Here is the basic screen.
I am asking for any advice to make it that much better.
Lens flares maybe?
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I did try making shadows wiggle but it looked like dung
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Maybe you could animate the light that's casting the shadows from the title? The lack of movement in that lower area is a little distracting.
Very cool. DIG the meteor-or sun...like the moving shadow idea. Was the sun a johnl3d experiment?
QUOTE(John Bigboote @ Dec 27 2009, 07:53 AM) 
Very cool. DIG the meteor-or sun...like the moving shadow idea. Was the sun a johnl3d experiment?
Looks more like the explosion-project of the data-folder/cd to me.
*Fuchur*
QUOTE(John Bigboote @ Dec 27 2009, 07:53 AM)
Very cool. DIG the meteor-or sun...like the moving shadow idea. Was the sun a johnl3d experiment?
the sun is entirely my creation
QUOTE(Fuchur @ Dec 27 2009, 07:54 AM)
QUOTE(John Bigboote @ Dec 27 2009, 07:53 AM)
Very cool. DIG the meteor-or sun...like the moving shadow idea. Was the sun a johnl3d experiment?
Looks more like the explosion-project of the data-folder/cd to me.
*Fuchur*
Thats where I got the sprites
QUOTE(largento @ Dec 27 2009, 07:52 AM)
Maybe you could animate the light that's casting the shadows from the title? The lack of movement in that lower area is a little distracting.
Ok gonna try that
perhaps dark siloughettes of the pyramids in distance?
(bad spelling)
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better?
better?
Definitely better, but I think the text should be moving somehow. I had a long elaborate solution in mind but decided not to complicate your life!
It's also not clear if that's the sun or a meteor, and if it's supposed to be moving. Why not have it start small and fly right into the camera lens? Unless I'm misreading your intent.
It's also not clear if that's the sun or a meteor, and if it's supposed to be moving. Why not have it start small and fly right into the camera lens? Unless I'm misreading your intent.
QUOTE(Gerry @ Dec 28 2009, 06:48 AM)
Definitely better, but I think the text should be moving somehow. I had a long elaborate solution in mind but decided not to complicate your life!
It's also not clear if that's the sun or a meteor, and if it's supposed to be moving. Why not have it start small and fly right into the camera lens? Unless I'm misreading your intent.
It's also not clear if that's the sun or a meteor, and if it's supposed to be moving. Why not have it start small and fly right into the camera lens? Unless I'm misreading your intent.
It is supposed to be a very hot desert sun.
It's not reading that way. It shouldn't be dark in the middle or be morphing shapes. My recommendation would be to make it perfectly round, blinding white, and all the heat/radiation effects should be external to the disc.
when I was a kid I would stare into the sun for the simple reason that grownups said not to. After a minute or so I would see a "corkscrew" effect like the white disc of the sun was unscrewing from the sky. that's the effect I would go for!
Also check out my timelapse sunset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFd_Vqadcs A hot desert sun would be even more intense than that.
EDIT: Also the lettering should be shadowed on the front, with a highlit top edge.
when I was a kid I would stare into the sun for the simple reason that grownups said not to. After a minute or so I would see a "corkscrew" effect like the white disc of the sun was unscrewing from the sky. that's the effect I would go for!
Also check out my timelapse sunset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFd_Vqadcs A hot desert sun would be even more intense than that.
EDIT: Also the lettering should be shadowed on the front, with a highlit top edge.
I think that last one is the one I will go with.
QUOTE(Gerry @ Dec 28 2009, 09:32 AM)
It's not reading that way. It shouldn't be dark in the middle or be morphing shapes. My recommendation would be to make it perfectly round, blinding white, and all the heat/radiation effects should be external to the disc.
when I was a kid I would stare into the sun for the simple reason that grownups said not to. After a minute or so I would see a "corkscrew" effect like the white disc of the sun was unscrewing from the sky. that's the effect I would go for!
Also check out my timelapse sunset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFd_Vqadcs A hot desert sun would be even more intense than that.
EDIT: Also the lettering should be shadowed on the front, with a highlit top edge.
when I was a kid I would stare into the sun for the simple reason that grownups said not to. After a minute or so I would see a "corkscrew" effect like the white disc of the sun was unscrewing from the sky. that's the effect I would go for!
Also check out my timelapse sunset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFd_Vqadcs A hot desert sun would be even more intense than that.
EDIT: Also the lettering should be shadowed on the front, with a highlit top edge.
All your points are valid.
I had to light the letters from the front so you could see them.
At first they were in shadow but not legible.
The sun? I am creating a cartoon world, and the flaming ball seems to make a great gag.
Anyway I made the sun much smaller and changed everything.
See my latest.
Thanks Gerry.
Gene
I think your titlescreen looks great, the bird is a cool touch
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