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Challenges & Activities / Re: Bloody Murder!!! Challenge
« on: January 13, 2007, 10:13:45 pm »
The animation is beauuutiful. The stretch frames are terrific.

The blood raining down would be cool - more than anything, though, I'd love to see the knight fall over at the end.

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Pixel Art / Re: [WIP] New Set of Iso Sprites
« on: January 13, 2007, 07:08:22 pm »
Quote from: Scotteh on January 13, 2007, 10:16:04 am
heh i feel picky today :)

the non human sprites have different light sources each time.

when you have them facing SW the light source is from top left.but when you have them facing NW the lights source comes from the top right :P

Well, yeah.. but when you're doing iso sprites, they have to flip (unless you feel like doubling your workload). Any suggestions on how to get past that? I'm pretty sure iso stuff from other games is lit in the same way, but it's not as noticable because the sprites are considerably smaller.

Should our lightsource be coming from a different spot? Should it be casting fewer shadows?

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Pixel Art / [WIP] New Set of Iso Sprites (Update 1/15)
« on: January 13, 2007, 06:06:37 am »
My friend and I have been working on these for awhile now, and we're at the point now where some outside opinions & advice would be a huge help. These are the naked base sprites for four races, and are based on the sketches below (linked instead of img'ed because they're large):

Human race: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/656/humanuf0.jpg
Fish race: http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4651/fishnp1.jpg
Rock race: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4504/rockleqz8.jpg
Furry race: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/285/furryou8.jpg

And, the sprites:






Finally, some exploration done recently on the shading and shaping of the human sprite (original marked with an X):



We're looking for comments & critiques on any or all of them. I think we're at the point where we might be focusing on the wrong things, I feel like there are still some glaring errors in them but I can't put my finger on exactly what's wrong. We've just been staring at them for too long.. a fresh pair of eyes would really help. Edits are definitely welcome.

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Pixel Art / Re: Dawn Of Heroes A game in the making. Come and share C/c
« on: January 06, 2007, 08:59:59 am »
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right now am working on the side view which is giving me a good challenge. There is still alot of flaws thats why i posted about it

Post your WIPs for the side view, even if you're not happy yet.. someone might be able to point out something that'll help.

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I was thinking about a color pallet for the city, but i wasn't sure if i HAVE to stick to one pallet for the entire city?

It depends on what restrictions you're working under. You don't have to keep one palette for an entire city, but rather each of your tiles should function off a specific palette (ie, 4 colors per 8x8 tile or something similar). What are you planning on coding the game in? Flash, or something else?

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General Discussion / Re: Oldbie pixel art
« on: January 05, 2007, 09:54:40 pm »
That treehouse by Gustav is beautiful. All his work can't be lost forever, can it? Even if he doesn't have it, somebody must have more of it saved somewhere. No?

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Pixel Art / Re: First pixel
« on: January 05, 2007, 05:03:59 am »
It's over-dithered at the moment. Generally, the less dithered a "metal" surface is, the easier it is to make it shiny. Also, you're shading the helmet, but not the little bumps and spikes on it. Do the whole thing. And the inside of the helmet is lit inexplicably - if you only have one light source, and it's coming from top left, that interior should be dark.

Also, this is generally not cool:

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free bump for ya, please be sure to go to my topic.

Try not to "bump" threads here unless you have something to contribute to them. If people want to post, they'll post. But definitely don't bump someone else's thread, just to direct them to your own, when it's been dead for a week.

Good luck with the helmet, keep posting progress here.

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Pixel Art / Re: Why I'll never make a game.
« on: January 04, 2007, 07:35:40 am »
Quote from: .TakaM on January 04, 2007, 07:04:17 am
I don't get why this is why you'd never make a game

What he said

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General Discussion / Re: Top Rated Pixel Art of 2006
« on: January 04, 2007, 06:39:23 am »
There are four or five in the top 25 that I don't think deserve to be there, but for the most part I think it's a solid list. I would've put some of Ahruon's animations in the top spots, as well, if only because small, well-animated sprites are what interest me the most right now. I feel like making more with less is a huge part of pixel art - and whether that means vibrant animation in a tiny sprite, or an extremely limited palette (Helm's spartan is incredible), that's what would get my vote.

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General Discussion / Re: Official Pixelation Off-Topic Thread
« on: January 03, 2007, 06:30:24 pm »
Amazing find, Baccaman.

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Pixel Art / Re: The B.O.B.'s Dump...sorta
« on: January 03, 2007, 05:46:21 am »
Quote from: The B.O.B. on January 03, 2007, 05:13:23 am
P.S. Akzidenz, I did not know Hugo was blind. I noticed he was the only character with his eyes closed half the time, and how they were pure white when opened. Never knew the poor, big guy was blind though. Crazy. Him and Urien(everyone's favorite over-tanned, thonged, master of disaster) were always my favorites. Though I'm pretty sure my skillz are pretty rusty at the game now.(I also read in rottentomatoes.com, that capcom was planning to redo another movie variation of Street Fighter, centering the plot line around Chun-li...Hope it doesn't bomb like it's ultimate crap-ass Van-Damme predecessor.)

Yeah, someone pointed that out to me once. I don't know if it's official SF canon, but if you look at all of his animations it makes sense. Also, his girlfriend/ho, Poison, is a transsexual (and that actually is canon, believe it or not). Shame you don't live in California, we could've thrown down. :) My main character's been Oro for over a year now, I'm finally getting to the point where I don't get my ass handed to me by the pros 10/10 matches. Urien's crazy fun though, and a bitch to play against.

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