Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Janeator on November 25, 2014, 04:47:11 pm

Title: [C+C] [WIP] New to pixelart, doing some sprites for a game
Post by: Janeator on November 25, 2014, 04:47:11 pm

Hello! First day and first post in this forum, because it seemed a nice place where to seek help and feedback about the small stuff I do :)

So me and a friend we've decided to start a game from scratch (he programs) and I'll be the one drawing the sprites and all art stuff. We're doing a class-based futuristic 2d platformer arena, so I've decided to go for a relatively simple style for the sprites, aka I'm not using too many colors and every clor section has only 1 shading color. Now, here's the characters I got so far; please comment! Any feedback is appreciated, specially constructive:
(http://i.imgur.com/fqGPm4O.png)(http://i.imgur.com/r5TXui5.png)(http://i.imgur.com/Xte3O8J.png)(http://i.imgur.com/wMzLzAW.png)(http://i.imgur.com/i9J16yu.png)(http://i.imgur.com/zhp4PcW.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/CP0dao1.png)(http://i.imgur.com/n5ZSR98.png)
The robot's head (yellow guy) might be hard to see because of the page background.

I also need some inspiration with the backgrounds... I've just started drawing the first map and I already feel like I'm terrible at backgrounds. The style we're going for is black walls and BG only where you can move, like other games do. Here's why I got so far... I clearly need some ideas or teaching:
(Note that the game will probably be displayed with some method that makes pixels be represented by 4 screen pixels, so it looks more pixelated)

(http://puu.sh/d55ba/1666964ffa.png)


EDIT: Despite this post (http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=5624.0) I posted the augmented sprites, because the zoom feature just makes them blurry.

EDIT: Thanks for the extension/script! Removing zoomed models.

Title: Re: [C+C] [WIP] New to pixelart, doing some sprites for a game
Post by: Decroded on November 26, 2014, 01:54:06 am

I use Firefox to avoid blurring.
Ur designs seem pretty good though I'd avoid using that much black in characters.
U can use desaturated hues to imply black and give a nicer look.
And I don't think making three outfit of every character black does u any favors in terms interesting character design and and uniqueness (which actually affects gameplay).
It's good that u have some degree of variation in the silhouette of each character but most games would have more varied body shapes.

Title: Re: [C+C] [WIP] New to pixelart, doing some sprites for a game
Post by: Janeator on November 26, 2014, 11:17:12 am

Thanks for the feedback, I'll take it in account because I still want to do even more characters.

About the browser... well I'm not going to install Firefox just for this, but thanks for pointing it out.

Title: Re: [C+C] [WIP] New to pixelart, doing some sprites for a game
Post by: lachrymose on November 26, 2014, 02:13:29 pm

http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=16963.0  <= Blurry zoom fix for chrome, assuming you use chrome.

Title: Re: [C+C] [WIP] New to pixelart, doing some sprites for a game
Post by: Janeator on November 26, 2014, 05:11:09 pm

Thanks! Works perfectly.

Title: Re: [C+C] [WIP] New to pixelart, doing some sprites for a game
Post by: Gil on November 26, 2014, 10:36:50 pm

Unfortunately, animations are broken in the latest versions of Chrome, not sure if I can fix that, I'll try...

Title: Re: [C+C] [WIP] New to pixelart, doing some sprites for a game
Post by: Janeator on December 04, 2014, 08:55:06 pm

Sorry about missing images.. I've been using feedback from various sources to try to get cooler sprites, but they're not uploaded yet. And I removed the others. Hope to update soon!

Title: Re: [C+C] [WIP] New to pixelart, doing some sprites for a game
Post by: Decroded on December 04, 2014, 10:48:21 pm

Www.imgur.com  :y: