Cosmetics and whatever happened to the Official Discussion thread feedback?

[Aelonwy]

Back in May of 2015, Severlin opened an Official Discussion thread about how we would like the appearance of existing items tweaked to make new or improved cosmetics/items. I've been thinking about that thread and some of the new appearances we've seen on armors, helms and shields in the past year and first off I'd like to send a big thank you to the art department that has been doing such a wonderful job. Secondly, though, I'd like to send some visual aids for my own feedback in that thread. For reference my first post on that thread was #33.

This is my take on the Desecrated Leathers. As you can see I removed the backpurse and yoga mat and replaced them with the belts and accesories from the Drow Hunter's Leather recolored black. I also recolored the swashbuckler hat to match.

I will add a few more images today and then more as I get time.

[Aelonwy]

This is a combination of the Cormyrian Green Dragon Armor and the leaf parts of Imbued Darkleaf Banded Armor. I'm sure DDO's art department can do a much better job, especially as I had to use a wiki image to start since I do not have any Cormyrian Green Dragon Armor. What I wanted to create here was a green-leafy armor that was pretty and feminine and something I would feel comfortable wearing as a female player. I have nothing against anyone wanting to wear the more salacious Cormyrian armor already available... I just wanted something similar but less revealing.

[Aelonwy]

Alright so this should be available via random gen but I've been looking for years and have yet to acquire just this combination of under-robe and collar. So I started with the Aberrant Robe and recolored just the white collar to match the robe. The image of someone facing away in the marketplace was from a screenshot I took around 2010/2011, no recoloring needed.

Note to you, anonymous person in the market place, I have hired the entire Sharn Syndicate to hunt you down, steal your robe and leave you in a dark alley. Spare yourself the grief and hand over the robe now. ;P

[Aelonwy]

This is a recolored version of the Quicksilver Cassock. I saturated the belt and jacket to be more violet and less muted brownish-purple and I changed the yellow-orange to a periwinkle blue. It goes extremely well with the Totemic Lavalier.

Tomorrow I will post more as time permits.

[Aelonwy]

One of my favorite headpiece/crown items in the game.

Rainbow Assortment, the blue one is the original item for anyone that doesn't have one. I would definitely purchase cosmetics of the violet and sea green, possibly the red one. I included orange and gold to be thorough and just because I don't care particularly for those colors doesn't mean they don't appeal to others.

[Saekee]

nice changes. Can you tweak Wraith skin? That should be one awesome-looking set of leathers, black and ghostly, not browny
http://m.ddowiki.com/page/Item:Wraith%27s_Skin

[Casareena]

One of my favorite headpiece/crown items in the game.

Rainbow Assortment, the blue one is the original item for anyone that doesn't have one. I would definitely purchase cosmetics of the violet and sea green, possibly the red one. I included orange and gold to be thorough and just because I don't care particularly for those colors doesn't mean they don't appeal to others.

Can the dev's take note of these please

[Rys]

One of my favorite headpiece/crown items in the game.

Rainbow Assortment, the blue one is the original item for anyone that doesn't have one. I would definitely purchase cosmetics of the violet and sea green, possibly the red one. I included orange and gold to be thorough and just because I don't care particularly for those colors doesn't mean they don't appeal to others.

These are so pretty D:

[sithhound]

Nice

[Blastyswa]

Back in May of 2015, Severlin opened an Official Discussion thread about how we would like the appearance of existing items tweaked to make new or improved cosmetics/items. I've been thinking about that thread and some of the new appearances we've seen on armors, helms and shields in the past year and first off I'd like to send a big thank you to the art department that has been doing such a wonderful job. Secondly, though, I'd like to send some visual aids for my own feedback in that thread. For reference my first post on that thread was #33.

This is my take on the Desecrated Leathers. As you can see I removed the backpurse and yoga mat and replaced them with the belts and accesories from the Drow Hunter's Leather recolored black. I also recolored the swashbuckler hat to match.

I will add a few more images today and then more as I get time.

They're both ugly, but you'll get basically what I'm thinking (probably, they are very ugly).

[Aelonwy]

Alright so this is my Spellsinger/hagglebard dressed in Lavender Spiral (one of the most attractive cosmetic skins they ever made so of course its no longer available) with my vision of a cosmetic butterfly aura that surrounds and follows the character fluttering just as they do in Vale of Twilight (which is also where I caught these specimens).

And this is a circling butterfly crown similar to the Elemental Victory.


Also posted to the suggestions thread that inspired them : My wife breaks for butterflies.

[Aelonwy]

They're both ugly, but you'll get basically what I'm thinking (probably, they are very ugly).

Aaargh. My eyes, my eyes... okay I kid... I'll see what I can do; I'm not really into capes myself but I'll try to come up with something.

[Aelonwy]

Alright, this was something I worked on some time ago but it didn't turn out the way I wanted so I redid it with some actual eye images instead of the eyeball from in-game items. Anyone who has ever seen the Beastmaster ( a fantasy flick from the 80's) will know exactly what I was trying to illustrate here. On the far left is an entirely unaltered image of my paladin wearing the crown Teraza's Sight. The following three images show the crown re-positioned higher on the forehead and thus allowing the eyebrows to show (very aesthetically important) and illustrating an animated eye opening in the center of the crown. I have no idea how possible this is... I just think it would be fun.

[Saekee]

Alright, this was something I worked on some time ago but it didn't turn out the way I wanted so I redid it with some actual eye images instead of the eyeball from in-game items. Anyone who has ever seen the Beastmaster ( a fantasy flick from the 80's) will know exactly what I was trying to illustrate here. On the far left is an entirely unaltered image of my paladin wearing the crown Teraza's Sight. The following three images show the crown re-positioned higher on the forehead and thus allowing the eyebrows to show (very aesthetically important) and illustrating an animated eye opening in the center of the crown. I have no idea how possible this is... I just think it would be fun.

I remember growing up with Beastmaster when it came out--was really young--and that creepy ring would open up.
Teraza's Sight definitely needs this, or something very close.