Mortal Kombat HD Remix with MUGEN

[Le@N]

Checked Liu Kang portrait, water and hand look out of place.
Will be good to see uKER's improvements for face/body.

 

[]{0MBAT]

Here's where I'm at with Liu's portrait.

3D render:

my edits:

I always imagined something like a sunset over waves as Liu's background rather than fire, and I think the black shadow on his shoulder was actually his hand kind of like I have it in my edit, but I don't know.

Let me know!

Wow, MrMos3s, great job! I really like this. I never saw this as a hand before, just thought it was a dark part of his shoulder. But now that I see the hand there, it's hard to imagine this as anything else.

I don't know if I care for the background, but like you implied, the original was so grainy that it was up to our imagination to fill in the blanks. I always saw it as kind of a bunch of red & yellow clouds. Maybe you could try it with a couple different backgrounds and see what the community likes best? You could always try and blur it a bit so you can't make out exactly what it is, that would sure be keeping in the spirit of the original!

 

[calactyte]

@mrmos3s

Very nice! I think Lui himself looks perfect. The hand doesn't bother me either, I think you sold me on it being in the original. Don't like the water background at all. I guess in theory it could be a pretty sunset on the water but I think it is meant to be fire given that he shoots fireballs as his projectile.

 

[arq_hawkin]

MrMos3s did a great job on liu, I don't think his hand looks bad at all, I just didn't like the background, I think fire would be better, to me it's just perfect, good JOB, Mr. you nailed it

 

[la_luna]

@Mos3s, I like how you come up with stuff for backgrounds, very creative. I like Sub-Zero's ice background (I always thought it was a forrest or something lol) and I like sea and rising sun for Liu Kang, very oriental and fits Kang imho. You could try fire and see what looks better, but very interesting interpretation on this one.

I got the snapshoots from ETD bluray in 1080p, they're in noticeble better quality then the previous ones. However there is some film grain going on them, but it's the best quality out there (untile 30th anniversary re-scan edition I guess)

@uKER
Yeah, monk background should be blurry (maybe just a little less then how you made it) but I'm not sure for the other ending pic. We'll see what looks better, I'll post them later today.

 

[falconsfan]

MrMos3s, Liu is amazing, but to me it looks like Liu's traps need to be slightly larger and shoulders slightly higher... what do you think? Otherwise his face is spot on for sure.

 

[john timbo]

@ Mrmos3s congratulations once again you outdid yourself, I never imagined that there'd only one hand, amazing his work exelente can not wait to get this game ready!!!!

 

[uKER]

I'm pretty certain Liu Kang's hand is posed into a fist in his profile picture.

His thumb is even visible sticking out.
The dark area is over his proximal phalanxes, due to both main lights being below that level (see shadow above the nose).

The pose is a lot like this:

I also think his eyes should be more "squinty". As it is, it looks as if if he fully opened them he would look completely western.

 

[calactyte]

You may be right, though I'm not sure if that's a thumb. To be completely honest the original is such a blurry mess that it is really difficult to tell what is going on. That being said, I think MrMos3s did a terrific job of "filling in the blanks" creatively. I wouldn't touch Lui at all. I think he nailed. It's only the background that seems off to me. The idea for it being a sunset was also very creative even though I think it should probably be flames back there.

I'm pretty certain Liu Kang's hand is posed into a fist in his profile picture.

His thumb is even visible sticking out.
The dark area is over his proximal phalanxes, due to both main lights being below that level (see shadow above the nose).

The pose is a lot like this:

 

[uKER]

I think the background looks more like the lower left quadrant of this:

 

[calactyte]

I think the background looks more like the lower left quadrant of this:

I'm thinking it is more along the lines of this. MrMos3s feel free to use this image. I think I can see all the fire shapes within this image, just spread apart somewhat.

 

[uKER]

Not bad either.
Mine probably looks too peaceful in comparison.

 

[ttas]

I believe the Liu Kang hand/fist was mentioned before. I said that it I always thought it was a fist and someone else said they wouldn't put two portraits side by side Raiden/Liu Kang that have the same fist pose.

 

[arq_hawkin]

I believe the Liu Kang hand/fist was mentioned before. I said that it I always thought it was a fist and someone else said they wouldn't put two portraits side by side Raiden/Liu Kang that have the same fist pose.

yes, I said that, I think they wouldn't do it... but maybe they did

 

[uKER]

Just get someone random (say your little brother or even your mother) to look at the original Liu Kang pic and ask them what they see.
The confusion comes from getting contaminated from overanalyzing it.

Also, the hand is FAR too small, almost like a child's hand, and the lighting doesn't match at all. In that position the palm would be lit pretty much like the right side of the forehead.

 

[Le@N]

I think it's just shadow of Liu Kang' righ hand on his body. MK1 definetely has problems with lighting/shadows.
Few portraits includes hand and it was always shown clearly.

 

[la_luna]

So, these are from the 1080p bluray:

I left color correction or possible retouch-ups to the person making the actual endings (to see what fits better with the model) Screenshots needed to be squashed and downsized to fit on what's in the game. These are the final dimensinos for the game, no need to resize anything further.

 

[john timbo]

I agree with the opinion Uker by hand size I think liu okay with fist!

 

[MrMos3s]

I like both of the backgrounds you guys supplied but with a bunch of tinkering I think I've got it right with the fire that cal posted. I'm touching up a few things and will upload something soon.

 

[theotherguy]

I think uKER's image is almost perfect. You just need to pick out and possibly modify some of the parts of it.

Here's a really quick mockup I did using it.