Quoting Galacticruler5000,
Alright. some things I noticed:
1. some look lego-ish
2. some look well for the GC:II art style
3. most were...weird at best.
4. a few designs looked like they were either:
A: Cannibalized from http://www.i-mod-productions.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=127
OR
B: they stole those from you(or that was you.)
5. the recolors were not needed, and can be easily done.
6. some were oddly tilted
7. some looked to have been made in Spore.
8. "(COLOR)RockFarm" = Tiberium Patch
9. Were you going for witty names, or did you simply stumble onto them?
just some thoughts.
However, the ones that do look nice (15 of them IMO.) are rather well done, so if you did those 15, good job, if not, good job still.
1. I used whatever images I could find on the web.
2. I trying to make them look like the GC:II art style.
3. I really went for weird. The idea is that should I, or anyone else, want to make an empire more alien and freaky, there would be an appropriately weird and freaky icon for their technology. Sometimes I thought about new icons for specific races, like the Thalians. Other times, I thought of different "new race" mods that were released, and how those authors would have liked to have had a bunch of icons pre-made. I was thinking of biological technologies in particular. Other times, I was thinking of my own mod. I made the icon "Sunslayer" from previews of somebody's model specifically to give the Thalian Gia-Vortex a unique icon.
4. Ha! Neither! We stole the original images from the same place. I think these images came from previews for models on Turbosquid. When you steal images off the web, and modify them for the same game, they do look end up looking pretty much the same. I was a little more careful in cutting them out, and matching them to query images.
5. I figured that it would be easier for me to recolor the images while I had the images separated into layers. Since one might be useful in a different color, it would save time for myself, or anyone else, if it were recolored at that point.
6. I did my best. They were all made from 2d images.
7. Some were made from photographs, others from previews of models.
8. Yeah, well, I thought it was silly-looking, so I gave it a silly name.
9. Sometimes I named them for what they actually are and where they came from. Other icons gave me goofy ideas, so I gave them goofy names. "Eyesore" came from pictures of a proposed apartment building I thought was particularly unattractive. The "Spacescraper" was named for the proposed building the image came from. "Walk in Crematorium," well, what do you call something that looks like little more than a chimney with what looks like man-doors at the base? I thought that was funny, and perhaps useful for modifying an evil empire. Others, I was at a complete loss to name.
Only 15? You're a tough critic. I think at least 20 are completely fantastic. Thank you, anyway.
