Shoulders are horrible, I know. That reminds me, are there any good sites about anatomy for the artists in the Web?

Yup.

fineart.sk

Andrew Loomis PDFs

Also try Control Panel --> Folder Options --> click the File Types tab --> scroll down to AVI --> click the Change button --> if you don't see VLC in the list, click the Browse button --> navigate to where you installed VLC (should be C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC) --> click on vlc.exe --> click the Open button --> click OK to return to the File Types window --> click OK to close the Folder Options window

Helm, if the tutorials keep growing at this rate, it might be a good idea for the first post to have some red text at the very top that says

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING DOWNLOAD THE TECHSMITH CODEC!!1!111

...or something to that effect.

It would also be convenient to have all the tutorials linked in the first post.

Lawrence
I like the video. It’s a pretty solid piece, actually. It’s also good example for the beginnings of an AA & dither heavy Atari-era demo piece. Look forward to seeing more from you.

Helm
Thanks a lot! You have your colors pretty much set up at the ¼ mark in the video. Your apparent confidence with bold palette choices is impressive. I do think you lost the distinction between the mountains and the clouds along the way, mostly when you added highlights to them both.

I wonder if you’ve ever had issues with mixing so many colors that you end up going overboard? My problem is that I never seem to have enough colors to work with, but I’d like to get to the point where I have to restrain myself from going color crazy. :-)

I think I’m going to have another go at a more efficient shooter sprite video, incorporating some the pointers I’ve received.