Deus Ex Fan Art by EXE

Deus.EXE · Post by **Deus.EXE** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:07 pm

Working on a three panel comic page depicting the confrontation of JC and Simons. All I have done so far is what you see. No Backdrop, no details...etc

Post by **Jonas** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:42 pm

I'm probably going to want to use that in TNM. For wall deco. You know, kinda like those cartoony works of art some people have hanging around.

You can never have too much wall deco.

You'll get a mention in the credits of course. Could you send it to tnm@offtopicproductions when you're done?

Deus.EXE · Post by **Deus.EXE** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:51 pm

Sure.

I have Simons... But... I just don't like it.

(Yes.. I know I didn't add the other side of the facial augments or jacket details...)

I dunno. I actually like how JC came out... but with Simons I can't really say "Yeah, that's nice." And I've always told myself 'If you have to question it yourself, you know something is wrong.'.
I'm not sure... He looks somewhat 'Harrison Ford'-ish. And though he's supposed to look old... he doesn't.
Maybe I should darken the layers.

Depending on feedback, I might just start Simons from scratch.

Phasmatis · Post by **Phasmatis** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:07 pm

I think they both look superb, Simons would perhaps look more like Simons if you make the augs blue, the hair is different too if I remember correctly, I think the sides are shaved but still, VERY nice images.

Deus.EXE · Post by **Deus.EXE** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:45 pm

Ah, see I just color grabbed off of a screen shot I took of his model in the underground level in the SDK.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/De ... 100520.jpg
I only do so because I'm colorblind.

And yeah... I tried to shave the sides of his head, but with my complaints about him earlier he just looked like Moe from the 3 Stooges.

Darkshade · Post by **Darkshade** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:04 pm

Sw337!
If you get a few more done, maybe these could be used in a montage while the HDTP is installing?

that guy · Post by **that guy** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:18 am

yeah JC looks really good. Simons also looks good but nto much like him IMO.

Deus.EXE · Post by **Deus.EXE** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:18 pm

As I was doing the backgrounds, I took some snap shots from the SDK (So I can look at them as images, because having both Photoshop and the SDK open at the same time eats a lot of memory.)
After some toying around I altered the images just enough that they themselves could be used as the BG. (Sure... the poor man's way of doing things... But hey.)

Hm... after previewing...
For some reason the image comes in a LOT brighter here then when it is in Photoshop.
Im all up for opinion. If you think I should just do the BG by hand, then let me know.

Post by **DDL** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:35 pm

When you took those screenshots, did you have dynamic lighting on, or just textures? Looks like the latter, which'd certainly explain the brightness.

Presumably dynamic lighting mode would be nicer? Or would that not match the sort of cell-shaded look to the foreground?

Nice work, btw.

Deus.EXE · Post by **Deus.EXE** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:43 pm

With Dynamic lighting on it was nearly pitch black.
But I meant even after I darkened the images with the Burn tool.

EER · Post by **EER** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:15 pm

Looking great

Especially since you're also color blind, respect!

Deus.EXE · Post by **Deus.EXE** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:52 pm

Actually I am really not liking the background. I'm going to try to do it myself.

Fox Hound · Post by **Fox Hound** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:37 pm

Looking great! As I was reading through I thought, "1 major problem, He should do the background himself". Then I saw your last post. Definatly give it a go. If you cant manage it (there is a lot of setail there) a good effect that I've seen used in comics is to just slap it in photoshop and apply an artistic layer, mabie Pallette knife and mild blur.

Dragon · Post by **Dragon** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:39 pm

i would personally settle for a self drawn background in the style of the characters. looks a bit odd with cartoony charas on a 3d background.

that guy · Post by **that guy** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:36 am

I actually thought the backgrounds looked really good with the exception of that yellow thing in the lower one. perhaps you could just redraw -that- part.