Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Anzug on July 08, 2015, 10:37:47 am

Title: [C+C] [Wip] Sci Fi RPG-Map
Post by: Anzug on July 08, 2015, 10:37:47 am

Hi,
I'm working on Graphics for a Sci Fi RPG. This is a cutting from The first Map.
The Houses are very inspired by Pokemon. I want to change them later. And overal the town is to borring, but I have plans for more details.
(http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150708/xteanyxa.png)

Title: Re: [C+C] [Wip] Sci Fi RPG-Map
Post by: CelioHogane on July 08, 2015, 12:14:44 pm

Im not going to go in much details, so im going to complain about a single thing.

(http://i.imgur.com/vc1W4op.png)

Where is the lightning? i don't get why the houses are surrounded for a mini eternal darkness.

Title: Re: [C+C] [Wip] Sci Fi RPG-Map
Post by: Anzug on July 08, 2015, 12:43:12 pm

Oh... good point  ;D
(http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150708/ln6b3tep.png)
These are just shadows to ground the objekts... the real shadows come afterwards with the engine.

Title: Re: [C+C] [Wip] Sci Fi RPG-Map
Post by: CelioHogane on July 08, 2015, 01:10:23 pm

...

(http://i.gyazo.com/939b4c8f97f2b0dbdbdb98c1af56eb4a.png)

Title: Re: [C+C] [Wip] Sci Fi RPG-Map
Post by: PypeBros on July 08, 2015, 09:06:08 pm

I'm afraid your road is too symmetric. It loses all sense of volume and now looks like a half-pipe seen from above.

I note that you're breaking your perspective with the lamps (spheres should turn to ellipses, afaik), pipes, and the lone antenna on the centric house.

Title: Re: [C+C] [Wip] Sci Fi RPG-Map
Post by: Decroded on July 09, 2015, 01:32:43 am

Quote from: PypeBros on July 08, 2015, 09:06:08 pm

spheres should turn to ellipses, afaik

A sphere is a perfect circle from any angle.
That's why the sun never turns flat.
Its probably its the only shape that never changes.

Antenna not necessarily broken perspective it might not be shaped like a TV aerial.

Obvious broken perspective are the tops of the bottles, the rings around the pipes (just the vertical ones).
They should be elliptical.

Without seeing engine lighting its hard to comment on light source but it would have to be pretty complex to handle all these shapes properly.
IMO it would be better to have the light from overhead and towards so it slightly lighting the front of objects and allows for highlighting on the edges of vertical and horizontal planes.
Some offset to one side also makes better shading opportunities to describe forms.

Title: Re: [C+C] [Wip] Sci Fi RPG-Map
Post by: heyguy on July 11, 2015, 08:33:40 pm

Hey I like your pixeling so far but I don't get a Sci Fi feel from this scene at all. I know you mentioned it already but it looks very very Pokemon like, not Sci Fi at all. I get a basic town feel from what you've created so far. Maybe a poor town, mud huts sort of feel.

I agree with Pypebros regarding the roads not quite looking like roads. Add some cracks, dividing lines, etc to really sell it as road.