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Creative Production => Critics' Lounge => Topic started by: Mats Berglinn on Sat 11/06/2005 08:00:06

Title: Rubber tree
Post by: Mats Berglinn on Sat 11/06/2005 08:00:06
I'm making a rubber tree as an object for Caribbean Mysteries. I've searched around the web for images but most of them don't show the top of the tree so I'm just taking a wild guessing here.

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Rubber_tree.PNG)

If you wonder that the green and the white things on the trunk is I can tell that those are linchen (and possibly mosses). I took those elements from a photo to give it more detail.
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: Paper Carnival on Sat 11/06/2005 08:26:14
Nice tree

I found this picture by putting rubber tree in google:

(http://wwww.cirad.fr/presentation/programmes/biotrop/resultats/images/rubbph6.jpg)

So it doesn't quite look like a rubber tree, the trunk should get thinner and the top is different. Also try rounding the base a bit so it's not square.
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: Khris on Sat 11/06/2005 16:00:45
In german, a rubber tree is called "Gummibaum."

Try this search: http://images.google.de/images?q=gummibaum&hl=de
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: skw on Sat 11/06/2005 17:31:08
Huh... a rubber tree? What the hell is that? At first I thought you meant a birch, but it's rather different.

Anyway, try typing "rubber tree" line in the Google browser and check out the first result: http://www.rubbertree.org/. ;)
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: Mats Berglinn on Sat 11/06/2005 17:42:08
Skruwy, a rubber tree is a real tree from which you can get liquid latex which you make rubber from, that's why it's called a "rubber tree". By the way, the site wasn't very helpful for getting my object better (I beg my pardon for criticing people again but I had to say this).

Guybrush: Thanks, for the pic! I'll try make a new version as quickly as possible.

Khrismuc (Off-topic): So "baum"'s Germany for tree? I was always wondering why the Wonderbaum is shaped like a pinetree (even if there is other scents than pine).
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: Khris on Sat 11/06/2005 18:21:24
Yep, Baum is tree. In Germany, they are called "Wunderbaum", that would translate to miracle tree :) I don't know why they are called that, though.
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: skw on Sat 11/06/2005 20:09:35
Quote from: Mats Berglinn on Sat 11/06/2005 17:42:08
Skruwy, a rubber tree is a real tree from which you can get liquid latex which you make rubber from, that's why it's called a "rubber tree". By the way, the site wasn't very helpful for getting my object better (I beg my pardon for criticing people again but I had to say this).

Take it easy Mats, it was only a joke. :)

Seriously, you probably meant something, which in Polish is called "kauczukowiec", "drzewo kauczukowe" (kauczuk = rubber ~ latex) and Hevea brasilensis as well.

(http://www.bionatics.com/VisuelsSpecifiques/Bionatics/Plant/Zoom/hevea_a.jpg)

Hope it'll be useful.
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: José Luiz on Sat 11/06/2005 23:16:29
In Portuguese this kind of tree is called "seringueira". I looked for this word in Google Images and found some links:

http://www.eusouluz.iet.pro.br/imag_horosc/seringueira.jpg

http://www.nucleodeaprendizagem.com.br/seringa.jpg

I like your drawing, Mats, but I think you just have to change the leaves of your tree. Then it'll be even better! :)
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: Mats Berglinn on Sun 12/06/2005 08:21:34
Ok, here's a new version based on the pic Guybrush Peepwood showed me:

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/New_rubber_tree_kopiera.PNG)

This time, it's not drawn from scratch in paint but handdrawn and scanned.Ã,  Before anyone complaines about the leaves don't look like this in reality, read this: I'm not doing a realistic game, I'm making a cartoony style game.

Skurwy, it's ok, I forgive you. It's just that I don't see the jokes sometimes in sarcasm and therefore I easiley fall for them.

Well, what do you think? Is it good enough?
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: madgooseparade on Sun 12/06/2005 17:12:24
I think its cute!! But seriously what is the green and white stuff?
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: Paper Carnival on Sun 12/06/2005 17:41:57
That's a lot better ;D Good job!

and ^ he already explained in his first post :=
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: What a loser. on Tue 14/06/2005 08:36:36
It could be mould. ;)
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: Mats Berglinn on Tue 14/06/2005 08:43:48
No, no, no, Alias. I'll quote what I said earlier:

QuoteIf you wonder that the green and the white things on the trunk is I can tell that those are linchen (and possibly mosses). I took those elements from a photo to give it more detail.
Title: Re: Rubber tree
Post by: Fizzii on Tue 14/06/2005 09:09:06
Looks quite good. :) I like the style too, rather cute. If it were me, I'd probably darken the leaves a bit more - they're a bit bright... I would've added some twigs too and have the foliage come off the leaves rather than the branches, but I'm a stickler for detail and realism ;)Ã,Â