Redoing pixel art + Picard + The Thing

[ZoSo]

I was gonna do it for the contest.. but yeah, i started to late.. and never finnished it.

So yeah, i though.. what the hell, ill still redo the piece. So yeah.

Finnished :

[Malor]

hmm everything looks great, except that weird purple AA, this does not smooth out the image, if anything it draws the eyes to the jagged..blue areas in the image. I notice this especially around the eye.

[ZoSo]

hmm everything looks great, except that weird purple AA, this does not smooth out the image, if anything it draws the eyes to the jagged..blue areas in the image. I notice this especially around the eye.

The one in the animation is the OLD one .

[Malor]

ach! my bad  Well in that case, everything looks good, And I'll reserve any further judgment until this is finished.

[heyy13]

Can i see your ref for picard? His shoulders look to wide right there, i knew they were wide, but not that wide. Also you have a patch of really dark shading along the left of his face when that appears to be the direction fo the light source. : \ The light blue striping also doesn't look right along the left side of his uniform. But again i'd need to look at your referance for that. But on the whole good job, just some nit picky things so far. : )

(Oh and STAR TREK FTW!)

[ZoSo]

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4420/picardrealez6.png

There is the ref pic.

[ZoSo]

Sorry about the double post but here's an update.

[ndchristie]

i have no real crits right now, except that the thing bit has very little depth - try some atmospheric perspective

also, i think you and willfaulds should have a pow-wow on portraits; between his color sense and your volume sense you two could teach each other a lot

[Hatch]

You really should post ALL of your references.

[ndchristie]

he's revisiting an old piece, the reference for which was always present.  most of us have been here long enough to remember the old one and the source, so i doubt there was any intentional misleading on zoso's part.

[Hatch]

Oops! Apologies, ZoSo, for the implication. I'm not one of the most of us, so.

[Helm]

A link to the old thread would at least have helped on the part of led zeppelin dude.

As far as critique goes I suggest (not for the girl portrait, everything else though) to not use dithering to create shapes so much, but to use opaque colors first and dithering for extra smoothness, shaping or textural detail. Right now the movie stills look like grainy photo reductions.

[ZoSo]

Oh sorry about the non-reference part.

here is both the reference and WIP for the Thing part.
Reference : http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9980/thethingrealxr1.png
WIP : http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/9228/thethinganimationku5.gif

And yeah thanks for the replies.

And Helm, im not sure what you meant with the "at least have helped on the part of led zeppelin dude." . But yeah.
I was really trying to keep the color count as small as possible.. And i tried making the backround not blend into the characters.. but yeah, i should have used more colors i guess.. I can honestly say the backround was a tiny bit rushed compared to the characters.



There i edited the colors a bit .. To make it look my interesting.