Immortals Handbook Epic Bestiary (now available)

[GQuail]

Well I don't see the point of getting someone to do a job I can do, unless they would be better. Which almost certainly means hiring a professional, and I don't see any professional agreeing to wait around to be paid AFTER I get paid.



They would probably want the money up front, and the only thing I have to pay them with is monopoly money at the moment.

Yeah, the cash is the big issue. Until you are more solvent, it's not really an option: the problem being that getting solvent is going to be more complex on your own. Ah, the joys of running your own business, eh? :-/

Re: "getting someone to do a job I can do": well, like I said, the main reason I bring it up is because as only one man, whenever there's a list of things that need done for the IH, there's only you changing them. Whether you can paint or not doesn't change the fact that painting time isn't writing time, and in a hypothetical world where someone else was doing the cover for you, you wouldn't need to delay Ascensions by as much to deal with it. But all the logistic benefits are at this stage weighed out by cash problems: it's definatly something that'll have to wait until the Bestiary and Ascension are sorted before you can properly consider it.

 

[Anabstercorian]

For the new cover, might I suggest, if your skill at composition is up to it, having a lower viewpoint on the battle? Perhaps from the eye level of the Tarrasque as it cowers before the epic clash of the godlike titans - it would certainly be eye catching. "Whoa! Those things are HUGE!"

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya mate!

U_K!
Re-doing the whole cover eh? Nice. A pain maybe, but now is the chance to really surprise everyone. (I think it may be funny to have a tornado as part of the sceanery, and the Tarrasque running away from it, paniced, but it's back end being pulled up into it. See reference - the Movie Twister - the cows )

Well I was thinking of twister when I did my interior illustration of the Amilictli, theres a cow spinning up its leg.

Metallic logo huh? Photoshop is pretty good for that stuff, if you are familiar with filters, layer styles, and the Gradient tool. Use the gradient fill tool on a layer made via an outline of the text itself. Set type to Noise, and get the aproximate coloration you want. Randomize it a bit, and experiment. I did a logo for a poster like that, and it looked quite nice.

Mine looked more like a futuristic gun-metal look in the end, rivets and all. I dont think thats what you are looking for, so a varied coloration may help. A gold/silver tint may help. A light (5-10% opacity) lense flair on the "middle curve" on some parts of metallic lettering makes it look a bit more 3D too.

Thanks. I just don't have an image in my head as to what the logo should be right now. But I am sure I'll work something out eventually.

Good luck on Ascension. Not to scare you, but it's 6 days away from the post-post-prerelease.

5 now.

Incidently I am thinking it will be at least 6pm on Friday (my time) before I'll upload it. But I'll mention that on the website, closer to the day.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey GQuail matey!

Yeah, the cash is the big issue. Until you are more solvent, it's not really an option: the problem being that getting solvent is going to be more complex on your own. Ah, the joys of running your own business, eh? :-/

Trials and Tribulations more like.

Re: "getting someone to do a job I can do": well, like I said, the main reason I bring it up is because as only one man, whenever there's a list of things that need done for the IH, there's only you changing them. Whether you can paint or not doesn't change the fact that painting time isn't writing time, and in a hypothetical world where someone else was doing the cover for you, you wouldn't need to delay Ascensions by as much to deal with it. But all the logistic benefits are at this stage weighed out by cash problems: it's definatly something that'll have to wait until the Bestiary and Ascension are sorted before you can properly consider it.

In a perfect world...

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya mate!

For the new cover, might I suggest, if your skill at composition is up to it, having a lower viewpoint on the battle? Perhaps from the eye level of the Tarrasque as it cowers before the epic clash of the godlike titans - it would certainly be eye catching. "Whoa! Those things are HUGE!"

Thanks for reminding me. When I initially did the cover painting I toyed with the perspective idea, but didn't feel confident at the time. However, I think I am up to the task now. I did a quick pencil sketch last night (6 x 10 cm) just to get a feel for it and I like the idea and I especially like the way it lets me get all the Seraphim's wings into the page without totally dominating the picture.

I think everyone will like the more all-action posing of the two main protagonists, it looks like the Seraphim has the upper hand this time...as it should be.

So don't worry about the cover painting. Although if anyone has any advice/examples/ideas for the logo, by all means I am open to suggestions.

 

[Ltheb Silverfrond]

U_K!

Well I was thinking of twister when I did my interior illustration of the Amilictli, theres a cow spinning up its leg.

Wow I never noticed that before. (I must have taken that for a tree)

... it will be at least 6pm on Friday (my time) before I'll upload it...

Sweet. Unless the world starts spinning in reverse (and friday it may ) thats ~1:00 here. I will anticipate a delay or too, so I am guessing it will be up at ~3 or so my time (~9 or so for you, unless my concept of timezones is totaly wrong). Yes U_K, I know well enough to add 50% to any timeframe you mention.
Definitely looking forward to Ascension.
Sadly my gaming group decided to take some rather rash actions last session, and cleared even more of the campaine than I anticipated. Though they have to cleave their way through another long section of difficult (EL+~1-4!) encounters, It looks like Ascension will come in the nick of time. (Though they may just all die off, as they skipped several dozen encounters through luck, and are slightly below the level range of the next section of the adventure. Lucky them, though I am confident, since its a 9 person group (Yes, nine people, it seems my whole group came back from vacation at once) they should make it out alive with no more than a 50% fatality rate. )
Edit: U_K! If I can, I think I could upload or email you a sampling of logo ideas. I might not use the right font, but Ill pick one that is aproximate to your previous designs.
Edit part II: U_K! I emailed you a hastily-made sample idea for the text, as well as a writeup of how to make something similar. It should be noted I put some minor lenseflares on 3 of the letters, if these are to be used, apply them AFTER everything is arranged on the cover, so as to make the letters appear to be part of the image, versus being something that just looks pasted on there. (I saw this mistake on some WOTC covers with their D&D logo. Very minor, but if noticed it is something one will always notice when looking at the image)

 

[Servitor of Wrath]

5 now.

And now 4.

 

[Rockhoward56]

yop
ohohohohoho!
beings beyond the akashic records?miam miam!
Is it the supreme Being the most powerful "monster" or not lol?
Keep working , good luck

 

[Fieari]

And 3...

It took some explaining for me to concieve of anything higher than the supreme being, although once the records were explained I could accept that readily enough. But now that the akashic records have been explained, I -really- can't figure out what could be higher than that, even templated Lipika...

I mean, I guess I could imagine a meta-library, which contains the first library, but...

And I was under the impression that the Supreme Being was supposed to be the Author anyway?

So what could be more?

 

[Ltheb Silverfrond]

I think the idea of there being things larger than the supreme being is just a plothook in the event someone runs a Highlord-Level game. Since anyone in the party could match the supreme being, heck, one might even BE the supreme being, There could be "things" out there more dangerous or more powerful.
An example: Perhaps there is a super-abomination that steals other deities powers permenently, reguardless of level. Perhaps it ran into a timelord or ten, and now has a whole host of Transcendent and Omnific abilities. Certainly it would be dangerous to the PCs, who would have to fight it "normally."
The concept of a being higher than the Supreme being is just a hook I think. Just like in the current D&D pantheons, there may be stronger things than the gods. (High Age Catagory Prismatic Dragons, for example)
Of course, only U_K knows for sure.