Tree [wip]
 

This is a tree I'm working on for Legend.
It's a top down (birds eye) view of a tree. The outline is there so I know where I have to stop, the tree won't be perfect like that. I'm just wondering how my leaf detailing looks so far, etc.

Wouldn't it be better to work from the outside in? I mean the outer leaves are the ones that will be drawn under the inside leaves...

I'm thinking you're making the leaves too small already... if they continue to decrease in scale they will be 1 pixel in size about halfway through the graphic...

I don't want to work backwards, but you;re right about the leaves shrinking to quickly :)

It seems what you want to be the top of the tree (where it all splits) and the leaves branch down will need to be up more.

No, this is for a bird's eye view server

i like the colors

Cool!

The trees lookin' good sofar :)

Looking pretty neat. Not sure why you'd need it to be at a top view, but whatever works.

Not bad, I'd have to say I like it. Keep at it.

omg, this takes forever x_X
Why did I decided to make a detailed tree...why? :pluffy:

Because it looks better.

not that hard :0

Technically Graal is already birds eye view seeing as you see the top of the roofs, trees, ect.

Top down perspective. Not birds eye. =P Graal is like at a 3/4 - 1/2 perspective.

Graal is either really, just depends on the way you create the pixels :)

i liek graal

me too:D
the tree looks great cali but leaves still look small to me

yeah, it's 'top down' I called it birds eye view because a few people weren't sure what it was.

Update:
Not much farther x_x

And how your systems are scripted!

"finished"
What do you think?

Looks weird in the middle oO

Excalibur you worked so hard and Im srry to say that I dont see many postive comments comming in your future =(.

Honestly I think you got lazy toward the end. :\

I think it looks like, overviewed.. but the outline makes it look like you
grabbed your calculator and used scissor around the outline ^^

oh, and the finished looks more brighter then the "not-done" images longer up,
well I think thats just me or..?

It wasn't worth the ammount of effort you put into it. I hope you learned a valuable life changing lesson - be lazy.

You should have worked your way in from the outside like I suggested. :p

edit: and I'm far too lazy to do this properly, but you should be darkening the leaves as it goes further out, so it doesn't look so flat. the middle of the tree top is the highest point so it should be lighter.

too round

I'd like to suggest moving the area you have in the center more toward the top. It looks like you're looking directly down on top of it. Compare that to the perspective of a graal character. You never look on the top of their head.

The light is at the wrong angle. Suffer my wrath.

Stop abusing 'suffer my wrath' :cry:

That's how it's meant to be apparently.
Pay more attention, Hachi. :{

:(

You can't make me, you're not my mom.

Are you 100% sure on that? ;)

Pillow shading NUUUUUU

Looks more to me like he dropped it into photoshop, did a inner-glow effect and set the mode to normal so he could use black as the glow color.

Am I the only one that realize he only made it for an example so that Ex could get a tip on how to improve it?

I may use that image, but judging by the comments, I will be redoing this.
Maybe bigger, better detailed leaves, with more realistic colors (not a black outline) and better leaf shapes?
Yes?

Yes, definately nicer leafs and less pattern-riffic.