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Offline MNKYband

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Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help

on: October 27, 2012, 04:22:03 pm
Hello,

I am working on a fan game, and for the game, I need to make a custom, silver HEV suit. I made most of the suit okay, but the feet, hands, and face are giving me trouble. If anyone can help me with those, or point me toward a good tutorial, that would be great.


Here's my picture:

HEVmk1657934659 by MNKYband.alt, on Flickr


And here's the reference image:


Thanks,
MNKYband

Note: The reference image here is created by Valve, for the game Half-Life. The pixeled image is created by me, based on the HEV suit from Half-Life.
« Last Edit: October 27, 2012, 04:23:59 pm by MNKYband »

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Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help

Reply #1 on: October 27, 2012, 04:31:36 pm
Why do you have a lot of unnecessary colors (numerous different shades of gray)? How did you drew this?

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Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help

Reply #2 on: October 27, 2012, 04:33:40 pm
I drew it in Microsoft XP Paint, seeing as I have no other programs to pixel in. I'll work on reducing the color count, I probably do have too many in there. I started with about 7 colors in the palette in the top right, but I kept feeling as though I needed more.

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Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help

Reply #3 on: October 27, 2012, 05:09:40 pm
Did you save it as a .jpeg? Because .jpegs dramatically reduce the quality, and turn this-



into this ugly thing-



Never use .jpegs for pixel art. They're for compressing large photos. Always save it as either .png or .bmp.

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Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help

Reply #4 on: October 27, 2012, 05:19:59 pm
Tried uploading it in .PNG, and it turns out Flickr is messing with my pictures. Here's the picture on DeviantArt.

http://mnkyband.deviantart.com/art/HEV-Suit-Mk-29-334604289?ga_submit=10%3A1351358315

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Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help

Reply #5 on: October 27, 2012, 11:11:32 pm
Inline images please, there's plenty of good hosts that don't jpegify linked in the posting guidelines.

Nice previous metal rendering thread here.

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Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help

Reply #6 on: October 28, 2012, 12:02:56 am
I'm on the new beta version of Photobucket and its really great because it supports drag and drop files now.
png and animated gif are no problem.

http://beta.photobucket.com/?home_ab=true

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Re: Pixeling feet, hands, and face - Need help

Reply #7 on: October 28, 2012, 01:39:23 pm
Okay. Thanks, Facet, I'll use those ones in the list instead.

And Decroded, it isn't that Photobucket is hard to use, it just looked like it converted my .PNG to a .JPG when it was uploading.

EDIT: Actually, that picture of the knights in the metal texturing thread helps a lot. I think my only problem with the feet is the perspective I chose, and I should turn the suit a bit instead of having it directly face the screen.
« Last Edit: October 28, 2012, 01:42:30 pm by MNKYband »