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Pixel Art / [C+C] Another Animation Help Thread
« on: September 12, 2016, 01:59:08 pm »
Hey there! I've been on-and-off doing pixel art for years now (with no great success, just as a hobby). Starting to mess around with Gamemaker thanks to the recent Humble Bundle, and I'm interested in setting up a really simple platformer to get the hang of the mechanics.

I have the very basic core mechanics set up--jumping, collisions, etc, so now I want to implement some animations and start bringing the game to life a little bit (and learn how to deal with images in the code at the same time).


So here's one of the characters I have planned. Big, proud, generally angry fighter-type named Avalanche. I've got his chest rising and falling dramatically (sword excluded for now just to get the motion of the body down), but I can't figure out what his legs should be doing. It obviously looks strange with them just staying perfectly still like that. Any recommendations?

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Unpaid Work / [RevShare] Bardic Wyrm Games - 2D Sci-Fi/Fantasy MOBA
« on: August 13, 2016, 05:34:56 am »
Hello! We are Bardic Wyrm Games, a startup that's looking to meet some new talent and help bring our work to life. The project I'm most excited for is a sci-fi/fantasy 2D MOBA with deep roots in a flavorful and interesting setting of our own creation. The focus of this project is not only to create a new game, but also to shake up some of the stale concepts present in the MOBA genre.

Our current team consists of:
  • Myself (Olothontor), primary game designer, co-writer, co-artist, and visionary director
  • RecycleBin, resident economy major and 'mathemagician,' co-designer and number cruncher
  • Meerkat, primary setting writer, CSS and site management
  • DigiBot, C#/Unity developer
  • Brett, resident art consultant, w/small shifting team of freelance artists

We're finishing up the design document and getting things ready to start rolling for testing, which is why we need you! We're starting from the ground up--we'll need environments, characters, UI, the whole works. We will understand if you have other life obligations; most of our team members have full time jobs in addition to their work here.

If you're interested, feel free to add me on Skype (Olothontor, please mention you're responding to this thread or I'm not likely to accept your request), PM me here on the forums, or email me at olothontor@gmail.com

Have a wonderful day, and I hope to hear from you!

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Pixel Art / Melting
« on: May 08, 2015, 02:43:23 am »
Let me start off by saying that I've only ever animated sprites once before, and it was years ago. So suffice to say I'm quite new to this, though I'm no stranger to spritework in general.

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What I'm going for is the gem melting out of the socket and flowing into the letters inscribed on the plinth, and so far it's not going well. I was trying to keep an eye on the timing of the frames to make the liquid feel thick and viscous, and it sorta worked, but it also looks... ugh, it just looks gross.

If anybody has any tips or edits, please. Feel free!

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Pixel Art / Character Help
« on: August 28, 2011, 10:16:19 pm »
So, I'm setting up a simple forum-based 8-bit board game for another forum that I frequent, for the lulz, mostly. I'm having some trouble with the characters.

Now, obviously I've been using this template for quite some time now, but I was wondering if any of you awesome Pixelation denizens had some tips and tricks for making them look better. I don't have much of a palette restriction, but too many colors is obviously bad.

Without further adieu...



Thanks in advance! It's always a ton of fun seeing what you guys do in your edits. I look forward to it!

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I was feeling inspired by a couple of different influences (two of which were on this very forum; namely Vedsten's tiles and Arne's thoroughly-worked-through 16-bit palette), and so I sat down and whipped together some hexes while staring at Vedsten's iso-tiles. After a while, once I was relatively happy with the tiles themselves, I moved on and tried my hand at an actual building. A lone tower with simple wooden palisades.

I'm sure there are hundreds of things wrong here, and I'm sorry if I have inconvenienced anyone's eyesight with this. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what I could do better.



P.S. the mockup may end up being 2x view, so be sure to check out the image in both ways. Let me know which you like better, both with the current version and your edits (if you do any).

Thanks in advance.

Update: 8 Aug 2011
      * Added people! With the addition of units I think I'm definitely going to stick with 2x for this project.
      * Sameday Secondary Update: Hats! Since it's such a small scale, hats will be the main identifier for units (although if this were to make it to real-game stage, there would also be scroll-over tooltips with unit details. So far, no real theme to the hats... a hardat, wizard's hat, centurion plume, tophat...

Update: 9 Aug 2011
      * Scrapped the previous units, since visibility was shit even at 2x. Trying to design a new model for the units, something that I can group into 2s and 3s on a hex, while still having some of them stand alone for independent and special characters.
      * Sameday Secondary Update: Trying to work the people so that I can have units of 3's, that can be upgraded to 6-man and 9-man teams. I want to make all of the upgrades as visually rewarding as possible (i.e. if I expend some resources to up my soldier's defense stat, I want to see their armor get visibly more awesome on the sprites, rather than just have it be a purely numerical difference). Also attempting to make the towers seem a bit less flat; so far, just an outline. That made it better, but didn't fix it entirely. The bold numbers in gold are for letting the player know how large the unit occupying the tower is (that number will also show up in unit tooltips in-game).
      * Also added another shade to the water. Not sure if I like it.
      * Added an experimental "Special Character" to show he would fit into units. He would essentially replace the leading guy in the unit, and be front and center in everything. Making him as obvious as he is is going to present a problem as I try to face the units in all 6 directions, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I want to nail down the look of the units before I try to face them.

Update: 10 Aug 2011
      * Rounded out the tower a bit! Thanks, Ichigo Jam. It still doesn't look quite right, but it's a step in the right direction.

Update: 11 Aug 2011
      * Finished rounding out the tower, again thanks to further clue-by-fouring by Ichigo.
      * Added bonus: working out unit selection. eventually I'm going to start adding mockups to the tooltip and order menus to this gif, but for now it's just the highlight example. Kinda pointless to post, but hey. More shinies to look it.


Update: 12 Aug 2011
      * Now with 150% more units! At the size I'm working with, it's becoming difficult to make unique characters though. If anyone has advice on that subject, don't hesitate to pass it on.
      * Also, minimap!

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Pixel Art / [WIP] RPG perspective assistance
« on: July 18, 2011, 08:31:56 pm »
Hello, all. Haven't posted here in quite some time, mostly because none of my spriting endeavors of the past year or so have been either relevant or terribly serious.

This time, however, I come to you with a serious enough project that it warrants help. I'm having trouble getting my dummy (hereafter dubbed "Mr. Poofysleeves") to be in proper perspective with the ground. I am aware that he was sprited in a conflicting perspective to begin with, and I know that what I'm going for here is the classic 3/4 RPG perspective. I'm simply not sure at this point how to get from what I have to the aforementioned perspective of preference. I was hoping you guys, in all of your glory, could help me out.

Thanks so much in advance!



P.S. Feel perfectly free to nitpick other aspects of my spriting as well, I'm nowhere near as good at this as I'd like to be and I need the critique!

:: Updated - 7/18/2011 ::

:: Updated - 7/22/2011 ::

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Pixel Art / [WIP - Revamp] The Town of Dungeonsville
« on: November 16, 2010, 12:58:37 am »
Hey, all, I'm back in action after a mild spriting depression, with a new(ish) project that my good friend and I decided to engage in.

We just started this afternoon (as I type this my partner is typing up a vague design document), and I figured I might get a headstart on some generic dungeon-y tiles to get a feel for the game. It's going to be a rogue-like, something along the lines of IVAN or the graphical Nethack tilesets, with some bits of Dwarf Fortress thrown in for kicks. Basically a mishmash of some of our favorite things, combined with some original craziness of our own.

Some of you might recognize the people sprites; they're from an old failed project that I was posting on these forums called SIN.



Please do tear these apart! I'd love to hear critique.

Get to tearing, and have fun! Enjoy the eyecandy  ::)

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Pixel Art / 'Advance Wars'-style Mock-up
« on: September 23, 2010, 08:48:07 pm »
This may or may not be a true mock-up, since I may at some point find a programmer or use my limited programming skills to take a stab at it.

Still, I figured whatever happens, I should post these for critique, since there are a great many things wrong here. I also desperately tried to give them my own style and make them look less like I ripped them from Advance Wars itself, but it's a surprisingly difficult task.


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Pixel Art / RPG Case Study
« on: August 16, 2010, 06:15:32 pm »
I've been working, messing around with contrast and such. I recently started a case study of the old PSX/PS2 game Alundra, and my very first attempt after my research was a simple RPG-style jelly.



From left to right: Basic movement, basic attack, death, idle, and knockback.

I'm not at all happy with the death animation, but I'm not sure what I can do to spruce it up and improve. If Jad or anyone else with any animation knowledge please help?

Of course any other hints and tips are welcome. I'll be posting any further work on this case study, since I'm more than certain I'll run into a great many things I'll need assistance with. Thanks in advance!




UPDATE: Fixed the death animation up a bit, added an idle animation (yeah, it's supposed to look kinda like it's breathing), and posted the spritesheet so far for an easier analysis of the parts for those interested in seeing.

UPDATE: Added a knockback/jumpback sequence. Started work on the trolls of Sin.

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Pixel Art / 16x16 RPG Characters - First Try
« on: August 11, 2010, 05:37:21 pm »
I've just recently started up a project with a few programmers and a couple of interested visionaries. My original concept was more Nethack styled, as you'll see from the @-like tokens for each of the classes... however my programmers have been giving me friendly pokes to at least try out actual characters, something I had never done before. The characters above 16 px. in height are fine that way; the layering system we'll be using will allow for many varied character heights.

My first attempts are... interesting. Interesting in a horrible way. I'd love to have help from you guys, since I've come here before and received loads of good advice.

Ignore the tiles for the most part, I'm still in the process of downsizing them from 24x24 to 16x16 for a more optimal "rendering" process.

Alright, get ready to cringe...



EDIT: Updated with pointless ghosts and height example templates.

EDIT II: Added an experimental logo, and a few more character sprites.

EDIT III: Improved logo, added additional character sprites, changed skin tones to make each race more distinct, and started getting a feel for armor bulk.

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