Friday 4 May 2007

A Game of Pikes I



The Cartographers' Guild is running a monthly competition (just for fun). The theme is to design a boardgame fit for a king. Here is my effort. It's still something of a work in progress. Personal crits:
1. The wine glass is too 'cloudy'. Not sure why.
2. The candle texture looks awful, it's going to be a tough one to do as Bryce doesn't support sub-surface scattering.
3. The candle flame looks awful (probably better done in post).
4. The parchment looks too 'flat' and needs a bit of body and crumple lines. It also needs to be a bit more ragged around the edges, an alpha map should fix that.
5. The shadows are a little too soft and the light strength too high.
6. It would be good to have more symbols on the map (weather? runes?) and the playing area could probably use a little more colour detail (rivers and mountains).


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