m1kclark's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Chair]

What Bacchus said

I agree with everything Little-Bacchus said, but I can be more a little more helpful. The wood needs a few imperfections, like a very small scale normal map. The wood should look like what wood grain feels like. Also, the cushion should also have a normal texture. Anything would do: a tiny bump-map plus some specularity would make it look leather, or use an image of a woven fabric and apply both as color and as a normal map. Otherwise, great stuff as usual.

[TT10]

Awesome, but

Awesome image, but you didn't add light sources for the flames! The material should have some orangy reflections on it! :-P

eagle3000 responds:

Yeah, I figured that out after 2 hours of rendering! xD I was too lazy to go back...

[Chess Pieces]

Nice!

I saw your "8 balls" image first. This image, by comparison, tries to do less than "8 balls" but it does each thing better. That wood texture is fantastic, even if it is a built-in, and again you have a knack for choosing the exactly right surface reflectivity. :-)

eagle3000 responds:

Thanks :) The "8 Balls" was done later, but I was quick about it, I made it just to test Z Depth Of Field... :)

[I have 8 Balls]

Good

This is an excellent image with a great subject and theme. I'm really happy to look at it.
Detailed comments: you have some great details, like randomly rotated balls, textured pool table, and just the right amount of reflectivity on the balls' surfaces. However, the texture of the table is too smoothed. Using multiple textures, one large and one small, to add chaos instead of just randomness. Final comment, the 8-ball image you chose was good, but you made one serious faux-pas: the resolution of the image is too low for your render! I can see the pixels on the front ball's surface. Either use a more detailed 8-ball image, or decrease your final rendered size.
And to pass on some advice I recently received, adding random dirt to the table and random scratches to the balls will add that extra realism. That's a lot of effort, though.
Again, excellent work.

[Tron: Legacy, Daft Punk]

Great glow and colors

This is an awesome pic, and even though it shows signs of being made in Flash, that just gives it some extra style.
Reason I commented: I actually recommend the open source photo-editing program GIMP. It does mostly everything Photoshop does, without the cost (it's free) and without the b.s. that Adobe likes to pull with compatibility and terrible memory allocation.

[Wooden wall]

Fantastic draft

The persepective, content, colors, and overall design of the picture is excellent and was well delivered.
All it needs is refinement: it should either all be smooth (like the path in the lower-right) for a real or impressionist feel, or everything should show the pencil lines (like the ice flow at left-of-center) for a stylistic "grainy" touch. But that's truly a detail.

[Kitten Eyes]

Holy perspective, Batman!

The degree of depth the picture has is incredible, and it makes you believe that the cat has come from the depths of the page, straight into your face to communicate with you.

[Femme]

Double image?

This style reminds me of those double-image drawings, for example the one that can look like a young woman turned away, or an old woman facing forward.
For a ten-minute drawing, it has all the important points, and this technique would make for an animation that would be easy to do but captivating to watch.

krissalus responds:

I love those double-image pictures, although I don't think I'd be able to figure out how to draw one on my own XD Glad you like this, though. And interesting idea about making a flash in this style. I never even thought of that. I might give it a try, see what I get out of it. Thanks!!