Hi,

I need some of your views on this.
What name would you give the the "perspective" shown below.
And in what view would you portray characters in this?
Also, if an emeny would lie dead on the ground in this level. How would that look?
I would be very happy to see examples of this.
Thanks!

Whenever i have trouble finding cool shapes for heads/body. I grab a pen and paper and just make lots of iterations.
Just to get out as many heads as possible.
My sketches are not pretty but they get across if a particular head is awesome or not.
It's much faster then working in pixel art.

I actually find myself in a similar situation with having to design all kinds of helmets for the enemies in my game.

Ok. i love the colours, I can't teach you anything there. (others can, not me)
But there are some things keeping it between what you have now and something truly awesome.
Forgive my blunt paint skills:



1: That diamond does nothing to me but detract from the overall power this piece could have.
The combination of colours it's made of give is slightly different from anything else in the piece.
Maybe it has some narrative meaning. But i don't know that meaning and its glinting just distracts me.
I by myself am not that important but i like to believe i speak for more people when i say this.

2: As mentioned before. That building removes the mystery of the building before it.
Being totally in the middle i get the idea that the front building is of great importance. And then there is like this big brother photobombing it with its tallnes. You can solve this by removing the building. or make it less tall and multiples of them. I'd op for the first.

3: That bridge is horizontally perfect. Seems flat in comparison with all the vanishing lines in the piece.
It destroys the depth that some other vanishing lines try to build up. There are more of theses srtaight horizontals in the piece.
That is not per se a bad thing. Swords and Sworcery does awesome things with straight horizontal lines.
But in here the balance is off. You could remove the bridge or compose it of a diagonal line.

4: It sure seems like water to me. Regardless of light source.
Where these guys overall stature disappear in the moss, Their shadow just takes over following the same lines.
Because of this it looks like i can see through the moss...Moss is not transparent.

Writing this comment i noticed a lot of other things. But i want to conclude with that it could become a very very very cool piece of art.
Please continue.

If i do cartoon like animations i always compare body parts with bouncing balls.
If a bouncing ball hits the ground and the kinetic energy cannot press it down any further (because of opposing force) then that energy flows on to the side. This makes the ball not only smaller in height but also broader in width.



Your pumpkin is only smaller in height when it hits its low point.Try making it broader at that moment too.
If you think that a pumpkin does not have the same physical values of a rubber ball; WB,Pixar,Disney etc animate their rocks, bowling balls and people with the same methods.
Success guaranteed.