Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: buddy90 on July 13, 2010, 07:08:46 am
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Hey guys.
Past couple of days, I've been working on some animations. And like always, I start with a simple, flat color base. I've made three animations like this before, and they always felt too...."fat". Their limbs were comically oversized. So this time, I tried with a more simple anatomical proportions. Made running, jumping, and crouching, so far.
Here's those.
(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/9366/c1walkanimation.gif)(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5728/c1walktostand.gif)(http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/6347/c1jumpani.gif)(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9163/c1crouchani.gif)
Thought it animated smoothly, so I went to try detailing the character. Here....is why I wanted to post. I'm totally stuck. He looks ugly with an outline, he looks ugly without....he just looks weird. This is the best I came up with....but it's so strange.
(http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4222/c2stand.png)
I'm stuck. Can you guys give me advice?
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(http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/4736/man03edit.png)
I edited your guy a little around the shoulder to make it more readable, replaced the black with a nice dark desaturated purple, darkened the skin shadow, and played with a few pixels. I couldn't get the outline to work, but you're definitely going to need one.
EDIT: Worked on the arms a little more.
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Man, this is crazy....
I tried to play with it some more. I think his clothes look fine, but his skin still looks crap.
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3497/c2stand1.png)
Tried this too..
(http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1403/c2s.png)
I don't know, maybe it's just the base itself. Maybe it's too skinny or something.
EDIT:
OK, I tried something new. Bandanna animates, added two colors to the skin. It looks better, but I think something's still missing.
(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3649/c3standani.gif)(http://www.iaza.com/work/100714C/c3walk18585232232-iaza.gif)