Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Xero on January 28, 2007, 08:35:47 am
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Hadn't done anything in a while so I decided to see if I could still make isometric pixels :P pretty happy with how this turned out, but way too many colours I think - 26 all up including the base (7) and transparency. Two versions. One inground and one a bit out. Made as a sort of habbohotel styled piece to help out someone having trouble with their own iso pool. Some criticism would be great, as I've never pixelled water before, and could use help especially with it.
(http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9564/smallpoolzr8.gif)
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Looks good, except... You used semi transparency. :mean:
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If you mean I used a transparency tool in a program, I did not. It was 100% hand pixelled. Please do not much such accusations without adequate evidence.
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I thought the same thing, actually. You should consider it a compliment if you did do it by hand, because it sure looks too good to not have anything to do with a semi-transparent layer.
Actually, it looks good no matter what. The water reminds me of an early shader demo I saw for some graphics card in a relatively old game magazine, where they used, like, normal maps and reflection or whatever on real time water. And it looked almost exactly like that. And I remember thinking "Wow, that sure looks.. not at all like water... unless those characters are half an inch tall and those enormous waves are actually just ripples.."
But yours is to scale and is looking very good!
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Thankyou very much, I guess I will take it as a compliment. It really wasn't all that difficult though, I just shaded the water that shows the right wall of the pool darker than the left wall and the bottom, and the lines joining them and joining the tiles at the bottom even darker.. if that makes sense? :P
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looks good - it'd be nice to see a little hue shifting in the tiles that go around the pool maybe? also i prefer the in-ground one, the out-of-ground one looks like something from a bad Quake level ;)
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noob question: is it really all that bad to use a transparent layer? Or is it just a puritan thing?
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noob question: is it really all that bad to use a transparent layer? Or is it just a puritan thing?
as long as you made both layers i dont see why not. just a time saver really. probably bumps your color count up - but that could easily be tinkered with...