*loves being able to understand what Helm said thanks to all the reading he's been doing*

Hi Atrophy. Looks like a big improvement to me.

The proportions seem off to me when compared to the photo, though. I think your hair is a tad taller (~ one and a half nose-bridge heights, from bridge), shading between the nose/cheek may be too gentle, worth a couple pixels less hair next to the eye on the right, and your chin perhaps should be a little shorter (not the same length as your nose to bridge) and the cleft less emphasized.

That's at a glance, anyway - compared not to Helm's edit but the original photo, you've elongated your face & caricaturized your chin.

My little sister randomly found and shared this on Facebook. I don't know who it's by, but I thought y'all would enjoy it and might know who to credit. Hidden behind link, as it's massively zoomed in.

http://media.fukung.net/images/15564/19db1a95c3458b342d92130f871f1329.png

I forget if I shared it in this thread, so I'll include this in here too.

http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/flyGuy.swf

Anyway, main reason for posting is that I finally finished reading the Animator's Survival Kit and am happily moving on to Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain - and feeling the progress. I would've liked more focus on computer graphics, though - I still don't know where everyone learns what colours to use per limb and so forth when planning out animations.

BIG TREES! *squee*

Looking forward to seeing this.

The sprite face seems to be at a different vertical perspective to his body, with the way his eyes sit. His left eye seems oddly low.

The other sprite lower in the backgrounds reminds me of you, for some reason - based on a sprite you've done before?

Fair warning to all fellow Aussies: stay off the roads. They're mad enough to think 'I' can drive unsupervised already...

*brandishes his new P plate with a deadly two tonne hunk of steel attached*

Thought I'd failed it, but didn't too badly. Screwed up my reverse parking. Big car, driveway instead of curb, too easy to mount unfortunately.

Also some of those instructions are evil: "Merge into the right lane. When the road ends, turn left (we won't tell you to merge left afterwards BWAHAHA if you forgets TWICE we fails you!). First time I was just following instructions, the second time... I figured screw the instructions, something's off. Yay for brain functions!

I'm a bit old to be getting my license, just never needed to before. The concept of people driving around is bloody terrifying - moreso is the fact it doesn't feel as terrifying as it should while you're at it

Yay, I was quite worried I was renubifying and didn't know it!  Thanks Hatch & Dr D.

*feels very special*

Hopefully it'll come out correct this time:

AA is awesome. Not doing AA can be acceptable in 'simple' pieces. Banding is bad. It's not just caused by equal steps of different colours, but also by those of the same color - thus, thick lines can create banding. What they said.