Just gonna tag some random so you can go to his profile and spam him with nebs:
@JavaPanda
@Dallahan, to be quite fair, it's a pretty good one, especially the lighting. Posing is solid, even though you could try to hide that the pocket that Solider is putting his hand in is closed, but overall it's alright. If you'd be to promote that jacket on Steam Workshop as a new cosmetic, this poster would do the work without a question.
@Elan, even though there isn't much changed from the original picture, I still really like it. You got some really neat details there, such as that Lambda logo, or people on the ground, and to be frank, if you wouldn't mention that they're based on standard animations, I wouldn't have noticed it too fast - which is a huge plus. Although, even though it's style is something that I totally dig, it's still quite empty. You could've added some scanner, APC, more people and generally more things that'd really change that original picture you were basing on into a HL2 poster. That, plus the cardboard cops. Either way, a solid
to you for sure, I really like where you're going with those edits. Just spend a little more time with them and they'll be perfect, man
@Cavity, it's unpolished, but brilliant at the same time
. I just love how you posed these guys there, you can really feel tensity just pouring from their bodies, the way one looks careful and methodical while the other one looks behind, clearly stressed out. That part I love about your poster, and the camera angle captures it well. However, everything else is basically trash. I see you used SFM for this one, so I direct you to
my SFM guide, where you should scroll down where I talk about render settings, pretty much on the bottom of it, that's how you get rid of all the dark grains from your poster and potentially add some blur. You could also try working with those lights there, as they're very focused on one point and cover practically nothing except for that one point. I'd keep that mix of blue and red but cover most of the scene with red and darkness, while mixing both red and blue on the characters and maybe that door there. You can also try Photoshop, or free
paint.net to enhance your work a bit, but I'm not expert on editing, so I'd suggest you to talk to
@Elan about it. Either way, a really good one you made here, just lacks of that polishing to make it wallpaper worthy, but feel free to remake it and put it as a submission for the next round.
, good luck fam, I keep my fingers crossed for you
As for the winners, the grand one gets someone with a really unusual style, that is @TarzanTheJungler
Honoraries go to good old @Do Jet
(even though the poster lacks of lighting in-doors, but is great otherwise)
and @Scone ! for that little scribble that is exactly what I
expected from @ToasterRoboto when he made his comics. Great one as well
