I wanted some KD mini badly…. they are dreamy….
Anyhow.. so did you have any work on it? Any to show?
Do you really want to see some early work in progress pics?
Warning – early work in progress pictures look rubbish and are not supposed to look like the finished article.
One issue I’m running into is trying to avoid the portrait looking too similar to the Vestal (or any other class, for that matter). As I mentioned before, these early mock ups are more along the lines of a set of preliminary sketches for me to work with. You know, a skeleton, or rough outline. I know that my artistic skills are generally limited to the physical. Digital artwork is not my forte. Plus to work on this and release it I’d have to ask at least 3 modders for their permission to use a bit of their work in the reskin.
I’m fairly new to modding. While I did a little bit for Neverwinter Nights (and performed some voice acting for an assortment of mods) I’m pretty sure that creating a reskin’s going to be a lot of work. Hopefully these early preliminary pictures should give an impression of what I’m aiming for. Again – most of the parts are other people’s work. I’m just putting the bits together (including things like shortening the Crusader’s sword – the quillons (crosspiece) would need to be replaced with the iconic Twilight Sword quillons and I’d need to add the blade side spikes beneath the leather). The Kingdom Death women are more Rubenesque so I should probably work on broadening those hips a bit too. Additionally I’m using Photoshop 6.0 to work on the sprites. That’s far too old to support the super png add on so at some point I’m going to have to download gimp and learn how to use it in order to get rid of the annoying white box problem.
I finally started painting a handful of Kingdom Death miniatures recently. They’re a bit like Dark Sword miniatures – almost too intimidating to paint. Hope you like my naff early attempts and we’ll see where we go from here. One issue I’m running into is that the party portrait should not look too similar to an existing hero or heroine’s. That one was mainly done as a colour test (recolouring Moirgane’s Blonde Vestal reskin’s party portrait). I’ll probably have to come up with something different as it just looks too similar to the Vestal (who has a lovely face shape, by the way). Looks like I messed up the picture uploading a tiny little bit. Clearly haven’t got the hang of how this forum handles that yet. I’m more used to linking with image tags than uploading attachments.