Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: huZba on November 25, 2008, 07:47:18 pm
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Time to replace the old "prime_pixels" avatar with a new one.
So here's what i have so far.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/huzba/primal_pixels_0.png)
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Nice! I think it's a bit dark still, makes that reddish lighting on the left side very subtle. Other than the palette, I think it just needs some refining to smooth out all the edges. Can't wait to see it done.
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I HUNGER!
(Sinistar)
Would be interesting to see some more likeness to a real skull in the upper jaw teeth cheekbone area. Perhaps the sideburns could be missile launchers? Nothing is pointing straight forward now, and that bothers me, because I imagine the guy being a shmup boss who shoots missiles. And laser through the eyes. Little things that flip open to reveal turrets.
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I really like it, but isn't the nose opening a bit too big and/or too low/close to the teeth?
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hey I replyed in this thread! must have not hit the button. well, jsut wanted to say that I love that style. it falls right into my favorite style category :D
I'd probably make more use of the back light though. awesome stuff non the less!
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I think the light in the left eye socket is too bright for that side of the face (which is in shadow).
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Both eyes feel emissive rather than lit in my humble view.
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We're gonna miss the old one :'(
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Cleanup, stronger secondary light, added skull likeness, moved the nose. Missile launchers.... hmm.. pending for now, though the idea of making it a shmup boss is tempting. (sinistar used to give me nightmares :-X)
The eyes are supposed to be small lights. I might try editing a bit if they don't read as such.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/huzba/primal_pixels_1.png)
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hey I replyed in this thread! must have not hit the button. well, jsut wanted to say that I love that style. it falls right into my favorite style category :D
I'd probably make more use of the back light though. awesome stuff non the less!
Yes you did reply and your reply was an one-liner asspat. You've been in Pixelation long enough to know better, though, so I don't know what's up. I deleted that post. Please keep it more critique-heavy. Praise can come when a piece is done.
huZba: darkness hugs the black lineart too pillow-like on many places. I'd generally clean up the planes much more and avoid single-pixelness noise until I were to feel satisfied with the volumes.
Since your secondary light is red, the purple saturated shadow confuses the color identity, I'd go with something cooler.
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I think likeness to a real skull can be good but it doesn't have to be organic. That would make it feel like a spray painted human skull. I think it would be more effective to paraphrase the organic stuff into mechanical components of the same relation and proportion as a skull. Kinda like those human faces made from vegetables. You find a suitable fruit. Robotic shapes are... carved and simple, aligned, flat surfaces, curves, circles... in general, easy to compress into a 3D description (in a CAD program for example).
http://www.amazon.com/Robotic-Human-Silvered-Statue-Android/dp/B000RQ389M
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1990-1999/hardware/
If you look on the sides of the nose on a human skull, you'll see 2 holes. I'm guessing blood veins go through there. Anyways, those holes could be made into... something geometrically simple and robotic. Vents, rivets, screws. Just an example. Edit: there are also holes in the 'eyebrow' bone and jaw.
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Aye, update.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/huzba/primal_pixels_2.png)
An old animation called "dimensions of dialogue" came to mind when you mentioned vegetable heads Arne. I'll have to try that out. Might be a good excuse to introduce some different materials cause it's a bit monotonous atm.