Log #11: [BG] Castle Main Hall - Balcony
Let's look at our second background today! It's in the same room as BG#1, just upstairs and looking out over one of the side balconies (into the main hall).
Yup. Pretty much looks like you're looking over a side railing. The only comment Dovah had was "Where's the staircase?" (probably the blue line on the bottom left of Rivian's coat). After we discussed it a bit, we finally decided that it was fine to not see any bit of the stairs/landing, since the hall is big enough. Perspective is hard, especially when we don't Art ourselves ==;;.
Mizu sent us these two pics asking which one was better....and we had no idea what was different between them until she explicitly told us "Check the front railing height!" Should it be by Rivian's waist or his elbow? It was a tiny difference D: Ultimately we decided on elbow-height since he should basically be right up against the railing.
Yay lineart is done! Rivian has become Mizu's official reference sprite. Which is perfectly fair, since he's our grumpy MC. Now that we know better about the whole perspective issue with backgrounds, it is much easier to avoid it, and clean lineart is finished faster. Coloring is still an issue though, especially since Dovah is not around much of the same time as Mizu is (class and timezone difference), so the general background making process isn't as optimized as it could be..yet.