i don't understand why monks can't use heavy plated. i mean, it will look lame if i put an armor on a barb, and it looks fully plated, and i put the same on a monk, and then it just gets "thin"
just make the plated armor look like it has more mobility on a monk. i think it's enough, and it will look cool for me. like, the won't be anything on the joints... i dunno.
so. the other thing. i will be happy if the monk have auras. i can't see why it would go wrong. they could balance it with many different things.
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Sep 21, 2009Laio posted a message on "The Road To Diablo III"Posted in: News
for me that's what cartoony means. Like on my drawing classes, or Art History Class, or my Sculpture Class.They have said it now a second time that they ARE aimint to make objects physically, or shape-wise realistical, so i believe that after polishing, the game will be simply more flashy than the previous ones, and more with `epic' stuff you know, but not cartoony or un-serious in a WoW-like or any other way...
If it's not following the real proportions and anatomy, then, it's cartoony.
Of course, we could get in a big art discussion here, talking about expressionism, cubism, and whatever. But i think is a valid label to determine a characteristic of an Art style.
but anyway, like i said, i don't care. just tell : "hey we think really big swords, are awesome, so we are going for it, ok?"
As long as they don't make giant shoulder pads i'm ok.
Like it is said on the post, from d1 to d3, there is d2, that seems to be in "the middle", which i think is ok, to have this progression. and i totally understand, that would be really hard to do a very realistic game, without requiring everybody to buy new computers. (You know, more detail, more polygons, more mapping, higher textures...)
(But i'm still pissed with sc2, but that is not the topic's subject)
Quote from name="The_Infamous 1" »Every piece of info i read about this game it makes me want to play the game more and more. I bet everyone fells the same tho.
know what i feel?
"oh lord, please help them go trough it, jesus, help those, because i'm dying a little more inside every time i read about Diablo 3, but i remember i'm still at least a whole year away from it, probably 2."
i can only think how the waiting is killing me. -
Sep 21, 2009Laio posted a message on "The Road To Diablo III"Posted in: NewsQuote from "Kenzai" »OK, i'll `hop on the artstyle bandwagon' once more.
Be it design philosophy differences, artist team differences, technical issues, what ever; there's an undeniable difference in the very general feeling of D3, in comparison to D2 and D1. (In my opinion D2 is somewhere in between 1-3; but that's a bit too detailed and will depend on opinions too much...)
Say whatever you want but, with the general graphical structure of D3, which utilizes especially very bright and colerful skills (including Barbarian (physical) skills), and the general big=strong=epic=GOOD and mature=gore=BLOOD philosophy (i admit that i am exaggerating; bias is inevitable; concentrate on my actual point please), it would be very hard to bring back that specific feel of D1.
HOWEVER, i am NOT saying that that's something negative. Diablo III will very likely have the highest quality gameplay out of the three, and the `feeling of D1' i am talking about is merely one part of what made the series what they are, plus it is subjective. So once again, i am NOT trying to say that D3 is `not Diablo anymore' or that it will be bad in any way. Some of the older fans will simply miss some specific aspects that have made a part of the previous series.
My point on this topic is that they should accept the above (For a third time: It's NOT something negative.), instead of continuously making up things like whatever he tried to say this time. (Seriously, they come up with something new each time. =P)
i totally think like you. Really i would sleep with a peace in mind if they said
"yeah, we are going for a more cartoony art, but not too much, we think it will be great."
Then it just looks like they really settle up, and we can live further than that discussion.
I Wouldn't mind, just admit the damn thing.
It looks kinda they wan't to say it, but don't use the words, coz people will just "OMG HE SAID CARTOON LETS KILL HIM" and get mad, but no point at all to fear that, we will all buy d3 anyway.
We will probably pay in advance and download it from Blizz store, like those Pre-downloads, just waiting for our cd-keys to play. -
Sep 15, 2009Laio posted a message on Blizzard's Next MMO Will Have "Broader Appeal".well, i'm not fan of how wow just goest into killing and griding and raiding 10s of hours straight...Posted in: News
but i'm not a fan either of a second life thing, that is too boring and casual.
know what i liked about wow? BG. cause more than just killing, we had to get some team play going, and well, i love CTF, lol. (only play that on quake)
so, if they made something like that... you know, like the need of the team playing, and that i could do it for xp and weapons... oh heck, if i could play wow from lvl 10 to 85 just in bg, and i have a progression similar to those who just go by killing everyone and doing quests, i would be playing wow till today.
not sure if that is their idea, but just telling you guys of what i would like to have.
specially coz i don't have so much time to play everyday. but i enjoy getting in sometimes and HAVING FUN (not being totally crushed by the others) - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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it's so non-sense and idiot, i love it.
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maybe the earth itself colapses when blizz realeases d3. so they release dec 21st, and then the Earth goes all "OH NO, AFTER ALL THIS TIME? NOT REAL *puf* colapses"
or...
blizz releases dec 21st, and there is a profecy like "when the third game from the lord is released, the lord of terror itself shall arise and inflict chaos on earth" probably Nostradamus has something like that.
or maybe, just maybe, the mayas really had a vision... but it was just the release party of d3, no end of the world or apocalypse...
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and they will drop the barbarian for THE ROCK, and the monk for Jet Li.
just kidding.
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i don't agree, actually after my first sculpture, my teacher made everybody destroy it's own. The fun is at doing it, not looking at it for 2 years.
i wouldn't have time or space to finish it, so it happened.
I don't feel bad about starting it over sometime, i actualy see it as a chance to learn more, and improve the statue. Very common BTW, you get to a point when you don't like the way the sculpture turned out, and you can't see how to fix something that it's bodering you... you REDO IT ALL.
it's always better.
{said:very cool dude}
Obrigado mano!
{Thx bro}
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here is 1:11 AM, just got back from a pub, -3 GMT, and i can't seem to get on arreat summit website.
404 NOT FOUND
Not Found
The requested URL /diablo2exp/ was not found on this server.
(from the link on the blizzard's d2lod page, http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/ which redirects to http://us.battle.net/diablo2exp/?rhtml=y)
maybe something is up ?
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lol nice point.
although i think it's funny the wow's weapons and armor style, (not the chars and the colors) it really wouln't suit verywell d3.
need more slaughterfest... with normal shoulder pads...
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i totally agree, actually wow has many diablo components, like even some skills, totally diablo based.
there some great stuff in wow, like the whole end game fun.
but i don't like wow, i feel like a Peon (specially if i'm a orc, lol) working hard everyday just to get some fun in the end and loosing most of my time to it.
but every now and then i feel like playing again wow, then i get there, play 3 hours, and i'm bored. too slow...
d2 i play 3 hours, and i want more.
i love the chaos in CS when you get in the middle of everybody, are just spamming pots, and clicking everything and almost yelling.
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partially true... 1gb on this card won't see much use unless you are going with very high resolution and heavy textures...
but going that far, the bottleneck will probably be other. like the gpu speed.
but depends on the game, and the price.
For general reasons, i agree with the shop owner.
but if you read some reviews, you might see that some games can take advantage from that (but not much, won't worth it).
but that science is not so simple...
i really think anyone with a dual core, 2gb ram and a gef 6600 or higher, will be able to run d3 ok... that's what i think by looking at the screenshots.
textures are not that intesive, geometry also not. On scII they dropped the need to 3.0 shaders (so even a 5900 maybe can run it), playing safe, the lowest and oldest full fledged nvidia gpu with 3.0 shaders is the 6600 series.
(the others lower than 6600 are just cripled chips)...
and they even had some of those with 256mb (with i think, considering the lcd's today resolution, won't do any good having only 128mb)
i can play left 4 dead on my a x2 3800 , 3gb ram and 6800 GS... and looks way better than d3.
if you can turn off high particles effects, then it will run on very old machines smoothly.
(but you maybe won't see that much gore)
my opinion based on what i saw on webs.
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as far as i know, this one was made by other guys, Sideshow Collectibles only deals with that and may not have anything to do with blizzard.
just checked out the site on the product and was not made by him (other guys did, their name are there)
i have a guess we won't see ever his work inside blizzard unless blizzard put it up somewhere.
he usually only shows things that he made at his spare time or when he does something for siggraph or magazines that will get public.
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Thats great dude! i actually stopped coz i'm living in a small place, and don't have the space to do it. but i love sculping, i really miss doing it.
keep in mind that the most important thing, is to know how to translate the proportions and overall shape. The details are just work.
many guys jump to perfecting the detailing, and it looks good if you are not a critic. But any shaper eye will see the flaws and when he points them, everyboy will see them.
do not skip the basics, otherwise you will be only a half-baked artist.
also, remember(keep in mind that many don't agree with that i'm going to say, but my teacher said it, and i totally agree with him).
Even if you are doing something totally wired, you need some references, some pictures to look, nothing good comes out of nowhere. Really, doing his arms, i would look to some bodybuilders' muscles and adapt a bit. just for an example.
and of course, analyze other artist's work, Know Anatomy if you want to do characters... i have some books of anatomy for arts (like the FAMOUS Anatomy for an Artist - Sarah Simblet, but i have 4/5 different books of anatomy) i also have books of star wars arts, and some movie concept art books... having and using references is a great thing!
if you can improve by learning with the masters, then you are going somewhere!
to learn is not to copy, but sometimes copying is a learning tool.
(of course when you do your work, you don't copy others, but just for an example, look at some Protoss concepts, don't they resemble "the predator" some way ?
and some zergs... Giger's Aliens ?
maybe those were the inspiration, but they came up with something with a whole new feel to it)
anyway ... keep going for it.
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No, that's low poly modeling, he is a great Zbrush user, and he almost doesn't models anything in polygons. I can actually see more of his work beign used in cinematics than ingame things. unless blizzard starts doing games using normal mapping.
he is a big nerd and fan of sci-fi, terror, dinosaurs, demonology, mythology...
everything from games, to comics and movies he already did a small sculpture.
you know what is strange? he draws demons, sculpts them, everything, listening to nice musics like Man at Work - Overkill , Simply Red, The police... not fan of metal of anything like that, he sees the beauty on it (even when drawing the predator)
that's a sample of his work:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_aPKxFc1hekw/SD_qT8y7ztI/AAAAAAAAAPo/oi2IrUfGv34/s1600-h/alien_15.jpg
just read at his blog, he works as Character Modeling in irvine.
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Not a talent, just a good teacher.
i was by the way, on the 2nd last class he teached to, after my class and other last one, he wen't to work at blizzard
(yeah not kidding...)
but he is very professional so we never knew what exactly he was going to do there (it really took some time to him to CONFIRM he was going to), i know it was mainly Digital Sculpture, real Sculpting (these being the focus of his role there) and also, some character concepting.
but no idea if he is working in D3, SCII, WOW or new mmo. he will never tell.
there are also some people who says he did freelancer work to blizz b4 as char concepting, but again, he never told anybody.
i also have a 1:1 GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA MR ARNOLD's head, or at least a tentative of doing him.
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Hi friend from uruguay!
(lol i'm brazillian)
no it is not clay, it's similar though. It's called plaster/plastilline something like that (not sure in english)
Not the same clay you use in Car Design and many artists like the guys at Stan Winston use.
It's natural Oil based, so it's allways soft, and when heated can get almost to liquid point, so it melts. Doesn't evaporates so never gets hard.
Clay / Sculpley and others are very expensive here.
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haha, that's really a good idea. and not that hard to do...
(i mean, i can make molds of it and do it in other materials to get the flammable effect.)
very expensive though
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but i plan on restarting sculpting next year, and would be a great challenge.
so here are the pics:
(i put one to show, and other PoV:P as a link, so the post doesn't get very heavy. the links under the pictures are different angles, some links come from my facebook album and others from orkut, so let me know if they don't work...)
After 8hrs work appx.:
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/158/121/675289365/n675289365_785572_1427.jpg
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v308/158/121/675289365/n675289365_785573_1824.jpg
After about 32hrs working on it. :
http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/OAAAAMwjuuSQB4EkgRi14w7wtzW2zNN7baHdY8afv3_STSs3CaBC0-wBiKkhb1IVJ5Gt1Q3Ct_35UF7Bmfd6O7tCcDMAm1T1UNVAv-LLtZgPaXCQxuTcQfJIF2t2.jpg
After 42 hrs... :
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v274/158/121/675289365/n675289365_806077_9311.jpg
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v274/158/121/675289365/n675289365_806078_9761.jpg
Please be sincere!
EDIT: btw, do i need to tell i wanted to do diablo?