Hi!

First some general things: You have almost no shading, so I don't know how anyone is supposed to critique it. This carries over into the anatomy since the body really appears paperthin without shading and we therefore cannot get a really good grip on the anatomy. Also try working on a midvalue background unless you ingame background will be very light, this can help a lot with choosing colors.

The base figure is going in a good direction, but as Basketcase says he has no forehead and the ears are very prominent and a little too low. He needs armpits =). His elbows shouldn't be visible from this angle. The blond beard is too yellow / saturated.

Swords are looking good!

Dithering the chainmail works very well.

Shading on the pant has to little contrast... and did romans really have pants?

Leather armour looks neat. Again almost no shading!

Yeah that's my cents, keep going and this will look great.

Hey, just wanted to drop in and say this is a great thread and very instructive - great work guys!

I think one last thing that could maybe be done with the bow animation is to shift his shadow back slightly as he moves back his point of balance and twists his torso.

In the idle animation I feel like everything is moving at cross purposes just for the sake of movement. You need to do a little research (real fighters or other sprites) to figure out that motion you actually want to convey.

Thanks!

oh yeah, found the commercial critique thread, that's a pretty cool game. Used some of their ideas to further improve the tiles.

Added soldier + tank, and pushed saturation way up. Cool? Partial outline or no outline? I'd prefer not to need the outline, but I suppose this is one of those function over form situations.

After seeing StevenM's recent awesome 8-bit mockups I had to revisit my tileset to try to achieve something similar... tadaah:



Yeah the tiled floor are almost identical to Steven's, but they where so genious I had to use them! This style rocks btw, anybody know of any good games using similar techniques? C+C welcome as always.