Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: MNKYband on October 27, 2012, 04:22:03 pm

Title: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help
Post by: MNKYband on October 27, 2012, 04:22:03 pm

Hello,

I am working on a fan game, and for the game, I need to make a custom, silver HEV suit. I made most of the suit okay, but the feet, hands, and face are giving me trouble. If anyone can help me with those, or point me toward a good tutorial, that would be great.


Here's my picture:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8472/8128016494_02cbcfc0a8_s.jpg)
HEVmk1657934659 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89228590@N03/8128016494/) by MNKYband.alt (http://www.flickr.com/people/89228590@N03/), on Flickr


And here's the reference image:
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110401025217/half-life/en/images/c/c4/Gordon_rubble_crowbar.jpg)

Thanks,
MNKYband

Note: The reference image here is created by Valve, for the game Half-Life. The pixeled image is created by me, based on the HEV suit from Half-Life.

Title: Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help
Post by: HarveyDentMustDie on October 27, 2012, 04:31:36 pm

Why do you have a lot of unnecessary colors (numerous different shades of gray)? How did you drew this?

Title: Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help
Post by: MNKYband on October 27, 2012, 04:33:40 pm

I drew it in Microsoft XP Paint, seeing as I have no other programs to pixel in. I'll work on reducing the color count, I probably do have too many in there. I started with about 7 colors in the palette in the top right, but I kept feeling as though I needed more.

Title: Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help
Post by: Phlakes on October 27, 2012, 05:09:40 pm

Did you save it as a .jpeg? Because .jpegs dramatically reduce the quality, and turn this-

(http://i.imgur.com/3xSEb.png)

into this ugly thing-

(http://i.imgur.com/jEwFh.jpg)

Never use .jpegs for pixel art. They're for compressing large photos. Always save it as either .png or .bmp.

Title: Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help
Post by: MNKYband on October 27, 2012, 05:19:59 pm

Tried uploading it in .PNG, and it turns out Flickr is messing with my pictures. Here's the picture on DeviantArt.

http://mnkyband.deviantart.com/art/HEV-Suit-Mk-29-334604289?ga_submit=10%3A1351358315

Title: Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help
Post by: Facet on October 27, 2012, 11:11:32 pm

Inline images please, there's plenty of good hosts that don't jpegify linked in the posting guidelines. (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=3466.0)

Nice previous metal rendering thread here. (http://www.wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=13478.msg128615#msg128615)

Title: Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help
Post by: Decroded on October 28, 2012, 12:02:56 am

I'm on the new beta version of Photobucket and its really great because it supports drag and drop files now.
png and animated gif are no problem.

http://beta.photobucket.com/?home_ab=true

Title: Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help
Post by: MNKYband on October 28, 2012, 01:39:23 pm

Okay. Thanks, Facet, I'll use those ones in the list instead.

And Decroded, it isn't that Photobucket is hard to use, it just looked like it converted my .PNG to a .JPG when it was uploading.

EDIT: Actually, that picture of the knights in the metal texturing thread helps a lot. I think my only problem with the feet is the perspective I chose, and I should turn the suit a bit instead of having it directly face the screen.