This cow and the grass it stands on are for a game I am working on.

Here's the standing frame:


Walk cycle:


I am very new to animating walks! I think the legs look a bit stiff, but I am trying to go with the "cute round chubby" look, so I don't want to make the movement of the legs too complex. Overall I think it's ok, but I need help making it look smoother, and more believable.

And the grass:


I realise the grass has 5 shades, 2 of which are very similar, but it loses depth when they are combined. Contrast is probably too high for a floor tile as well, but my efforts at fixing that have failed. I find making grass really quite frustrating at times.

Any suggestions and critique would be very much appreciated!

Hi,

Firstly, I like the style! It feels clean and minimalist, like it belongs in a courtyard surrounded by greek columns or something.

Just a few things, which are shown in the picture below:

- ndchristie is right, the perspective is a bit off. Aside from the 2:1 ratio that has been described, you can judge whether something is the right proportion by measuring the distance from the corners of the floor to the sides of the fountain. These distances should all be equal, and you have a convenient pattern of tiles which shows this nicely. I have added some rulers to show it.
- The fountain itself is an odd number of pixels wide, this means that it can't be properly centred on a canvas that is an even number of pixels wide. This is most obvious when you look at the centreline, which I have highlighted in white, but you will have to zoom to clearly see what I mean.
- The centres of the circles are not all on one axis. The circles on one plane (e.g. the floor, shown in red) should have the same centre.
- (very minor) There are a few stray pixels hanging around on the outside, shown with arrows.

If you construct your outlines starting with the floor, then moving upwards, it is much easier.

Apologies for double posting, I have some new art:



It's from the same game, and I do realise it's much more realistic than might be expected from a pokemon game, but the it's the style I am pursuing.

Alright! Firstly, I am the vector sprite and pixel tile artist for a pokemon mmo fan-game, Pokemon Universe. I am currently working on this alone, as it isn't easy finding artists, but the game has a decent sized team of around a dozen. There is a job thread on this site if you are interested. This game is my first experience of pixel art, and it's been a bit of a steep learning curve with really not very much feedback (particularly from other pixel artists), so I'd very much appreciate any advice.

Below are a couple of screenshots to give you a feel for what I have so far. I'm looking for general comments as well as specific points on any of the items. Let me know if I should post individual elements separately as tilesets. Apologies for large pictures.





I am aware of the obvious errors, such as misalignment of boards on a house roof and misplaced house tiles; some blending errors on the short/long grass interface; missing character shadows; variable shadow colour, angle and lightness (particularly bad for trees). There is also some cheating with the light/shadow on the long grass and dirt, using a soft brush which has added many many colours. All of this, and some of the points mentioned below could be (and arguably should have been) fixed before posting here, but I have been working on this for four months now, unfortunately it will take a great deal longer to make everything perfect.

Here is a list of my notes:

• The water will probably be completely changed to a system with "real" depth, i.e. a semi-transparent overlay on top of cliff-type drops in elevation.
• The shore tiles look more at home in a muddly jungle, so please try to think of them in that context. I will be making something more suitable for grassy areas.
• The rocky ledges don't feel as though they are standing vertical from the ground, perhaps more shadow and the base, with grass growing up around it would help. In fact, the bases of all objects need better interaction with the ground.
• I think there is something wrong with the rock, perhaps perspective, it also looks like it's made out of clay.
• I have not kept careful track of colour count, and I am certain there are many "stray" colours that could be tidied, but I don't have time to clean it up at the moment. The game is not colour-limited, so it's not a huge issue, but of course pixel art looks much better when it's kept clean. I will fix it eventually.
• I really don't know a lot about colour palettes, so I think maybe it's a bit confused colourwise.

This is probably a real pain to comment on, as there is so much there! Any advice, even if it's small and only relating to one part, would be greatly appreciated.

Alais

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