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The Elite Grubby Guard took a lot of perseverance, but after loosing the master file two times, and recovering from compressed demo images, I was able to finally complete a working version. This is an overlay image for the 'out of game' segments I created for twitch.tv streamer  Grubby.
The illustration itself went through some serious overhauls, but eventually coming to a point when I needed to hit a deadline I stopped refining and started finishing. What I like most about the project was my stronger line work, and my first time use of Photoshop CS 5’s (3d?) paint brush tools. I can’t stand the preview window that pops up, but love the tools.
Though hurried, I enjoyed the work on the ‘blinking’ effect as well. It was excited to try to creatively and quickly come up with an effect that would be passable as the blink/warping in of the stalker. This was also a little bit of a desperation move for deadline crunching.
As I stated I lost the master file twice, and had to recover from .jpg screen shots. This means I lost half of my originals resolution, added compression distortion, and a loss of all workable layers. Some of the aspects of the blink effect were designed to cover up some of the loss in layer illustration, and to integrate the resolution/compression noise into something that might feel almost purposeful.
The work definitely is a testimony to keeping a cloud project folder. Despite having multiples backups, including cloud, I was blissfully working out of the sync folder. Be advised, its not a good idea! I prefer Dropbox while I work on all my work. It includes version control, which is a LIFE saver. Have you ever resized or flattened your file for export of a demo draft, to later find out you forgot to undo and now you are looking a flattened image of your hours of work? Dropbox has you covered, just recover a previously saved version, and you are ready to roll. No this is not an ad for dropbox, but it is a suggestion to any one working on digital files to consider a cloud storage service with version control.
Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think of the Stalker concept or the overlay in general. What would you have done differently? Is it an interesting concept? I think it would be awesome if players could have signature units that had slight texture or model alterations (like the Collector's addition Thor). This would be possible with the inclusion of 3ds Max plug ins for the galaxy editor, due to roll out in the next expansion.
 
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That sir is THE MOST cool overlay I have ever seen. Amazing work, 5/5!
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Rellay, really great piece of art and I like it even better because it's been created for Grubby. 
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Nice work man, the details are nice. So Grubby commisioned you to do this?
I also can't wait for the 3ds max plugin.
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sucks, about losing the master files, although I doubt anyone would have rated your are less than 9/10 if you didn't say anything about it XD. I really like the concept and design.
Now I'm starting to wish that the decals Blizzard lets you put on are more visible
5/5
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Only the best for Grubby! Awesome work dude! 5/5
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Was expecting a rabid fan (stalker) proclaiming his love for Grubby and vowing to protect (guard) him from the evil trolls (Ret).
Only a little disappoionted though- that's some serious skills you have there, good work!
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Good stuff, keep up the great work :D
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Where can I get the Stalker picture alone? I wanna use it as my desktop background
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Is that a decapitated dark templars head affixed to the front to show that grubby dont lose to no cheese?
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On February 20 2012 00:53 TheAntZ wrote:
Is that a decapitated dark templars head affixed to the front to show that grubby dont lose to no cheese?
Stalkers are Dark Templars' that have fallen in combat and their essence was fused with a metal body ... sort of how Dragoon's were piloted by wounded templar
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On February 20 2012 01:42 Babyfactory wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2012 00:53 TheAntZ wrote:
Is that a decapitated dark templars head affixed to the front to show that grubby dont lose to no cheese? Stalkers are Dark Templars' that have fallen in combat and their essence was fused with a metal body ... sort of how Dragoon's were piloted by wounded templar
Yeah but I never really paid close attention, always assumed the DT was inside like a dragoon, not with the head poking out the middle 
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Thanks for all the awesome feedback and comments. I'm really glad you all seem to have enjoyed the illustration. I will do my best to make a worthy wallpaper version of the image as soon as I get some free time. Much <3 to you all, thanks again! :D
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On February 20 2012 02:48 TheAntZ wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2012 01:42 Babyfactory wrote:On February 20 2012 00:53 TheAntZ wrote:
Is that a decapitated dark templars head affixed to the front to show that grubby dont lose to no cheese? Stalkers are Dark Templars' that have fallen in combat and their essence was fused with a metal body ... sort of how Dragoon's were piloted by wounded templar Yeah but I never really paid close attention, always assumed the DT was inside like a dragoon, not with the head poking out the middle
![[image loading]](http://images.wikia.com/starcraft/images/9/9f/Stalker_SC2_render2.jpg)
It's sticking out D: I never noticed... lol.
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Damn this is a sick overlay. Would it be possible to create a wallpaper out of the stalker though?
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On February 20 2012 11:55 Southlight wrote:Show nested quote +On February 20 2012 02:48 TheAntZ wrote:On February 20 2012 01:42 Babyfactory wrote:On February 20 2012 00:53 TheAntZ wrote:
Is that a decapitated dark templars head affixed to the front to show that grubby dont lose to no cheese? Stalkers are Dark Templars' that have fallen in combat and their essence was fused with a metal body ... sort of how Dragoon's were piloted by wounded templar Yeah but I never really paid close attention, always assumed the DT was inside like a dragoon, not with the head poking out the middle + Show Spoiler +It's sticking out D: I never noticed... lol.
I knew this and always thought stalkers are creepy because of it. Very monsterlike o.o But I bet when they are getting shot in the face by marauders they wish they had dragoon model. Very nice overlay, love the logo on his side.
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