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Pixel Art / Re: Dragon boss (modular animation)
« on: November 12, 2014, 11:46:24 pm »
Hey Decroded. I really like the detail of the scales. This piece looks like it's going to be awesome! One thing that is coming to my mind is the character design of the dragon. What is under the lava? Are the wings the dragon's arms or does it have not have traditional arms? I feel it's got more of a batwing than a dragon wing because of their placement on the body and the arm shaped look to them. Or is this some wing snake dragon-like creature? Right now I think the wings are kind of small and there isn't a large dragon underneath. Small wings wouldn't support a heavy dragon.
It might be good to do some character design orthos or some 3/4 perspective image on what you imagine the creature to look like. It's kinda hard to critique I think since I'm a newbie and I think you can take this in a lot of directions. How close is the dragon to land? Presumably, the dragon is blasting fire at the hero who is on some land directly below right? Can it rest its hands on the ground? Maybe you can make its neck thicker going down, hide the arms under the lava but still have the hands on the coast of the lava ground and give it a large wingspan. If you plan to stick closely to what you have, I would suggest bigger, more powerful wings and placing them on the dragons back. Since the neck seems to be made out of individual pieces, I'd suggest even varying as it gets to the belly or something like that.
Also, for some reason, I find it odd that there is not a light outline on the horns when the dragon is look straight at you. That's just me though. Keep up the awesome work!
It might be good to do some character design orthos or some 3/4 perspective image on what you imagine the creature to look like. It's kinda hard to critique I think since I'm a newbie and I think you can take this in a lot of directions. How close is the dragon to land? Presumably, the dragon is blasting fire at the hero who is on some land directly below right? Can it rest its hands on the ground? Maybe you can make its neck thicker going down, hide the arms under the lava but still have the hands on the coast of the lava ground and give it a large wingspan. If you plan to stick closely to what you have, I would suggest bigger, more powerful wings and placing them on the dragons back. Since the neck seems to be made out of individual pieces, I'd suggest even varying as it gets to the belly or something like that.
Also, for some reason, I find it odd that there is not a light outline on the horns when the dragon is look straight at you. That's just me though. Keep up the awesome work!