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Pixel Art / Re: Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 11, 2018, 07:26:34 am »
Thank you one more time eishiya!

I made a version where I tried to work with the hue shifiting



also I made the neck darker you were right about that one.

Thanks and greetings

Kroan

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Pixel Art / Re: Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 09, 2018, 03:18:53 pm »
Thank you eishiya.

Here is my second try



I tried to move the character a bit forward. I also used darker and lighter colors to give a better contrast, was it what you meant?
I increased the size of the headphones but I'm not 100% confident with the positioning of it.

Greetings

Kroan

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Pixel Art / Re: Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 09, 2018, 08:44:23 am »
Ok so I will try to continue here. If there's not enough response I'll try with a new one.

I dared to do my very first character sprite. It's supposed to show a young man (around 20) with some headphones around his neck.
What do you think? Anything to do better? I admit that I followed a tutorial but I changed a lot. Different shirt, different hair, different eyes, happier, a bit more muscular :D. I also tried to give it a bit more comic like look (The tutorial one especially the face looks to realistic for me)

This is my sprite:


And this is the tutorial version (just for the comparsion):


Thank you and many greetings

Kroan

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Pixel Art / Re: Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 04, 2018, 07:32:52 am »
Thank you Zanorin you're right I missed that one!
I fixed it now and it looks good :)
Thank you all.

One question, more from a organizing point of view:

How does it work here at Pixelation? If in the future I have more stuff that I want to discuss about, is it better to open a new Thread for it or should I use this one as my "showroom"?

Thank you again and greetings

Kroan

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Pixel Art / Re: Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 03, 2018, 01:50:50 pm »
EduardoPras you're killing me!
This looks amazing!

I tried to make my own version just like that. I really liked your window in the roof that gives an aditional shadow so I tried to make that one, too!



I didn't change the roof anymore and I kept the third light point on the roof, too.
I made the house a bit higher to give the clock in the middle more room and made the windows on the sides a bit smaller to have more room to the frontdoor.

Greetings

Kroan

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Pixel Art / Re: Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 03, 2018, 11:10:16 am »
Thank you Zanorin,

that was what I tried to do in my first version but ended up falling into the pillow shading trap.

I made a new version of the house.
I tried to do what you suggested, I also tried to apply it to the stairs and I removed the gras from the house as I felt it looks more like a bulk of green than anything else.



I have the impression we're getting close :) perhaps some final touches (like making the stones of the door and the ring around the house like the ones of the wall I made now) thank you very much so far!

Greetings

Kroan

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I really want to help you as I'm also new to pixelart and know how helpful some feedback can be.
That said I myself have not much of experience ( a few weeks into pixelart no characters so far ) so use with caution!!!

Overall I like your character, the colors, the art style really nice!

Is this supposed to be a battle pose? Or just the standing still pose?

I did the following: I stood up from my chair and tried to do exactly what your character does.
If you do this you will realise that it somehow feels unnatural.

If it is just a standing pose:

Why is one foot on it's toes? Why the arms are in a 45 and 90 degrees angle? If it's just standing put both feet on the ground, closer together and the arms just in a small angle like 5 degrees or so. More relaxed I mean. If it should Idle, you can simply do that by moving the upper body a bit down and up so it looks like breathing.

Like here

(It is a bit slow but it's good to see how it works)



If it is a fighting pose:

The arms then would need to be more in front of the body and a bit higher to be able to block the face. Like a boxer I guess.
The foot is fine then, alternatively put it on the ground completely and then perhaps a bit turned.

Hope it gives you some ideas^^

Greetings

Kroan

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Pixel Art / Re: Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 03, 2018, 08:15:14 am »
Hi again, I tried and here are the results:

The house



I removed the chimney as I felt it is interrupting the sprite somehow. Also I replaced the big window in the middle with a clock. I think it looks more interesting that way. I straightened the lines a bit (for example the stone wall around the center, the roff a little)
and tried to follow your advice with thr 1,1,1,2,2,3 etc.
With the light and shadows I'm still not sure, the car I had your great example so it was easier to do.
I did as I said put the dark on the sides in order to go around and tried to lighten up the center (but one can not see it that easily)

The car


I decided to make it blue. Also I have to admit I followed a lot your example with the light and shadows therefore I feel they are good here :) of course some stuff I had to change as I didn't make the lines one to one with yours.
I also straightened the lines of the rear seat window, and tried to make the lines in general a bit more smooth.
I'm quite happy with the result but on the other hand, this wouldn't be that great without your example ^^

Thoughts?

Thank you and greetings

Kroan

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Pixel Art / Re: Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 02, 2018, 05:29:58 pm »
Hi EduardoPras,

thank you very much for the feedback!

Your car looks much better than mine. I will give it a shot again tomorrow, unfortunately I don't have time today. But I'll let you know the result ;)

What you say makes sense and I already read about the pillow shading problem but, for me personally, it is hard to understand how to place the light and shadows in order to follow the 3D shape.
On the mushroom house as you mentioned for example, how to understand what's good to do?

I see that the roof is over the base of the house so it will throw a shadow onto the house. The base is like a cylinder so my idea now is that to the sides the house must become darker (as it goes around).
But what about the light? The roof is on top so it will get a lot of light (which I tried to show with the pillow shading :D) and perhaps if I make the "base" of the house like a cylinder the middle will be lightened?

I don't know :D I will give it a shot tomorrow, too!

Thank you for your help very nice!

Greetings

Kroan


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Pixel Art / Beginner - Lights, shadows, borders etc.
« on: May 02, 2018, 10:19:24 am »
Hi all,

I'm very new to making pixel art myself but we started on a game we want to make and so I have to understand and learn it. ;)

I made some stuff but something seems odd with it but I can not figure what exactly.
My guess it that the light and shadows that  I try to apply are just not good.

I read about it and tried to follow the advices I found but still I can not get it right...

Before we start, I also have to admit that I'm not that creative so what I do is for example if I need a car I Google for a picture of a car and then use it as the template for my resources. That means that perhaps something is also wrong with my borders of the sprites.
Also with the borders, I'm not sure what is the best practice here, I always use black lines but I saw that many are using darker colored lines instead so when to use what and what's more common?

Anyway here are some examples that I made and feel that something is wrong but can not really figure what it is

A mushroom house


A car


A front door


A tree I made (I feel this one looks quite ok)


Who can give me tips what's wrong and how to improve it?

Thank you all and many greetings

Kroan

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