Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: victornecromancer on March 22, 2018, 11:48:21 pm

Title: Ok, i'm REALLY struggling about making "metal things" look like metal actually
Post by: victornecromancer on March 22, 2018, 11:48:21 pm

The title says all guys, this is really breaking my mind :v here's the shield I'm trying to do (The yellow artifact in the center is already done):

(https://i.imgur.com/HraLrwJ.png)

And here are some references I'm using:

https://i.imgur.com/pZbDFhu.jpg and https://imgur.com/a/37aAe

Thanks for the help!

Title: Re: Ok, i'm REALLY struggling about making "metal things" look like metal actually
Post by: odedrt9 on March 23, 2018, 05:52:16 am

Not perfect, but it might give you some direction:

(https://i.imgur.com/GkD4CnR.png)

Basically just give it a shine.

Title: Re: Ok, i'm REALLY struggling about making "metal things" look like metal actually
Post by: Pizza Tom on March 23, 2018, 02:46:52 pm

(https://s14.postimg.org/dbzb2rf29/shield_edit.png)

it's not ideal, but hopefully you can get something out of this edit.

Some thoughts:
- Odedrt9 is right, shine goes a long way towards making it look metallic
- In general, metal is very high contrast, push those values up and down more
- Another thing that helps for metal is bounced light, you can see this in your references. especially useful on your raised details.
- You should work on a gray background rather than white, bright backgrounds distort how you see colors
- Try not to use interior outlines, especially on a piece this small. You need all the pixels you can get to make it believable.

I think that's it. Of course, there's lots of ways to make things shiny, stylistically speaking. Looking at it again, my edit may read more as plastic than metal. Experiment a bit to find a way that works for you.

Title: Re: Ok, i'm REALLY struggling about making "metal things" look like metal actually
Post by: krmko on March 23, 2018, 03:51:18 pm

This might come in handy.

https://twitter.com/saint11/status/877219054674694144?s=19

Title: Re: Ok, i'm REALLY struggling about making "metal things" look like metal actually
Post by: victornecromancer on March 24, 2018, 11:16:17 pm

Thanks to all of you friends, I got a satisfactory result thanks to your tips

(https://i.imgur.com/Oldz7C5.png)

You guys are amazing