Hey there, I'm called Adrien, I'm a concept & pixel artist coming from France, but living in UK.

Even if I'm an Art director for my own game : http://oddtales.net/ I'm still seeking for freelance offers on my spare time, you might want to take a look on my personal portfolio : http://adrien-soret.tumblr.com/

I'm even a huge player of DOTA, which is always helpful with Moba game I guess.

Best regard

Hello fellows artists, I recently discovered few RPGs gems on emulator and wanted to see what I would be able to realise by myself ( as hobby, since I'm already working on my own game: http://oddtales.net/)

This is the first time I'm drawing isometric stuffs, perspective had never been in my comfort zone, but the enjoyable part with isometry is the fact you can't be wrong if you follow the grid. The overall idea of this "project" even if this is never gonna happen is to make a RPG based on grid fight ( like Banner Saga, Dofus etc. ) but with the mood of Shadow of the colossus, Princess mononoke & Jade Cocoon.

This is what I've done in approximately 2 hours :




So, I have few questions on the subject :

* I've always been attracted by high quality texturing, I'm pretty satisfied with picking randomly the 64x32 tiles model, do you know what is the standard in most games with fancy graphics of the genre?

* About the character:  since I'm not really good with either

 - Do you think his perspective fit one the grid?

 - Does the proportions seems okay, since he is supposed to be seen a bit from top?

 - I've picked 4 tones per colors is that too much for good readability with the landscape?

 - Is it too time consuming to animate character of this size?


* About the dirt tiles : I'm pretty experienced with texture, but

 - Maybe dumb question, but I've filled the transparency between tiles space manually, how do you proceed to make them match? do you merge directly each tiles? Or are you just putting some sprites on a single colored background?

 - And, do you think there is too much colors/contrast on each tiles? I'm afraid of the overall readability in case I'll make a full scene

 
* Otherwise, I would love to hear your critics, and I would be really interested if you can share your favorites Isometric pixel art backgrounds and/or beautiful tiles.

And for the end, my latest piece in standard pixel art (same kind of univers I want to explore) :



Thanks you folks!

- Do you advice me to make an other rig based on the exemple or animate directly my character without highlights  ?

I don't get this question, can you rephrase it?

Sorry, I was meaning " The better way is doing this 4 keyframes with a skeleton again or directly with the character ( but I have choose the second option as you can see and even add highlights )

Anyway Thanks a lot @Gil

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@Dustinaux, Thanks for compliments, actually I've follow the exemple, the head is lower in this frame that maybe to much for a pixel art animation ( need subpixel ? )

If the left leg look injured that not bad at all, He must need to be tired of walking everyday searching stuffs in desolated city.

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- I will animate the entire cycle with 12 frames  1 + ( 2,3 ) + 4 + (5,6 ) + 7 + ( 8,9 ) + 10 + ( 11,12 ) ... the numbers without ( ) are the actual keyframes

- My biggest question now is " do I need to think about how make him tired now with armless movements and everything " or  " make a correct entire animation cycle with the twelves frames based on the master's exemple for being sure to not do mistake ? "

Thank a lot Mr.fahrenheit !

Here an edit following your pipes :

 

And a squeletton rig of animation : ( EDIT : He need to look kinda exhausted, not a classic citizen walking animation )

* Red : Closer elements of the sprites
* Dark Red : Back members  in " shadow "
* Pink Grey : Things hidden behind the body
* Light Blue : First frame of looping



This is the first time a try to animate a walking dude, the loop don't work really well, and the arms movement seem uncorrect too.

I was wondering if the first cycle is okay to loop because I start with a 45* rotation and while watching myself in the mirror my right arm naturally follow the right leg when I turn on myself, but when I walk that totally the opposite U_u ...

Any advice ?