Re: Game idea....

[Jeff Read <bitwize@geocities.com>]

Martin Shergold wrote:

> Yeah, but when you've got a preconcieved(sp?) perception of a character
> there's only so much you can do with it until you've changed it into
> something else, at which point people won't percieve it as what you're
> trying to portray. Although, granted, I'm not a graphic artist. And they
> can go some awesome things; very probably someone talented enough could
> pull it of... Just not me :)

Look at the game "pingus" for an example of good animation building on
the basic "Tux" chara design. It *can* be done :)

> Whereas the counterpoint is, if you're starting from scratch (ie: the
> one eye-octopus), there's no preconceptoin. So you can do what you want.
> And people will accept it as that.

The octopus thing was already a Marvel comic book character, I'm sure.
And I also cited the example of Gon (who's far from proportioned the way
a "normal" fighter would be.

BTW, that Linux Fox was cool. I wish we'd see more of him.

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Jeff Read <bitwize@geocities.com>
Unix Code Artist, Anime Fan, Really Cool Guy