Pixel Painting: GodRage

Hi

When i make pages on Lands of Enroth, I sometimes need new designs ...
One of the most recent frame i made :

evil/cadre01

needed for borders of some boxes.

I tried to make a simple logo :

and a banner :

And as you see, i'm not very good with big images.


I also tried to made a new design for the upcoming H3SW v0.8 with mixing the good and evile ones, to make a "neutral" baby :

It could be good with some tools I don't have. xD
But maybe someone could do something better.

Those symbols on a variation of Evil interface look like fun. Perhaps they can be really useful!

Concerning the hypothetical Neutral interface for H2/H3SW, in the past I had ideas connected with recycling classic H1 gold interfaces instead.

Combining the fancy elements from Good and Evil might not be a very good idea since they were just designed to exclude each other on the first place, so together they bring too much detail and color/style difference.

Yeah this kind of frame (i am not sure I'm right with calling that a frame... xD maybe "window frame" would be better? xD) is very useful for websites. And, if it's useful for Project Ironfist and/or H3SW, feel free to use it, modify it, etc.
(i picked colors already in the image to make the extended design, so it should works.)

Hahaha yeah okay, i'd better wait the release to grab design to make accurate pages.

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Hello GodRage!

Don't know how I missed this thread, but perhaps that was that time I was sort of away, after my hard disc failed (after creating the main menu for SW).

First of all, I have to say, I'm a little bit impressed by your work, especially the frame and the neutral "baby" as you called it (can't figure out what it is though ). And I'm very happy that someone else feels like making stuff, graphics.

I would like to know what was your process, how did you make them? They're looking very clean, especially the "baby", don't know if I could do it myself And the frame, apart from the asymmetry is looking this way as well! What programs have you used?

Anyway, what I wanted to say is that you seem like a very kind and chill dude and wanted you to know if you would like to learn some graphics (I know GIMP & Photoshop atm) I think I could really help you with it
Especially with the logos & banners you seem to struggle with (you drew them by hand?).

Hope to see more of your stuff, take care GodRage!

Hello Ragoon!

Thank you very much for your kind message.
(however i don't know what "chill" should be meaning... Do you think i'm trapped in ice under the antarctic? )

frame :
i just figured that part of evil design was a Cartouche (Egyptian hieroglyph), and so that's why i didn't wanted to make right and left side with same writing! No sense to write the exact same things twice on the same stone!!
I just picked colors and made it longer, designing some random glyphs in the given style.
The bottom took me a little more time. But i don't like the top one, it's too much "repeat the 5 previous pixels, sometimes paste a jewel".  

neutral baby :
I used RealWorld Paint, i just took the 2 images, and then tried the abilities (Multiply, replace color, average, etc..) and one of them was looking nice enough.
And so, the given colors are maybe not in the 256'H2 palette.

Banner :
I think i was using ArtWeaver 1.0 (the free version) at this moment.
I took a pic of my first hand design and tried to make the same traits in the program. That was a fail so i never really finished hahaha
Maybe i should give another try, i had a one with a fancy bird in the letter!! ahh..

I used Photoshop few hours 15 years ago. The "1 month trial" made me totally forget that this program could do something for me.  
GIMP... I tried it few minutes, the mouse control was "bad" for me. But I am pretty sure i should give it another try. (especially because i'm sure someday i'll switch to Linux, and then will have to give up my RWPaint.   )

Ohhh that's right that i made some others things that i didn't shown here.
I made smileys of the forum, but after 1 week i thought i should not have put the blue background because the smiley is too big to make people understand that the background is the H2 background when we pick our alignment for a new game...

I made a larger box from a squared one :

And some "funny" boxes for my website need.




            
Theses "crest" are finally for kind of alliances i guess, just mixing 2 crests.. xD Only the dear is not a mix.

frames for arena page:

Spoiler:

Needed a tiny border somewhere;





H3SW related contents:




Stonish background: (texture processor, an oooold program )




login:
             

map upload:






I've also a failed version of neutral baby:  

Whoa, that's a lot of images!
And now I can even see the background behind emotes! Clever

By chill I meant calm of course :p
Let me know if you'll need anything, good luck with next ones!


BTW your works brought me back to my older days when I was just starting with graphics, thought i can share of couple of my works for forums&html designs (under spoiler, cuz it's your thread after all ):

All of these were made in GIMP:

Hahaha So you until today you thought the blue background of smileys was "a strange choice"?

Thank you I'll install GIMP today. I just wonder if we can make animations with GIMP; i recently saw that photoshop had this ability: some people was making cartoons with photoshop and then exported to youtube.

Ragoon's html side images
Hahaha Banned is a rank!!
Some nice images then!
The 3 firsts bars in "HTML stuff", is it done with photoshop? gimp?
The background of the second one, is it made by you or you picked it?
your 4 little logos seems professional.
I agree: the nick+name cool logo is cool!
The competition winning banner is really impressive.
The last one is for Truck Simulator forums? hahahaha

That Slipknot banner is actually pretty nice

GodRage wrote:

Hahaha So you until today you thought the blue background of smileys was "a strange choice"?

Thank you I'll install GIMP today. I just wonder if we can make animations with GIMP; i recently saw that photoshop had this ability: some people was making cartoons with photoshop and then exported to youtube.

Ragoon's html side images
Hahaha Banned is a rank!!
Some nice images then!
The 3 firsts bars in "HTML stuff", is it done with photoshop? gimp?
The background of the second one, is it made by you or you picked it?
your 4 little logos seems professional.
I agree: the nick+name cool logo is cool!
The competition winning banner is really impressive.
The last one is for Truck Simulator forums? hahahaha

Haha, I just didn't seem to bother with the background for the emotes, it just "was there" xd

You can actually make animations, but it's harder than in photoshop. You have the option to play it, but instead of a timeline you'll be just playing the layers from bottom to the top. That's how I made all of the anims for SW mod actually And got it recorded, still waiting for editing.

Yeah, banned was a rank on some forums I made, because of the constant abuse of the rules in these communities (biggest one is still online after +12 years and has +15k users).

All of these, banners included were made in GIMP and I can share some project files with you if you want to take a look

For that one I picked a background from google and modified the colors.

About the truck simulator one, it was done for the user which was found of trucks Have a lot more of these, reaching back to the 2008/2009. But that one was made in 2013.

And thanks Orzie Have some Nightwish one's as well, cause I was a big fan back in the days.

Hi, long time not sharing my work.
I made some images for my "Homm2 Minecraft Resource pack", and I will share those that I made and can be somehow used by nay Homm2 related project.


Some swords.


Some axes.


Some shovels.

(variant of the one already existing in H2)

Two hoes.


Ground tiles abilities (maybe?).
                       

Made with H2 palette (with "RealWorld Paint")
<-- made from images of the game.