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[Enkida]

Time for the great big post of pictures which I did not do. I did change the saturation on some of them, however.

Anomen by Miloch
Cernd by Miloch
Jan by Miloch
Keldorn by Miloch
Valygar by Miloch
Viconia by Miloch

Sarevok by MiLeah
Yoshimo by MiLeah

Irenicus by Bioware

Coran by l-goon17 + ???

Elvira by ???

[Enkida]

I hope at last Kachiko is fixed! She is at least better centered, which had been annoying me when I first shrunk down her head.

[Enkida]

Suna Seni from the unfinished business mod is originally Elisha Cuthbert. I just plain old tried to match as much as possible with the original portrait portal image:



Well shoot, I uploaded the wrong image. DA is being a bit slow today though, so all I can say is she DOES keep the scar over her eye in my portrait. I'll edit it perhaps tommorrow so enjoy her blemish free face for now.

Edited by Enkida, 04 December 2011 - 03:20 PM.

[Sanctifer]

Time for the great big post of pictures which I did not do. I did change the saturation on some of them, however.

Coran by l-goon17 + ???

That Coran was made by Amaurea
http://www.freewebs....seriespage1.htm

[Enkida]

Ooh! What a nice portrait series! I never saw those before! Anyway, it looks like it is part of a nice pack already so I will cut it out of my own. I had the impression it had been taken from a non- baldurdized piece of art and Coranized by lgoon-17, but I don't want to include it if it was already specifically made for bg by Amaurea. thanks for the tip!

[Enkida]

Minor NPC Suu from the Angelo mod, I think:

[Enkida]

Minor NPC "Seas" - original image is from DarkladyStock @ DA: http://browse.devian...dyStock#/duf46a

[Enkida]

Here's that Mazzy in plate pic, as well. You know, I think I'm finally done! Time to zip it up. XD

[Enkida]

Fixed Edwin's headsize

[Enkida]

[MiLeah]

The journey for this might have been long, but the pay off is so worth it! Wow! You finally finished and they all look amazing! Congratz, ma dear!

Oh, and by the way, seen your art over at DA. Um, like
Geez, your drawing skills are just pure awesome!

[Lollorian]

Still following this and personally think these can be used for NPCs

Minor NPC Suu from the Angelo mod, I think:

Saerileth?

Minor NPC "Seas" - original image is from DarkladyStock @ DA: http://browse.devian...dyStock#/duf46a

Vesine (from TDD)

Edited by Lollorian, 08 December 2011 - 10:38 PM.

[Enkida]

Thanks MiLeah! And everyone should keep an eye out for your portraits too. Guys, if you haven't seen her Gavin, Anomen and Xan portraits you are missing some serious eye candy. :-D~

As per recycling portraits for other uses - well what people do with the portraits is their own business once they have them, as long as they're not repacked and republished as replacer mods without asking first though. I heard Sarelith had a perfectly good default portrait and didn't need a replacement though. As for others... Christmas season is incredibly busy for me, I hope to have this bersion done and finished by the end of the year. If people have more requests (and there have been a few already) I will think about doing them for a version 1.1 of the pack or something. But seriously, NEXT YEAR! I'm out of time this year, sorry!

And be really nice to Lava, or offer to help him out with his projects if you want a speedy release.. he's the one doing all the real work getting this stuff packed, since I'm clueless. :-).

[Sanctifer]

Yay, congrats !

Your work is really great !
Your fade is amazing, but as said before, I thought she looked maybe too "nice" and "calm" to be really Fade
So I tried something to make her a little more fiendish :

-

What d'you think ?

[Enkida]

Too saturated for my taste, but if you like it, hey! Looks nice. :-) Bianca Beauchamp is anything but not sharp, ehehe. She's the model for the CG render of the evil nemesis of the SIN game series. I guess I carry that in the back of my head when I look at her innocent face like that, LOLLERSKATES!

Anyway, for anyone doing their OWN portrait mods in the future, I am saving y'all some legwork with filenames here. In case you guys get the idea to do minor NPCs too ;-)

source files naming conventions. assume all this goes in override folder unless annotated:

Unfinished Business
SUNAL.BMP -> also in portraits
SUNAS.BMP -> also in portraits
wwfbL.bmp
wwfbS.bmp
wwnbL.bmp
wwnbS.bmp

Ascension
NBALTHAL.bmp
NBODHIL.bmp

TOD
VA#GULIM.bmp
VA#GULIS.bmp
va#tianL.bmp
va#tianS.bmp

the FLIRT pack?
FWAnosmL.bmp
FWAnosmS.bmp

Kelsey
J#KlsyG.bmp
J#KlsyL.bmp
J#KlsyS.bmp

Keto
KetoM.bmp
KetoS.bmp

Valen
ValenL.bmp -> also in portraits
ValenS.bmp -> also in portraits


Xan - MYSTERY PORTRAIT IS WELL HIDDEN ><img src='http://www.shsforums.net/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />


Angelo
ADAngelL.bmp
ADAngelM.bmp
ADAngelS.bmp
ADSawarS.bmp
ADSuuS.bmp

tenft1s.bmp  (or from Xan?)
tenft2s.bmp  (or from Xan?)


Yoshimo Romance
NYOSHIML.bmp -> also in portraits
NYOSHIMM.bmp -> also in portraits
NYOSHIMS.bmp -> also in portraits
YRxBRO.bmp
YRxGOR.bmp
YRxGW.bmp
YRxHul.bmp
YRxRIE.bmp
YRxTAM.bmp
YRxYUN.bmp

Solaufein
DM041L.bmp
DM041S.bmp
solaboo.bmp


Romantic Encounters
BLaranS.bmp
C#BJORNS.bmp
RE_Sheri.bmp

Edwin Romance complete
DekkieL.bmp
DekkieS.bmp
EdwinaL.bmp
EdwinaS.bmp
ElviraL.bmp
ElviraS.bmp
Red1sm.bmp (male)
Red2sm.bmp (male)
Red3sm.bmp (female)
redlich.bmp

Turnabout
ALIANN2L.bmp
ALIANN2S.bmp
ALIANNAL.bmp
ALIANNAS.bmp
ALIHORCL.bmp
ALIHORCS.bmp
BALTHAZS.bmp
barvon.bmp
D0T#GORS.bmp

[Enkida]

EDIT: scratch the first two, they are from the Kivan mod. But if anyone knows where tenft1s and tenft2s come from still, they are the missing mystery piece in the mod puzzle. ^^;

By the way, if anyone can name the mod these guys originally come from, it would help (this is cross posted in the resource request forum as well)



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Edited by Enkida, 10 December 2011 - 11:00 AM.

[Enkida]

Project update:

If anybody is using the list above as an NPC replacer guide, it does have errors in it - I got some of the portrait names wrong. That was before I remembered that I could use the search function on my computer to look for all those tricky tricky .bmp files. Yes, I am just that brilliant.

Note to future modders: use the search function on your installed mod folders. Your life will be involved with so much less weeping.

The good news is that the portrait pack is 98% bugfixed. So now all I need to find is a nice host - I don't think my own dying webserver will be able to manage it - and some last minute tuning of the .exe file. So hopefully there will be finished pack out by Christmas, that is my goal.

FYI!

[Enkida]

This is a test run of a BG1 style portrait, rather than a BG2 style portrait. Personally I think I fail at art copy, but it's my first attempt. This will NOT be in this version of the portrait pack, but who knows, maybe later on if I get comfortable and happy with trying to emulate bg1 style. ^^;



stock image from chamberstock@da
http://chamberstock....ck-34-200022372

[Enkida]

Hmm, I have no tutorials per se, but I did outline my method for BG2 portraits right here: http://www.shsforums...post__p__527965

And you can see that visually right here: http://www.shsforums...post__p__527905

Personally I use photoshop CS1 and a tablet and stylus. There is no super secret brand or method to the stylus, mine is an ancient wacom one that's well over 5 years old, I think. It still works with pressure sensitivity, though, and that's good enough for me. And to be fair, when it comes to inking, I am starting to prefer using the path tool rather than a tablet and stylus anyway. But for things like painting and colouring the tablet is still better than a mouse.

You're not the first person to ask me this so I will say this preemptively: there is no secret software, technique, brand or other easy fix to make good portraits. You can get guidelines and tips, but for the most part to make a portrait look really good it is just plain old blood, sweat, tears, and your two eyeballs and judgement. It gets better with time though, so just start doing portraits of "unimportant" NPCs and when you've done three or four, you can start on the ones that "matter" and it will be easier. and good luck, you can never have too many portrait packs for BG2 out there. ;-)