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Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: skeddles on January 24, 2007, 02:34:15 am

Title: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: skeddles on January 24, 2007, 02:34:15 am
(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/5734/untitled4us.png)

im making a game for my science fair project.

im just gonna make and easy RPG game where you walk around and collect stuff. Its supposed to be cartoony. any advice for what i have?

then i need him to walk, but ive never done a walk cycle, and the only tutorials are for sideways  ???

Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: Stwelin on January 24, 2007, 03:27:56 am
You'll gain more from studying commercial RPG sprites. head over to http://tsgk.captainn.net/ and look up some RPG sprite sheets like FF, Secret of Mana, etc, and see how they do.

Also, you might want to refine the character a bit more. His head seems... flat (as in, he has no actual skull, the top of his head is flat.) I know it's supposed to be something of a cartoon, but the arms are more-than-comically short.

Good luck with the project.
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: skeddles on January 24, 2007, 06:23:30 pm
You'll gain more from studying commercial RPG sprites. head over to http://tsgk.captainn.net/ and look up some RPG sprite sheets like FF, Secret of Mana, etc, and see how they do.

Also, you might want to refine the character a bit more. His head seems... flat (as in, he has no actual skull, the top of his head is flat.) I know it's supposed to be something of a cartoon, but the arms are more-than-comically short.

Good luck with the project.

thank you very much!


this site is very usefull :)

how is this(of course i will add details later...)

(http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/7788/untitled3ip.png)
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: JonathanOfDrain on January 24, 2007, 10:08:16 pm
(http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/7788/untitled3ip.png)

Maybe it's just me but my arms go past my waist. Almost half way between my hips and knees.

(http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/2006/fdadfa9op.png)(http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/7788/untitled3ip.png)
I made a pretty quick edit.
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: skeddles on January 24, 2007, 11:01:55 pm
(http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/7788/untitled3ip.png)

Maybe it's just me but my arms go past my waist. Almost half way between my hips and knees.

(http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/2006/fdadfa9op.png)(http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/7788/untitled3ip.png)
I made a pretty quick edit.

hehe....ya im not the best at anotomy, ill work on it

thanx!
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: JonathanOfDrain on January 25, 2007, 02:23:35 am
if you have trouble with anatomy then stand up and mimic the pose. Some people buy those posing dolls but people and action figure (not dolls!) work the same.
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: Kren on January 25, 2007, 02:45:28 am
Or you should study some good rpg first and or spriters like this :

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/8483.htm by adarias, see how the pose isn't squared like yours.

you should also study Terranigma, Sekien Denetsu 3, and Chrono Trigger poses.
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: Ryumaru on January 25, 2007, 04:11:00 am
So you want to be a pixel artist?

http://www.geocities.com/skulkraken2002/

reading each of these tutorials about 3 times over and over almost doubled my skill when i first started out.
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: skeddles on January 26, 2007, 03:08:35 am
hard to beleive these came from the same person, and in the same day:
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4867/untitledsi2.png)
how is it?(the second one)

lol i didnt even have a chance to read the tutorials yet. ill check them out later. thank you guys a lot for posting!
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: skeddles on January 27, 2007, 01:49:25 am
(http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/9711/untitledtp7.png)
how are these?
its my friend jake(left) and me (right)


So you want to be a pixel artist?

when i first started out.

i am a pixel artist, and im not really "starting out".
 ;D :P
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: Sherman Gill on January 27, 2007, 03:49:17 am
Your progress is slow. Either you're past your mental prime, or you need to pay more attention when you read those tutorials Ryu linked to.
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: Kren on January 27, 2007, 04:03:56 am
You should really read, Ryumaru tutorial, eventhough the first chapter might not help alot, read it all, I am also not a new at pixel art but, i have read it 3 or 4 times. And each time I understand a new thing.
Title: Re: i need some advice-rpg, and animation
Post by: skeddles on January 27, 2007, 01:54:47 pm
Your progress is slow. Either you're past your mental prime, or you need to pay more attention when you read those tutorials Ryu linked to.
what's that  supposed to mean?