Extra Pack Finalization Project (part 6: leader images)

[Wernazuma III]

I'm now in contact with some people regarding graphics and hope we can make a good cooperation. To provide a basis for leader graphics, we'd first have to look up images from the net (or scanned?) and post gather them here. I don't know which images will suit best for this purpose, but let's collect in the meanwhile...

I'm sure that we won't find images of many leaders, so we could look for pictures that come close, at least in our imagination.

[Wernazuma III]

Gengis Khan:

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Atahualpa:

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Mahmed II:

[Stefu]

Aww, shouldn't we at least try to keep the same style Firaxis used? At very least, the images should be in color.

I believe someone posted a Turks mod with leader (Suleyman) being edited Caesar. While that might look a bit stupid, Firaxis leaderheads could at least be used as a base. Do we have any good graphicians here?

Also, should we strive to have leaderheads for all eras? Come on, Mao in that fur cap and modern Hammurabi, it doesn't get much better than that

[Wernazuma III]

I didn't mean to implement the pictures "as they are". You're probably right, it would be great to have the original leaders "reworked". But any graphic guy (darkknight? ) will at least need to know how the historical persons looked...

[Wernazuma III]

Pacal:

[Depression]

I can help with making the graphics. I made the (rather-crappy, but it was practice) Napoleon image in the Files forum, and I was working on a Philip II head for Spain when I became aware of the extra-civs project. The powers that be decided that Isabella is the ruler of spain, so this probably won't do you any good; but just for the heck of it, here's a non-animated (I'll finish the animation soon) version of it.

[Wernazuma III]

Hey Depression (I never welcomed depression in my life so nicely. Every October I've got to say: You again?...)

This seems great to me!
For my part I think we really need you!
I'd even flush Isabella down the toilet now, seeing your Philipp, but she's one of only two female rulers in the ExtraPack, so...

[Stefu]

Philip is cool, but shouldn't it be limited to head-and-shoulders area only, like with regular leaders? Like this:

[Depression]

He should, but the leaderhead has to be 200 by 240 pixels, and I couldn't find a big enough picture of him. Besides, the larger it is, the more difficult it is to animate the face.

[Stefu]

Well, how 'bout this? Yes, it looks a bit grainy, but head-and-shoulders version definitely fits better with rest of the leaderheads.

[Depression]

It's a matter of personal preference- to me, it's more important that it looks good (and is easy to animate ) than that it fits in with the rest of the leaderheads; to you, it might be the other way around. In any case, I'm almost finished with the animation for Philip, and I'm not about to redo the whole thing. The next leaderhead I make might be just head-and-shoulders, but only if I can get a large enough image.

[Stefu]

Wern? Does our esteemed project manager care to comment?

[Wernazuma III]

Stefu: Sure, I'm commenting almost everything, you should know
Of course it would be good to have head and shoulders only. I don't know much about graphics so I believe Depression that he is right: We'd have to supply him with good pics, that's why I started this thread BTW.
Philipp won't be in anyway, as we need Isabella as one of few female rulers.

Give'em good pics and we'll have head/shoulders-only leaders...