Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Rhuantavan on October 14, 2016, 08:18:10 am

Title: UI icons/buttons for WIP old-school RPG
Post by: Rhuantavan on October 14, 2016, 08:18:10 am

Hi everybody, this is my first post and I've just started working on the UI for my game. Up to now I've been mostly doing low-res texturing work on low-poly 3d models, but this is one of my early ventures into pixel art. I'd like to know on how to improve the following three icons:

(http://i.imgur.com/BaftIPs.png)

From L to R they represent the journal, camp, and map actions.

Thank you!

Title: Re: UI icons/buttons for WIP old-school RPG
Post by: Bollie on October 15, 2016, 05:29:22 am

It looks like you just downsized bigger assets. You should use way less colors and avoid automatic anti-aliasing!

Title: Re: UI icons/buttons for WIP old-school RPG
Post by: Rhuantavan on October 15, 2016, 11:48:45 am

Thanks, I've been using a brush instead of a pixel tool to draw these. Here are the camp and journal icons using the pixel tool.

(http://i.imgur.com/0aI5mxU.png) (http://i.imgur.com/t3eIASX.png?1)

Title: Re: UI icons/buttons for WIP old-school RPG
Post by: Bollie on October 15, 2016, 12:45:40 pm

It's looking better. The campfire is still still using many colors that look very similar. Make every color count!
Made a small edit to show what i mean:
(http://i.imgur.com/UKX2z6z.png)

Title: Re: UI icons/buttons for WIP old-school RPG
Post by: Rhuantavan on October 15, 2016, 12:56:50 pm

Cool! Digging the highlights on the firewood, but I'll try to go a middle path between the flame colors. I like them a bit muted.

(http://i.imgur.com/TPIiZ6x.png)