Icon Orc Shield Slam

[Ghostwind]

My first attempt at something more complex than a lazer beam icon. Comments are appreciated!

It's supposed to be an angry orc smashing a poor footman in the face with his shield =)

 

[PurgeandFire]

Cool, I can't really tell where the footman is though.

 

[Daskunk]

Cool, I can't really tell where the footman is though.

Same for me, It looks like it's holding up it's shield and doing a battle cry. Looks nice though.

 

[Ghostwind]

The footman is behind the blast, in the top left hand corner.

 

[Daskunk]

The footman is behind the blast, in the top left hand corner.

I can see that, still doesn't look like he is slamming into him, though.

 

[Samael88]

I think the orc look kind of happy,
it looks like this one without teeth to me ---->
And it is a little blured to me.
Else it looks good

 

[Knight7770]

Shouldn't he be facing the Footman?

 

[Ghostwind]

Nah, the footman is falling backwards, he just smashed the footman away sideways =P

 

[Daskunk]

The problem is his arm is to streched out. He looks like he's extending his arm to the upper courner, not like he is putting all his weight behind the shield with his whole body and slaming into him. It looks like he kinda quickly brushed his shield in the courner and the footmen went flying.

 

[Ghostwind]

It adds effect =)

Anyways, they do that in the WoW icon for shield slam so that's how I got the idea for it.

 

[Andrewgosu]

I think the icon looks a little but too smooth.

Try adding some monochromatic noise to give a more Warcraft-ish feeling.


Also, it would look better without the footman, but that's just my opinion.


It would look something like this:

(Used the burn tool a little on the shield, to give it more depth)

 

[Flare]

I like the shield, looks nice, but the orc is very bright green. Aren't WC3 orcs this kind of green

[COLOR="YellowGreen"][B]This[/B][/COLOR]

 

[Ghostwind]

WC3 orcs are very green 0.o

 

[Sim]

The orc is a little blurry.

Andrew's version looks more like what you want to accomplish.