Title Screen Art

[Facet]

By orbiting I meant animating the characters to move in a circular motion, retaining their orientation.

I have to echo ptoing's concerns about the AA, The in-game mocks have a lovely aliased charm to them. The rougher version of the titles was more attractive; I also liked the selective outlining in white and more angular qualities.

Are you limiting yourself to 3 base colours?

[API-Beast]

You need at least 2 colors to properly anti-alias. Rule of thumb the first one is a 50% mix between the start and end color, the second one a 25% mix. (For every additional color just halve it.)

Here is a comparison between yours and how I would do it:

[mozzy]

More cleaned up, no AA. I tried a few different orientations but none lookd particularly good to me. but I'm still willing to change it. I agree, I think it does look better without AA, but some the lines look really bad regardless of how I try to do it I also realized that Momotaro's arms are are too long (his right arm) so ignore that for now.


Is 2 pixel thick lines too much? Think it would look better with just 1 thick?

[mozzy]

Bump. Sorry, I know bumps are annoying, but its been a few days..

[pgil]

I think varying line thickness looks the most natural.  Some of the lines on the boy (his arms and legs) look a little thin, and inconsistent with the rest of the image.

I agree it looks better without aa.

[mozzy]

I decided to try one pixel outlines, and I kind of like it. Defined the monsters more and fixed random issues here and there. Thoughts?

[Sharm]

Thin outlies could be okay, but you're probably going to want it a little thicker to get rid of all that banding.  The smirking monster near the dog is my current favorite.

[slym]

Thin outlines are better. Not so sure about the logo, try to make the letters more consistent in shape.

[mozzy]

Can you point out spots where the banding is a problem and how I can fix it? I'd like to keep a consistent line thickness.