Help Needed! Urgent!

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Jun 4 2014, 1:17 am
Alright guys so I need little help with the background for Menu Screen for a game I am working on.

Here is the idea:


And here's what I have got so far:


Struggling with clouds at the moment as I am not sure how to make them.

The mountain and castle are at the left because the menu will come as an overlay and in the middle so to keep the focus on it is in the left. Anyways, right now I am struggling with clouds as I am not sure how to make them. Also the style has to be kept cartoony to match the style of other sprites and work I have done - sorry can't show other work as I do not have the permission to show them yet..

The mountains are blue as I haven't changed the palette yet but I'll make them brown so that castle stands out.
Jun 4 2014, 2:18 am
Would this be any help?
Jun 5 2014, 12:29 am
In response to Legacy of Caine
Legacy of Caine wrote:
Would this be any help?

Thanks for trying to help but that would be of no help to me.




Jun 5 2014, 12:34 am
Are you planning on animating the clouds? Or is the entire image going to be still?
Jun 5 2014, 1:03 am
Going to be still
Jun 5 2014, 3:45 pm
Should animate them, if you do it right, it gets you some pretty cool results :P
Jun 5 2014, 6:35 pm
It's not my game. The developer wants an still image plus animating this is going to be far more difficult
Jun 11 2014, 12:42 am




Jun 11 2014, 11:40 pm
Really? No one wants to help? -.-




I am struggling with textures on the nearest mountains. Also I think I should change palette a little bit.



I tried to add little wear and tear. However the crumble effect, I am not sure how that can be done.
Jun 12 2014, 7:06 am
Just finish it then people can better critic it for u.
Jun 12 2014, 10:15 pm
If the scroll is the main focus, don't worry too much about the mountains.
Jun 12 2014, 10:30 pm
If you're having issues take a break and look at some references.
Jun 14 2014, 6:28 am
Can't find proper references man... Plus I am completely clueless about how to do mountains and what to add to scroll.

Jun 14 2014, 8:24 am (Edited on Jun 14 2014, 8:53 am)
scroll down to the second to last comment.
http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=16781.0;topicseen

as for the scroll i found this.
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/68478.htm

i recommend you do alil bit of dithering xD
Jun 14 2014, 9:23 am
I see what you mean, I couldn't find any decent references for the mountain, but you could still take UPD4T3's advice and focus on the scroll, here's a link from a google search: http://goo.gl/CiiC50 you can see where the lighting and shadows are to make the crumble effect. Good luck
Jun 14 2014, 9:28 am
Not pixel art but its mountains lol

http://endless-online.com/

look at the banner.
Jun 14 2014, 10:00 am
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Maybe this can help. Art is not mine by the way. It's very similar to what you want.
Jun 15 2014, 12:37 am
Honestly, I really liked what you started texture-wise on your second image. It was way too purple, and needed to be cleaned up some, but it definitely read mountains to me.

As for the scroll, you could try something like this. I think I might have used a color reduced gimp pattern for that texture, but it's easily pixelable.