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Corky might recognise this, but I'm turning it into a park now .

This was originally a design called The Eagle...but it failed . So now I turn it into a 100x100 park with 4 themes! Just the one screen for now...




...Anyway, yeah. Posting this because it's my 666th post.

It's great to see how much you've improved, Trav.

The screen is pretty nice, certainly very detailed, but Steve inspired, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The problem here is, every building is built the exact same way -- 2 x 2 base, with white (I think that's white at least, I'm color blind so forgive me if its some goofy pink of something ) balconies/rails going off it. It's a little overwhelming with all the white, in every single building. If you look at some of the great parkmakers (Turtle comes to mind especially in this regard), you'd see that they use a broad range of colors but still have main "focus" colors, without being repetititve and using them the same way. This is what I think you need to work on; learn how to use your colors in different ways and vary up your archy. Not every building needs to be like that!

But like I said, it's great to see how much you've improved, and please continue to develop your skills with practice!

^ Exactly my thoughts as well. And, you seem to be really hypocritical about 2x2 ... you are always complaining about them in other people's parks, but here you are with most of your buildings having a 2x2 base, as CF said.

But it is a pretty good improvement; even though some things could be a bit better.


~Jazz~

I love the screen but i think there are too much of that with arches

-Tom_Dj

Since when is everything 'Steve-inspired' now?
I saw the same statement made in another advertising thread.

Very nice work trav, although I feel the white to be very overbearing.

Nice for sure....
but if you ask me... the whote kils the screen
the rest is nice though

Nice for sure....
but if you ask me... the whote kils the screen
the rest is nice though

Same here. And if there wasn't so much Fisherman balcony crap in that screen, I wouldn't care as much.

C'mon, be original.

Edited by laz0rz, 04 January 2006 - 04:15 PM.

Loose the pirate walls and about half the belconies and you'd have something. Exactly what I'm not sure, but something better compositionally that this...

Yeah, there's nothing else I don't like about it that I can put my finger on... Though there is something... (no it's not the 2x2)

ride6

yeah the screen is nice but it got old real quick with the same look. The picture looks like its doubled with that same look but good work...well detailed anyway.

Too many windows and doors, I think. That's what makes the screen look cluttered... if you lose some of them and about half the balconies, it'll look great.

Corky might recognise this

and I do!

Edited by blah188, 04 January 2006 - 08:33 PM.

I really like the pirate walls, I think you could do with a few more of them.

Everyone else has covered most of my comments, but i'll repeat them for repetition's sake.

1) Too much white.
2) Too many balconies.
3) I don't like the flowers. Different kind, maybe?
4) What's the point? Think about this one. What does everything in that screen do? Those white poles don't seem to have any purpose, other than looking nice, and they don't even do that. None of the buildings has a sign, or even it's own identity.

It's annoying to me, since you obviously have now a very good architectural element to your work, it just needs a lot more thought about why you're building things and how you go about establishing an identity for each building - a defining characteristic, or even just a name...

Besides the fact that everything is the same color scheme, this is great.

Edited by Xenon, 06 January 2006 - 04:37 PM.

Do people think grey would suit more than white? Cos I too think it's a little overpowering, but were scared to change it...

Also, Jazz, I have to say I completely disagree with you on the hypocrite statement. If you look, most of my buildings start with a random sorta shape at the bottom, and work their way up into a 2x2 or 2x3 building. But the buildings I tell people to spruce up are just like a 2x2 block from top to bottom. And even when I do end in a 2x2 building, I try to make the roof make it seem as though it isn't. I add volume using roofing, which, from what I can see, a lot of people don't do. I know these buildings haven't got "volume" from their roofing, but that's because most of these buildings are 2 or 3 month old. I've improved a lot since I built these.

Anyway, I have a new screen for you all .


Small, but it gets the point through in my opinion. Oh, and ignore the yellow flowers and the red sand sorta path, they're both from another area.

Too many art deco pieces. Overload on the horizontal plane.

Also, why is there an oak tree right next to a large block of ice?

I like the colors on the building, but it just seems to overdone.

What's up with the ice?

It's better, but yea, like everyone else says, too many art deco pieces, and I don't get the ice.

Edited by laz0rz, 07 January 2006 - 01:27 PM.

The new screen is nice, the dark blue works well, but maybe all those brown deco pieces are a little excessive, and yeah the ice thing is weirdly placed, but hey its a theme park, i've seen random shit in theme parks before lol. Good shit this is trav, now finish it and send in for spotlight! now!

-X-

I'll make it so the ice land blocks aren't there, but I want them at the top of some mountains in this area, so dont complain when you see them...

No i like it!!!

-X-