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[Hayden]

Ironhawk, on 20 January 2013 - 06:19 PM, said:

This thread needs some more repainted concept art in it...

For an 'Ascendant Star'...

Ironhawk, on 21 January 2013 - 08:08 PM, said:

Yet another St. Ives... 2nd Janissaries this time. I think Hayden did only one of those as fan artist. Not an easy set of colors to deal with and distribute. I tried to avoid making it too crowded by limiting the yellow accent to minimalistic touches here and there...

You're my hero, sir. Sublime work~

[Mark Hayden]

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[Ryvucz]

Mark Hayden, on 23 January 2013 - 02:35 PM, said:

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Nice first post. ;D

[Ironhawk]

Mark Hayden, on 23 January 2013 - 02:35 PM, said:

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Welcome to this thread, newbie! ;-)

Congrats for officially leveling up!

[AceTimberwolf]

Mark Hayden, on 23 January 2013 - 02:35 PM, said:

Bwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

looks like Paul got to him

[Adridos]

Mark Hayden, on 23 January 2013 - 02:35 PM, said:

Bwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

No St.Ives avatar yet?

[Ironhawk]

Mark Hayden, on 23 January 2013 - 02:35 PM, said:

Bwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

AceTimberwolf, on 23 January 2013 - 08:39 PM, said:

looks like Paul got to him

Indeed. Hayden's evil twin is born I guess...
EDIT: While the Orion was labeled 'Whirlwind', this one is named 'Rain Torrent'

Edited by Ironhawk, 25 January 2013 - 05:10 PM.

[Jack Gallows]

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Edited by Jack Gallows, 26 January 2013 - 01:18 PM.

[Lagfest]

Y

[Adridos]

Lagfest, on 26 January 2013 - 08:53 PM, said:

Y

*slams Enter*

[L zard]

Well, this should be interesting!

[Iacov]

hey guys!

your works are so impressive!
even though untalented, i wanted to repaint a concept myself...tried gimp...but i soon realised i'm totally lost with it(maybe because i'm used to paint.net...but that does not feature soft light or an alpha mask similar to gimp/photoshop)

i don't know if is okay to ask - and please pardon me if it isn't - but has someone of you the time to do a small repaint for me?
i would love to get a repaint of Dagger6T6' awesome "doors-down" catapult-mod
the thing i tried myself to do was remove all of the insignias and paint it in a green like the cat-k2 on the left hand side of the forum has...maybe with some brown nuances
i even have the catapult already cut out and saved as .png but i was not sure if it is correct to upload it to imgur (because of copyrights etc)
if i should upload it, please tell me

or does someone know a tutorial for paint.net how i could repaint it myself?
i've downloaded an alpha-mask plugin...even tried the psd plugin to open the teamplates on page 1...
but my results are all absolutely lousy ... especially when i try to "stamp-away" the insignias

thank you a thousand times in advance and thanks for this thread!
you guys spark ones' fantasy of what might not be possible if free-painting would be availble in game

and i apologize for my stutter english

[L zard]

There's a list of tutorials on the first post (page one)....hope it helps.

[Iacov]

thank you! i've already tried them - especially helpful was the video tutorial...but they are all "incompatible" with paint.net
there's a thread in the fan art section i think covering the repainting via GIMP...i've installed gimp and tried to follow the steps, but i don't know what i'm doing wrong...in the end it totally looks different than it oughta should
when i do it, it looks more like i finger painted stuff, instead of preserving the underlying texture of the gorgeous concept art...
that's why i'm asking for help

edit: i finally got it to work that i get a "grey" mech in GIMP
but there are two problems that remain for me: how do i merge the layers, so that i get a picture out of it? because if i try to merge down ("paint layer" to "white multi" to "white soft light" to "original") i inly get a plain white image with the few colors i have added before
how do i save the painted mech?

and the second problem is: how do i remove the insignias that are already on the catapult concept art?

cheers

Edited by Iacov, 27 January 2013 - 11:58 AM.

[Steinar Bergstol]

Here are a few repaints I did in GIMP for a possible MUX unit colorscheme some time ago. Very primitive work and not nearly as impressive as most of the fantastic pieces posted here by a lot of you guys, but then I never claimed to be an artist.

The colorscheme of dark and bright green comes from the colors used by the monitors many of us used to play the text based realtime Battletech MUSEs and MUXes on back in the mid 90's with a dark green background and bright green letters (see my .sig image for an example of how it looked).

First there's the Atlas. You always have to start with an Atlas. I think it's the law.




Next up was an Awesome, this one piloted by "Irish" O'Donovan.




And then, a classic ARC-2R Archer which I'm gonna pretend is in the game until it arrives or the heat-death of the universe, whichever comes first. Heck, I turned my AWS-8T into an Archer-substitute just because I love this mech so much, so this is how it looks in my head when I take it out. So here's my baby, "Raindrops".

[Ironhawk]

Steinar, not bad at all for a first try. Always the same with GIMP it seems: default settings have a very high color saturation so I recommend you reduce color saturation to nuance your color scheme. The result will be more realistic and less 'in your face' fluo-style...

Alright, still doing my humble part in order to bring this thread to 200 pages and get PGI and IGP to publish a Facebook announcement on it.

After trying once and not publishing it because it was an utter failure, especially after succeeding in redoing their insignia, I finally decided to retry this one from scratch, and gave a shot at ripping apart some of the gray colored areas. Then added the red eye and a few teeth. Going for fearsome here...

Here are the 2nd Night Stalkers with their Cat K2:

[Brenden]

I wish I had photoshop at home.
That would be so cool...

[Devil Fox]

I decided my youtube channel needed a new logo and view, so I set about learning to do some graphical work and play. Part of this was an Orion repaint, and thanks to guides to set up the template I got a few scheme's done. Note I'm yet to add any emblem's or insignia to them yet.

A Marik colour theme... somehow I just liked the combination of the Standard Marik military:



I wanted something a bit more tundra/frozen city scheme and ended up with:



However the camo scheme sunk too much into my final graphic that a lightening up of the scheme produced this:





End result of my little project of the week is:



PS: This was my first opportunity doing something on these lines, so gave me a chance to learn both camo painting and gimp...and I thought, why put in so much effort if I don't show it off abit! xD

Still love the idea's, and work you fella's do!

[Hayden]

Apostal, on 27 January 2013 - 10:35 PM, said:

I decided my youtube channel needed a new logo and view, so I set about learning to do some graphical work and play. Part of this was an Orion repaint, and thanks to guides to set up the template I got a few scheme's done. Note I'm yet to add any emblem's or insignia to them yet.

A Marik colour theme... somehow I just liked the combination of the Standard Marik military:



I wanted something a bit more tundra/frozen city scheme and ended up with:



However the camo scheme sunk too much into my final graphic that a lightening up of the scheme produced this:





End result of my little project of the week is:



PS: This was my first opportunity doing something on these lines, so gave me a chance to learn both camo painting and gimp...and I thought, why put in so much effort if I don't show it off abit! xD

Still love the idea's, and work you fella's do!

Solid first post, man. Final products look nice and the logo has excellent polish.

[CW Enchanter]

Hey Hayden! it's your job on that hero Awesome they anounced?