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[Brenden]

Bleda, on 02 November 2012 - 04:02 PM, said:

Wimster find how i changed eh

How did you get the grainy effect for the colors? Also, nice mixtures!

[Odanan]

Hayden, on 02 November 2012 - 09:04 AM, said:

Thanks for the kind words guys.



If you scroll down you will see a large button that says:

"WE'RE HIRING"
So yes. There are things open.

I saw that a while ago. But they wired you, and not for the network specialists, I suppose, that had open positions until now.
Looks like you are being hired to work with the textures/camos (at least you are very good with this).

Anyway, I wasn't really serious when I asked you about work in Piranha, which is 7000 miles from my town. 10 years ago, sure, right away. But now, with my own house, wife, kid and 8 cats... it's complicated. (though I will always dream to work in a great game developer house)

Edited by Odanan, 02 November 2012 - 06:36 PM.

[Tristan Arc]

Congratulations, Hayden, truly. As Ironhawk so aptly put, we're proud of you.

I can't thank you enough for bravely starting this thread, and sharing your art. I can't thank you enough, either, for inspiring me to be artistically creative again after years of stagnation. I look forward with some trepidation to posting my own repainted creations here in the near future. That wouldn't be so without people like you and the other lovely posters here not only displaying their own works, but kindly assisting others to take steps in doing the same.

Congratulations, and thank you, again. Even if you may be restricted from posting art here, I look forward to seeing your work in whatever form it comes in next.

[Brenden]

Are there tutorials for Gimp?

[Tristan Arc]

I haven't seen any full tutorials, but the post from Adridos here: http://mwomercs.com/...07#entry1234507 gave me a good start.

Earlier in the thread, Hayden made a good post here: http://mwomercs.com/...4774#entry34774 giving details on how to do it in Photoshop CS5. While it doesn't perfectly translate to GIMP, alot of the terminology of mechanics of it are similar, and I still found it helpful.

I don't consider myself competent enough right now to really put any sort of guide together, especially as I'm still figuring it out.

The best advice I can give, at least, is to experiment.

[AdamBaines]

Hayden, on 01 November 2012 - 05:03 PM, said:

Happy 1 Year Anniversary!

When I started with this repaint thread I never expected it to become as popular as it has. In fact, I can still remember the fear and self-loathing I felt as I put the finishing touches on that very first (very hideous) Marik Militia Atlas that I cranked out so long ago. It was a fear of failure that almost aborted this endeavor before it had even stated.

Quite contrary to my fears, I was shocked with the overwhelmingly positive response (positive enough to lead me to do about 260 more "repaints"). Over time, and with huge thanks to the contributions of a number of brave and artistic minds this thread has taken on a life of its own. Yeah, I got the ball rolling: but the community has kept the momentum. It has become, to my knowledge, the most viewed thread on the forum, and has a number of artistic contributions probably numbering in the thousands and growing.

How things have grown from the little seed planted a year ago.

And I think this is a good time to make an announcement:

I will no longer be posting art here as my new boss Dennis de Koning has forbidden me from releasing any concept art to the public.

Wow so great Hayden! Well deserved! You have inspired so much Kick-bootyness here. I'm very happy for you.

(Raises a Glass)

To the Founder of the Re-Paint Feast! Good luck my friend!

[Adridos]

Hayden has already done a nice skin and he can't show us...

[Brenden]

[Adridos]

Just waiting for teh BJ template. Without Hayden around, I'll have to make some Liao unit colors myself while IH does a St.Ives one.

[Odanan]

Blackjack with fixed medium lasers:



And now the cleaned background version (hoping someone use it for the template):

Edited by Odanan, 07 November 2012 - 01:41 PM.

[Nacon]

Template for Blackjack is coming up soon.

Working on it as we speak but I'm gonna have a dinner and watch bit of game show.

[Max OConnor]

I can't wait for the repaints. The Blackjack has been one of my all time favorite mechs, and I certainly plan to use it almost exclusively. I think I will call her Matilda.

Edited by maxoconnor, 07 November 2012 - 01:50 PM.

[Nacon]

All done, comes with Masking, Dark & Light HDR, base tone without color, and original without the decals.


Download PSD here.

PS: Just wanted to point out that Odanan's is missing out the antentas and those bars thing over the shoulders. >_>

Edited by Nacon, 07 November 2012 - 05:06 PM.

[Ironhawk]

Just downloaded it. Good stuff! Thanks! Saves a lot of prep time. Will give you due credit on my repaints.

[Eximar]

[Brenden]

YES!

[Max OConnor]

Could someone do me up a Blackjack with no background and no decals in my Earth and Sky camo? I would greatly appreciate it so I can mark it up and make a poster of it. I do love my Blackjack, Matilda.

[Tristan Arc]

Well, with much trepidation, my first bit of post repaints:

The first is literally my first attempt at a repaint (with my favorite mech, of course!). It took me a good while, going from draft to draft to scrap, and the like, but I'm decently happy with it. Of course I'll probably come back in the future and take another go at it.



The second is a repaint for my girlfriend, who supplied the basic colors, and model choice. It's not really meant to be a Wolf's Dragoon mech, but the insignia grabbed me as fitting (and spared me spending hours designing an isnignia like I did for the first ).



Third up is my first actual canon-based unit repaint; a Blackjack for the 1st Aragon Borderers. I'm pretty happy with it, even if I'm still trying to get down how to fenagle the silly isignia to line up well (let alone blend in properly).



Thank you again to everyone who's posted their own work on here, and made it possible for me to do this.

Edit: Feeling creative, I decided to continue alphabetically through the list of Federated Suns units I'd been browsing to find the 1st Aragon Borderers. As such, I give you a 1st Argyle Lancers Cataphract! I feel much happier now with the insignia placement, plus the extra bit of challenge from what I'd thought would be a simple paint scheme.



Edit again!: Continuing my alphabetical roll through the ranks of the Federated Suns brings me to the an Awesome from the 1st (seeing a pattern here) Capellan Dragoons. The insignia options here were lacking, so I tried hobbling something together. Still needs work, but not too bad with that aside.



Edit: As I'm on quite the roll today, another in my alphebetical line of Federated Suns repaints. This Commando is from the 1st Federated Suns Armored Cavalry (and my first unit repaint for a group that will survive for a while! I blame the alphabet). I'm rather pleased to have been able to fit that symbol onto its shoulder, hehe.



Edit: Next in the alphabetical shenanigans is a Centurion for the 1st Kathil Uhlans. I approached this one with some trepidation as there was no canon insignia I could find for the unit, but managed to put together something I'm quite happy with, in the end.

Edited by Tristan Arc, 10 November 2012 - 01:17 AM.

[Eximar]

And yet another new artist who has the touch. Great job.

*wanders off muttering about talented people...*

[Sturmspetz]

Reinforced Armor BlackJack.
(Decal removal and outline borrowed from Nacon)