Cyrus7 Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 There are a couple of hilarious images in the listen to me monkey island articles. Some more images: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakana Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 This project is really cool, and I like where it's going so far. I think, like the OP, I'm one of the few who was seriously disappointed by the art direction in CMI after being spoiled by Steve Purcell's amazing work in the first two games. Anyway, one obvious thing that is flattening out this background, making it look too clean, and making it not fit the aesthetic of the old games is the black outlines. CMI's cartoon images had sharp outlines. The painted images in MI2 didn't, really. See this image? The only place you can make out dark outlines is in really high-contrast areas like the house on the left. And even then, the lines aren't as hard/pixellated as in the background you're working on. An easy solution would be to lighten the outlines, perhaps just making them a darker shade of the base color of the object they're outlining. A difficult solution would be to make a beautiful Steve Purcell-level background painting, scan it, scale it, and put it in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicallyInspired Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Really nice work - I hope this is okay, but I had a bit of a mess around in photoshop, gave it darker/moodier contrast and darkened to wood. That looks nice! Maybe a bit dark, but the wood actually looks like wood now! Definitely more moody and dramatic as well. I decided to spruce it up a bit. This looks just a little bit too blurry. And too bland as well. Not enough contrast in the colours and lighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackpumpkinhead Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share Posted May 8, 2010 Really nice work - I hope this is okay, but I had a bit of a mess around in photoshop, gave it darker/moodier contrast and darkened to wood. this one is great it is just a little too dark if i could get a combo of this one and monkey mania's i will work on it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoTaMu Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Monkey Mania's + 45 brightness/100 contrast on photoshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Mania Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 I think that's a tad too saturated. How's this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aububuh Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 I think that's a tad too saturated. How's this? I think that's perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicallyInspired Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 That's good. It just needs to lose a lot of those black outlines on various objects like the door and window and replace them with highlighted/shaded lines instead. This screen is really coming along nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackpumpkinhead Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 update to the demo on the main page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicallyInspired Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 That link to the demo seems to take forever and never loads properly. I can't even get the page to load to press the download button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackpumpkinhead Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 i just tested it on a different computer works fine. if you still have trouble let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Mania Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 That demo is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicallyInspired Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Mediafire was still incredibly slow, but I managed to download it ok at a decent speed once the download link finally appeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicallyInspired Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Wonderful demo! Really made me want to play the whole thing! Excellent animation as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scabb dude Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Just tested the new demo, great project! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threepwood42 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Just looked at it. This looks really awesome. Are you planning on ripping the VOs from the original Curse and making this a Talkie-Old School? Or keeping it super old school without voice overs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicallyInspired Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I'd say it'd be fine (and less copyright infringing) without the voices. It'd be a lot of work to go through every line of dialogue in the whole game. It would be a fairly large download as well. Just as well to do without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Mania Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 With games approaching 20GB these days, it's not big at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicallyInspired Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Even for a fangame download? It's just not worth the effort and it's not needed. And it'd be less illegal, like I said. Even though the whole thing is illegal, really...there's a lot less chance you'd get shut down if you didn't use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scabb dude Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 It's an "old school edition", who needs voice-overs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackpumpkinhead Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 Even for a fangame download? It's just not worth the effort and it's not needed. And it'd be less illegal, like I said. Even though the whole thing is illegal, really...there's a lot less chance you'd get shut down if you didn't use them. its not illegal yet i am just doing the one room demo for now and that is free on the lucasarts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicallyInspired Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Technically, it's still illegal since it bares the name Monkey Island and its characters and LucasArts would be well within their rights to cease & desist and/or sue you. But you probably won't get in trouble over it. Doesn't make it no illegal, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackpumpkinhead Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 they would be wasting their time. if nothing else i am helping lucasarts by reinvigorating the fans to want to play the old games and therefore spending money on the new games. besides its not like they are loosing any money by me making this. they have made all the money there is to be made on CMI. they don't even sell CMI anymore. i could understand them suing me or telling me to stop if i was selling this. but i'm not. its just for fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackpumpkinhead Posted May 14, 2010 Author Share Posted May 14, 2010 Just a small update on the progress I am almost finished with the main cannon room I will be working on outside the ship next if anyone is willing to help let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scabb dude Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 What do you need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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