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[Bloogonis]

Champion suggestion, I noticed you have two pixel lines at their backs of usable space.


Edit: maybe i should not what i made, arm wraps, (Im no good at shading ) red cloth catching the wind to strike awe and fear into enemies ( ja ja they is being ribbons, but believe me they are manly ribbons) longer flowing war-robe and an arm reaching back... for a weapon? for the air itself? for a fist full of justice? only he know for sure.

Edit2: WAR RIBBONS!

[Techhead]

Can I suggest that the sashes be color-coded based on which branch? Green for regulars, blue for guards, red for royal guards.

Also, I think the champions should have a heroic-looking "Captain Badass/Ironblood" pose.

[Sepis]

I like breaking up the ranks by color, if only to get some diversity.

Personally I might go for color combinations to signify weapon as well as proficiency, but that could get to be a massive headache rather quickly.

[Vactor]

Just playtested them abit in dwarf mode:

They look really great, however i have a very hard time knowing what profession a civilian dwarf is by glancing.  With this set if i want to determine the makeup of a mob of dwarves in a meeting area, I have to look directly at each dwarf to note it's profession.   With a bit more color variance I think it would be much easier to scan a large group and know roughly what is in it. 

If i could just get one unit changed it would be the children. They seem to provide the most information noise when looking at a group of dwarves (because there are many of them, and because they are the most non-descript, making them more likely to be confused for another profession)

In short, the art is great, but the colors are all too muted for my liking right now.

[The Doctor]

Make the beards bigger and multicolored...

[Beefmo]

Distraction brings you my possible human adventurer/champion!



To DoctorZ: Just for you I'll whip up a blueman pew pew

To Madrain: Yeah, Red's pretty much reserved for the military and "maybe" the nobles. Commoners I'm agreeing with the more earthy tones and whites... we'll see what I can come up with.

To Techhead: I don't really want to colour code the human military. I might be able to tweak the differences between military/guards but I want them to have an "empire" feel to them. Again we'll see what I can whip out

To Vactor: There is a semi-colour code going on in the dwarves... like blue outfits = craftsdwarves, brown = farmers, and grey = stone workers. Im thinking though if I go about and colour code the beards too it might end up just looking lame? I will change around the kiddy dwarf for you though since I can agree with you there... and I'll have a try and colour coding the dwarven beards to see what they look like.. so stay tuned!

And once more Thanks for all ye comments!

[Kivish Zokun]

Wow! Those soldiers are all awesome! I think you have the persian/near-east look perfect! Im also loving the new weapons and the adventurer is pretty damn good too!

Could I possibly use the elite-royal-swordsman as an avatar please?

[madrain]

I hate sets with differently colored beards for profession.  It's the main reason I use dystopian rhetoric and not any other sets.

The only time I like color coding is when I'm using plain ASCII graphics.  Otherwise I've never needed them.  I guess I do tend to find dwarfs I need with the u menu, no matter the graphics set.  :p

[Neruz]

That human champion\adventurer looks like he has angry eyes. He actually doesn't, but at a glance he appears to

[Endemion]

That new adventurer sprite makes me cry out for animated graphics...

Toady, please?

Man that would be sweet.  In all seroiusness, I love this set, and I can't wait for the finished project.

As an aside, I wonder how these would look as 24x24.  You can get a decent sized map on a widescreen with that size, and should be able to get some decent pixel detail too.  Maybe I'll just have to attempt a resize when the full set comes out.

Thanks again for your work Beefmo

[The Doctor]

Seeing these guys makes me want to play Diablo 2.

Specifically the second act.

[Vactor]

I would agree about the color coded beard being lame, I was just suggesting greater variation.

The most identifiable right now to me are the dwarves that have something significant that stands out: planters, furnace operators, woodworkers, farmers, fisherdwarves, military and nobles.

Beards could be used for variation by using natural hair colors: blonde, brown, black, and red

Part of the problem could also be that i have a very bright monitor and some of the color might be getting washed out.

[Beefmo]

A Swordsman dor the Kivish and a docM for the docZ! (100% included for easy paste over your sheet!)



Got some stuff I have to do today, but after tht I`ll get back to work and try some beardy dwarves!

[Beefmo]

Just messing around with trying to get human jobs to fit into the `feel`:

Miner -> Mason -> Woodcutter -> Carpenter -> Engraver
Butcher -> Cook -> Bowyer -> Animal caretaker&trainer -> Hunter -> Trapper



Haven`t had a chance to mess around with dwarves beards yet.. sorry ><

[Tradanbattlan]

I love how the dwarves look much more advanced than the Humans