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Published: 2015-02-22 16:56:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 14039; Favourites: 286; Downloads: 883
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Here's a main keep, or tenshu as it's known in Japanese, that I created for Forthold City. I really like Japanese castles and had wanted to create something like this for a while. It actually took ages to get the perspective right, and also to show all of the details without it being too hard to see or blending in. I'd really like to hear people's opinions and even critiques on it, just due to the amount of time I put in.It's based off Kiyosu Castle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyosu_C…
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I love it *-* it's really awesome! what kind of other buildings have you made?
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Thank you! Quite a lot, actually. You can check my gallery for others, although they're all quite outdated right now. I have a lot of unreleased ones that I may make public at some point or another, but I'm actually mostly working for a game developer right now, so it's hard to get free time to focus on deviantArt.
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i was searching something like this for the entiere afternoon I LOVE IT but 1 question tell me how to do tileset because i'm making a fungame pokemon with friends but i've no idea how to make tileset with shapes and other things tha make them realistic like this one or BW tilesets 
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Hey, sorry for the slow reply, I've been really busy lately. Do you mean how to make a tileset from scratch, as in to pixel it; or how to put a tileset into a program such as RMXP? Because if you mean to pixel it, that's actually really hard and takes a lot of practice. I've been meaning to get around to making a tutorial for it.
There are actually loads of free public tile sets already available if you want to use those, and I'd be happy to send you some if you like.
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Hi, I just wanted to say that these tiles are incredible and we are using them in our game, thank you so much for making them public!
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Hey, no problem and thank you! I'm always really glad to be able to help people with their games. I have a few more buildings that go with it in other deviations but I actually have quite a lot of unreleased tiles in this style so if you have any particular needs just ask
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Well, we'd really like to have a special type of building for the Ninja Dojo, so if you have anything resembling that it would be greatly appreciated. 
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Do you have a link to the map? I tried having a search for it but couldn't find it.. xD
I could definitely do something like that, I've got all of the stuff to quickly make it up. If you want you could send me a note with how big you want it and stuff?
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Wow...Just wow :3
This is amazing Peekychew!
It is absolutely brilliant!
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Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! You wouldn't believe the amount of effort that it took to get it to this point, so many little tweaks to get the perspective right and differentiate the different parts of the roof. You probably can't tell but I actually had to use dark shades of blue just to stop the blacks from merging.
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It's a lot better than something I could do. Practice makes perfect I suppose. The perspective is brilliant. You should do some tutorials on tile spriting as you've done a few for xenotime haven't you? I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated
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Thank you again. Yes, it really does. I was never that good at making buildings and other tiles in general, so instead of trying to make completely original ones I just edited other people's. This actually worked really well for teaching myself how to do original tiles, and I then moved onto making tiles from reference images like the actual castle I mentioned in the description. Once you get to the point where you can draw from a reference it gets a million times easier and you can make things like this.
And that's actually a really good idea. I can't think of any tutorials I've seen that have shown how to draw from reference, so it would be pretty unique as well.
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I'd love to be able to tile, so anything you could write down would be of great use!
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I admire you so much.
How long have you been working on this?
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Really? Thank you!
And this one actually took much longer that most of the others that I've done, which I normally complete in a day, just due to the complexity of it. I'd say altogether it's around 14 hours work over three weeks. The hardest part was getting the perspective right, I had to actually make a real model of it to see what the roof would look like at that angle. And then there was making it so you could differentiate between the different parts of the roof clearly, which considering it's all black with black borders, was pretty challenging.
It wouldn't have taken so long if I hadn't wanted to get it absolutely perfect, I probably made 30+ revisions to the roof alone.
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It's amazing ! It's so perfect you're really talented
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Good wow or bad wow? xD
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Yay! Thank you! Any suggestions for improvements?
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This is really amazing! There's not really ANYTHING to improve on, it's already so good!
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This looks great, I can't see anything worth fixing, great work dude!
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Thanks so much man, I appreciate it
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