What catches my eye are the repeated white patterns all over the place (not blended in enough) and the person on the right. He doesnt seem to be on the right Z coordinate or ughh how can i say this...His depth doesnt match everyone elses and ill tell you why:
The guy on the right, take a look at his legs and where his foot touches...Now slowly start looking up and the part that catches me is where his right arm meets with the person onto his right (purple sweater). Its like as if he's leaning backwards because his legs are forward and his arms is behind the person next to him. It looks weird because both their feet (the guy on the far right and the person to his right) are standing on the same level, but as it goes up, the guy on the right seems as if he is a little bit behind the person next to him but his body doesnt show it because he is standing straight up.
It wouldve looked alright if it showed that the person all the way on the right was adjusting his hand far back enough in order to be behind the person to his right.
Also another thing that gave it off to me was his ski-thingy (i dont know what you call it) that he is holding on his right hand. If you look at it closely, youll see that it goes behind the ski-thingy of the person on his right. But his arms arent positioned to be going on that direction for his ski-thingy to go behind the person next to him. Look at his left hand and that shows that his hand is curved and positioned in a way that his ski-thingy he is holding is slanted and compare it with the one on his right hand.
Bahh its the Z-depth of that guy.
My suggestions would be to make the guy seem as if he's really behind or in front depending on what you wanna do but scale him to make him match his real height relevant to the people next to him and add a bit of darker shade on the parts closer to the person on his right esp his arm glove area.
Also add a very light shadow to where he is standing at, just a little bit. Its very hard to notice by just looking at it (unless you have ultra laser eyes) so use the color grabber tool or something and match it with the other peoples shadows (preferrably the ones on the outer area as well like him)
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Last edited by orgeeizm; 09-08-2003 at 05:44 AM.