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_drazz_

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After seeing many Kano Beam fatalities, I wanted to give a try. Well, basically Kano "eyebeaming" Cyrax, who melts in cries of pain. Tell me what you think.

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Damn Drazz, thats what its all about man! This fake is very believable as far as an in game fatality goes. Excelent effects on the melting; Ed Boon couldn't have done it better himself. The lighting effect from Kano's eyebeam is also superb. Its just enough to make the whole thing look real. Good job! Keep it up!
 
wow. I really dig Cyrax melting that looks pretty damn good. the moon, although it looks fine, i just dont think the purpleish color works.
 
Damn :shock:

The only issue I can bring up is that I hate Kano, and personally, don't think he could beat a robot armed with bombs. But, that's just me 8)
 
Wow, thanx. Now this looks a lot better than any of the ones I've done before. I mean, it looks like a real fake. Thanx a lot for helping me.

Hey dis (can I call you dis?? :wink: ) I don't think Kano could beat Cyrax either, but they suited well for the laser and the melting effects. :wink: I thought of Sonya but a cyborg would melt better hehehehe.
 
_drazz_ said:
Wow, thanx. Now this looks a lot better than any of the ones I've done before. I mean, it looks like a real fake. Thanx a lot for helping me.

Hey dis (can I call you dis?? :wink: ) I don't think Kano could beat Cyrax either, but they suited well for the laser and the melting effects. :wink: I thought of Sonya but a cyborg would melt better hehehehe.
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Yeah man, you can call me whatever you want 8) Sonya would've made more sense, if you were going for a storyilne-oriented fake, but you're right: Cyrax makes more sense for a melting fatality.

Definately awesome, I must say again.
 
_drazz_ said:
can I call you dis??
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You can call me Susan, if you like. 8) (if you didn't catch the reference, go get an education!)

This is looking really good, _drazz_. You're starting to catch on I think :D

A couple of things I see wrong are,
  • The laser looks a bit jagged and some parts of the red stick out further than the rest. It looks more liquid than light because of that.
  • The Kano edit isn't all that hot. Just a bit of pallette swap that I'm not digging. Spice him up a bit with some changes.
  • The purple moon. If it's because of the laser's light as you applied it to the background, you really goofed there.
  • The background isn't darkened :shock:
  • The way you have the lighting coming off of the laser is too extreme. Lasers give off a light that fades out exponentially. Meaning it's bright around the light source, but then goes dark really, really quick. There should probably be a strip of brighter floor just beneath the laser as well since it is the source of the light.
  • The smoke coming off of Cyrax was almost unnoticeable at first. It looks more like dirty spots in the area and wall around/behind him.
  • That bit of blood coming from Cyrax. It looks iffy. The heat of a laser that could melt him like that wouldn't produce blood spray since it would cauterize the wound immeadiately. Not to mention that Cyrax bleeds oil, not blood :P . If it's sparks coming out of him, they don't look like it :(

The good things :D
  • You've included some lifebars, there are a few errors in them. Go read up on my post on how to make a fake in MS Paint for proper placement there if you're going to use the default ones w/o editing. The names are placed slightly off as well as the timer and dragon symbols too.
  • Everything looks crisp and smooth. The lack of filters really makes the characters, not the effects, stand out in this.
  • The Cyrax edit is near flawless from where I stand. This is a much better job than I could do here. I have to give you props on what you achieved with him. The only part that doesn't bode well with me is the arm that is glowing red. Whether from the light of the laser or just from heat, it's blurred out and you lose a sense of exactly how his arm looks.

Overall I'd give you an 8/10 on this one. Much improvement over your other "fakes".
 
Thanx for your efforts on commenting. You know so well what this is all about and I appreciate how you make it easier for us to learn too.

A couple of things I see wrong are,
  • The Kano edit isn't all that hot. Just a bit of pallette swap that I'm not digging. Spice him up a bit with some changes.

    Yeah, the pallette swap was cheap... At first, I thought or turning the whole outfit black, but...after the melting stuff I was too lazy to do so.
  • The purple moon. If it's because of the laser's light as you applied it to the background, you really goofed there.

    I cut out the red light around the moon so I don't know right now what happened there...
  • The background isn't darkened :shock:

    Oops...I made a black layer especially for that but I think I lowered the oppacity too much...
  • The way you have the lighting coming off of the laser is too extreme. Lasers give off a light that fades out exponentially. Meaning it's bright around the light source, but then goes dark really, really quick. There should probably be a strip of brighter floor just beneath the laser as well since it is the source of the light.

    I thought of the strip of the floor, but didn't know how old decayed wood would reflect the light... I dediced to give the whole scene a red light and leave it like that.
  • The smoke coming off of Cyrax was almost unnoticeable at first. It looks more like dirty spots in the area and wall around/behind him.

    Yes, I used spots with a pencil, then applied some movement blur and some wave effect. I thought a black smoke suited more in terms of Cyrax's oil.
  • That bit of blood coming from Cyrax. It looks iffy. The heat of a laser that could melt him like that wouldn't produce blood spray since it would cauterize the wound immeadiately. Not to mention that Cyrax bleeds oil, not blood :P . If it's sparks coming out of him, they don't look like it :(

Yes, those were meant to be hot incandescent metal , cos this extreme heat would not make him bleed like a cut off head for instance. My bad I didn't get the effect correct.

The good things :D
  • You've included some lifebars, there are a few errors in them. Go read up on my post on how to make a fake in MS Paint for proper placement there if you're going to use the default ones w/o editing.

    I read your post some time ago (it was great btw). I put them in a bit random to say the truth but from now on, I'll take care of it.
  • The Cyrax edit is near flawless from where I stand. This is a much better job than I could do here. I have to give you props on what you achieved with him. The only part that doesn't bode well with me is the arm that is glowing red. Whether from the light of the laser or just from heat, it's blurred out and you lose a sense of exactly how his arm looks.

It was a bit of both, the light from the laser and a bit of heat.


Thank you again. You're the man, dude.
 
9/10. There is just one thing I see wrong with it.

The red lighting appears to come from the wooden pillar left of Kano, instead of actually his eye. Either way its a good fake. Creativity does the mind good.
 
Prophet said:
9/10. There is just one thing I see wrong with it.

The red lighting appears to come from the wooden pillar left of Kano, instead of actually his eye. Either way its a good fake. Creativity does the mind good.
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I see your point, but don't quite understand. You're suggesting that the lighting should go from Kano's eye forward, right? so there shouldn't be light to his back. Dunno, I really can't tell how laser beams work properly and I thought this way looked cool. Thanx for pointing it out though.
 
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