m1kclark's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dragon]

Shadows!!

Fantastic lighting and detail. I am especially a fan of that eye.

[Nexus 2]

Wonderfully real

This is a fantastic still-life of a complicated-looking but geometrically straightforward object. You put a lot of effort into this, and it shows, and at anything but the maximum resolution, there are no clues that this isn't a photograph for an advertisement.
The only give-away is that the reflections of the knobs in the main plate are too perfect, but this is a ubiquitous problem for all 3D software: if you find a work-around to too-perfect reflections, ... tell me! :-) Great stuff!

[{BT} Green Heart]

Awesome

Great imagery and colors! It really feels deep in multiple ways.

BenTibbetts responds:

Thanks!

[Reflection]

Subtle

The differences are very subtle, but they're there. It's almost too subtle. Frankly, it was a matter of luck that I even looked hard enough to see a difference between top and bottom. Good stuff!

mindmaster123 responds:

Thanks I'm glad I was wrong not the first ;)

[{BT} Needles 2]

Awesome

This is a really cool image. I love the glow of the sun and soft tones!

The only technical comment I have is that the sky's stripes do funny things near the horizon. Maybe anti-aliasing would smooth that out, if that's what you want. Great stuff!

BenTibbetts responds:

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

[{BT} Huddle]

Seriously?

I personally feel that this is an insult to your audience's intelligence. There's no subject, no vision, and no effort from you. One light and a dozen cubes? You've done some awesome stuff, but this is crap. Why should it be on the Art Portal? Conversely, why shouldn't it be reported as "bad art" (NG FAQ)?

BenTibbetts responds:

Thanks for the review.

[Sarah]

=-|

I have a thing for brunettes. And long hair. And glasses. And nerds. And women in pastels. I also only find artistic rendering of females attractive if they are extraordinarily well drawn. So ... yeah, 5/5, 10/10.

whitedevil0404 responds:

wow, awesome dude, thanks!

[PSP Vector]

DUDE!

At first I though that was a 3D render, and didn't give it much thought. But on closer inspection, when I realized you did ENTIRELY WITH 2D OBJECTS in Flash or whatever, I was blown away! Awesome stuff!

[Star Sapphire Starfire]

Rate 'E'?

Um ... last I checked, penis + nipslip = M rating, not E. Your perspective is awesome, though, and I like how you revamped style of the character!

[{BT} Armageddon]

Grainy

Good composition, but frankly all of your stuff is grainy. It seems deliberate in your abstract art, but this looks like a realistic image, in which case the graininess is a disadvantage.
Is this an artifact of using Bryce (unlikely) or of using Irfanview (more likely)? If it's Bryce, there HAVE to be settings to get rid of that and make it smooth and antialiased. If it's Irfanview ... well, honestly, I'm baffled why you use Irfanview anyway, so I'd recommend switching to GIMP or another powerful, free photo editor to solve the graininess.

BenTibbetts responds:

OK. But actually the graininess is completely intentional. Here's the un-postworked version of this image if you'd like to see it, straight from Bryce 5:
http://bensmusic.org/storage/armageddon_original.jpg

I find the graininess appealing, personally. It's just my attempt to bring back some of the nostalgia of old computer game graphics drawn in 256-colors. The effect was achieved by switching to 256-color mode for one image and blending that image with another version for the hazy look as well as the sharp edges. I could just as easily have skipped that step; I'll consider a new version if you really think this looks terrible. Thanks for the recommendation and I will check out GIMP.