I've been working on a game and I sprited the main character. This is my first time spriting anything. Anything I can improve on?
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/107103062/wego.png[/img]
Looks great for a first sprite dude
The shadow should be a subtle shade of something depending on the ambient light sources rather than just grey
Thanks Maloof for that tip, whoever you are
[QUOTE=Maloof?;39625012]
Does anybody have a good line-drawing video or explanation that talks about line weight? I understand using a heavy outline to imply shadow and a thin outline to imply a highlighted edge, but beyond that it's all a mystery to me[/QUOTE]
Guys, it's time.
[video=vimeo;28308497]http://vimeo.com/28308497[/video]
[QUOTE=Lilyo;39625945]Guys, it's time.
[video=vimeo;28308497]http://vimeo.com/28308497[/video][/QUOTE]
sir you are a credit to this fine nation
[QUOTE=Mr cake fingers;39625077]
This has a lot of life and movement and the colour is great, but I'm slightly confused as to what is happening in the background?[/QUOTE]
dunno exactly, just went random trying to imitate smoke and other things in my ref
Ahhh, don't quote autoplaying sound! It's playing over it's self now.
haha he quoted the video
E: but it really is a useful tutorial!
EE: and now also an incentive for everyone to post lots of artwork really fast so we go to the next page!!
[img]http://puu.sh/24jgv[/img]
a new character
[QUOTE=Lilyo;39626299]haha he quoted the video
E: but it really is a useful tutorial![/QUOTE]
it was, thank you :)
Oh for fuck's sake lilyo I was only joking
Dammit guys. This is a brand new page too. Why post a vimeo link now.
I finished, could use some touching up, but that's for tomorrow.
N.C. Wyeth mastercopy in gouache.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6sCrJ9r.jpg?1[/img]
[img]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2412/3fdccf8d7bb04480bb37d49.png[/img]
new character again, added a coin, finished the other guy
[img]http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3164/e1a0f9fc9f74408a955241b.png[/img]
moar
[QUOTE=DrPyspy;39628328][img]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2412/3fdccf8d7bb04480bb37d49.png[/img]
new character again, added a coin, finished the other guy[/QUOTE]
I don't know a lot about pixel art but I think your lines could maybe benefit to be a bit darker? my mind is having a hard time working out the details of what its looking at.
But yeah I have no clue if that will help or not... just a suggestion.
[QUOTE=Headcrab54;39628900]pokemans
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1925002/loose/PIKApoka.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I love your colours. They always look so cool.
Also, guys, thanks for some feedback I've got from your argue, but c'mon. Artistics, agrees, disagrees and all that stuff...guys, that's just an images under the words which are really matter. And concerning criticues, actually, I kinda grateful for any feedback I get, and I think it's just a matter of a will and time of how you do them. Personally in 99 of 100 times I'm too lazy to comment any work at all, even if I have something to say. So some can just point to your mistakes and some can post giant critiques, but both are useful anyways, because they did it at least.
This is going to sound totally wrong and weird but broken English makes literally almost anything adorable.
shhshh lines are all the same until one has some extra weight
I am so sorry guys
[QUOTE=Biscuit-Boy;39629480]This is going to sound totally wrong and weird but broken English makes literally almost anything adorable.[/QUOTE]
Well, yeah, I'm mostly counting on the charm of my illiteracy when I write something.
Ctrl+paint is cool as shit but come on don't embed vimeo
Four pages of anatomy studies later, I tried adding a bit more depth to the face (you can see what I meant earlier, my dark values look very blotchy :( ) and started tinkering with some other parts, also wanted to demonstrate that I seriously have no fucking clue what I'm doing with hair, but I'll admit it seems much more whole even with it only as some weird blob of dark color.
[img]http://puu.sh/24wlb[/img]
[url="http://puu.sh/23O05"]And original for comparison[/url]
[QUOTE=Headcrab54;39628900]pokemans
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1925002/loose/PIKApoka.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
the dude really is very good but the ugly-ass fire effect near its legs really takes away from the piece, if the fire was sharper and clearer (instead of weird smudged colours and that silhouette) and probably less ''blobby'' and smudging it would look a lot nicer
Sanic sez: Go fast
[IMG]http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/200/73954022.png[/IMG]
[editline]18th February 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Eltro102;39631347]the dude really is very good but the ugly-ass fire effect near its legs really takes away from the piece, if the fire was sharper and clearer (instead of weird smudged colours and that silhouette) and probably less ''blobby'' and smudging it would look a lot nicer[/QUOTE]
I personally think that the fire makes the picture.
Personally I like it as a fog or smog of some sort, but I honestly didn't even think it was fire since it's so softly defined.
Capitalism.
We go to school, we go to work,
our lives fall apart.
We struggle to hold it together,
but we're doomed from the start.
We call what we have freedom
but we're prisoners through time.
Striving to make our ends meet
With our families on the decline.
Bound by a thing called money;
a creation of the mind -
a thing born out of necessity
but which enables us to crime.
Making our ends tighter
with the threads of another's knot
We attempt to slow our headlong sprint to the grave
to we well secured trot.
Either going to be longer or retooled for wording and impact.
[video=youtube;ksbqMiInPEc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbqMiInPEc[/video]
My video project I worked on for fun.
[QUOTE=Biscuit-Boy;39636173]Personally I like it as a fog or smog of some sort, but I honestly didn't even think it was fire since it's so softly defined.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I hadn't intended for it to be fire, just sort of a fog/energy shroud for the sake of trying out some new techniques
[editline]18th February 2013[/editline]
also, in regards to palettes, [URL="http://apedogs.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1235"]this is a pretty great technique[/URL] to get started
[QUOTE=seek;39637406][video=youtube;ksbqMiInPEc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbqMiInPEc[/video]
My video project I worked on for fun.[/QUOTE]
Cool stuff :)
