NF propaganda

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  1. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    I'm editing an official map right now and it's going to feature some NF accents and details. Since it's gonna be a part of empires base content I want to get the lore and style right. Soviet style propaganda posters and murals are specifically what I'm looking at, I've made these so far:
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    Anyone else have any good images, or ideas? Even the roughest of creations could make a good decal. Any ideas or suggestions for just making something look NF-y?
     
  2. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    Doesnt even have to be soviet propaganda, the nazi posters from ww2 have some good style as well
     
  3. D.D.D. Destroyer

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    That poster is absolutely amaing. Just wow.
     
  4. Lazybum

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    Yeah, that's a great poster.
     
  5. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    Id look through google for some material but their "muh policy changes" shit just anoys me way too much.
     
  6. Spike

    Spike Long Live The King!

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    Great work varbles :D
     
  7. vipervicki

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    Looks great!
     
  8. Catface

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    Awesome work. :D
     
  9. Spike

    Spike Long Live The King!

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    Perhaps something like this i know its not very good its just rough.
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  11. D.D.D. Destroyer

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    Scar's poster needs to be dirtier and less vibrant, it looks too digital. The style is cool though.
     
  12. Metruption

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    If you just kinda graze over most of it with the burn tool in paint.NET or GIMP then you can easily give it that aged poster feeling
     
  13. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    This one's perfect, it looks just like BE

    that'll work as a nice scrappy poster decal. IMO the best way to add grunge/weathering is just grab something from google images "paper grunge texture", paste it as the top layer, and set the layer mode to grain merge. You might have to desaturate it and play with the lightness/contrast a bit but but it can make an MSpaint sketch look pretty realistic.
     
  15. Lazybum

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    Quick question, are you drawing these by hand or doing something else?
     
  16. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    Really lazy? Hes editing some of the actual posters.

    Dont you see the 1941 in the signature of the latest post?
     
  17. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    [​IMG]
    Here's a quick edit I did to spike's image. Will look great as a small poster somewhere. Here's the GIMP source file if you wanna see the steps to make it, it's pretty simple: add a layer mask, paint the edges with a black grunge brush and then increase the contrast to give it hard edges.


    And yeah, just editing existing ones, I can't actually draw or paint.
     
  18. Spike

    Spike Long Live The King!

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    Varbles i fucking love you. that is great
     
  19. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    Suggestion : make some varieties and have some be intentionally defaced, like with sprayed on "LIES" or somesuch.
     
  20. D.D.D. Destroyer

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    That suits BE a little more, but it'd be cool to have such things for both!
     

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