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Pixel Art Feature Chest / Re: Night Shop
« on: February 24, 2014, 04:46:24 pm »
E: Picture in the original post has been updated a little.

Faceless, cels: This is the framework of the house in my mind. I might take that advice on making the roof of the house a bit more rigid, but otherwise I sort of want to keep the porch jutting out from the front.



Crow: There's really not a context for this piece, in case you were hoping this was just a component of a larger game project or something. I couldn't get to sleep last night, so I just stayed up and started doodling and four hours later I found myself with a neat-looking house scene.

coffee: Yeah, a background would be pretty nice, except for the fact that I'm not sure how to begin approaching one from this completely side-view-on perspective. Does anybody have some reference pieces they could link me?

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Pixel Art Feature Chest / GR#180 - Night Shop - Perspective
« on: February 24, 2014, 06:03:54 am »


Still in preliminary design phase- the idea is a somewhat rough and mismatched shack, obviously hand-built and rather aged. I'm pretty satisfied with the left side of the house, but the half of the house with a cast-shadow from the leafless tree is really very empty in comparison.

Any ideas what I can do there to liven up the composition a little? I'm considering such things as fireflies or complicated creeping vines crawling up the side of the house.

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Pixel Art / Re: Looking for feedback on the SS13 piece I did. | Mysterious Crow
« on: December 28, 2013, 06:39:36 pm »
This is more of an analysis of your tendencies in general rather than specific to this piece, but:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30179243/Pixelart/mr_beast.PNG

You have a tendency to use 45 degree diagonal lines and a triangular composition in almost all of your original (read: not intended to be a perfect copy of some reference or other) pieces, to the point where it's immediately obvious that a piece is yours just based on whether it matches those criteria. Most importantly, in almost every piece you've got this... sweeping trend from bottom-left to upper-right corner. It's getting a bit repetitive, and I feel like you're sort of stuck in a compositional rut where this diagonal-triangle composition is the only one you're really comfortable with doing.

There are some exceptions in your latest works- Minion of the Eye and Darkness Injection noticeably avoid this diagonal-trend of yours. Still, I'd advise you to try to avoid this comfort-zone of yours; all these 45-degree angles add up into diagonal 90-degree angles which are incredibly obvious, uningenuous, and distinctly artificial and non-organic (diagonal 90-degree angles are even rarer in nature than just normal 90 degree angles, which at least show up when trees intersect with horizon-lines and whatnot).

I don't know if you were aware of this trend of yours, but hopefully this explanation has helped either way.

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Archived Activities / Re: Secret Santa 2013
« on: December 25, 2013, 04:06:57 pm »
OH MY GOODNESS my gift is literally everything I could have possibly asked for. I love it! PixelPiledriver, you are the BEEEESSSST.

I also really like Dex's gift for Tim, Cyangmou's gift for Night, and my favorite has to be Homeworld's gift for Numlock. That orange, that glowyness, that composition, MAN.

This was a fantastic secret santa! Here's to next year being even better.

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Archived Activities / Re: Secret Santa 2013 Sign-Up
« on: November 23, 2013, 10:07:34 pm »
I'll hop in again this year.

Likes: Mechanical designs, armored knights, robotic exoskeletons/mechas, atmospheric landscapes/lighting, high fantasy/magitek, structures built into natural features of the landscape such as giant trees or cliffs, supertall buildings/cities, alien ecology.

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Pixel Art / Re: Sky Utopia II
« on: May 02, 2013, 03:51:40 am »
Actually, interestingly enough, my original reasoning for having such a long canvas was something /like/ that, except with the big similar part down in the bottom- hence all the big flat clouds and stuff. I'm also not really sure how i'd extend the sky- the dark parts of the sky sort of are converging in on the central circle of light-source-ness, and if we extrapolate that upwards we'd end up with a dark sky, so...?

If at all possible, I'd prefer to achieve a similar effect, or at least a unique effect, by lengthening the bottom part of the canvas instead of the top.

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Pixel Art / Re: Sky Utopia II
« on: April 30, 2013, 07:32:09 pm »
Eh... The recolor doesn't feel so much /dramatic/ to me as /lighthearted/, like a Final Fantasy game with the bloom turned on too high. Too bright and pastel- it doesn't quite evoke the same kind of semi-cyberpunk I was going for with my palette. The extra lighting around the bottom of the pic was a great help, though.


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Pixel Art / Re: Sky Utopia II
« on: April 25, 2013, 08:27:13 pm »


Cutting off the bottom was a pretty good idea. I'm not sure I like how near-square the canvas is now though, so I might put some of it back later.

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Pixel Art / Re: Sky Utopia II
« on: April 22, 2013, 03:45:07 am »
Hm. What if I work with the inadvertent higher focus on the bottom by putting one or several jet-fighter-shaped ships on the bottom, curving in towards the city at a trajectory?

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Pixel Art / Sky Utopia II
« on: April 21, 2013, 05:10:15 pm »


So, before I go any further with this piece, I'm going to see if anyone has anything to point out.

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