to take up my tinme, so I won't feel so guilty ignoring my assignment. ^^

Hence, my new project. (To work on when I'm sick of making new armor.)

The plan: To redo the Summoner's avatars. Make Shiva look more icy and ethereal (I can already tell this is going to give me conniptions....), improve Garuda's wings, have Titan look more, I don't know, earthy? Rocky? Whatever.

Suggestions and feedback appreciated, as always.

Now, to start out with, the first draft of Carbuncle! (He's shiiiiiiny now. ^^)

[Monet]

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I like, I like...Quite the complimentary contrast with the crimson and teal. You should make that strip all the way back to his tail crimson.

[Amadaun]

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Okay, need some opinons. I kinda want to redo Titan's hair color, but I can't make up my mind on how it should look. I'm trying to decide between:

Blue/purple- His natural hair color, and why change it?
Red- I dunno, lava maybe?
Green- Like grass, since he's earth and all.
Yellow- Never figured him for a blonde, but yellow is the color of earth, so...

Picture attached with the recolors. Yes, I know it's sloppy, and I know it looks like the Microsoft logo, and I know that staring at it for more than a few second will burn out your eyes, but bear with me. ^^

[Kaylik]

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I like either the green or yellow, and the avatars look great btw ^^

[tomfin10]

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The Carbuncle looks awesome. For Titan, I like his natural purple hair the most.

[DakAttack]

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If you put clothes on Garuda I'll keel you.

[Monet]

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Go with teh yellow... In fact, give him all the season, yellow-white streaked with light green tips or sporadic strings... yeah...

[Yarr]

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would be more fun if you could retexture them like this..



(I was having fun playing around with 3D Studio Max)






(Low Detail render. I wanted to get an idea of what it looked like before I let it render for 20+ hours lol)

[Yarr]

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Im not proud of that garuda lol, it was a rough draft render.

[Yoko]

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Both are good, just different. Yours are just more evil looking, kinda decayed, while Ama's are a tad more blending into the ffxi character/model type :p Great work for both! now hurry up and make garuda! XD

[Omniblast]

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Can someone please give Fenrir a nose?!!?!

[Amadaun]

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Yarr: Those are incredibly cool! I'd kill for a copy of 3DSMax. >< The Fenrir one looks a lot like what I had in mind for him, too. ^^

So, anyway, I discovered something interesting when I tested Carby an Titan ingame: the glow that surrounds the avatars really bleaches them out. So Titan, instead of being dark brown like I meant, became a much dustier color. (which I think I actually like better) I darkened them up a bit and came up with what you see below, along with a very rough Garuda. I haven't done much with her yet, except adjusting her color.

And yes, I will give poor purple puppy a nose. ^^

(edit: Do you know how hard it is to get decent screenshots when you only come up to Titan's belly button? O.o)

[silentsteel]

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^o^ those are so cool!

can you get something we can download & tell us where the .dat files are?

[Amadaun]

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^o^ those are so cool!

can you get something we can download & tell us where the .dat files are?

Once I get them all done, I'll try to put the files up for download somewhere, along with my other skins that I've made. Unfortuneatly, the only site I have is Geocities. ; ; So if anyone knows of a good, free, site where I can put these or is willing to host them for me, let me know.
(Unless I'm allowed to post them here as zip files. I don't really know, can someone tell me?)

Screenshots of my progress so far to be found below.

[Yarr]

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Amadaun

if you want to throw up the files somewhere I can host them on my site cobrakaidojo.net or yarrthepirate.com. I wouldnt mid downloading em and playing with em in 3dsmax

Double Post Edited:
Didnt really do anything special but make titan a crystal style like ifrit only smooth. Still playing around with him.