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Retro style artist needed

Construed
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 18:54
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Hello, I'm Jared Gristina coder and manager of the Grim Quest project.

It's the first ever sierra style point and click mmo!

It's been my dream all my life and after over 15 years of research and working towards the project we finally have a BETA version!

You can find it at www.GrimQuest.tk

 

When the project first started I could not find an artist besides myself and I'm a professional 3D graphics designer, Not a pixel artist so I used various methods of pixelizing my 3D art to make it look like sierra style graphics, However as time went on we found a great pixel artist!

 

But his art style is far from mine so I've been working on converting my 3D art into pixel art. I've put a lot of time and hard work into it but I just really dont have that PRO pixel artist's eye like he does and I feel almost as if my pixel art is just an insult to his beautiful work.

 

I've converted a few images as you can see the before and after's here:

This is the before image...

This is the after image....

This image may be ok to keep with a little polishing.

I think I got the mountains,the roof of the house and the grass correct because he told me how to do it, but the rest of it is just not close enough to his palette's...

 

Here are a few of his images to shine some light on the subject.

 

 

 

As you can see in the style were trying to avoid any antialiasing at all and going for the 80's retro sierra style.

I'm desperate to find an artist who can help me paint over the other 20+ 3D images so we can hold onto our game immersion and I'm tired of feeling like I'm insulting this wonderful artist with my horrible attempts at pixel art.

The project doesn't currently pay but Were going to be trying to launch a kickstarter next month and if it succeeds we will pay our artists very handsomly.

 

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this post, I hope you all have a very blessed evening.

Sincerely, Jared Paul Gristina

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surt
joined 16 years 3 days ago
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 23:43
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80's Sierra looked like this:

Red warrior needs caffeine badly.

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Construed
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 00:31
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Ah yes, That is certainly close enough! However we need more organic tones and less technology around such as Quest for glory 3

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, Then I met the man with no feet.

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Construed
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 16:01
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We are also looking someone to help re-create our GUI buttons, If you are interested you can find what we need on the art request section under "Art news" on our forums found at

Art request section

Thanks for reading and god bless!

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, Then I met the man with no feet.

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Scribe
joined 14 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 19:55
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Hi Construed,

Here are some GUI icons:

I hope they are useful :)

Scribe

 

EDIT
you can now find these and 64px versions here: http://opengameart.org/content/gui-buttons

Scribe

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Construed
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 20:37
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You are a great and awesome miracle worker!

I cant thank you enough!!!!!!

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, Then I met the man with no feet.

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Construed
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 10:07
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I messed up and requested 60x60 Icons because thats what the engine exported when IN-Game they were actually 30x30 but Scribe has started working on them again for me, Thank you Unknown Scribe!

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, Then I met the man with no feet.

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Scribe
joined 14 years 5 months ago
Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 14:50
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I have updated the art submission with some 30px versions

This has been very useful pixel art practice, I'm quite happy with how these turned out, especially the book, eye, bag and hand!

Scribe

Scribe

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Construed
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 17:17
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Yes indeed! I'm so glad to finally have my gui buttons replaced after years of waiting!

You are a great blessing my friend, Thank you for your patience and for redoing them for me!

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, Then I met the man with no feet.

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Construed
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Sunday, December 1, 2013 - 02:16
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Forgot to mention there is a possibility of payment if kicckstarter is sucessful otherwise I can offer services in exchange such as, 2D/3D graphics, Web design including html,xml,css,php,ajax,java,flash,php,html5, coding including c++,python,AGS,Various game engine code, server administration and setup and online computer repairs.

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, Then I met the man with no feet.

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Construed
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 02:58
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I have Completed all of the repaint images which can be seen here:

http://s1347.photobucket.com/user/Jared_Gristina/library/Remakes

but still need someone to help make characters, GUI parts and other art tasks, Thanks for reading and I hope your having a very blessed day!

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, Then I met the man with no feet.

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Construed
joined 11 years 6 months ago
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 - 22:55
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In need of an additional artist to create objects for the game, must be skilled in pixel art as shown here: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299

I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, Then I met the man with no feet.

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