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Pixel Art / Re: [C+C] Alien walking animation (tips for shading and arm movement)
« on: January 09, 2017, 12:52:20 pm »
About the mirroring I've heard that just mirroring the sprite is a hack and not good practice but I'm a beginner right now and trying different stuff.
About the feet shrinking and growing if I got it correctly you are talking about the walking up and down animation. Well it was the best way for me to show that the feet move back and forth. Drawing the up and down animation is my biggest problem because of this reason. How would you do it? I also noticed the back arm movement but anything else that I did looked somehow off.
I'll try to make the shading of the head look more natural, should be easy. The Alien doesn't have a neck because that is how I first imagined the characters to be. Maybe adding a neck will make the head movements also look more natural.
The darker colors of the shirt are also a problem that I have with the shading, I couldn't make it look good. The arm stains as you said where part of the outline if I remember correctly, to emphasize that the alien has arms that move. If I had only two colors I believe people wouldn't notice the arm movement.
About the feet shrinking and growing if I got it correctly you are talking about the walking up and down animation. Well it was the best way for me to show that the feet move back and forth. Drawing the up and down animation is my biggest problem because of this reason. How would you do it? I also noticed the back arm movement but anything else that I did looked somehow off.
I'll try to make the shading of the head look more natural, should be easy. The Alien doesn't have a neck because that is how I first imagined the characters to be. Maybe adding a neck will make the head movements also look more natural.
The darker colors of the shirt are also a problem that I have with the shading, I couldn't make it look good. The arm stains as you said where part of the outline if I remember correctly, to emphasize that the alien has arms that move. If I had only two colors I believe people wouldn't notice the arm movement.