Pixelation
Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: usanike on July 13, 2009, 10:03:23 pm
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Top: Deep Water
2nd to top: Shallow Water
2nd to bottom: Wet Sand
Bottom: Sand
(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/5495/watersand.png)
I'm looking for some help completing these tiles for a computer game. Any feedback would be great.
What I am struggling with is how to transition the tiles better. The technique on the right is what I have tried so far. I was wondering if anyone had better ideas.
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Alrighty;
First, you're using a lot of colours for each depth of water, you should be able to get by just fine with 3.
I'd suggest making the shallow water 50% Deep Water and 50% Wet Sand
Don't make the details just squiggly lines, have a look at this:
(http://i26.tinypic.com/28bvgxk.jpg)
The surface reflections of light are much larger than an arbitrary 1 pixel line.
Now, is this for a lake or a beach? Because if it's a beach the only way you can deal with the transition between land and water is going to involve waves, at least for the shore.
There are some nice photos of a beach here (http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20071212_great_ocean_road.htm)
Or if you're going for a lake, maybe this will help:
(http://i26.tinypic.com/256wa5l.jpg)