Thank you all for the great critique, especially Sherman Gill. Thank you, Raytheon for your being the only one  to like anything about it so far. Ok, well, I have bad news and slightly better news. Due to time constraints, I'm not changing the style, as suggest by Sherman Gill's really good edit. I'm keeping the simple, almost-noob outlines and shading, but I may tone the colors down a bit. *I still like them, anyways * And although the style is set, I still need lots of help! I'm starting on a run cycle for Clyde, which needs more frames but I'll post it anyways to get early feedback. Nevermind. Needs a wee bit more work, but I will post it, all four frames, wee. But, I still have a lot of other sprites to make as well. And one more thing:

You should do the animations in sideview

Oh. Crap?

Thanks so much again, and I may rework these after the competition, but I don't know. Also, I know about the program wars, don't really care, to be honest. I've seen awesome stuff done with Paint. And Draco, about the legs, I like them like that. Adds more character, I think. Also keep in mind that for this whole game, kinda going for a Calvin and Hobbes-esqueness. So yeah. Anyways, here is the run cycle and a toned down Clyde:


Only two key frames done, I'm afraid.


Saturation Comparison. I dropped the Sat by 40 on every color, since someone mentioned that the contrast was pretty good. Better?

Sokota

More Direct Comments:
@Sherman Gill: About the breasts, well I "loled" when I read that. It's because the girl is much younger than you thought her to be. I was trying to fix them, but didn't look right for her only being 11 or 12. So yeah, It was either do a very light breast or none at all. With none, that area looked kinda empty. Again, not being defensive, just stating what I did and why. Well, you can see what I did, but anyways. Your edit on her was amaz-zing-zing. But yeah, not the style we decided to go with.

@Raytheon: Anatomy isn't a huge issue, since they are more comicbookish *Not graphic novel*, but I can see where your coming from. I did end up changing the sat, closer to what your edit looks like, I think.

@32: I wish I would have read that animation tip sooner, but I don't think I've strayed too far. Also, yes I'm more prominent on the GMC, but I know their habits when it comes to pixelart. Why do you think I'm posting this here? Pixelation is much better in terms of maturity and professionality with discussions. So yeah. I've tried toning down the sat, hope you guys approve!

Once more, thanks for the help again!

One quick thing that stood out to me were the pipes making a blocked doorway. They seem one or two pixels out of perspective, to me, anyways. Perhaps just making them shorter would help?

Sokota

Not an expert, at anything, but just thought I'd let you know.

Well, worked on making it less pillowshadedish. Also, made another character. Mel is her name. Crits?


Clyde and Mel

Sokota

Edit: Also, realized that Mel is a bit more flat looking than Clyde. I think it's her skinniness, but I'm wondering what to do about it. Also, I'm really like this comicbook style.

Double Edit: I tried a few quick remedies to try to help out Mel. What do you think? Edited Mel is farthest left. Btw, I'm a bit confounded with the breasts on Mel, because Clyde is only 10, and Mel is supposedly 11 or 12. So what do you think of those? Nevermind, they are fixed/solved.


New Mel | Mel | Clyde

Triple Edit: Just quickly changed the eyes. What do you think? I much prefer Clyde's eyes now, much younger looking and boyish. Mel is more serious now. What do you guys think? Sorry for all the edits; here's hoping I get some replies by the time I wake up tomorrow.

Sokota

just a little bit of a suggestion on how to adjust the angle to what i assume you want, just a few quick lines but i think it might help, if you need help with the rendering i can probably spend a bit more time on it and actually come up with something decent



where exactly did i suggest practice? i just linked a tutorial and suggested using some reference pictures

Tutorials...help...you...practice? Practice was a general term for the things you suggested to me. Anyways, it's not worth an argument. But yes, that is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much, now to go and implement it. Thanks for the help. And when people say "render" about pixel art, just what exactly do they mean? Because in mind, I only know about 3D rendering, which would use a program to render an image. Is rendering simply applying shading, dithering, and AA?

Sokota

I'm not sure about shading, but you may want to take AA into account with those black outlines. There are quite a few jaggies, so might want to touch that up after.

Sokota.

Is it Aoi from a Naruto filler? *Thinks purple thing is his umbrella*