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Pixel Art / Re: Title of my homepage
« on: April 17, 2007, 06:29:05 am »
Hi folks! Thank you again for you attention!

Here is the new update:


I am almost stating it as finished, there is one last thing I want to try: a flying person, facing the buildings and just above them, with his back towards the "camera", only seen by his silhouette.

@yosh64: thank you a lot!

@Sharm: many thanks for finding it, I think I acomplished something like it (or not :huh:). Since there are no bright surfaces near the cubes, I think it wonīt look good their faces with such light colors, as if a reflection is showing. Thank you a lot for the effort!

@AdamAtomic: actually the objective was only to suggest that itīs a city and, besides, I think I am not skilled enough to make an entire city design. The background is black because itīs the pageīs background color, so, if I changed the color, I would have to change the pages colors too. I may try different color schemes later, right now I think it looks cool with this dark style. Thank you very much for you opinion and your suggestions! Who knows I may be able to do more buildings and even a good terrain for it in a Starcraft style some day?

Thank you a lot everyone!

Good things

Nepheus

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Pixel Art / Re: Title of my homepage
« on: April 13, 2007, 02:07:10 am »
Hi folks! Thank you a lot for your comments and critiques!

@yosh64: I wide spaced the letters but kept the visual style, hope thatīs better.

@Zee: really thanks!

@Sharm: thank you a lot for the suggestion. I looked for it but pretty much all images I found were about rough stones, not polished plain surfaces. Anyways, it still helped a lot!

And now, the update:


I really tried to make it look like a plain and very polished surface, donīt really know if it worked the way I wanted. I like it, but it doesnīt match the image I had in mind  :crazy: Crazy huh?

The highlight in the surface kind of helped making the block more visible. It was way too dark and clean, pretty hard to see. Now I am going to put another one in the middle boxīs surface.

I had an idea to make those borders on the ground to match better the style of the blocks: make them look like energy buses (like in computer printed circuit boards) with some highlights to show the data flowing. What do you think?

I really appreciate the C&C! Keep posting please! Good things!

Nepheus

PS: With the light background of the forums, the image may be a little dificult to read, please visit the page at www.vila.supernova.nom.br to see it better in the context and with a black background  ;).

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Pixel Art / Re: Angelic warrior
« on: April 09, 2007, 12:13:55 pm »
Congratulations! Itīs REALLY impressive! Believe me, if I tell someone you did this pixel by pixel, he/she wouldnīt believe it!
Amazing.

Good things!


Nepheus

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Pixel Art / Re: Title of my homepage
« on: April 09, 2007, 05:20:25 am »
Updated the font. I kind of like it. Next step: working on the surfaces...


Good things!

Nepheus

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Pixel Art / Re: Title of my homepage
« on: April 08, 2007, 02:18:49 pm »
Thank you a lot for the C&Cs Zee and Adam!

I really didnīt know that Matrix was based on Dark City (which I havenīt read yet).

About the piece: I am going to change the font, it really looks strange now that you mentioned it, Adam. Also, I was thinking about giving a try at the black polished surface I said in the first post and add some more elements, like a moon made of a sphere or cars based on simple geometric forms. But the general idea was to make it small so it would fit inside small screens (I am at the initial stages of building a console with a friend of mine, ant the demos would bring the logo as the first screen. As the hardware specs are very limited, the resolution would be small).

I am going to work on those ideas and try some others too. Thank you and good things to all.

Nepheus

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Pixel Art / Title of my homepage
« on: April 07, 2007, 05:31:16 am »
Hello everyone! I have already opened a thread for this subject, but itīs really old now, so I am making a new one (if thatīs wrong, please, forgive me)


This is my lastest attempt to make a title for my home page called Vila Supernova (Supernova Village). The idea came from an episode I read in a book called Neuromancer, where the main character enters the matrix (thatīs right, the book the Watchowski brotherīs based their movies) and then flies above a military database which is represented by a big polished black box.

I have made it in a kind of wireframed rendering and I quite like it (even being very simple) but the black polished surface would be my ideal. Thing is: I have no idea of how to represent that texture since itīs just clean, no scratches, cracks or anything. If you could give ideas it would be terrific! Also, if you want to C&C this one, go ahead, I would love to read your opinions.

Good things!

Nepheus

PS: Itīs my second pixel art  ;D.
PPS: My home page: www.vila.supernova.nom.br

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Pixel Art / Re: Naked man character & WIP mockup
« on: February 27, 2007, 02:59:56 am »
Hi will, how are you?

I have been watching your progress with this piece and had an idea when I read The One Guy's post: you could put one of those black rectangles censuring his parts when he is naked and add a "standing" animation where he "adjusts" the rectangle, kind of like when you have big pants and need to take them up all the time because they keep falling. I think it would be hilarious ;D

Good things.

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Pixel Art / Re: Title of my webpage (first post and pixel art)
« on: February 14, 2007, 01:57:53 pm »
Thank you for the answers!

@fil_razorback: yes, it was intentional. I don't know if it will be the final version, kinda looks strange one day after I've done it  :crazy:

@Andy Tram: thank you. The birds were done the simplest way I could imagine, just to add something to that area. What would be a good way to change it? Doing a real bird form or just anti-alising it?

Good things everyone!

Nepheus

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Pixel Art / Title of my webpage (first post and pixel art)
« on: February 13, 2007, 06:40:44 pm »
Hello all! I have been watching your amazing artworks for a long time and decided to make one on my own.


This is the main picture (or title) of my webpage called "Vila Supernova" I've been working on. The webpage is about game programming, electronics and stuff like that.

I used GraphicsGale Free Edition to make it and used some tools like "Line Tool" but I still think its classified as pixel art, isn't it?
Anyways, I would like to know you opinions, what you would change and so on. My intention was to make it look like an old videogame title or menu screen. I TRIED to anti-alias it on the building edges but...  :huh: ... the result isn't really good, right?

Good things everyone!

Nepheus

PS: By the way, "Vila" means "Village" in portuguese.

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