Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: robotriot on June 05, 2006, 12:27:28 am
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I feel like doing pixels again atm and I plan on posting stuff in this thread from time to time. C&C welcome as usual.
Some pictures to start things off:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/ha_walk.gif)
It's a couple of months old in fact, but I felt like 3 pics would be needed to justify a thread ;) I couldn't get the legs right so I just cut them off ... yea, I'm a lazy bastard.
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/come_towards_the_light.gif)
This was a quick one (1.5h), I didn't feel like spending time on details. I just made it to visualize the idea I had in my mind. Not the greatest palette either ...
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/cowboysprite.gif)
I made this one to practice sprites a little, I usually only do larger stuff.
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1st sprite: shading on the wall instead of different shades of red per block would give it more detail.that is, if you want detail.
2nd: i like it.
3rd: grat shading, but shouldn't be the gun and the holster be on the same side of his body?
other than that, great works, dude.
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Yea you're right about the wall, at the time I just wanted to keep the colourcount low, so I used the sprite's colours for the background as well.
Actually, he's got two holsters, but I agree, it isn't really visible or anything ;) I added a couple of pixels for the second holster and did a background while I was at it:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/cowboysprite2.gif)
Needs some more tweaking though, the sprite blends in too much. Plus it uses a lot of colours ;)
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As i see it, the reason why the sprite blends into the background is because it has a lower contrast than the bg. The darkest tones on the bg go down to like a 10% luminance, while the sprite's darkest ones to 40%. Maybe reverse that, or bump the contrast on the sprite (you could go almost all the way up to white on the highlights, since it's in broad daylight in good ole Texas).
On the first animation, shame on you for coming to such lows. It's a nice power strut, but i'd like some legs with that, sir.
The second pic is serious ownage. Palette's a bit low on contrast to be viewed at 1x, but the idea and execution is very very nice. Wallpaper worthy material :)
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Good lord...
I cannot put into words how awesome that 2nd pic is, conceptually.
Oh, a crit: for the aforementioned awesomeness, It'd be cool if you lit the "Hips" up just a bit, like you did the arm(s).
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I think you should call it "Main Screen Turn On".
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Thanks for your comments, Turbo and Xion. Here's the final version for the cowboy scene:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/cowboysprite3.gif)
I changed the cowboy's highlight to white and desaturated the background a little. Plus there's a horsey and the antagonist :)
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I think the second picture was in serious need of an edit:
(http://ee.1asphost.com/dustyshouri/bsod.png)
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Thanks for your comments, Turbo and Xion. Here's the final version for the cowboy scene:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/cowboysprite3.gif)
I changed the cowboy's highlight to white and desaturated the background a little. Plus there's a horsey and the antagonist :)
Ayii!!! The bad guy's forward leg blends into the background way too much. I didn't even see it at first. It's a grey [leg] in front of a grey building. The building is detailed and the leg is as well. Ya know what happens under those circumstances, right? Also, the foot blends in with the ground as well. The legs look at odd angles, and, again with the forward leg, it's knee isn't too obvious. Everything else is vury purty, though.
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I think it's brilliant. Nice details and a cool, gritty feeling overall. The only thing that bugs me is that some of the building details feel a bit flat (saloon railings," roof" on the grey building), but that's probably just due to the perspective.
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Loving your new stuff so far..
I wish the sentry/robot one was completed more as it looks interesting..
I like the cowboy mockup the best.. I didn't notice the bad guy's forward leg at all, because the foot is the same color as the ground as well as him looking like he's standing straight. Nice choice of colours and the right amount of contrast.
What are you working on these days btw?
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Eeek! Big nono on full white highlight all over good guy. Looks like he's got flour all over him.
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The second one reminds me of Flashback. I wish you had spent more time on it.
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Second one deserves some more love. You should polish it up a bit more, the concept is wikkid but the execution is much less so.
I'd bump up the difference between the cowboy's shirt and pants, it's a bit too similar as of now and almost looks like pajamas. You could also ditch at least some of the dithering on the horse, it would probably look better without it. Maybe add more defined shadows under the cowboys.
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Alright, I'll try and see what I can do to make the cowboys stand out better. Thanks for the input guys!
Chiko: hey, long time no see :) I'm studying right now, so I'm not really doing any commercial stuff
Anyway, here's something new. It's mostly finished, maybe I should add some AA though
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/corporal2.gif)
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This is very nice. at 1x it doesn't seem to need any AA, so it depends if you force the resolution or not. I say go for it anyway.
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yes! that last one is great, i especially like the colorful shadows. this got lots of style
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the style on the latest sprite is great, i like your choice of colors too.
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This is rather cool... That last one's colors reminded me of C64 stuff, so I figured I'd throw it into paint and do a -> 50% -> 200% horizontal resizing to see how it'd look with wide pixels...
(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5605/widepixel9pk.gif)
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Here's the final version with added AA:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/corporal3.gif)
Rox: I like that, I should try doing C64 stuff again ;)
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those lines are deceiving...it makes it look like eyes a bit and after looking at it for a while I'm pretty sure they're eyebrows...right? Looked like crappy eyes though
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Made on a real C64 with a Megadrive gamepad :) I'm not too happy with the face, the background was actually more fun to do.
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/larry.gif)
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A quick doodle
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/tentakelbadewanne.gif)
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no replies? c'mon people
it's awesome, haha. nice wet/shiney look for the tentacles, it doesn't work as well on the head though. i wasn't sure about the blueish gray in there first, but it actually is just the right cold tint to hint some slippery cutaneous translucency
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Thanks for your comments, Turbo and Xion. Here's the final version for the cowboy scene:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/cowboysprite3.gif)
I changed the cowboy's highlight to white and desaturated the background a little. Plus there's a horsey and the antagonist :)
you should add a small mountain in the horizon :P so it doesn't look soo plain
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I'm not too happy with this new pic, the colours are rather plain and boring, some of the plants' textures don't work very well and there's no real point of interest :/
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/scape2.gif)
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In my opinion on the bark, there should be another tone right before the darkest. And the contrast isn't consistent throughout the picture.
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(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/scape2.gif)
it also looks kinda strange because your tree trunk gets wider as it goes up. i'm just gonna edit it a little bitty bit
(http://imagehost.ensellitis.com/images/466949045.gif)
changed some things, including contrast, where i brought down the darkest shade used on the trees and made the background trees even lighter by changing everything a shade,
the shape of your trunks, some outlines on the tree, the dirt path color,
and i also tried adding texture to the thing in the foreground just to see if it fills it in better, not sure sure about that part because i may be mistaken and it could be a dark hole sorta thing...whatever it is
the sky dither could be smoothed out more as well.
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wow. im impressed. a lot of this work is pretty damn good. I really like the "cowboy?" with the beard. excellent job so far and good luck with the rest of your art.
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Looks great! Composition wise it's horrible heh (ie. left tree in between valley in bg, which in turn is behind the rock, which is in turn behind the mushroom, to say the least)
But I absolutely love the colours used, and the texturing you did. Ok, the crits which you can take or leave.
1) I think the trees should lose any outlines, as it just kills realism (as akaline kindly provided, but not 100%). Don't forget the top of the right tree.
2) alkaline's edit upping the darkest shade color in the trees is a good choice, makes it more consistent with the rest of the peice.
3) The grass area on the bottom right is interesting at the bottom (bush silhoette at the bottom) because there is some variation in the grass, and with the silhoette, but as you look upwards it's one big mass that looks similar. (no grass in the grass, dark spots, overgrown grass etc)
4) I don't think the edit of the silhouette works in alkaline's edit, or maybe even the original. The silhouette makes the image look more crowded than it is in the first place.
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Thank you everyone for your comments, they were really helpfull, I tried to incorporate most of it :)
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/scape3.gif)
Edit: here's some more stuff I did over the last few months which is mostly unfinished and not that good really.
Meant as a follow-up to the pic in the first post:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/qualle.png)
Unfinished elements for a website layout:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/mmadesign.gif)
No anatomy:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/headcrap.gif)
Failed attempt at a mockup for a remake of the crappy game "Vixen" (16c from a 12bit palette):
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/vixencrap.gif)
The underlying lineart was bad to start with, this has no depth or whatsoever and texture is way too random:
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/stegocrap.gif)
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I dreamed of this game today, it ran on some kind of hardware similar to the Atari 2600 and it was a Wing Commander game with Star Trek license (I omitted that part though).
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/wing_commander_mockup.gif)
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That's sweet. No crits. How many colors is that? Only 5?
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Thanks mia, yea it's 5 colours. I think I should make that lever a bit thicker though, looks like it would break off any moment ^^
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I dremt of Gladiator Quest too, then I made it.
These are all pretty, Robotriot.
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(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/edgar_swinesky.gif)
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Cute, but I think the black could be used to add some detail the mouth, rather than just leaving it dark red. Also, you've got quite a few wasted colors, the pink and brown midtones are pretty indistinguishable. Maybe add some brighter highlights on the teeth to make them look wet? Some stringy saliva? His right (our left) shoulder looks weird, his fat head should probably be casting a shadow onto it. The ears don't match, as they're outlined, unlike everything else.
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From the series "12 disasters you never heard about" (#8), or: when badly drawn saucers attack.
Please disregard the extreme colour count, actually this probably shouldn't even be done in pixels at all :) I'm too annoyed by it by now to fix all the places that still need work, I'll probably leave it like it is now.
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/triptychon5.gif)
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I love the text in that one. It's awesome. The styling is great too but I'd like more detail.
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I attempted to create my own fad avatar, but kind of gave up in the middle (the weird version uses KC85/3 restrictions which I really didn't come to grips with).
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/fadav3.gif)
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I'm working on this picture right now, and since I'll go to sleep now, I thought maybe I can get some input on what to improve in the meantime. It's a hommage to Herr Erdnuss, a character (http://omr.planet-d.net/trash/nuss.gif) a friend of mine created a couple of years ago.
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/herr_erdnuss1.gif)
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maybe it's time for a new thread? it seems to be harder and harder for you to get replies. ;)
fad avater looks cool. you prolly should have finished it. but then i prolly shoulda finished 1000 other pieces so i know what its like :lol:
second one is looking hawt. the only thing that really sticks out at me is the front time. i know its meant to be cartoony but its too skewed imo. his hands also don't really look like hands and the shading on the lower front face part doesn't really make sense to me...
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Thanks for your comment. I knew somebody was gonna say something about the hands, but they're really supposed to be like that (no, really, that's not a lame excuse! :D). About the skewed front, I think it wouldn't look dynamic enough if it was straight. I did change the shading on the face however, I hope it's better now. This is most likely the final version, 16 colours used.
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/herr_erdnuss2.gif)
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ah very nice. and after seeing the original character i can see why you wanted the hands looking like that :P.
the shading on the face is much better. shit i need to sleep.
very nice ;D
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I love the second pic, you should really take some time and finish it up/add some details! It should look fantastic!
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Hey robot - thanks for your support at the join, by the by...
Random Titles.
The hulking mechanical screenhead... "Cathode Ray Missionary" or "Boob-Tube Tango"
The Saloon scene.. "
Guy with the hat and the beard... "Pornographic Chin" or "MY brim is bigger than yours"
Your cockpit... "The Adventures of Plasma Pete" or "Back in a parsec"
The illuminated manuscript... "Rennaisance Lightning" or "Chaucer's Saucers"
....
GA
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Lol government.agent.
That makes me think..
"Guy with the hat and the beard... "Pornographic Chin" or "MY brim is bigger than yours""
I thought that was his adam's apple?
Anywayys, I've been sneaking around this thread for a while... BRILLIANT work!
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Heh, thanks for your comments everyone :)
Some emoticons for mma05.at (http://mma05.at), my first actually, never tried that before. Largely inspired by the cool ones right here on this forum.
(http://omr.planet-d.net/img/emoticons.gif)
Also, ASCII smilies rule.
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I think your smileys need to be a tad brighter, and some kind of outline, they're hard to see.
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First try at the EGA palette :)
Steps:
(http://www.elitepigs.de/trash/atlantis0.gif)
(http://www.elitepigs.de/trash/atlantis1.gif)
(http://www.elitepigs.de/trash/atlantis2.gif)
(http://www.elitepigs.de/trash/atlantis3.gif)
(http://www.elitepigs.de/trash/atlantis4.gif)
Final:
(http://www.elitepigs.de/trash/atlantis5.gif)
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I could have sex with the stone. I really like how you used the palette in the stone steps.
I don't like how the tree trunk widens by sort of bumping outwards on each side of the trunk at the same height. It's like the tree has hips.