m1kclark's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Water cup]

Dude!

Given the complete lack of freely available, accurate water simulations available in the world today, I'm going to assume you manually inserted every defect, drop, and curve in the "water" object, in which case ... SWEET. And even if you didn't do it yourself, it is an *excellent* use of automation to an artistic end, and deserves props even so!

Vertlain responds:

This one was made manually. Idea behind model: shredding the glass in right way and then adding tons of smoothing modifiers, some noise and of course changing the angle of refraction and... voila! So it wasn't all that difficult. Thank you for insight comment! :)

[Space Bug Forever]

Master modelling!

The design is absolutely flawless. I'd love/hate to see that thing moving. One aesthetic comment: reduce the highlights on the armor. It looks like you've got a mirror effect going, and you should tone it down to improve the realism.

Savory responds:

Wasn't shooting for realism much, mostly the picture I had in my head

[Fi]

Mixed feeling

I think the car itself is not very attractive, sort of like the original Honda Insight, but I think the modelling, presentation, and details are fantastic! 9/10, 5/5

[Cocktail]

Amazed

I'm amazed this isn't 3D! Great stuff!

[School of Mercenaries]

Mixed formats

Awesome concept, spectacular drawing. However, the RPG is clearly from a realistically shaded 3D render, and it's highly detailed which does not match at all the anime style of everything else in the image. It shouldn't have too many features or hard lines, and the shading should be cell-shade instead of a realistic gradient of shadows.

10/10 for the idea and presentation, but 7/10 for mixing formats, plus ½ point extra for the motion blur = 9/10.

AlphaLyrae responds:

ya got me...I was too lazy to draw em so I just renedered a 3d model I made a while back and pasted it on...

But that was pretty constructive
I'll keep that in mind
thank~ :D

[Throwing Lightning With Zeus.]

Time lapse ...

was in some ways the best part. This is awesome and I hope you make more.

Kuoke responds:

Will do.

[Light Bulb]

Realistic

This is some great stuff. What's the image you used for the environment (i.e. the reflections on the glass)?

[Chess 2]

IOR

Holy index-of-refraction, Batman!
I agree with a previous review that the glass is awesome. The background pieces particularly look realistic. In the foreground pieces, the rook most of all, the distorted image within the glass is really sharp: too sharp to be realistic, but not to sharp to be stylish! It's a great image, and even the way in which it is "flawed" as a representation of reality, it still looks awesome.

LiquidKarma responds:

hey thanks for the good and thorough review!