Peacefull fisherman house (japanese style)

[Myomoto]

This is my work so far on a half iso japanese fisherman house, I plan to make a mountain in the background, and add shadows from the house etc.
But I need some advice and help on the grass,
also, I need to make a path from the stair of the house to the bottom exit of the image.

So, any tips on making grass anyone?

[GoZelda]

Improve the house first, it looks more like a letterbox =x

[Monkeyboy_McGee]

Agreed, it's like a green mailbox in a puddle

[Myomoto]

I was gonna add a hole in the roof to lead out smoke from a fire inside, should I shorten it also?

[osrs]

I like it, but, is the blue space a river or the sky?

[Myomoto]

It is gonna be the lake/river, it will be clearer when the sky will be put up, and a mountain in the background, also should I add little boat in distance?
Edit: I might also add some puffs of smoke getting carried away by the wind to ilustrate it even more ;O

About the mailbox house, which look better?

[GoZelda]

None, I barely see any difference.

[Myomoto]

They go short the lower the numbers, atleast tell me what to do difrent ;O

[osrs]

That house doesn't really has a japanese style, at least i never saw something like that, try making it with another style. Somehow, your pixeling pleases me.

[Myomoto]

We got a copy of a house like that in a japanese garden near where I live, and it look almost like that, altough it has two roof plates, I'll see if I can add them, maybe a darker frame surounding the house too?

Edit: added roof, not too sure I'm ver pleased with it yet though...

[Monkeyboy_McGee]

Originally Posted by Myomoto

About the mailbox house, which look better?

Wtf, someone drilled a hole in that mailbox!

Originally Posted by Myomoto

Edit: added roof, not too sure I'm ver pleased with it yet though...

Wtf, someone drilled a hole in that hen house!

[Myomoto]

Right...

Hows this hen house?

Also, what smoke stould I pick? cloudy or realistic (don't mind the current ones, they are NOT the ones that are gonna stay.)

[GoZelda]

Realistic, but make it look less like a hen house/letterbox.

[Crono]

hey I like it o_o

[Zero Hour]

I looked at that up close, it's quite nice. Add some smoke, animate it as a GIF (:

[Splke]

Hahaha.. lolirl @ Legobomb.

[LordZen]

If its isometric, shouldnt the angles be like "\/" instead of "_/" ??

So you'd be working on a repeating diamond shaped grid rather than a repeating parallelogram shaped grid.

edit: ah you know what, I didnt notice the "half" before iso in the opening post...you win this time

[Myomoto]

Originally Posted by GoZelda

Realistic, but make it look less like a hen house/letterbox.

HOW GODDAMNIT!!?!?

I'm sorry, but keeping pointing out a flaw and not telling how to fix it kinda pisses me off ;(

Hmm... I dunno about the GIF, but I have animation shop, so I could give it a try :O

[Nappa]

Peaceful Fisherman House.... UNTIL THE METEOR OF DOOM COMES DOWN AND SETS THE WORLD ON FIRE AND CHICKENS FLY FROM THE SKY RIDING ON LEPRACHAUNS FLINGING GUERILLA POO ON YOU

[Myomoto]

I'm not that far yet dammit! >:O

Anyway, the fisherman got smoked...

[xxCloudxx]

I think it's pretty darn good.

[Silver Knight]

I like it.
One thing I might suggest to make it less
letter-boxy is to use other colors on the roof.
Of course, I'm no expert on Japanland housing and such,
so I don't know if this would stray too much from what you
are looking to achieve.

[Myomoto]

I thought of that, but It should remain green, hmm.. I think I'll add a darker frame around the roof...

[Dach]

Looks nice, but your house style isn't well observed, as previously noted.
Probably be better off with this kind of style
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orio...j/pcd06-75.gif
I'd say use only one or two levels if you were to go with that style though. Like this:
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orio...yo/9701-18.jpg

[Myomoto]

Those are rich people houses ;O This is a poor hermit fisherman's house, I doubt he could afford a house like that ;[

Edit: Nevermind the frame, looked like crap ;O
Any tips on the grass?

[Myomoto]

*Through a dark ritual of thread necromancy, he brings back the thread*

Anyway, I got bored and worked on the background, and I'm pretty pleased (although I might have to ligthen the trees a bit..), BUT I have yet again returned for help, because I just can't get the shadow from the house right, and the grass is still bothering me, so help up yo'!

Edit: oh, and the little black thing on the mountain is a temple

[Crono]

looks nice sir

[Monkeyboy_McGee]

What a nice little henhouse by the water

[GoZelda]

Originally Posted by Myomoto

*Through a dark ritual of thread necromancy, he brings back the thread*

Anyway, I got bored and worked on the background, and I'm pretty pleased (although I might have to ligthen the trees a bit..), BUT I have yet again returned for help, because I just can't get the shadow from the house right, and the grass is still bothering me, so help up yo'!

Edit: oh, and the little black thing on the mountain is a temple

Perhaps you should change the material of the roof to make it less hen-house like.

[Myomoto]

Added some roof things, don't know their name, so now atleast, it's a japanese henhouse?

[Playercount]

The water is so, still?

[Myomoto]

Hey I'll get to that in time ;O

[Geno]

awesome roof :O

[Scott]

I'm loving it so far. Would be more much more cool if it was traditional isometric, but that's fine. I'm not too fond of the colors chosen for the house, ah well. Cool beans Myo.

[Myomoto]

Yeah, I'm gonna recolor it, but it will remain green, it's some kind of waterproof covering stuff that got the color I think :O
Thanks for the comments so far people :]