Childhood Trauma

Been looking at the screenshots and it all looks rather buff! Wow, came across the 0ad forums randomly while searching for pictures of Hoplite armour... good to see some familiar faces are still around here! I think I first started working with 0ad when I was 16 and addicted to Age of Empires, and I'm 21 now!!!! Memories...

tee hee, tee tiddly tee. Developments are fun!

RAW was the only one I ever played, just before I joined WFG. But I thought it was a little pointless because it was only a graphical change in the game. That said, the graphics were superb

Take your sweet time, and never ever carpe diem, ever. Don't start cracking the whip...worse than before *gets whipped*

I read it on April 2, and I'm, pretty slow anyway, and I was heartbroken. Then Acumen told me that it was an April Foll's joke. Man, was my face red? Was it?

Trust _real to rush straight to the Vestal Virgins scan

Mate, that is my house.

Well, the three bananas represent the three corners of the globe. Um, yeah I like the scans too! Yay! Got any good Persian scans?

I just barely got to reply to this! I used to be able to post at WFG from college, but now it's blocked. I don't get much time online at home. :'( *straps self to nearest tree*

I am really, really sorry I have been inactive (read: "dead") for a g e s. I couldn't help it. I have a hugely busy timetable at college and find it very difficult to fit 0ad time into it. I am really truly sorry, and I can't help but feel guilty for this. This is why, I believe I should a) leave the team [if I'm even still on it !] or sketch at a really slow pace, until this summer when I can go "boom" I literally will go "boom", like a bomb of some sort. A bomb which, when it explodes, makes sketches. For 0AD. Good sketches! I'd prefer b because I have way too hectic a school timetable to really cope with worrying about too many other things. I have too much on my plate. blah blah blah, I'll not bore you with my lil problems. However, this summer my exams will be over and I'll have a summer holiday!!! yayyy If option b is suggestes I'd like to be given a specific task to work on, e.g. one specific unit. Deciding what to do is also a bit dodgy, since I have a whole civ to do. Thanks guys!

"as always"? Hehe, I've got reading to do

I wouldn't argue with Kor.

Hooray! But I reckon this doesn't compare to my earlier work. I'll revert to that style for future drawings. Oh, and I only knew what a kopis was from reading your awesome article

I'm from... England. That's no reason for me not to say sehr.

http://0ad.wildfiregames.com/~art/ct/bactr...xilia-elite.jpg This isn't one of my better sketches, but I have been away for a while, eh? I'd like to know what style of concept art people prefer around here. I'll stick to this style for now but as you may know it isn't my only style. I can adopt almost any style you can think of, and I'd like a little bit of variety. So, which art styles would you prefer for my conccepts? Cel-shaded? Anime? Marvel Comics? Pencil rendering? The style which I used often when I first joined WFG (the whole ballpoint pen, hatching thing - or as Wijit said, "that /// thing you do" ) And about the figures which I used - a friend once told me, "Prav, you can't draw anything apart from big muscly blokes and fit women". lol. The people I draw ain't exactly realistically proportioned! They're probably about 8 feet tall, with biceps the size of your mum. If you dislike this exaggerated style and would prefer a more realistic representation of the soldiers (and persian concubines for that matter), as the other sketchers do, please tell me. Any feedback would be appreciated! This is the elite version of the Bactrian Auxilia. Auxilius? (What is singular and plural here?) Anyways, he's all rich and stuff, so he can afford a little bit of armour. I also gave him one of those funky swords. It's based on stuff written in Paul's Shah an Shah article, which was sehr sehr helpful. He has a helmet, but I forgot to give him a tiara. M'oh. He looks wayy greek atm. I hope you like it, looking forward to your feedback!

I personally would like big fat massive ships. It would add a sense of "wowww".... as the camera zooms out for a naval battle. And architecture could all be real size as well. It would make the game look monumental, but the units would look pretty tiny. I always hated the ships in AOK which were the same size as 1 knight. That sucked @#$%. And the houses were also as big as one knight. It was very silly. If everything were real size, that would be awesome.

I haven't been back for long, but the quality of those articles makes me very happy indeed. And lots of diagrams too My little brother is well into history, and he nicked the print outs from me to have a little read. Thumbs up!

yEAH, THAT ARTICLE WAS AWESOME. (stupid caps lock) I printed it out and used it for my concepts. Thanks, it was very helpful

Hi, 0.A.D. team! I'm now able to create concepts again, after some absence due to school, and other things (was in hospital for a while). I see that my name is no longer on the staff list - little bit confused as to whether or not I am still on the team. I've read all of the emails I've been sent and am ready to finish the Persians off. So, what's up?