First of all, this isn't commissioned work, I just received permission from the artist to post this here.
Second, you are severely mistaken. This is not in any way derivative work of the Warcraft II icons, it was merely inspired by them. Far from a rip off, it is an original creation.
Blizzard's own design for its orcs, for instance, was inspired by those of Warhammer to a great degree, and it is not considered to be derivative work.
Furthermore, this site has many sprites which were inspired by the RPG Maker style (for example), and that is not considered a problem either. This is not any different these icons are just inspired by the WC2 style, but they are not derivative work.
Those considerations aside, it makes me quite sad that you react so aggressively to a good-hearted attempt to contribute to the excellent open art resource that this site is.
Hey infinitum3d, the art isn't mine, but of artists from whom I commissioned it. You are correct that it is not strictly top-down, but it isn't isometric either - it is something in-between (inspired by Warcraft 2 style graphics), designed to work with a top-down engine, while still giving the player a better view of what buildings and units look like.
@Buch: Great to know that you intend to release it under CC0! And thanks for your offer for doing paid commissions; at the moment I have two pixel artists already doing commissioned work for me, but I'll keep you in mind for the future!
Zabin, are you still in contact with Hyptosis? If so, and if it wouldn't be too much work, could you ask him whether licensing the art you posted under the GPLv2 would be ok for him? I am interested in using his art in my project, but I would like to keep all content under the same license (GPLv2).
Any chance of hill/mountain tiles being made to accompany these? :)
First of all, this isn't commissioned work, I just received permission from the artist to post this here.
Second, you are severely mistaken. This is not in any way derivative work of the Warcraft II icons, it was merely inspired by them. Far from a rip off, it is an original creation.
Blizzard's own design for its orcs, for instance, was inspired by those of Warhammer to a great degree, and it is not considered to be derivative work.
Furthermore, this site has many sprites which were inspired by the RPG Maker style (for example), and that is not considered a problem either. This is not any different these icons are just inspired by the WC2 style, but they are not derivative work.
Those considerations aside, it makes me quite sad that you react so aggressively to a good-hearted attempt to contribute to the excellent open art resource that this site is.
I like it :) Would be good for a world map.
Looks really good :)
It might have been better to make it a bit smaller though, for it to not be so large in comparison to other Wesnoth units.
I also liked the original coloring you gave to the unit better than the current one:
http://forums.wesnoth.org/download/file.php?id=64202
The team-colored shoulder was quite cool as well.
Nice, thanks for your efforts, Zabin!
Hey infinitum3d, the art isn't mine, but of artists from whom I commissioned it. You are correct that it is not strictly top-down, but it isn't isometric either - it is something in-between (inspired by Warcraft 2 style graphics), designed to work with a top-down engine, while still giving the player a better view of what buildings and units look like.
@Buch: Great to know that you intend to release it under CC0! And thanks for your offer for doing paid commissions; at the moment I have two pixel artists already doing commissioned work for me, but I'll keep you in mind for the future!
Looks quite nice. I'm particularly interested in the objects, which I could use for my RTS project, Wyrmsun. What license are you thinking of using?
Zabin, are you still in contact with Hyptosis? If so, and if it wouldn't be too much work, could you ask him whether licensing the art you posted under the GPLv2 would be ok for him? I am interested in using his art in my project, but I would like to keep all content under the same license (GPLv2).
infinitum3d, I have uploaded some top-downish RTS sprites in this site. You can find them here:
http://opengameart.org/users/andrettin
The gold mine and the dwarven buildings might be of particular interest to you.
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