Hi.

I'm more of a programmer than I am a pixel artist. Since I'm covering animation in the next programming tutorial for my SDL 2 Isometric Tutorial series on youtube, I decided to create my own animated character. So I sat down and started to pixel away

I'm looking for pointers to how to improve the animations and get them in to a "fluid" state for a template which I then can use for creating new characters.
Looking forward to some excellent C & C from you guys!

Walk animations:


And the sprite sheet

As mentioned, it seems like your inspiration comes from Day Of The Tentacle, great adventure game btw
A tip: Look at the animations in that game for tips on how to get your character well animated with few frames.

Thanks for the comments Argyle!

There is a lot that can be improved here. This is the first version I put together. I wanted to give the source code to every one as fast as possible so people could play around with it.

 Argyle's was pointing at ROTSPRITE, not my sprite rotater:
"I really like this (my sprite rotater), especially because whenever I used ROTSPRITE: I end up just generating several images within the angle range I'm looking for, blindly hoping that one is a result that will be useful."

1) Allow more precision than integer degrees. Sometimes 44.9? or 45.1? give much better results than 45?

This is easy to fix, I'll just change the angle steps down to 0.1. I'll probably add two more keys for even more "finer rotation".

2) Allow picking the offsets of subpixels : When you perform the rotozoom, instead of looping on 0, 1, etc. up to size-1,you can use 0.5, 1.5 etc. up to size-0.5 This would be an offset of 0.5, meaning you pick the middle of pixels instead of their left border. Since the picture is 8 times bigger than original, you can choose between 8 different offsets, and all will give subtle variations: 0, 0.125, 0.25, 0.375 etc... up to 0.875. Since you can choose different offsets on X and Y, there are 64 possibilities. It's impossible to predict which offsets will give the best visual result.

True! I could add two keys that will change the offset between 1-8 pixels and give the result on screen. At the moment the preview in the middle of the screen is the 2x version.

Did you implement "Allow picking the offsets of subpixel" for graf2x?

Hello Guys!

I've created the stand alone program of my implementation of Xenowhirl's "rotsprite".

You can create the best output by:
- Choosing between 8 offsets
- Rotate with 0.1 degrees precision

In the .rar archive you find:
- the source code for the program for both windows & linux.
- windows & linux executable files.

Youtube Video (old 0.1b version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEQT3hHyriw

Download here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1C3Is_mOTVbfHKWD7fxKPST6moQZP2oQ2

[update v0.2]
- Fixed a memory leak
- Toggle Fullscreen (F4)
- Removed 2x & 4x Image output
- It's now possible to tweak the image output to the best version using the following:
 * Rotate image with 0.1 degrees (Keys Q/E)
 * Manually choose offset 1-8 (Keys Z/C)

[update v0.1a]
I was linking to the wrong libpng lib.
Linux code blocks project was missing a path to the SDL include folder

[update v0.1b]
Added a/d keys to rotate the image one degree.
If working with a small sprite on a fast computer it could be hard to get the desired angle.

Feedback is welcome!

SolarStrings

Thanks for the C & C!

I will probably do some more tiles for the game later on, but for now I'm leaving that to the pixel artist I hired.

The artist is working on those "bumps" ontop of the tiles now

Now I'm focusing on coding all the features for the game.
Having an pixel artist creating art for the game, makes me put more time and effort into the game, driving it forward at a steady pace.