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  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    edited November 2012
    At Killraven, I love your Xzar and Monty, although, I never realized that halflings were supposed to be that short and small! I guess I am influenced by the Lord of the Rings movies, where the halflings appear to be very short, stout, but otherwise normal-looking to within two standard deviations of human. About stomach or lower-chest height to Gandalf, but not below-waist height, as you picture it.

    P.S. - I also love your comparison of this duo to the Joker and the Penguin. Come to think of it, the late, great Burgess Meredith with a short sword/umbrella would make a great Montaron.
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115

    At Killraven, I love your Xzar and Monty, although, I never realized that halflings were supposed to be that short and small!

    Thank You!
    yes, maybe in older D&D versions and AD&D they were more Tolkien-like
    I took the 3.5PHB as reference
    http://estevaomonteiro.com/RPG/races-male.jpg
    http://estevaomonteiro.com/RPG/races-female.jpg
  • RomulanPaladinRomulanPaladin Member Posts: 188
    @Killraven, can you do the Solar from ToB?
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    @RomulanPaladin
    you mean something like this?
    http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33e5mMlx41r67733o2_1280.jpg

    I will in the future, if You want.
    By the way this one was planned to be one of the future releases:
    http://www.rpgplanet.com/features/rgt/rgt35/featurebig.jpg
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    edited November 2012
    Burning Frodo

    ...he doesn't look that much peaceful ... NOW
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mario_roma/8208671049/sizes/l/in/photostream/
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    edited November 2012
  • GygaxianProseGygaxianProse Member Posts: 201
    Great stuff, I looked at all of them. I think my favorite is your Branwen.
    I am inspired...
    Killraven
  • TamokoTamoko Member Posts: 19
    can you make the 3 new ones? (dorn rasaad and Nera) and i wonder how much time it takes to make one...seems like so much effort.
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,579
    I finally had a chance to give a more thorough look-through through these portraits.

    Out of all of them, I think I like the Branwen one the best - I think it perfectly captures her essence as a noble, fearless warrior-priest.

    I think Coran, Eldoth, Garrick, Nalia, Safana, and Shar-Teel also do great jobs of accurately recreating the characters as portrayed in the game.

    Likewise, I think you did an equally great job of re-imagining Faldorn, whose essence is not so clearly defined in the game as the others.

    My only complaint: you made Khalid look way too cool. ;-)
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,579
    GoodSteve said:

    These are kinda neat and a few of them I like

    Which ones?
    GoodSteve said:


    Nalia - Doesn't look like Nalia. She looks like generic wizard girl with red hair.

    You mean, exactly what Nalia is?
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,579



    * Sharr-Teel - Needs bracers, greaves and other protective items on legs and arms. It's fine to show brazen tats, but this is a warrior and needs to look the part

    Perhaps she's dual classed to a thief? ;-)
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    Tamoko said:

    can you make the 3 new ones? (dorn rasaad and Nera) and i wonder how much time it takes to make one...seems like so much effort.

    Sure I can!
    Right now the things I am already progressing through are:
    1) Make the NPC portraits with the backgrounds
    2) Make some adjustments suggested by the forum guys (like give each cleric a symbol, enlarge Minsc size, etc... I got everything noted down)
    3) Make Arkanis and the other minor NPCs
    4) Make the ToB characters
    5) Makes Battle scenes with the NPCs
    6) Make some generic portraits for PC use
    7) Keep Aerie fat and happy

    I think the new NPC You suggested could indeed have a higher priority since the launch date is getting near, so I'll switch to work on them

    Depending on how complex the NPC is and on how much happy I am with the result... it might take from 4 hours to some months.
    Neera is the easiest (I might use an early Nalia with different hair and face), the Monk is the hardest for his face tattoo (I would like to have some patterns to work with) and the clothing.

    Note: I do not do 3D modeling, just composition of existing models... but for some complex figures like Korgan I had to also do some 3D modeling (his beard, I had no models available for it): I have some limitation for this... otherwise I would mirror canon D&D art 1:1, but it would really take forever. I am an engineer and this is only a hobby: in real life I work with MS word and excel, not even with technical 3D CAD.
    So, next in the pipeline will be Neera, the blackguard and then the monk...
    Tamoko
  • TamokoTamoko Member Posts: 19
    edited November 2012
    whoa it looks fantastic! but i think her clothing needs to be a bit more reddish (or it is just the lightning in the Portraits :D )

    edit: thank you for your work , i hope that many will make use of it ( I surely do)
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    @tamoko
    Thanks, ok I finish here with Dorn and i will make her more red ;-)
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    edited November 2012
    ...but she's out of the Tayan Mages now... she should avoid red like hell, no?
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    This one has a Predator look in it
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mario_roma/8211198179/in/photostream
    that's my first draft for Dorn
    Tamoko
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    @Tamoko and this how Rasaad would like like: he still needs a tattoo, and I will also work more on his clothing (especially lower body)
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mario_roma/8212435496/in/photostream


    He's quite the Matrix guy
  • TamokoTamoko Member Posts: 19
    edited November 2012
    Storywise it would actually make sense..but i just had the portrait + concept art in Mind :(
    but i just looked at the new screenshots and the took most of the red light away from the portrait ( http://www.baldursgate.com/images/media/screenshots_nov22/Screen12.png ) and they even made her yellow....(at least in the actual CHAR form) but i guess you dont have to be so strict its more about what color suits her Personality best...

    Could you give Dorn a Claymore? ( I think with his low constitution no one one would use him as tank anyway...) but the Armor looks really good. I would say he looks ugly but thats more of a compliment, because I know that the half orcs actually look way more beasty than portrayed in Baldurs Gate ;)

  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    @Killraven, wow, I like your Rasaad a lot better than theirs. If he looked like that, I'd take him along in my party despite how I feel about his class.
    TamokoKillraven
  • TamokoTamoko Member Posts: 19

    @Killraven, wow, I like your Rasaad a lot better than theirs. If he looked like that, I'd take him along in my party despite how I feel about his class.

    i agree with that, I like that style a lot more too but he needs to be a bit more intimidating.

  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    Tamoko said:


    Could you give Dorn a Claymore?

    Claymore?!?
    You mean this?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_Claymore_mine

    Tamoko
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    Time to go bed.. will talk to You more tomorrow
    cheers :)
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    edited November 2012
    PS
    digging through old stuff: an old Sarevok I made a while ago
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mario_roma/8212491350/in/photostream

    his helm is good now for Dorn
  • TamokoTamoko Member Posts: 19
    edited November 2012
    thats not quite what i meant hahahaha..... do you know the game Arcanum? i think then it would actually work, beause they have explosives and orcs ;) I mean of course a 2h Sword
    Killraven
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115
    Tamoko said:

    thats not quite what i meant hahahaha..... do you know the game Arcanum? i think then it would actually work, beause they have explosives and orcs ;) I mean of course a 2h Sword

    Ah! ok, will do!
  • PhillipDaiglePhillipDaigle Member Posts: 654
    Killraven said:

    Tamoko said:


    Could you give Dorn a Claymore?

    Claymore?!?
    You mean this?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_Claymore_mine

    That's certainly a magical item we can give Dorn in BG2.
    LordsDarkKnight185Killravenswnmcmlxi
  • KillravenKillraven Member Posts: 115


    That's certainly a magical item we can give Dorn in BG2.

    LOL That's great news, for the powergaming opportunity, for the possibilities related to some development of a certain "pantaloon" affaire and most of all for the hinting at BGIIee!!
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