Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Corinthian Baby on November 06, 2008, 08:00:36 pm
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I wanted to do something sick for a pixel contest. I was inspired by oldschool games and movie posters that always have nice portraits of the main charas and/or the villian as well as other stuff important to the movie.
(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1508/contestpiece11na8.png)
Mostly its a sketch besides the main figures but I need a way to unify the bg and make sure it flows nicely instead of getting messy and convoluted. Also cc get at me.
16 colors.
update:
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9906/contestpiece15ps9.png)
(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/269/contestpiece20xu1.png)
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I like it :)
You'll need to work on the birdman, though, and on the masked man (I guess that's a gas mask he's got on)
I really like the two central characters (the guy with the fedora and the... vicar? ???)
Anyway good luck!
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Thanks man. Can you be a bit more specific about birdman and the gas mask guy?
Btw there's no vicar lol.
I'm just about done. Anything I need to change/clean up before I submit to pixel joint?
(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5056/contestpiece30sw4.png)
(http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/9202/contestpiece35pr7.png)
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The birdman needs to have more of a throat especially under the chin, and his lower beak needs to be shortened slightly (think about the way it shuts).
The man with the gas mask doesn't really look like he has a gas mask (work more on the straps and get rid of some of the black).
Add AA around some places, like on the guy on the right's back, and please make that machinery on the left have more definition... Is the light stuff on the right unfinished? Oh and the woman's clothes lacks detail compared to the two other guys...
Yeah so AA some areas and dither others (clothes? maybe faces too.)
I have the impression there's still a lot of work to do... and I like it, so it'd better be finished properly! :D
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MOre or less finished product. The robo may be a bit rough and maybe I'll hit up the gas mask again, forgot to:
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/7282/contestpiece45sr7.png)
I traced the letters, its cheating I guess. I dont care.
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Careful with those letters. The AA on them looks pretty... bad. Too jagged for my eyes. C and 7 at the worst offenders but they all are worth touching up.
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yes, remember that outlining is not the same as AAing
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hey
I'm having trouble understanding what's going on in the image.
What was your idea behind the design? who are these characters? What is with the LOCY text, what is it meant to be?
The eagle head and the head next to it that looks to come up of some sorta mushroom cloud seems odd to me.
But yea, my main concern is with the design, and not so much the execution. I think it would help if you could describe your ideas behind these things, and who and what each of the characters are doing, or represent.
BTW, the lighting between each of the characters is confusing me also.
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I figure the dark guy in the middle is the villian, the guy in the brown coat is a detective, the woman is the person who needs saving, and the other guy some other detecting or something. Interesting take, but everything seems rather abstract from each other.
BTW, I can't even recall what the covers of what old movies are like, so this might explain my confusion.
another edit
The villians and eagles head look rather large also, hehe.
and another
The more I look at it, the more I can gather. So it seems it's set in the future, and that is the reason for the robot thingy, but I still don't get the mushroom cloud head, hehe. Maybe the film involves some sorta neclear attack, but why only a head? and why on the mushroom cloud like that? maybe they are a relavent character who is killed in the big explosion, but that gives away the plot, hehe.
cya
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Yeah I'm not going to explain everything, it takes the fun out of guessing. Here are some examples of cool movie posters:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2215155712/tt0121765
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm686266880/tt0083658