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[Arne]

I don't know if it's appropriate to get figurative since each player has their own imagination, but here's some of my Dwarf Fortress art:

= Arne's Dorf Fort Page =



More art on page. I've been referencing the descriptions, data files and official drawings but sometimes took some artistic liberty. These Beak Dogs feature Tremor beaks but I had some fun with colour variants. The size is a rough estimate based on cubic cm figures, but it's pretty rough. I have this technique for estimating spaceship volumes where I make two identical soft clay cubes, then shape one into a ship. From the length relation I can then estimate the volume of a ship. I could use a similar technique here... but instead I just Indiana Jones'd it. The creatures plausibly could vary a bit in size anyways.

A lot of these are first or second iteration, so they could change when I inspiration gives me a better solution or new take. Might redo the Gorlak next...

[Capntastic]

These are fantastic!  Thanks for sharing!

[Thunderforge]

Yes awesome artwork! Reminds me of Brian Froud somehow. :-)

What are the puffy white things bottom left?

[Uthimienure]

Wow, I was looking at random pages of your work... http://www.androidarts.com/  Your talent is incredible!

[delphonso]

This is awesome!

[Arne]

Danko!

Yeah, I'm a fan of Froud's work in Labyrinth, and John Bauer by extension.

Fluffy things are Wamblers.

New Img:



One way to mitigate the problem of being too specific with the interpretations could be to explore different morphologies. Though, it's still pretty narrow considering the possibility space of imagination. It's always a bummer when something looks completely different than long supposed...

[Arne]

I've added some new stuff to the page over the last few days. Also did a GUI mockup which I also discuss on the page. (Actually partly did it back in 2006 ._.)



The panels are split into Left Eye for map, Right Eye for lists. From the lists you can pick things to influence with the Hand. All editing/ordering is done from there. In the case of a Dwarf, you'd be able to set name, job pursuit and all that. I also thought it would be neat to have an editor for customizing the appearance, in 1-bit glyph format. I do like pixel editors and 1-bit 12x12 is so nice and fast to work with. One could simple change little things here and there whilst playing and gradually graze off what needs to be done... Elderberry bushes and whathaveyou.

I expanded the palette with halfbrights to tone down floor stuff in intensity. Applied it to workshops here too.

[Redman9012]

I checked your page after seeing your art and I was immediately awestruck, I simply love how your art looks, and the design for the beak dogs and elk birds are simply amazing.

Also, wouldn't it be better if the appearance customizer were for flavor?
Like the tileset itself is fixed, but you can edit the appearance to say, show an image of the dwarf you're selecting, or perhaps an interpretation of how the weapons of your fortress look, with an option to set a "template" for objects or creatures of the same type.

[Fikilili]

Arne, I must say, I really appreciate the way you draw animal people.
I mostly say this because people tend to draw them either like furries or humans with animal body parts, but you, on the other hand, draw them like animals twisted into humanoid form.
I don't know how to explain this, but instead of just a feathered human with a beak and wings on his back, you make birds with long legs who use their wings as arms, and still keep their original physical features in some way. I really appreciate your lizard and turtle men, they're very good! And that's coming from someone who doesn't like Animal people that much!

[Iä! RIAKTOR!]

Drawing art is much more better than creating tilesets (ASCII forever). I like your work, so make more creatures!

[em312s0n]

Woah. Just plain amazing! Your art style reminds me of cortex command concept art for some reason. Would love to see a DF comic from you.

EDIT: you actually did the concept art for cortex command lol! saw your signature on the drawings when I looked it up!

Also Dragon DePlatino's Bitlands is kinda similar to your mock tileset if anyone is interested in that style. his concept is keeping the ascii default look but with stuff that you can identify at a glance