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Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Royale on August 20, 2015, 01:31:56 am

Title: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Royale on August 20, 2015, 01:31:56 am
Working on a game, and I finally settled on an artstyle for the character sprites. Pretty much only I have seen them so I want to see what other people think of them, before I go further.
(http://i.imgur.com/nUYiSLO.png)

Most of the animations are a little stiff on purpose, because I want you to be able to attack while doing anything, so I can just replace the top half with the punching animation during running/jumping etc.
(http://i.imgur.com/MulL0Oy.gif)(http://i.imgur.com/eujwTDQ.gif)(http://i.imgur.com/DyGUKyx.gif)
     Idle          Run         Jump 
(http://i.imgur.com/S5VIy6I.gif)(http://i.imgur.com/a64w1WS.gif)  (it's going to be a ranged attack with like fist hadoukens or something)
 Attack Idle  Attack
(http://i.imgur.com/O9t1yZ5.gif)
Charge Attack
(http://i.imgur.com/PmhHa4w.gif)
Antagonist Ide
(http://i.imgur.com/TAdWH9U.gif)
Transform [Incomplete]
(http://i.imgur.com/CA10IaI.png)
Foreground Tiles [Incomplete]
 (http://i.imgur.com/pqBpaEL.png)
Background Tiles
(http://i.imgur.com/saMvv8s.png)
Sort of Mockup

I don't really like the tiles, and that's mostly what I'm posting here for, I've never really done tiles before.

But really any suggestions are welcome for anything I post here.

Edit: Forgot to mention, a lot of the colors I've used on the animations are taken from a piece by 1up over at pixeljoint, which was my original inspiration for the style of art.
Link to the piece the colors are from: http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/84512.htm


Edit: New stuff

(http://i.imgur.com/HOqcZ4K.gif)

(http://i.imgur.com/6NDICsN.gif)
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Odorias on August 21, 2015, 06:07:23 pm
Very nice style! Do you have a way to follow your progress? Facebook? Twitter?
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: RedSuinit on August 21, 2015, 07:03:17 pm
I love your style, This is the kind of look I want for the game I am working on now, I just don't have the skills, haha.
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Vagrant on August 21, 2015, 07:19:21 pm
Lovely character style, although the tilework needs that much love too. Don't neglect them.

I did play with the sprites though. It was mostly style refining, more recognizable clusters like the old man's beard and brows, buff man's chest and nose, main character's hair rendition, and highlight tweakings on him and her, among others:

(http://i57.tinypic.com/2wdzrmh.jpg)
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: RedSuinit on August 21, 2015, 08:45:00 pm
Your muscle guy looks like he has boobs. I think you increased the chest size too much. To be honest, outside of the highlight adjustments, I like the originals better than your edit.
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Royale on August 22, 2015, 10:59:37 am
Lovely character style, although the tilework needs that much love too. Don't neglect them.

I did play with the sprites though. It was mostly style refining, more recognizable clusters like the old man's beard and brows, buff man's chest and nose, main character's hair rendition, and highlight tweakings on him and her, among others:

(http://i57.tinypic.com/2wdzrmh.jpg)
Thank you for that edit! The old man's beard looks much nicer, and I like what you've done with the nose as well. Also the highlights on the hair of the other characters looks really nice too. I do need to work  on adding highlights like that. So thank you.
Very nice style! Do you have a way to follow your progress? Facebook? Twitter?

Thanks! I will be posting my progress here when I have WiFi access.

I hardly post anything anywhere though.
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Royale on August 22, 2015, 08:50:20 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/rxSyyhO.gif)

Sword attack [WIP]

(http://i.imgur.com/xixA7zq.gif)

Dead Old Man

My intention for the sword attack is for it to be slow, I don't want it to be the main attack someone uses, but more of like a really powerful single hit that could be used to finish off harder enemies or sneak in a powerful strike on bosses that are moving around.

As for the old man, you're gonna accidentally kill him at the beginning of the grave, and then he's gonna follow you and help you connect to the spirit world. Your dead father also helps you from the spirit world but I haven't come up with a design for him I like yet.
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: RedSuinit on August 25, 2015, 02:09:28 pm
I love your artwork and style. Good luck with your project!
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Royale on October 05, 2015, 12:43:13 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/HOqcZ4K.gif)

(http://i.imgur.com/6NDICsN.gif)

A few little animations I've made between other projects.

This guy would be the save point guy in my game.

His dialogue would be something about being able to tell everything about a person just by tasting them, so that's why he eats you.
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Jim16 on October 07, 2015, 07:38:36 pm
I really like what you've made so far :D

Not really criticism, but I think the vase would look better if rounder, if only because I feel when the frog pops out, it keeps the same verticle shape. If the vase was rounder, it would break that shape.
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Royale on October 12, 2015, 09:33:20 am
(http://i.imgur.com/3IBUGiX.gif)

Backdash animation I just finished. Hopefully it's clear what's going on with it.
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Seiseki on October 12, 2015, 12:13:09 pm
I love these sprites, but the palette seems so dark, they don't pop as much as I think that they should..
A lot of the shading gets lost because the low contrast makes it into one large dark blob..

(http://share.cherrytree.at/showfile-22342/platformer_sprites.gif)
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: coldmage on October 23, 2015, 02:44:06 pm
The character style and animations are AMAZING, but I can't help but get the feeling that the tiles don't fit the feel of the characters. I feel personally feel that the characters have a bright cartoon-ish style, and that's what the tiles lack. That's just my opinion though,the rest is fantastic.
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Royale on November 02, 2015, 12:18:07 pm
Working on some art that may or may not end up in the game, really just wanted to get a better idea for what the main character looks like in my head down in pixels.

critique is appreciated on this one

(http://i.imgur.com/zv5svob.png)

Also a little dust animation.

(http://i.imgur.com/8XiTXlx.gif)
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: MikePixel on November 02, 2015, 04:14:48 pm
Thats such a cool save point
Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: Royale on November 03, 2015, 11:06:40 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/kXgl4D9.png)

Trying out a new style, I felt the small size was holding me back in terms of game play; the head was just so big that it made some actions animations look unreasonable, such as holding objects above the players head. I also feel there's more room to fit personality into the character animations with a larger sized sprite.

Title: Re: [WIP] Character Sprites and platformer tiles
Post by: RedSuinit on November 06, 2015, 03:49:26 am
(http://i.imgur.com/kXgl4D9.png)

Trying out a new style, I felt the small size was holding me back in terms of game play; the head was just so big that it made some actions animations look unreasonable, such as holding objects above the players head. I also feel there's more room to fit personality into the character animations with a larger sized sprite.

I love it dude.

I'm ready to start my new job so that I can work on my game again... Sick of 80 hour work weeks.