THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

Yeah, mun! I'd totally love to see a finished version of the RTP in that style, Joseph! It's so... stylish! And I'm not usually a big fan of the "chibi" look.

Can I hop on this bandwagon too? It seems quite comfy!

But yes, that has want pasted all over it, JosephSeraph. I'm sure people would drool to get this.

@JosephSeraph: Looks amazing!! I really hope you finish it. If you don't, you should at least turn it into a community effort! That character style is such a great take on those 2k3 characters.

^ looks complicated... And interesting :) i've been having itch for anything old-school lately and that looks exactly the kind of stuff i'd like to get into. Where are the graphics from?

@Kaelan
Woah, looks very Duungeons&Dragons-y Xd cool stuff.

I uploaded the Alice game presentation, we can finally introduce it on rmn. ^^

Here's 2 of the screenshots. : )





I hope some will get to play it at some point. ^^

@Liberty
Aww, don't you love scary things? XD Because we do~! <3
Especially with Alice in Wonderland type of setting. ^^

In fact we actually had a more classic bishoujo manga approach on the character design at first,
with normal young girl anatomy and face etc, but, did not like it ; P.
( It was drawn by a very talented, experienced artist, too - but just didn't fit the game's weirdness. )
The current avatars / facesets come from an artist that usually does more surrealist watercolor works with really curious shapes and colors.
Thanks for the compliment on the spritework tho.

Hehe~ nobody would argue I suppose. ^^ (cutesy sample pics btw.)
But there is no issue here - as you probably have read by now, the surreal- and alien look was exactly what we were looking for in this game ; ) hence the desicion.
Our previous picture was similar like your sample, but we had to reject it XD

author=unity
@NebelSoft: If it's not to much trouble to ask, how do you go about finding artists for your project? I'm curious, because I'm having to do the same thing :3

Ah,.. well just try a simple and common creativity platform like deviantart.
Once you hang out there, you stumble across very professional and experienced artists from time to time - you check their profiles and portfolio, see if they are open for commission, and if their price level is in the range of what you are willing to invest / pay for good art. : )
Then you compare art styles / artist's experience levels* and prices until you think you found the right artist and just sent him a friendly note, with some information on your project.

As far as I can tell, artists from Thailand often have a nice skill / price rate - ( because of the currency exchange rate ) And many Thai artists have a great feel for style / colors and high quality illustration art. But that might just be my imagination. ^^

A fair price I personally can afford to invest for a character-illustration (maybe half body, or cute full body) would be around 30 USD$. (Not that I'm greedy, I'm just not too wealthy myself ^^; )
Anyway, just be honest, tell them that it's for a game and if it's commercial or non-commercial. : )



* this is a bit of a tricky one - even if an artist has brilliant art in their gallery, doesn't always mean they can draw what you want exactly how you envisioned it, especially if they are inexperienced - or - what you request is not what they are used to draw... So it might be a good idea to check if they already have a commission in their commission folder (or wherever) that already looks very similar to what you want.

...or you can just ask in a forum or write a blog entry for your deviant.art/tumblr account if you got a nice number of followers already. Chances are you could be as lucky as me and get an artist for free that is just trying to get better and gain a few more fans. I wouldn't be able to afford more than one picture since I'm a girl that still goes to school, after all.:)