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Pixel Art / Re: Pikachu emoticons
« on: March 31, 2010, 05:07:51 am »
They're actually pretty cute. I agree with the above statement in that they could use stronger shadowing.
But as a pokemon fan I understand the strength of the red cheek coloring. ^^
However, perhaps the outline of the red should be something in between yellow and red?
What might look nice on these is dithering, actually. I always felt smiley faces should be either incredibly simply but very interesting(i.e. the squares on here) or very very...overly detailed, so to speak. I don't know how to describe it right...
But honestly, for pikachu smileys, those actually seem about right. Am I correct in assuming that the emotions are from proboards smileys? If I recall correctly, proboards seems to have quite a few different "happy" and "sad" ones, yes? They do all seem a tad too similar, but if they're for proboards it makes a lot of sense. I'd suggest some minor animations to make them really pop--such as have the angry one's face turn red, you could even make it cute by having his cheeks turn yellow. Maybe even a bit of lightning. If you don't have a program that allows animating, I've found iaza.com to be reliable for such things. =)
But as a pokemon fan I understand the strength of the red cheek coloring. ^^
However, perhaps the outline of the red should be something in between yellow and red?
What might look nice on these is dithering, actually. I always felt smiley faces should be either incredibly simply but very interesting(i.e. the squares on here) or very very...overly detailed, so to speak. I don't know how to describe it right...
But honestly, for pikachu smileys, those actually seem about right. Am I correct in assuming that the emotions are from proboards smileys? If I recall correctly, proboards seems to have quite a few different "happy" and "sad" ones, yes? They do all seem a tad too similar, but if they're for proboards it makes a lot of sense. I'd suggest some minor animations to make them really pop--such as have the angry one's face turn red, you could even make it cute by having his cheeks turn yellow. Maybe even a bit of lightning. If you don't have a program that allows animating, I've found iaza.com to be reliable for such things. =)