Yeah I should have blown them up before posting, I drew them with them being viewed at x2 scale in mind.

Actually this forum has a zoom feature built-in already. It just doesn't work well with some browsers (images are blurred).

Your sprites do look better at this size, actually, but the difference is barely notable in my opinion. Sprites should be able to be viewed, without eye-straining involved, at any size. Additionally, there's still a lot of outlining. The palette could certainly use some work as well.

IMO, yes, they would benefit more from anti-aliasing... But not so much as they would a decent job of shading or more contrast.

And for some reason the heads seem a lot rounder than they are in the picture. It may be because the forehead sticks out more, or it may be a lack of a body. Or it may be inconsistencies with the eyes.

Nice, Jad! But yeah, some sfx would REALLY bring it to life. BG music, too.

What is that, pistachio? Avatar on the Mount? Start a thread to get WIP, I'd say. I don't like how there's nothing really drawing main interest. The focal is a guy with his back to us? Feels like a bad angle.

Possibly.

I honestly can't say. I just know is it's some man, probably old-ish, probably a leader of sorts, and he's probably going to be addressing a huge crowd. Huge. But not that huge, and thus the size of the mountains may have to be adjusted.

That would be in the General section as it's not exactly pixel art, correct?

Once I get the thread up I might begin experimenting with the composition of the scene and etcetera. Perhaps getting rid of some of the boring/unimportant space to the left of the guy and putting some more on the right, to draw equal attention to him and the crowd. Might be somewhat more exciting, hopefully not too distracting, once it's added in. Excuse my usage of terms in this subject, I don't quite know all of them yet...

There are many, many tutorials available, but if you have a specific question you want answered, we might be able to provide the answer or, at the very least, point you in the right direction.

In fact there are plenty of good tutorials in this thread. Not only for pixel art but art altogether. You'll learn a lot from them. And then of course you could also learn a lot from getting your pixel art critiqued.

This is everything you shouldn't be doing when you're trying to learn good fundamentals. Don't copy the 'style' of anyone. Arne doesn't use those grey outlines that become darker as a style, it's the output of his process, his way of thinking and his tools. You're using different tools, you have a different process and a different line of thinking behind how you do art. Understand the method, don't copy the effect.

Well actually I-



Here, let me rephrase that.

"This piece was heavily inspired by some of Arne's works. However, I am not entirely satisfied with the result. Perhaps I should have taken a different approach and/or refined it."

It's not exactly that I'm trying to emulate the way he draws. Just trying to emulate the style of the things he draws--in this instance referring to robots. For example finding an aesthetically pleasing and functional position of the metal plates seen on this "antroid" (asdfg) or just the design overall that gives the impression that it is a robot. Face it, Arne does make some pretty kickass designs.

Looking back, though, the things you said still apply here seeing as I'm still trying to emulate something. Making the latter of this post obsolete. So point taken into consideration.

I think now I'll just go study mechanical stuff. I'll check back when I have something. OH BOY, THIS IS GONNA BE FUN!

@Jad, that's pretty nice considering it's one of your first stopmotion attempts (?). Robot doll and dog actually look pretty unique. Had you not mentioned that you pretty much swiped the designs from somewhere I'd have thought they were fully original. But don't worry, as you can see, I'm usually that way too.