Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Sinistral Erim on October 13, 2009, 02:55:46 pm

Title: Manta-Ray Ship [Space Invaders-ish/Galaga project]
Post by: Sinistral Erim on October 13, 2009, 02:55:46 pm

I'm not good at machines. First attempt that looks somewhat right... and yes, mirrored.

old:(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t45/cheeseIV/MANTARAY00111.gif)new:(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t45/cheeseIV/waffleshipbg.gif)

(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t45/cheeseIV/explode.gif)(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t45/cheeseIV/carrotship.gif)
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t45/cheeseIV/WINDOW.gif)

EDIT: added an explosion and another ship. I'm using a palette of 18 colors that I would like to cut to 16.
EDIT2: added enemy ship & mockup time.
EDIT3: Added the WIP window borders & stuff. I had no idea about how to do techy stuff so I went to look at old 8-bit games, and according to R-type, squares and circles connected with lotsa wires and pipeage = techy. Yay.

Title: Re: Manta-Ray Ship [Space Invaders-ish/Galaga project]
Post by: MegaLeon on October 16, 2009, 01:25:33 pm

Explonsions don't collapses in a sort of black hole.
You should have the smoke fly around in a centrifugal motion.

Title: Re: Manta-Ray Ship [Space Invaders-ish/Galaga project]
Post by: rikfuzz on October 16, 2009, 08:38:15 pm

(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t45/cheeseIV/explode.gif)

Explosion timing is a bit weird. Seems to take a long time to appear, and not long enough to disappear. Sometimes I make them doughnut shaped so they don't sort of change direction. I've made a quick example of this technique for you:

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1534394/explosion.gif)

Hope that helps! The ships don't look bad - being mirrored is all that I don't like about the blue one, the one with red is a little flat in comparison. 

Title: Re: Manta-Ray Ship [Space Invaders-ish/Galaga project]
Post by: CrazyMLC on October 16, 2009, 11:54:11 pm

(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k42/crazyMLC/MANTARAY00111.gif)
I changed the barrel around to look more 3D to go along with the perspective of the rest of the ship.
I suck at explaining so please just look at what I did.

Title: Re: Manta-Ray Ship [Space Invaders-ish/Galaga project]
Post by: Zoggles on October 17, 2009, 06:54:35 am

I very rarely seem to do anything like 'spaceships' etc so I thought I'd have a closer look and play with yours - keeping the same design (well.. adjusted slightly) and same palette (though in Z-2 I altered the colours slightly)

My aim really was to try and add some solidity to the ship instead of it seeming like a wafer thin and flimsy looking ship (especially as the player would want to feel powerful in it) However, in playing around with the shading etc I think I have altered the viewing angle too much. Still.. it was mostly a self-test to fill a few spare moments, but thought I'd share my results with you in case in gave you some ideas or whatever.

(http://www.miniwizardstudios.com/odds/pix/manta-ray-ship.png)

-Z-

Title: Re: Manta-Ray Ship [Space Invaders-ish/Galaga project]
Post by: rikfuzz on October 17, 2009, 09:02:47 am

(http://www.miniwizardstudios.com/odds/pix/manta-ray-ship.png)

This is very cool - but I do miss the shinyness of the dome!

Title: Re: Manta-Ray Ship [Space Invaders-ish/Galaga project]
Post by: Elk on October 17, 2009, 07:09:33 pm

I think you should add planets to the background universe to give a specific lightsource on the spaceship... :)
not always but yeah... ^^

Title: Re: Manta-Ray Ship [Space Invaders-ish/Galaga project]
Post by: Sinistral Erim on October 19, 2009, 12:50:50 pm

(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t45/cheeseIV/waffleship.gif)(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t45/cheeseIV/waffleshipbg.gif)

Had another try at my wafer-ship (now teapotship?). Eh, I still messed up the shading in the wings -- Zoggles excellent edit is way better.