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Archived Activities / Re: Secret Santa 2011
« on: December 24, 2011, 05:05:50 pm »
A3um, that is creepy. So very creepy. I LOVE it!
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it's a good start. I would think about the direction of the woodgrain/bark.. the roundness/bubbleness doesn't imply to the eye any specific direction to the surfaces. Generally, the sight of an edge indicates a change in surface angle, so try to keep in mind what the edges of the tones are doing, if everything is rounded, you won't get a cylindrical form to the wood fibers.Late response, but great critique, I'll keep this in mind in the future. I think I'm going to throw this into the pile of unfinished works, so I can have more focused practice with textures.
Actually, you can get away with using a diverse set of colors in pixel art. Many artists here would even encourage it, myself included.Well, ok I'm gonna keep experimenting with this idea.. Brighter wood is walkable, darker is not.
If the wooden planks aren't walkable they should have the same contrast and saturation as the background.
I like it. Reminds me a bit of the cave tiles from Frogatto, or--wait for it--Cave Story. Good job with the direction you've chosen.
Only small problem I have is that the background rocks farthest from us (?) don't seem to fit in, almost like they're from a different cave entirely. Mainly because of the rock structure, but also because of their colors. And they might stand out too much, as the colors they used are almost brighter than the rocks one layer closer to the foreground. This could make things confusing and incoherent, bad, of course, when you're talking in-game levels, or even just a mockup. They might need reworking.
EDIT: Highlights on the foreground rocks don't suggest a clear, unified lightsource. They're pretty much all over the place.
My suggestion would be to add some random tiles here and there in the black areas, like a tile with bones or something, a tile with some visible rock..
Good work, like blumunkee I'm all for wacky hues The walkable rocks look very slanted to me, maybe flatten them some?I think they are already flat enough.
The turquoise could be moss anyway. Consider throwing a colour in there and adding some lighter patches to it if you want to go that way.
looks great, color choices on the rocks confuse me though. yellow, turquoise, and purple are pretty divergent colors, so I dunno what the true color of the rocks is. The purple is the starkest color choice, a bit too warm perhaps?