User blog:Qwertyxp2000 the second/Ice Tower Fanart



I had made some Ice Tower fanarts of if Ice Tower were machines. Much of these artworks that I made for the Ice Tower machine were based upon both the BTD4 Ice Tower appearances and the BTD5 Spike Factory artworks.

First up, the basic 0/0 Ice Tower. Rocky base and slightly cold iceball above. And snowflakes above. The snowflakes and rocky base were based upon the BTD5 Ice Tower artwork. The rocky base shape was based upon BTD4's Ice Tower appearance.

Nextly, the 1/0 Ice Tower. For Enhanced Freeze, I made the rocky base become bluer and gave it larger snowflakes. I decided the little iceberg that the original Enhanced Freeze artwork had doesn't fit here, as most tower machines don't really move around.

Then comes Permafrost, the 0/1 Ice Tower. Just like the windy breath used for the original Permafrost upgrade artwork. However, it's more of windy cold rather than windy breath, because a machine would more likely create cold wind than cold simian-like breath.

Snap Freeze, 2/0, and Deep Freeze, 0/2, are interesting. Initially, I was going to make Enhanced Freeze have large icecubes, but felt they were too clunky for a less powerful coldness upgrade, so I moved it to Deep Freeze. As for Snap Freeze, I tried to create snapped icecubes with giant pieces, but it looked also too clunky. Instead, I made snapped icecubes into crumbs. For both upgrades, the iceballs look bluer to have a color more similar to translucent blue icecubes. Both upgrades also lose the last grey patch on their rocky base to highlight the more significant improvement to its coldness factor. Again, more snowflakes to go with the coldness, as usual.

With Arctic Wind and Ice Shards, 3/0 and 0/3 respectively, I probably need to swap color schemes with the iceballs and bases. Perhaps the Arctic Sea appearance could give more impression of Arctic coldness created by synthetic means? And Ice Shards could have more of the icecube color scheme impression I suppose.

Regardless, I have done pretty good job at replicating the Arctic Wind effect with that heavy snowfall appearance, along with a decent job at making huge ice icicles in Ice Shards. Again, there is heavy inspiration from both the BTD4 and BTD5 Ice Towers.

Viral Frost, 4/0, is something interesting. Artificial coldness again is something to highlight, but the dark blue color scheme of the Viral Frost's hoodie is implemented to the main color scheme of the Viral Frost machine. I also added wind and blue snowflakes to illustrate how synthetically made the artificial coldness has become.

As for Absolute Zero, I made the iceball like a real snowball and gave the rocky base the impression of a snowy mountain. I also made a blast of snowflakes in a similar fashion to the Spike Storm upgrade in the Spike Factory.