AuthorTopic: [WIP] Barbarian guy. (I promise this didn't take 2 years)  (Read 2312 times)

Offline bedelf

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So I sat down the last couple days and started playing around in GraphicsGale again. I came back to this site, poked around, and noticed the last time I posted was a little over 2 years ago. Yikes. GF, Kids, bought a house, basically I don't remember the last 2 years whatsoever - it all seems like yesterday. So I went back through my old posts and made sure my images were working again, and here I am. I think the last thing I was working on was mabey a bit too ambitious for my skill level - the edits I got crushed my soul they were so good - so I'm gonna try some simpler stuff I think.

I was looking at the feature chest post on here about the C64 palette and wanted to screw around with it some -
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=4306.0

I found this website with some C64 golden axe screenshots -
http://www.mobygames.com/game/golden-axe/screenshots

After an hour of fiddling or so I came up with this guy using a few colors out of the palette ptoing posted -


then

then ended up with


By the end I kinda realized I shaded it a bit too much, looking at the screenshot here, the guy was straight up 3 colors, black, dark color, light color, and I wanted to add a grey of some kind for mabey the belt/boots. So I'm not sure what I want to do at this point - should I strip out the wasted 4th color I used and stick to the style I was going for, or should I use a 4th color and try to get more out of it?

I am looking for some guidance here so feel free to drop some comments if you want. =) Other than that, I'm happy to see that this site is still rocking, love you guys!

-ed


edit 05-28-10
For fun I made a giant guy and threw some random colors down on my other one just to see how it would look.


meh

I kinda like him, I should animate him so he can swing that thing.

-peace


edit 05-28-10
same thing, looking at this wolf picture from the googlewebs:
http://www.koze950.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/wolves.jpg



-end


edit 05-29-10
inspired by this thread:
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?PHPSESSID=86732c7ad456885c7802696ae0ed5aa1&topic=9559.0

montage!

and finally


Think I need to work on my color picking skills and stop grabbing them from all over.

-done
« Last Edit: May 30, 2010, 05:42:38 am by bedelf »
<-- thanks Peppermint Pig