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: Lines/Colors/3D
The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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02-27-2010, 08:57 PM
Master Thespian
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Stone Mountain, GA
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Thanks so much for the well wishes, fellas.
I generally dig anything you do the roster, z, but I'd particularly fond of the way that you have brought some cohesiveness to the teams based on prior assignment (really loving the introduction of sub-unit names where appropriate). I hope you were able to preserve some of the famous groupings as well.
Onto the images:
Blackout
looks wonderful. I'm glad to see you went with ghillie Blackout instead of "another-dude-wearing-all-black" Blackout, name notwithstanding. That image really came together nicely.
Red Mack, Bench Press, Hit 'n' Run, Heavy Metal, Fast-Draw, Tripwire, Spearhead, Depth Charge
and
Ambush
all look great. I can't see any areas those images could be improved where you either you don't either lose realism or ties to their originals. You struck a really nice balance with all of these.
Recoil, Wild Card, Dodger
could very easily fit into the above group with some tweaks. Recoil's head looks a bit on the small side, Wild Card looks very top heavy with the bulky arms and skinny legs and Dodger's face is considerably darker than his arms (had it been a tan his hands will probably still have matched up).
Backblast
doesn't work for me on two levels. The "fish eye perspective" is very hard to ape accurately. The issue here is that the forearm should taper off into the background and the reduction process should ideally continue on into his body and down into the legs. It currently looks like a normal image with just part of it wide angled and kind of falls flat for me.
The second level where the image misses the mark is that suddenly using an image like this in a reference bible doesn't "feel" right. It seems out of place when compared with every other image in the project. Considering the fact that I think that your project is going to be more popular than you realized when you're done, most people are never going to see your explanations and the image will look even stranger to them.
That said, I dig his weapon choice, face, uniform and pose. Sorry if I seem like a Debbie Downer with that wall of critical text. As a fellow artist (albeit dormant) I can absolutely appreciate the need to stretch your wings and try something different than the straight ahead shot after nearly 350 images (I'd imagine closer to 500 when you add in all the re-dos), but you've been so disciplined up to now and I'd hate to see that design consistency and focus start to evaporate (I knew this was coming, but it happened a LOT later than I expected).
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