I don't like that castlevania "running" animation somehow. What I am missing most, is the "bouncing" of the whole body. Right now, it looks like he is walking, not running. To make it more visible, I have increased your animation playback speed here.

yours / mine

I see what you mean. Thanks for opening my eyes here.

I sped him up to 200ms per frame, then I changed frames 1,4 to be 1 pixel higher, frames 2,5 I brought himn 1 pixel higher and reigned in his back leg one pixel so it was still touching the ground (im fond of it). Result:

edit with slightly more downplayed legs - and 2 changed keyframes for the foot plant to not be at extension length

This thread is pure win Arne. I couldn't resist making a little edit of one of your mario guys. I tried to make a goblin as well but I think he needs to be thicker to read correctly, not sure.



Sorry, not trying to hijack the thread here. Just was inspired by this thread to make these. Animated today:

Ok, phew. So I decided to try something a bit harder today. I was looking at this screenshot of sor2 here:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/streets-of-rage-2/screenshots/gameShotId,111937/

.. and I kind of liked the way his legs looked so I started doodling in graphics gale, well, I kinda messed it up at first so he looked like he was falling backwards.. and I just went with it.

Montage!

and finally


You can see just how sloppy my process is. My color picking is TERRIBLE, but I tried harder to optimize the pallette compared to previous sprites I've made. Obviously, I lack the traditional art skills so the perspective and anatomy might be a bit wonky - I tried to get that book by Loomis today but Borders was out so I will work on that part some more as I go.

C+C is more than welcome here.

-thanks guys, peace

So I sat down the last couple days and started playing around in GraphicsGale again. I came back to this site, poked around, and noticed the last time I posted was a little over 2 years ago. Yikes. GF, Kids, bought a house, basically I don't remember the last 2 years whatsoever - it all seems like yesterday. So I went back through my old posts and made sure my images were working again, and here I am. I think the last thing I was working on was mabey a bit too ambitious for my skill level - the edits I got crushed my soul they were so good - so I'm gonna try some simpler stuff I think.

I was looking at the feature chest post on here about the C64 palette and wanted to screw around with it some -
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=4306.0

I found this website with some C64 golden axe screenshots -
http://www.mobygames.com/game/golden-axe/screenshots

After an hour of fiddling or so I came up with this guy using a few colors out of the palette ptoing posted -


then

then ended up with


By the end I kinda realized I shaded it a bit too much, looking at the screenshot here, the guy was straight up 3 colors, black, dark color, light color, and I wanted to add a grey of some kind for mabey the belt/boots. So I'm not sure what I want to do at this point - should I strip out the wasted 4th color I used and stick to the style I was going for, or should I use a 4th color and try to get more out of it?

I am looking for some guidance here so feel free to drop some comments if you want. =) Other than that, I'm happy to see that this site is still rocking, love you guys!

-ed


edit 05-28-10
For fun I made a giant guy and threw some random colors down on my other one just to see how it would look.


meh

I kinda like him, I should animate him so he can swing that thing.

-peace


edit 05-28-10
same thing, looking at this wolf picture from the googlewebs:
http://www.koze950.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/wolves.jpg



-end


edit 05-29-10
inspired by this thread:
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?PHPSESSID=86732c7ad456885c7802696ae0ed5aa1&topic=9559.0

montage!

and finally


Think I need to work on my color picking skills and stop grabbing them from all over.

-done