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Visualizing Horace Harkness

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Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by Evergreen Studios   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:31 pm

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So first of all, sorry for the delay in getting some new material up here for you to view, it's been a very busy and exciting past couple of weeks with the Comic launching, the Website going live and the game rapidly progressing towards completion.

While all that has been playing out our wonderful art team has continued to plough ahead on its various visualization work in parts of the Honorverse, we were hoping to have some further pieces to share on Nimitz and the Ships but we're still not quite satisfied that they're where they need to be. We're very excited by the progress across the board though.

With the launch of the comic and the website we have been paying close attention to your notes, comments and criticisms and wanted to address one of them directly here with regards to Horace Harkness. We read your feedback which was quite universal about his build and physique, and agreed that he was not quite the character you would imagine in the book. We sent the art team to work on it and below you'll find our revised Horace Harkness. We thought we'd take the opportunity to post it here first, see what the thoughts were and then update the website.

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Let us know what you think.

As a side note we'd also like to personally thank everyone for their positive notes to Matt Hawkins ; he really is, like ourselves, genuinely interested to get feedback on his work and appreciates the time you take to write it.
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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by pokermind   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:51 pm

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Much better a bruiser. Hope Nimitz improved what part of cute and cuddly did the artists fail to understand?

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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by Kendareru   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:28 pm

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That is definitely a lot closer to how I see him, personally. Now we just need Tremaine next to him. lol
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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by SWM   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:42 pm

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Oh. Nice. Yes...

Yes, that's Harkness. Give a big pat on the back to those artists!
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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by Bruno Behrends   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:45 pm

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I like this pic. Comes close to how I imagine him. Great artwork!
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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by MaxxQ   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:01 pm

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Two big thumbs up! Much much better than before.

The only thing I would change is to get rid of his stubble. Even though he's a bit of a bruiser, as well as an expert black marketeer, he's still in the military, and would be clean-shaven. Yes, I know that the RMN allows beards, but this in-between clean and full beard just doesn't look good (says the guy who only shaves once a week :mrgreen: ).
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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by SWM   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:19 pm

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MaxxQ wrote:Two big thumbs up! Much much better than before.

The only thing I would change is to get rid of his stubble. Even though he's a bit of a bruiser, as well as an expert black marketeer, he's still in the military, and would be clean-shaven. Yes, I know that the RMN allows beards, but this in-between clean and full beard just doesn't look good (says the guy who only shaves once a week :mrgreen: ).

Hey, he might work hard to achieve that look. :lol:
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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by KNick   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:31 pm

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This will do nicely. Actually better than I imagined him. Well done.
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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by biochem   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:32 pm

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LOVE IT!
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Re: Visualizing Horace Harkness
Post by CathyH   » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:46 pm

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I tend to think of Sir Horace more a Ernest Borginine from McHale's Navy, which dates me, I suppose!
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