Thumbnails for Replays

[SilenceKiller99]

I, personally, absolutely hate the black trapezoid thing behind the 'VS". It looks horrible in my opinion... But maybe it's just my taste

(I would have just left it out, and let the 'VS' slightly overlap the map.)

[Eirias]

1 minute ago, Lukaznid said:

I'd recommend using different orbs because these look a bit too plain. I'd use something like this for the shadow orb for example.

Apart from that, I'd make the black edges look "3d-ish" by adding some contour. Something like this in the shadow orb example. 
Also do the same thing with the VS screen, make a slight edge to it so it's visibly more separated. 

This may require more work to do, but hiding the leg of the scavanger behind the black edge and the left two legs of the dread would make it look like they are more interactive with the screen.

 

Just suggestions though

 

2 minutes ago, Lukaznid said:

I'd recommend using different orbs because these look a bit too plain. I'd use something like this for the shadow orb for example.

Apart from that, I'd make the black edges look "3d-ish" by adding some contour. Something like this in the shadow orb example. 
Also do the same thing with the VS screen, make a slight edge to it so it's visibly more separated. 

This may require more work to do, but hiding the leg of the scavanger behind the black edge and the left two legs of the dread would make it look like they are more interactive with the screen.

 

Just suggestions though

You mean so the jaws of the scavenger go over the border, while the legs go under? that's not a ton of work, but it may double the time spent making the thumbnail.

If you make more 3D looking orbs (or photoshop crop them out of a card?) I'll use them instead of the simple circles!

[Lukaznid]

Just now, Eirias said:

You mean so the jaws of the scavenger go over the border, while the legs go under? that's not a ton of work, but it may double the time spent making the thumbnail.

If you make more 3D looking orbs (or photoshop crop them out of a card?) I'll use them instead of the simple circles!

Exactly, IMO it would feel just more "there" if you know what I mean.

Also I'll do the orbs now, should be up in a couple of minutes.

[Eirias]

6 minutes ago, SilenceKiller99 said:

I, personally, absolutely hate the black trapezoid thing behind the 'VS". It looks horrible in my opinion... But maybe it's just my taste

(I would have just left it out, and let the 'VS' slightly overlap the map.)

We tried that, it didn't look very good. Personally I'm quite happy with the black trapezoid. @Lukaznid what exactly do you mean by making the VS screen 3D? Making the letters have a more 3D effect, or the trapezoid?

Did you ever redo the sunstrider? Or are you working with @lFrostAvatar through PM?

[SilenceKiller99]

Ke, I just felt that it didn't look right. It's your thumbnail, if you like this more, you should take this xD

[Lukaznid]

1 minute ago, Eirias said:

We tried that, it didn't look very good. Personally I'm quite happy with the black trapezoid.

@Lukaznid did you ever redo the sunstrider? Or are you working with @lFrostAvatar through PM?

I was busy yesterday (plus it was stream day :D) So no, I'll do it now because I have a ton of time today
 

Also, yes we are working through pm a bit, not too much though.

Also here are the orbs, with and without the contour

With: 

Without: 

Also I can see a bit of defect on the nature and shadow orbs, gimme a sec to fix those. (they're not very well visible in PS)

[Eirias]

Just now, Lukaznid said:

I was busy yesterday (plus it was stream day :D) So no, I'll do it now because I have a ton of time today
 

Also, yes we are working through pm a bit, not too much though.

Also here are the orbs, with and without the contour

With: 

Without: 

Also I can see a bit of defect on the nature and shadow orbs, gimme a sec to fix those. (they're not very well visible in PS)

What's stopping you from directly taking them from a card? And what are your suggestions to make the VS screen 3D?

[Lukaznid]

2 minutes ago, Eirias said:

What's stopping you from directly taking them from a card? And what are your suggestions to make the VS screen 3D?

They're low resolution, plus I don't like the way they look. I can grab those too for comparison if you want, it's not really too much of a hassle.

also here are the fixed versions.  not quite perfect, but I'd say it's good enough

E: for comparison I took these of the tab where you build them on a monument. This pic: 

Edited September 11, 2016 by Lukaznid

[Eirias]

2 minutes ago, Lukaznid said:

They're low resolution, plus I don't like the way they look. I can grab those too for comparison if you want, it's not really too much of a hassle.

also here are the fixed versions.  not quite perfect, but I'd say it's good enough

Could you scale them to 225%? I'm guessing you won't lose resolution because you generated those yourself?

[Lukaznid]

3 minutes ago, Eirias said:

Could you scale them to 225%? I'm guessing you won't lose resolution because you generated those yourself?

I didn't generate those myself, that's the thing. I took them off the pic like I said in the edit in the post before.

Also here are the orbs from the cards  Really hurting on resolution as I already scaled them to twice their original size.

Edited September 11, 2016 by Lukaznid

[Eirias]

oh, okay. Well, I guess they'll have to do.

Forgot fire? And the first shadow is higher resolution than the second

[Lukaznid]

30 minutes ago, Eirias said:

oh, okay. Well, I guess they'll have to do.

Forgot fire? And the first shadow is higher resolution than the second

Fire is up there. Also it being higher resolution is highly unlikely, the entire difference is that the one with the contour has the blending options on it and the first one doesn't. Or which ones are you talking about the card ones or the monument ones?

Also fixed the sunstriders a bit, I sent them to lFrostAvatar for rendering, I hope they'll be better this time round.

Also here's the sunderer, thx to @lFrostAvatar for sending me the HD pics  

 

Edited September 11, 2016 by Lukaznid

[Eirias]

3 minutes ago, Lukaznid said:

Fire is up there. Also it being higher resolution is highly unlikely, the entire difference is that the one with the contour has the blending options on it and the first one doesn't. Or which ones are you talking about the card ones or the monument ones?
 

I guess it was the blending method. Idk, but the most recent frost and shadow one that you posted looks really bad at large scales. I generated my own again, trying to make them look more 3D. Is this any better?

[Lukaznid]

1 minute ago, Eirias said:

I guess it was the blending method. Idk, but the most recent frost and shadow one that you posted looks really bad at large scales. I generated my own again, trying to make them look more 3D. Is this any better?

Fair enough, I didn't really bother with quality much 

Also yes they look much much better. I'm not much of a fan of flat things  

Edited September 11, 2016 by Lukaznid

[Eirias]

1 minute ago, Lukaznid said:

Fair enough, I didn't really bother with quality xD

Also yes they look much much better. I'm not much of a fan of flat things  

So anything else to adjust, in your opinion? Is this as good as it gets

[Lukaznid]

Just now, Eirias said:

So anything else to adjust, in your opinion? Is this as good as it gets

nope, looks fine to me  

[Eirias]

@Lukaznid could you do magma hurler next?

[SilenceKiller99]

@Eirias Could you post a preview of the thumbnail with lukaznid's orbs? They look so nice and I'd like to know why you choose not to use them... Something with the quality, or so?

Edited September 11, 2016 by SilenceKiller99

[Eirias]

2 minutes ago, SilenceKiller99 said:

@Eirias Could you post a preview of the thumbnail with lukaznid's orbs? They look so nice and I'd like to know why you choose not to use them... Something with the quality, or so?

actually, FrostAvatar made some nice ones for me

But if you want to see how Lukaznid's looks, scale it to 225% and see the resolution.

 

[Eirias]

Alright, first thumbnail on a video is here:

 

 

[Lukaznid]

12 hours ago, Eirias said:

@Lukaznid could you do magma hurler next?

Sure I'll do it today sometime

2 hours ago, Eirias said:

Alright, first thumbnail on a video is here:

/video/

Suggestion. I would've left the starting screen, the thumbnail, on the screen a bit longer so people could actually see it and read it.

E: done, one with 75% transparency on the flames, one without, chose whichever you like better

transparent  and solid 

Edited September 12, 2016 by Lukaznid

[SilenceKiller99]

Cool! watched the match, it was great!

Is it me or is the bfr logo still out of centre?

[Eirias]

6 hours ago, SilenceKiller99 said:

Cool! watched the match, it was great!

Is it me or is the bfr logo still out of centre?

You'll have to ask @lFrostAvatar about that.

@Lukaznid left the thumbnail up on my most recent video. Personally I think it looks funny, but you guys should tell me what you think.

 

 

 

[Lukaznid]

5 hours ago, Eirias said:

You'll have to ask @lFrostAvatar about that.

@Lukaznid left the thumbnail up on my most recent video. Personally I think it looks funny, but you guys should tell me what you think.

/video/

I like it, you can clearly see who is playing against whom.

[SilenceKiller99]

Yeah, you might even leave it there some longer, like 5 seconds... its a lot of info on a little screen, so 5 sec is right about enough to read and understand it. if you don't care about it, 5 sec isn't to bad to 'wait'.

You can also start of in the lobby, then put it over when the game is in loading screen, and then show the game... this would only work with livecasts tho, cause with replays you have no lobby right?