Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Nameless Force on December 01, 2013, 10:14:25 am

Title: I suck at shading (platform game sprite) [C+C]
Post by: Nameless Force on December 01, 2013, 10:14:25 am

Latest version:
(http://feyna.com/tmp_stuff/char01v02.png)

Original post:
(http://feyna.com/tmp_stuff/char01v01.png)
Please help me fix the shading.  Other C+C is also welcome.
The character is a girl, approximately 10 years old.
The character is intended to be the player character for a commercial platform game.
Colors from a palette by Dawnbringer, but feel free to critique them anyway.

Title: Re: I suck at shading (platform game sprite) [C+C]
Post by: (BYOND)Hebrons on December 01, 2013, 08:23:37 pm

Edit: (http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/5250/f3ig.png)

~Mostly i made it so you can tell its an girl and what objects on the body clearly are.

Title: Re: I suck at shading (platform game sprite) [C+C]
Post by: Vagrant on December 02, 2013, 01:26:18 am

Well, I don't think the addition of boob-like areas is really necessary to show that it is a girl. Especially when the character is like, 10 years old. I mean, c'mon..  :P

Instead, I would focus on the hair as the more defining aspect of femininity. Some curves here and there, as well as emphasis on the skirt.


Here is my take on the subject.

(http://i40.tinypic.com/2vmyiox.jpg)

This struck me as a shaman girl -in training- the moment I saw the sprite; she'd be seen collecting herbs for the real shaman, while avoiding the many dangers of the jungle around her village.

I steered the design to fit that imagining, loose robe and all, I guess. Take what you must.

Edit: I think the highlight on the hair might have been too much.

Title: Re: I suck at shading (platform game sprite) [C+C]
Post by: wolfenoctis on December 02, 2013, 05:17:38 am

Kept a more plain girl design, a poor girl from a village:
(http://i39.tinypic.com/30cpumx.png)

Title: Re: I suck at shading (platform game sprite) [C+C]
Post by: Nameless Force on December 03, 2013, 12:27:25 pm

New version, incorporating ideas from Hebrons and Vagrant:
(http://feyna.com/tmp_stuff/char01v02.png)