Going small

[Slainte]

Well... small pixels have always been my major focus... just a small piece I worked some minutes ago... I have some troub to fix those feet :/ detail on them makes them stand out too much and look somewhat big, comments and suggs welcome

[Zolthorg]

speculars could help form out her dress, or at least mroe contrast.

She's way too small to ahve those eyes, they're lost, perhaps a speck of a really light color or two to represent cheeks?

Great to see you back here man, whatever happene dto those little iso sprites of yours?

[Tremulant]

Wow, that's definitely small I really like this, the overall form; it's very well defined for such a small sprite.
I hope you don't mind people doing edits, 'cause I did a small one:


The only thing I really changed here was the palette, upping the contrast and tweaking the colours just a bit. At such a small scale, low contrast can really blow the details.
I managed to reduce the colour count, too. There were quite a few skintones that I couldn't see being used, even at 8x zoom. I also used some the colours from the dress elsewhere (like in the skin, and I think on some of the aa on the hair).

Think that's about all I got. I'm not used to working in such a small space. Like I said, it's looking good, so keep at it

[Slainte]

well thnx for the comments and the wellcome back... In fact the big load of skin tones come from the original pieces I worked...



I did those from an old doll-like edit I worked somewhere 'round a year ago from someone I cannot remember   After that and as i am having in mind a 1940 like micro-game (128x128 res to fit major mobile platforms, just working it out to practice on my j2me coding as it's ages since i last had to work on that platform and I'd be needing my skills on it soon for my work) I thought it nice to move the girl into a piano-bar like singer, the idea behind it is to build an inter-mission pilot's bar used also for the "story-mode" play course.

Your edit is great and it gives me a big load of ideas on color schemes to use as the purples give it a retro taint I really love

[Darien]

Hey Slainte it's good to see you back... I dunno if you remember me, I posted as varken then, I was in your small pixels group, you know, when we all joined those groups that ended up never doing anything.

I made an edit showing how what direction I'd take this.



Tremulants makes a good point with his palette edit (i did the same to a lesser degree) You didn't have any hue shifting in the red, which kept it uninteresting. 

Also I don't think you should selout everything like you're doing... at this size selout especially clutter up a piece and it gets in the way of using lighting to suggest shape.  Which is your biggest problem, I think.  Instead of selout use darker colors to suggest halfpixels and things like that... at such small sizes it's more important to imply thing than draw them.

[Slainte]

Hi there, i remember you

Thnx for the points... it's about a year since I last had my hands on pixels... I must get back to it and i hope this time I will polish my tech a bit (in fact never had the nerve and time to tamming the real tech... all I've done on pixels come from test and visual effect, not color theory and real tech )  Not so bad for coder art, isn't it?

I am having my hands into a mockup for this micro-sprites keep an eye on the thread

[Pawige]

Another edit (working off Darien's), I concentrated my efforts on making a smooth feminine form a bit more evident, and making the volumes read easier.

[Ryumaru]

i would make the eyes a lighter color so that they appear smaller