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Title: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on July 16, 2010, 06:06:09 PM
(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4720/thewolfslairlogo.png) (http://img153.imageshack.us/i/thewolfslairlogo.png/)
...For those who can't get enough of the much-awaited Ostheer!



SIGNATURES

Ostheer Sig #1
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9124/ostsig2.png) (http://img10.imageshack.us/i/ostsig2.png/)

Ostheer Sig #2
(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5962/ostsig.png) (http://img713.imageshack.us/i/ostsig.png/)

Ostheer Sig #3
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2282/ostsig5.png) (http://img824.imageshack.us/i/ostsig5.png/)

Ostheer Sig #4
(http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7061/ostsig3.png) (http://img203.imageshack.us/i/ostsig3.png/)

Ostheer Sig #5
(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/6246/ostsig4.png) (http://img34.imageshack.us/i/ostsig4.png/)




AVATARS

Ostheer Avatar #1 ("Waffen-Grenadier")
(http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/383/waffenico2b.png) (http://img80.imageshack.us/i/waffenico2b.png/)

Ostheer Avatar #2 ("Dirlewangers")
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1792/waffenico2c.png) (http://img293.imageshack.us/i/waffenico2c.png/)

Ostheer Avatar #3 ("Hauptsturmführer")
(http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/9826/waffenico2e.png) (http://img682.imageshack.us/i/waffenico2e.png/)

Ostheer Avatar #4 ("Sturmbannführer")
(http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/2056/waffenico2i.png) (http://img541.imageshack.us/i/waffenico2i.png/)

Ostheer Avatar #5 ("PzKpfw. III Ausf. H")
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4232/waffenico2f.png) (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/waffenico2f.png/)

Ostheer Avatar #6 ("Sturmartillerie! Ability")
(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/8060/waffenico2g.png) (http://img191.imageshack.us/i/waffenico2g.png/)

Ostheer Avatar #7 ("SS-Feldpolizei")
(http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/1222/waffenico2.png) (http://img33.imageshack.us/i/waffenico2.png/)

Ostheer Avatar #8 (Gebirgsjäger mit Stahlhelm")

(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1013/waffenico2j.png) (http://img101.imageshack.us/i/waffenico2j.png/)


...MORE TO COME!!!

**These were made for amusement/non-commercial purposes only. They are not intended to represent/portray actual Ostheer units or concepts.
Title: Re: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: HyperSniper999 on July 16, 2010, 07:28:08 PM
They look good, tempted to use the Officer one.
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Seeme on July 17, 2010, 12:15:38 AM
Interesting.
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on July 17, 2010, 03:56:03 PM
Hehe. I had waaaaayyy too much time on my hands.  :P
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Dominic 'Dragon' Cassidy on July 17, 2010, 05:34:34 PM
Oooh, avatar #5 gave me an idea - I'll post if it's any good ;)

Nice work btw.

Edit:

Meh, maybe not - so little space to work with!!
If I upload the tank images - care to have a go at designing something to replace the King Tiger, Calliope and Hetzer call-ins? - that displays the original unit and the the new unit in some way.

Can't have new trees replacing the original ones so am mixing the descriptions (changing the name of the call in, and adding a "REWARD UNIT:" bit to the description), would like to mix the icons in the same way.


Was going to try a ghost of the new unit behind the old one - but with the amount of pixels available that's not very easy.
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: wordsmith on July 17, 2010, 06:09:57 PM
Wow man nice pics! :)
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: SK8ERatWAR on July 17, 2010, 10:03:21 PM
this is great! love avatar 5 & 6,
and love the "goddamned recrewing bug"   ;D
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Gerrit 'Lord Rommel' G. on July 18, 2010, 12:40:32 AM
Just a small note about sig.5:
Your sig: Und das Heißt...Erika!
"Correct": Und das heißt...Erika!
Just a cosmetical/linguistical correction.

And my personal note; i think it would be cooler when u
wirte the hole refrain:
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein.
Und das heißt...Erika xD

I love that song ^^

About avatar 3: Hans von Gröbel is still alive  ;D
Jeah! The Codename Panzers Hero. That game was
so cool. I played it so intensive. Gröbel is my hero  :D

And all in all; cool grafic stuff here!  ;D
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Pauly3 on July 18, 2010, 02:35:31 AM
yes panzers was ok
the game was good but the story was a cartoon
"I am Hans von Gröbel! I am a prussian Nazi!! I speak terrible German! Jawohl! Attacke!!"
"Uhuhu iche bin Luigi! Die Spagetti alla Mamma!!"
I hated that... ::)
Also is it just me or is this Forum quite germanophile?
Everybody round here seems to love all them Nazi symbols and tanks
well i also like CoH as a game but i dont have k98 and M24(whatever that is) at home...
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on July 18, 2010, 03:51:16 AM
Thanks everyone...  ;D

M24(whatever that is) at home...

...you mean the M24 Chaffee light tank?  :o
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: SK8ERatWAR on July 18, 2010, 11:27:18 AM
Also is it just me or is this Forum quite germanophile?
Everybody round here seems to love all them Nazi symbols and tanks
well i also like CoH as a game but i dont have k98 and M24(whatever that is) at home...
Yeah, i've noticed that too.. but i think people are just WW2 fanatics, especially german stuff is cool i think, because they had cooler stuff..(tiger etc.)  :P and it's also maybe because everybody is excited about the new ostheer..  ;D
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Blackbishop on July 18, 2010, 06:29:41 PM
Also is it just me or is this Forum quite germanophile?
Everybody round here seems to love all them Nazi symbols and tanks
well i also like CoH as a game but i dont have k98 and M24(whatever that is) at home...
Yeah, i've noticed that too.. but i think people are just WW2 fanatics, especially german stuff is cool i think, because they had cooler stuff..(tiger etc.)  :P and it's also maybe because everybody is excited about the new ostheer..  ;D
+1
Title: Re: The Wolf\'s Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on July 19, 2010, 03:22:00 AM
Also is it just me or is this Forum quite germanophile?
Everybody round here seems to love all them Nazi symbols and tanks
well i also like CoH as a game but i dont have k98 and M24(whatever that is) at home...
Yeah, i've noticed that too.. but i think people are just WW2 fanatics, especially german stuff is cool i think, because they had cooler stuff..(tiger etc.)  :P and it's also maybe because everybody is excited about the new ostheer..  ;D
+1
+2

I also admit to being a WW2 fanatic... In fact, I collect a lot of vintage Soviet and German (Imperial and Third Reich) militaria.  ;) And I think it's a family thing as well, since both my wife's family and mine were mostly on the side who lost WW2 (Hers: Langemarck[1 grandfather KIA], Wallonien [2 grandfathers, and 1 grand-uncle MIA], 1st The Royal Dragoons [1 great-grandfather KIA and 1 grandfather]; Mine: Nordland [1 great-grandfather, and 1 grand-uncle KIA], Lützow [1 great-grand-uncle KIA], Kurmark [1 grand-uncle], Feldhernhalle II [2 grandfathers KIA], 5. Panzer-Division [1 grand-uncle KIA]). But I digress.  :)

Post Merge: July 15, 2010, 07:33:31 PM
Meh, maybe not - so little space to work with!!
I just started out with 500x500 templates, then reduced them to their current sizes...it's a bit tricky though  :P
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: moknin on July 19, 2010, 04:24:09 PM
yes panzers was ok
the game was good but the story was a cartoon
"I am Hans von Gröbel! I am a prussian Nazi!! I speak terrible German! Jawohl! Attacke!!"
"Uhuhu iche bin Luigi! Die Spagetti alla Mamma!!"
I hated that... ::)
Also is it just me or is this Forum quite germanophile?
Everybody round here seems to love all them Nazi symbols and tanks
well i also like CoH as a game but i dont have k98 and M24(whatever that is) at home...

I think properly everybody are a bit fanatic in taboo subjects, at least I am
but yes German equipments in WW2 are the coolest
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Killar on July 19, 2010, 08:22:47 PM
awesome!

personally favourite is avatar 4, cause of its winter clothing fits best to ostheer theme.

Is it only me or isn´t avatar 1 looking kinda zombie with its pale skin?  ;D

Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on July 20, 2010, 03:50:51 AM
awesome!

personally favourite is avatar 4, cause of its winter clothing fits best to ostheer theme.

Is it only me or isn´t avatar 1 looking kinda zombie with its pale skin?  ;D
...frostbite?  ;D :P
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: javy52 on July 25, 2010, 03:45:35 AM
these are really good man
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Killar on August 02, 2010, 11:18:25 PM
what program did you use to make the avatars? photoshop?
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on August 07, 2010, 12:12:44 PM
what program did you use to make the avatars? photoshop?
Yep. Photoshop CS5   :) ;D

Sorry for the late reply, mate. Just got back from a long overdue vacation to Santorini with me wife.  ;)
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Killar on August 08, 2010, 03:38:50 PM
no worry! I hope you enjoyed your holidays!  :)

I was just wondering how to edit a image to look like relics comic style...

As i´m loving to draw, i was making a win screen for soviets:

(http://a.imageshack.us/img830/6417/bildzn.jpg)

I´m not done yet. Under the flag there should be a destryed german tank or an advancing t34.

How do you like it?

greetings
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on August 08, 2010, 04:51:45 PM
no worry! I hope you enjoyed your holidays!  :)

I was just wondering how to edit a image to look like relics comic style...

As i´m loving to draw, i was making a win screen for soviets:

(http://a.imageshack.us/img683/3381/bild2jh.jpg)

I´m not done yet. Under the flag there should be a destryed german tank or an advancing t34.

How do you like it?

greetings
Wow! that's quite a sketch!  ;) You're on the right track, composition-wise... you can also add something like an explosion or advancing troops in the immediate background (center) to further unify all of the elements.  ;) The officer waving a Tokarev's a very good choice as well.

Hmm, for the Relic-style effects you can try using Adobe® Photoshop filters (CS2 onwards are the best IMO---I use CS5) or alternatively, you could "paint" it yourself with CS4/CS5 or Corel® Painter 11. It'll be easier with a Wacom pen and tablet (preferably Cintiq) though...it feels just like the real thing  ;D 8) But that's just me, I guess. The devs might be able to help you out a bit more...  :D

Well, I hope that helped, somehow...  ;) Good luck, Kamerad! And kindly share with us your results when you're done!  :D

Additional References:

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html (http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html)
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/painting/create-a-fantasy-painting-with-photoshop-cs5s-mixer-brush-psdtuts-premium-tutorial/ (http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/painting/create-a-fantasy-painting-with-photoshop-cs5s-mixer-brush-psdtuts-premium-tutorial/)
http://www.steeldolphin.com/htmltuts/digital_colorpart1.html (http://www.steeldolphin.com/htmltuts/digital_colorpart1.html)
http://www.steeldolphin.com/htmltuts/digital_colorpart1.html (http://www.steeldolphin.com/htmltuts/digital_colorpart1.html)
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshopcafe-tv/comic-art-on-a-wacom-cintiq-in-photoshop-cs4 (http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshopcafe-tv/comic-art-on-a-wacom-cintiq-in-photoshop-cs4)
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Killar on August 08, 2010, 05:37:22 PM
Many thanks for the links!  :D

I will work through and post when its done
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on August 17, 2010, 09:15:27 PM
New avatars! check 'em out  ;D
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: HyperSniper999 on August 17, 2010, 09:37:08 PM
What about a Gebirgsjagers without the helmet?
Title: Re: The Wolf's Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Happycat on August 17, 2010, 10:58:01 PM
Wow, these graphics are so damn cool.  ;D
Title: Re: The Wolf\'s Lair: Ostheer-inspired Misc. Stuff
Post by: Werwolf on August 18, 2010, 04:11:13 AM
What about a Gebirgsjagers without the helmet?
With the ski cap? Working on it...  ;)

Post Merge: August 18, 2010, 05:50:04 AM
Wow, these graphics are so damn cool.  ;D
Danke schön, Happycat!  :)