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Flexible Elf
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 Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2000 5:34 pm |
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Yeah the best thing to do is to just eyeball a lot of photos or old woodcuttings/tapestries of armor... or eyeball some from movies/tv shows. Take what you like best from each.. try to think about how the armor works and why each piece is where it is.
I find genuine full plate armor to be a little too small for my taste.. I like the armor huge and bulky. It's whatever your taste is..
Try watching 13th Warrior.. it's more or less a pseudo-true-story-retelling-of-Beowulf. Buliwyf has some pretty mean plate mail in it.
I'm no expert on armor though 
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Flexible Elf
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:06 pm |
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OOooo OOoo!!
You should take a real dramatic angle ... with the viewer(camera) dipped partially under the water of the river.. getting as much of a dramatic upward angled shot as you can. There's lots of fun stuff you can do with the water too. Maybe the background is a valley.. and maybe there are slaughtered, bobbing corpses littering the water around the ensuing battle
Just a few ideas... dramatic angles are fun.
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daz199
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:48 pm |
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| that is pretty retarded hehe |
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Nomadik
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2000 11:11 pm |
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Grr!!
I want to draw a scene with Beowulf in a river, battling the Grendel, but my Beowulf sketch is crap.. First off, his pose is really dumb, secondly, I want to make him look pretty cool with some armor but not too much, because Beowulf was a barbarian/viking -esque guy. Can anyone suggest anything for me?
Thanks,
Jesse http://www.ayun.net/nomadik/
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Wrath
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2000 11:26 pm |
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Check out some of Flexible Elf's stuff...he's pretty talented at armor design (IMO).
http://www.geocities.com/flexible_elf/Main.html
sorry, I haven't taken the time to see wtf UBB code tags are...copy and paste  |
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Isric
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Isric
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2000 11:31 pm |
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| Oops, some picture links didn't work. Never mind, just follow the link at the bottom. |
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shardik
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2000 10:00 am |
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elf, ur the man
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Never, ever trust a banana. |
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Flexible Elf
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LethargicBoy
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2000 11:02 pm |
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I AM ERIC THE RED! HAND OVER YOUR WOMEN!
PILLAGE!
...*ahem* nice job mr. elf, like the marker style stuff going on. |
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Isric
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| Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2000 6:49 pm |
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| "We'll rape the fields and pillage the women!" -quote from some movie |
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