Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Bunn on October 06, 2006, 01:29:34 am

Title: first pixel EVER!!!!
Post by: Bunn on October 06, 2006, 01:29:34 am
 My first pixel art....   tell me how am i dooing and what should i do to improve.. i want to get better >_<
please be gentle ._.

here goes nothing: (http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4002/swashbucklerbj9.gif)
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7533/bunnkickrz6.gif)
Title: Re: first pixel EVER!!!!
Post by: MoD on October 06, 2006, 01:40:24 am
These are absolutely great for first pixels, though that isn't to say that they're perfect. The sword weilder's sword is much too long and generally the wrong size. That image could also do with some selout to break up the shoe, arm, and pant outlines.

The rabbit is a nice piece of work, though I think the eyes could stand out a lot more and some inner aa on the ears would break up the jagginess there.
Title: Re: first pixel EVER!!!!
Post by: Bunn on October 06, 2006, 02:10:46 am
Thanks ^^ though the sword's proportions are on purpose, but i'll try and fix the rest. I'm not very good with pallete and collors, but ill tri to do my best. o/
Title: Re: first pixel EVER!!!!
Post by: CrumbBread on October 06, 2006, 03:15:44 am
These *are* seriously nice. =) Obviously the pixel tech is a little loose, but the overall design is just spiffy. MoD pretty much covered any crits I might've found in the sword guy (selout). Well, not totally true -- the edge doesn't look smooth enough to be sharp (I'd guess inner aa would help here). Hrm...

oh yes -- the other thing is that handguard's a lot bigger than his hand. It makes it look like the sword is TOO big, instead of having a stylistically long blade. Either way works, just decide which you want ;)

On the rabbity guy (whom I love unconditionally, by the way) I have only two suggestions at this time:

1. The gripe of a person who pretends to know something about combat -- for a proper side kick, shouldn't the knee be outside the center line of his body when he chambers for the kick? Right now his knees are all crossed up, putting him regrettably off balance. I would not like such a fine rabbity guy to be knocked on his rear.

2. The impressive folks around here do a fancy thing called unifying t3h palette. Near as I can figure, it involves using some of the same colors throughout the piece. In your case, I guess that would mean using some of the pants color as shadow on the skin -- it sort of gives the impression that all the elements of the sprite exist together. When they have no colors in common, they look very separate...or so I understand. In any event I'd give it a shot and see if it looks nifty.

P.S. That fire is pretty.

P.P.S. What happens to his (HIS) right arm, when he kicks? It seems to disappear.

P.P.P.S I am not digging the pure black eyes on the sword guy. I do like how dapper he is, though. =P
Title: Re: first pixel EVER!!!!
Post by: Bunn on October 06, 2006, 04:16:04 am
thanks for the coments ^^ i didnt gave much atention to the sword in terms of colloring and stuff... so it looks all crappy.. and the anatomy of the sword its all made out.. its suposed to be like a giant rapier, a two handed rapier... or something... not very functional... but cool X3 at least i think....

glad to know you liked the bunnydude XD i pretend to use him on every cool kung-fu like sprites on the future.

ps-thanks :D
pps-his move his right arm to an angle behind him, making it seem like it desapeared.
ppps-his eyes were supposed to be green, but i dont think its possible to see with the small sise