I think from the title of the thread people would obviously think there'd be a running animation somewhere or other, probably what Chris was getting at.

From a game based around the act of running away would you not expect that to be concentrated on instead of a walk?

or am i crazy.?

hope not 

yeah i agree uber cool zombie, but may be a tad too lit for being in a cave n all. A really quick tone down and palette tinker.



Think this is looking great, heading for a real nice mockup here.

sorry, I totally disagree Opacus, AllesiaTheHedge seems to have a good grip with what she's doing from what I can see, of course apply what you can observe and learn from real life into your work but I really wouldn't advise to scrap the creativity and run down the path of bore. It's a character, therefore it's quite important to have some relatable features in there, I love how quaintly you've drawn this allesia really looks well rendered, nice posture, maybe the back hind leg could be revised a bit though.

Is this a female character can I ask? because thats definately something you could work on with this, not with overexagering female characteristics to it thats a bit ott but how it's shaped could be a tad more defined to what the character is.

On a pixel level you've definately come to the right place because you're colour choices are quite questionable in places, though it does have that nice quality I think it'd definately be benificial to work on your pallete (possibly put a small colour mixer to the side to help). What I primarily mean is to cut it down on unwanted colours and try work with a set amount, what some people try to do is give them a limit, If I were working on this I'd most likely try to stick to about 16, atm my photoshop reads about 233   is it because the filetype? well that aside I can definately see a lot of places where this definately applies neway.

Well thats my thoughts to begin with, I think it's important you settle on a right palette before anything right now.  

goodluck, keep us updated with any progress  

Something about the cat seems off-balance...

I agree, most likely because he's partially camoflauged right now but id see about adjusting the front legs a tad to acomidate for his extremly large head.

And yes you do have some clashing colour issues here, it's ideal to push the backdrop away from the contrast of the characters and props so the user can distinguish what's going on easily. Oh and this might be helpful, a contrast edit for Sabata.

do you not think your character looks kinda lost over this floor,  your floor is too contrasting.

Just look at what happens when you just alter the contrast values less and more. when the characters colour range exeeds the floors darker and lighter tones it stands out much nicer. Looking at the what happens when the floors contrast is way too high gives you an idea that the game would really give you a headache trying to play because it'd be so hard trying to spot the character.

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With control of saturation too it's not hard to push background back extremly effectively.

what?