Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: vinegarstroke on August 03, 2010, 01:40:48 am
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Hey!
I posted a sprite a while back and realised I'd not really shown my best work, so I've been practising all on my own and have developed my skills a wee bit.
At the end of the day, you learn by critique so I thought i'd post this base sprite. This one is the most important, it's not even close to 100% finished yet, but I need some guidance from someone other than my missus :P
(http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af96/vinegarstroke/oscar0000.png)
18 colours incl. transparency
apologies for the hideous magenta... not sure how to export transparent png's with graphicsgale :(
thanks for having a butchers!
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Not going to lie.
I love this little dude. (although his face is a bit scary)
(http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/4715/advdude.png)
* shaved off a single shade of brown.
* Removed the white glare on his face. (mostly because it bugged me.)
* cleaned up some hard to read areas.
* swapped the shade of dark red for a red-violet shade.
Erm, that's all can say for now.
I'm sure someone with more experience than me can do better than me. :crazy:
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to be honest I find all of the changes in the edit, excepting perhaps the removal of the specular highlights on the face, to be negative.
not sure what that hand is doing, I assume it's supposed to be in his pocket but instead it just looks like it comes to a sharpened point.
liking the sprite so far
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I love the style you've got going here!
took a crack at editing this, hope you don't mind
(http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/4405/platformeredit.png)
got rid of a few colors that I felt didn't really need to be there and just kinda made small chances everywhere else. I tried to keep the style of the original sprite in tact, hopefully that's still there haha
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heyy. thanks a lot for all the help!
i've messed about with the colours and taken everyone's edits into consideration.
(http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af96/vinegarstroke/oscar0000-1.png)
i had no idea what i was going to do with the hands as they're my weakest area, i would have mentioned something after I realised but I fell asleep pretty much straight after I posted it :P
i'm still not happy with it though and I'm not sure what looks wrong... it just does.
edit: just had another play about with him...
(http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af96/vinegarstroke/oscar0000-2.png)
still no luck on the transparent graphicsgale front though. looks like i'll have to find £14 from somewhere :P
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To export something out of graphicsgale with transparency, you need to click the "..." button on the frame in the toolbar and choose the color you want to make transparent
thought I mentioned this in my last post, but I guess not
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(http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af96/vinegarstroke/oscartrans10000.png)
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right you are an absolute hero. I realised I was making the layer transparent instead of the frame :yell: