Visuals and realism can coexist perfectly fine. I don't see why you just don't use the correct style brick and make it look good too.

What do you mean by "overly-grainy?" It could just be because when I scale the images down I sharpen them so they retain a certain degree of quality if you're talking about a somewhat "over-noise" appearance. Ah, that's most likely it. I don't notice it in the last batch of pictures. Do something d...

I'm extremely stoked for all of this. My only comment would be that many of the textures have a slightly overly-grainy appearance, even for hi-res!

Please just use original concepts when possible.

Looks much better in these new screenshots than in the original renders, imo, but I would still personally like to see her features softened a bit...not that my opinion matters.

I really like the progress so far on the HD music project so far, tzang. Hope it comes to fruition. As for implementing OGG w/o having huge downloads -- I don't know much of anything about coding so bear with my not-so-eloquent ramblings here -- if I understand correctly, each map file has the name ...