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Offline rydath

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Newbie wants to KoS too!

on: July 26, 2006, 07:18:57 am
Hey, I know it's probably too late, but I just noticed the KoS thing yesterday, and making my own fighting game char has always been a dream of mine. Now that I have an excuse, I decided to make a self pix-trait.


Maybe someone could give me some advice to help clean this up and make it cooler? I especially need help with the weapon. It's supposed to be a katana-ish sword wrapped up in newspapers, but newspaper isn't my friend aparantly.

Also, how does one do transparancy?
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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #1 on: July 26, 2006, 07:33:20 am
it would help to attach the image

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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #2 on: July 26, 2006, 07:40:06 am
he's hotlinking from devianart, that's why it wont show up.

You probably should edit your post so that it doesnt display the image from devianart directly as soon as posible, as far as I know they dont like to get hotlinked, they might want to ban you or something

try another host, like Photobucket.com the one I use

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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #3 on: July 26, 2006, 07:45:57 am
Thanks, Photobucketing now. Had no clue deviantart didn't like that sorta thing. :-[

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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #4 on: July 27, 2006, 12:05:48 am
The colors look quite messy, as if they weren't pixeled, and a lot of the lines are jaggy.  The color choice itself, however, isn't bad IMO.  You need to go back and clean up and straighten the lines.  The jaggies should be more of a consistant shape too.

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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #5 on: July 27, 2006, 02:01:03 am
Good start, but needs lots of cleaning. The newspaper looks like a wrung towel to me! TOWELSHIP! Someone should make a fighter game with towelwhips!
There are no ugly colours, only ugly combinations of colours.

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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #6 on: July 27, 2006, 02:05:46 am
Forgot to add. You asked about transparency, and the way I do it is by using the magic eraser tool in Photoshop.  Although, as you can see by my avatar, it doesn't always work.

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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #7 on: July 27, 2006, 05:21:20 am
Thanks Gnarf, I'll use someone's photoshop when I get the chance. After taking some time away from the pixels and coming back, I really realized how ugly and careless everything was. I've started fixing the pants, and I'm still deciding if I like the brighter green jacket more or less. I still don't really know how to make it look less jaggedy, though. I should probably look at some of the AA tuts.

Heh. It really does look like a giant wet towel of doom right now, ptoing. I would totally play versus mode in a wet-towel fighter. Still, I do look more like a bum than a shower-jock, so newspaper-wrapped sword(s) mine will remain (or try to become, rather). I have alot of fun moves in mind for that sneaky little piece of trash, anyways, and it's also got the added benefit of an inside joke among some friends.

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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #8 on: July 27, 2006, 05:29:36 am
That looks much better now.  One thing that bothers me, though, are the low lights on the shirt.  They're a bit too dark but I think that could be fixed with proper AA.   Everything else looks great, except I noticed a loose pixel on his head...not sure what it's for.

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Re: Newbie wants to KoS too!

Reply #9 on: July 28, 2006, 07:00:45 am
I like the character, he has some anime influences yet he's not the typical bandana hero type guy.

I can see you have some notion of how KOF shading works from the folds on the bent knee, but you're still doing things way too scribbly.I like the jagged attitude on the character, but not the jagged edges on the outlines =p clean your details, you have a lot of little dots here and there that dont really have a reason to be there, and I'm pretty sure you're doing them for a fake sense of detail, study more folds on clothing and be sure exactly why and where folds come up, then according to that make clear lines that state that whitout so much noise (unnecesary information)

your lines are too wiggly, be sure of exactly where your curves are going and make the curves smoothly follow whatever idea you're after.