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I agree that the "grainy" looking images look very cool. The cartoonish style works well to keep Egoboo a "fun" kind of game and not really serious.

While the grainy thing is cool, could that really stop anyone from producing something smooth as long as it has that cartoony look?

No, of course not. But this way it also looks like it's been drawn by crayon, as Purple pointed out. I think that's pretty cool.

I think the eyes need to match the ones in the paintings, rather than the in-game style that I used.

Personally I don't like the graininess. I would remove it from the old images if I could do it without introducing more artifacts that I remove.

I made this... hmm... "softer" version of the Adventurer starter's title image. If people like it, I can make the others, too.

The eyes are all to dominant.

Hmmm...
Is this better?

Actually, the eyes don't really look like eyes...

Clonkinator wrote:Actually, the eyes don't really look like eyes...

Yea, I know.
But it's just so hard to make eyes really look like eyes.

That style is pretty cool. It fits the atmosphere of Egoboo well, too. I like the first one better, with the bigger eyes. But the eyes are only slightly too big. The second image has the eyes too small and kind of weirdly irregular, as if the kid had Down Syndrome or something.

They also look like they are slightly at an angle.

Here is my very crude alteration next to your original (yours is the left one):



EDIT: I made another version (the middle one) with less rotated eyes. The one I made first was a bit too much.

This is what I was talking about, but the despeckling process introduces too many artifacts of its own

vs

Hmm, the one Birdsey did looks kinda blurry, I think. I myself like the original one the best, but we can try making smoething. xD
But then, if we change the original title images, Aaron gets mad.

woodmouse wrote:But then, if we change the original title images, Aaron gets mad.

Heh, I doubt he'd like the eyeball one I made off a picture I found in a google search.

despeckling process introduces too many artifacts of its own

looks kinda blurry

there is no way to despeckle without making it more blurry.

However, if the blurriness is just in the parts of the image that are not edges, then it is minimized.

original
new despeckled
old despeckled

The new one does look pretty good.
It's still a toss-up between that and the original, though.