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Pixel Art / Re: More my Usual Style
« on: May 02, 2014, 05:07:47 pm »
Can someone explain what they mean by improve his silhouettes?  I have been lurking and am also curious.  It seems no one has explained WHY his silhouettes aren't good and I can understand why he thought you people meant the pose.  I see multiple posts saying they are "weak" but none explain what aspect is weak, why it is weak, and offer any paths to a solution?  One can not improve if they don't know what they are doing wrong.   ;D

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Pixel Art / Re: Robot Head
« on: April 24, 2014, 04:24:36 pm »
Thanks to all who helped me on this piece.  I am satisfied with it and it has been submitted.

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Pixel Art / Re: Robot Head
« on: April 22, 2014, 11:44:51 pm »
This had me pretty frustrated so I took a break from it.  Now I am back to give it another try, this time I attempted to light it based on my own ideas.  I also adjusted the proportions.

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Pixel Art / Re: [WIP] Character Animations (Need Critiques)
« on: April 21, 2014, 11:06:13 pm »
For me, part of the problem with your run animation is that his feet seem to disappear off the bottom of the frame.  There is no sense of ground.  The eyes want to follow the feet all the way through the cycle and I can't do that here.

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Pixel Art / Re: Robot Head
« on: April 18, 2014, 03:57:59 pm »
Next version up top.  The main issue I feel here is I felt like I really didn't know what I was doing while placing the color shapes.  It seems to look alright-ish at 1x but feels like a disaster zoomed in lol.  Assuming I am on the right track at all I think I will next need to try to clean up the shapes a bit.



Another new version up. I think I did well cleaning up the last version. I am not sure how to take it any further than this right now. I've been staring at it all day and my brain/eyes are tired X_X;

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Pixel Art / Robot Head
« on: April 17, 2014, 11:24:15 pm »
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Reference(bottom left): Here

Update 1: I think I improved the shape a bit.
Update 2: Changed some colors around and tried to do some color shapes based on a suggestion from Pixelation...I think maybe I over did it lol.
Update 3: I tried to clean up the previous version a little.  I think I have been staring at it too long at this point. X_X
Update 4: Back to try again.  This time I decided to not attempt to duplicate the reference and instead attempt my own interpretation.
Update Final: I am satisfied with the piece and it has been submitted to PJ: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/85599.htm

Thank you to all that commented and gave me help with this piece.  I think I learned a lot.  As a post mortem of sorts, I want to say that I am not sure about my decision to restrict myself to the DB16 palette.  The main reason I did so was because I have no experience with that aspect yet and wanted to limit areas I had to focus on.  Looking back it seems I may have restricted myself too much and the piece possibly suffered for it.  Perhaps a more experienced artist could have made better use of the palette.

FYI: For this image I for some reason decided to restrict myself to the DB16 palette.

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