Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Xer0bot on June 06, 2016, 04:50:52 pm
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Hi all,
My net was down so i was unable to research on this so I went and created a small sprite anyway, it's also my first animation.
Any feedback on how I can improve this ?
(http://s33.postimg.org/f99me7afj/output_3_Ou_UBw.gif)
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The water's edge doesn't change its shape or opacity at all, which makes it look like a solid object. Water isn't solid, different parts of it move at slightly different speeds and in different directions, because the beach isn't a perfectly flat surface and there is turbulence in water.
Since the water is liquid and doesn't move as a single sheet, the previous wave will be moving back out as the next wave comes in. Your animation doesn't have that at all.
Here's a gif I find very useful, it has all the key features:
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/609536/beach-waves-o.gif)
- The shape of the wave changes as it moves inland
- The wave goes over the previous wave pulling back
- The waves spread and cover a larger area as the sand blocks the path and there's nowhere for that water to go but outward
- As it moves further inland and gets flattened by the sand in the way, the water gets shallower and therefore more transparent.
- The sand doesn't dry so quickly xP
- The wave motion isn't perfectly smooth. Each new wave "trips over" the previous wave as it goes out, this causes the breaking wave and foamy white bits.
- The tripping doesn't always occur at the same spot on the beach, it's random-ish (depends on water consistency, wind, etc). For a looping animation having it always be the same wave is fine, just make sure that the wave break doesn't occur in a perfectly straight line, have it vary. You don't even have to have the wave-break be a single line, it can and probably should be broken!
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Thank you, I'll try again.