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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2010, 08:30:21 am »
Nude stuff is just more natural and almost always looks better, there has to be nothing perverted about it.

Says another guy. ^.^

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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #31 on: May 19, 2010, 08:47:44 am »
Nude stuff is just more natural and almost always looks better, there has to be nothing perverted about it.

Says another guy. ^.^

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Says another... ... aquaria-n? xD
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #32 on: May 19, 2010, 10:36:55 am »
As much as I josh Alphasoldier about nudity in this forum, I have no qualms about nudity. I mean, clothes add a drag coefficient that just doesn't make any sense for swimming. It's not hormones, it's physics!  ;D

Anyway, the next thing I need to do is apply concept sketches to an actual plot. I really liked how you played through Aquaria's story, instead of the game telling the story in chunks that interrupt game play. Yes, most of the specifics were left up to interpretation, but a story that requires your brain to fill in the details seems to be more engrossing. Food for thought.

I honestly don't know where to even begin with a story though. My brilliant mad scientist plot was just shot to Hell. Jerks. ;)

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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #33 on: May 19, 2010, 10:45:05 am »
Clothes keep me warm. :3

I can help with the story. =^.^= I love stories...
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #34 on: May 19, 2010, 09:13:22 pm »
Well, Lady-Succubus, Li is naked too, so you have something for your eyes too. ;)
(And now we can celebrate the eternal debate between artistically nude and porn. Yay.)
On a side note, a Lady Succubus (are there others?) complaining about pervs?  :P
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #35 on: May 19, 2010, 10:20:27 pm »
Well, Lady-Succubus, Li is naked too, so you have something for your eyes too. ;)
(And now we can celebrate the eternal debate between artistically nude and porn. Yay.)
Li isn't naked... O.o

On a side note, a Lady Succubus (are there others?) complaining about pervs?  :P
When did I ever say I was complaining? Pervs are fun to play with talk to. ^///^
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #36 on: May 19, 2010, 10:24:12 pm »
Well, Lady-Succubus, Li is naked too, so you have something for your eyes too. ;)
(And now we can celebrate the eternal debate between artistically nude and porn. Yay.)
Li isn't naked... O.o
I was taking about Alphasoldier's great and aesthetic nude mod.
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #37 on: May 19, 2010, 10:28:14 pm »
Well, Lady-Succubus, Li is naked too, so you have something for your eyes too. ;)
(And now we can celebrate the eternal debate between artistically nude and porn. Yay.)
Li isn't naked... O.o
I was taking about Alphasoldier's great and aesthetic nude mod.
... *oblivious*
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #38 on: May 19, 2010, 10:47:30 pm »
He's talking about this certain mod.
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #39 on: May 19, 2010, 10:51:53 pm »
He's talking about this certain mod.
My poor, underage, innocent eyes! D:

Besides, I'm not a very big fan of making other people naked. xD
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #40 on: May 20, 2010, 05:34:28 am »
...underage...
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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #41 on: May 20, 2010, 06:20:06 am »
<Obligatory "you'll understand when you're older" comment> :P


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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #42 on: June 03, 2010, 07:09:09 am »
I've been thinking more and more about what kind of mod I want to make. Soon, I'll start a thread on that, but I thought I'd share just a concept image for the head of a new protagonist. Something with the previous drawings that I struggled with was trying to keep the character attractive, yet alien to us. I don't want to create a new story and have players feel like they're playing as Naija again so I want to get away from too many human traits. Anyway, maybe my drawing skills aren't quite up to snuff yet, but the hairless aquatic girl wasn't quite feminine enough for me. So I drew this...



...but that feels like it's just another green skinned alien girl that Captain Kirk would seduce. I'm going to go back to the drawing board soon, but I just thought I'd share and gather some opinions. Maybe I can try to mimic female hair with arranged head tentacles or something and then lose the mammal hair.  ;) What do you guys think?

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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #43 on: June 03, 2010, 07:22:00 am »
I think it looks awesome!

I generally prefer hair over head-tentacles, even on aliens (though feathers are a great alternative, of whatever color or colors). Personally, I'm a sucker for four- or six- or eight-eyed characters; but if that's too alien, I would keep the head more or less as-is and go for a more alien body type--something along the same model as the thri-kreen, say, except more feminine and presumably less insectile.

Antennae are also a handy accentuating touch. (I believe it's possible to make them move independently of their own accord, too--I'm working on something similar with bat-ears at the moment.)

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Re: Aquaria's Art Style
« Reply #44 on: June 03, 2010, 10:46:44 am »
Antenna sounds good, about the hair... I'd add some kind of trinkets to it, tied up hair, fiddle-things in it, stuff like that, like tribal people have.
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