Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Moribund on May 13, 2010, 05:10:51 pm

Title: Small stuff
Post by: Moribund on May 13, 2010, 05:10:51 pm
So uh, as this is my first post I better have a long detailed history of myself. Basically I've been on and off into Pixel Art for awhile, and I've poked around this site but I have always been to intimidated to join. I sprite for the game Cortex Command (http://www.datarealms.com/) almost exclusively, so I started whining that we should have some sort of sprite help thread there. The mods were all like "Well why don't YOU do it". Backed up into a corner, I had to accept. It's helped me improve tremendously, but I think that if I am going to fill the role well enough I need to be better. I've swallowed my fear (it is now giving me indigestion) and decided to post here.

http://img168.imageshack.us/i/appleg.png/ (http://img168.imageshack.us/i/appleg.png/)
http://img263.imageshack.us/i/gunsa.png/ (http://img263.imageshack.us/i/gunsa.png/)
Palette: http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4448/palette.png (http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4448/palette.png)

edit: I can't get the image tags to work.
Title: Re: Small stuff
Post by: Mathias on May 13, 2010, 05:32:46 pm
Hey there,  Moribund.


(http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/3826/appleg.png)

(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9135/gunsa.png)

Palette: (http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4448/palette.png)


(your URLs go to a special page at imageshack that happens to display the image, you gotta specify the actual image's URL in the image tag)

(introduce yourself here: http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=6976.0 (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=6976.0))



Title: Re: Small stuff
Post by: Moribund on May 13, 2010, 05:50:20 pm
Thanks a lot! The CC forums have a built in uploader so I'm kind of inexperienced.
Title: Re: Small stuff
Post by: Lizzrd on May 14, 2010, 05:25:04 pm
Contrary?

Anyways, You should make the apple more rounded and less isolike octagonal.
Title: Re: Small stuff
Post by: Moribund on May 14, 2010, 05:41:19 pm
I thought the same too, but everything I tried just made it look more misshapen.

Show me how?
Title: Re: Small stuff
Post by: Mathias on May 14, 2010, 07:37:25 pm
True. Could be a tomato right now.


Here's a nice ref pic.

(http://www.riverhorseadvisors.com/site/riverhorse_america/assets/images/red_apple_000003308141XSmall.jpg)

Notice the all too typical single leaf. Aside from the shape, your green pixels on top look more like a tomato's or persimmon's stem. Go for the quintessential singular leaf instead. It's a dead give away for "apple". At that scale, you can't mesh your details too much. Go for bold simple elements.
Title: Re: Small stuff
Post by: Moribund on May 15, 2010, 12:31:40 am
Thanks for the feedback!

(http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/1438/appleapple.png)

You're right, it did like a persimmon. Is this much better?
Title: Re: Small stuff
Post by: Mathias on May 15, 2010, 01:29:45 am
You got 'er. Now move into the next thing. Don't spend too much time tinkering if this is for a larger project.

Are these sprites just miscellaneous practice?

Title: Re: Small stuff
Post by: Moribund on May 15, 2010, 01:49:29 am
Funny story this is actually an edit of someone else's apple.
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8969/appleattmp.png)

I am really glad how well this turned out to you and Lizard. I'd really like to incorporate it into something tangible- but alas I am but an average citizen of the least motivated generation. Maybe I'll be mega adventurous and make a person next.

(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8416/hulkvania.png)

BAM. It's... I don't really know. A headless hulk in Castlevania clothing. I was poking around the site and I felt really inspired to make something completely different from what I normally do.