Go! Tingle! Go!

[Mirre]

I loveded these characters from The Legend of Zelda series. Awesome character designs, hehe. So I had to pixel them. They're my favourites next to Link and Ezlo after all. It's 23 colours + transparency (added when finished).

I need some overall C&C obviously, and also some advice to if I should add a white outline and if I should keep the sparkles/konfetti. Hope ya'all like!

[Akira]

hahah very cool. i don't think these need a white outline, i guess ultimately its personal preference. i don't think it would enhance the image further. with the sparkles i'm thinkin you should use some of the pink/green/blue shades in them. right now the black just looks... black i love it. there were rumours of a tingle game for the DS i think. don't know what happened to that

[Peppermint Pig]

Solid stuff... yeah, I agree with the black confetti comment. It is rather.. black. Try another color?

Do you happen to have a reference for the originals? No problem if you can't be bothered/etc... Just curious about the colors, since those outfit colors don't appear to be very flattering, IMO. 

[Xion]

The Tingle DS game is out in Japan.
I agree with the confetti comment as well.
Should the grey one's eyes look so fused with the eyebrows?
I really like the hands.
They have clocks around their necks? Wierd, I never noticed that.
You should animate Tingle doing the "Kooloo Limpah!" dance when you're done.

[flashdrvnk]

I like the stance! A really funny char.
I never seriously played Zelda, but I looked up some pictures as references.
Almost every image of Tingle shows his beauty spot on his right cheek (?)
And it seems that every of your Tingles has the spot on a different location (?) and different cheeks.

Are they different chars?

I think the confetti is a nice idea which makes it more glamour-like

[government.agent]

Haha so cute! Wow. Much cuteness there. In your avatar and in your example. I hope you don't mind me jumping into your thread to ask a quick question?

I noticed you have a little box of colors above their heads. Why? Do you always do that? I've seen that on a number of other pics in the forums as well.


Yours,

GA

[flashdrvnk]

I noticed you have a little box of colors above their heads. Why? Do you always do that? I've seen that on a number of other pics in the forums as well.

You usually change colors by using the eyedopper(?)
You don't want to pick colors from a single pixel thus you make larger areas where you can pick from.

[Mirre]

Oh yes, sorry. I forgot to write that I didn't colour the confetti because I wasn't sure if I'd keep it. And it isn't only Tingle in this picture. They are: David Jr. (white/gray), Ankle (pink), Tingle (green), and Knuckle (blue).

References I used:
http://www.zeldax.net/tmc/064.gif (colours)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/Mirre/images/Tinglebrothers.jpg (details)

Tingle game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogitate_Tingle_no_Barairo_Rupee_Land

The grey one (David Jr.) should look troubled, that was what I was aiming for with the eyebrows. He probably is very troubled, because he's not even a Tingle brother lol.

GA: what flashdrvnk said. But it's also good so that you know how many colours you've used etc. I tried to not go over 24 colours with his one.

Xion Night: I think it'd be a bit too much for me to animate him doing that. I might animate David Jr. jumping, the confetti sparkling, and the others striking their poses or something though. If I'm not too lazy.

[Helm]

24 for 5 different ramps is very good. I enjoy this piece and don't see many things to crit. I'd suggest you get a pixel art program that has a palette going for it so you don't have to put it on the art. Perhaps Pro Motion, perhaps Graphics Gale.

[Mirre]

Thank you Helm! I've been waiting for the day you would say I was using a sensible colour count, haha! I've been practising colour conservation as you suggested for my Lotiki piece.

This was done with GG actually. That's what I normally use to do pixelart, and PhotoShop to make it transparent later. But I wanted the colours lined up nicely together so that's why I made a small palette there. I am also using a palette in the picture because I have a very small screen (I am working from a laptop that I am using here in England where I am now) and the prewiev window overlaps the palette in GG. Might be nice to look at for people who wants to crit my colour use etc. as well.

[AdamAtomic]

Nice!  Their poses are hilarious.  I recommend darkening your main shadow color a little bit on every ramp, it disappears a little, at least on my screen.  Great ramps otherwise, and very nice AA!

[Helm]

Original - Edit

One color less, lots of minute reusability of colors. Not sure if it's worth it.

[Mirre]

AdamAtomic: Yea, great idea! I fixed mostly the second and third shade on the pink ramp, and the second on the grey ramp because I think those needed it the most. Hopefully it's better now?

Helm: I actualy think I liked my version better. The colours look very rough in the colour edit you did. Especially the white.


I've added/changed details here and there all over the piece now. I also did away with the sparkles (because I think they looked horrible in colours), and added a banner instead. What say you?

[Andy Tran]

 That looks better. I like how your anti-aliasing smoothes it out.

[Mirre]

Finally! I think this may be the final version before I make it all tansparent and submit it to the gallery @ PJ? What do you think?
 

 
I added new sparkles, fixed a letter in the banner, changed colours at the ends of the banner, edited small details, etc., etc.

EDIT: I'm done.

[BadMrBox]

Cant say that I like Tingle. In fact, I almost killed my gamecube because of him but...
your pixeling is very good

[Wolverine]

Not really a fan of Zelda games that weren't on the original 3 Nintendo consoles, but this piece is so beautifully done.  I only have one small niggle and it's that the pink one has more contrast in his shades than the others.  Am noticing it more on their stomachs.  Is not a problem at all though and the picture looks great.

[Takai Soyokaze]

Is it supposed to be spelled wrong?

[Wolverine]

What's spelt wrong?  If you mean 'Faeries' then that ain't wrong, it's just an alternate spelling I reckon.

[Gil]

Faerie is the right spelling Takai. You can look that up in the dictionary

[Faceless]

  "Perfect..."
(That thing TV Chefs do when the kiss their fingers and then open their hand, a look of extacy painted across their face, as they mutter the word "Perfect.")
I love Tingle's sexy hands on hips pose, and bent knee; priceless!
The red from the nose doesn't AA well around the face is my only gripe.

[Dogmeat]

It's the land that 16 year old emo girls live in, faerie-land ( Don't forget to put your Tori Amos wings on ) 

Sillyness aside, I don't recall these being in any of the zelda games. Maybe one of the N64 ones, I duno. Cute though.

[Faceless]

He's been in Majora's Mask, Four Swords Adventures, The Wind Waker, Minish Cap and Nintendo recently gave him his own RPG.

[hawken]

that final edit is great Mirre!

quick, sell it to a nintendo magazine!!

[Mirre]

Wolverine: aww, thanks!

BadMrBox: But ... he's so AWESOME! *throws confetti* How can you not love him?

Takai: Faery, fairy, faerie, fairie, fae ... all are right, it's a matter of choice really.

Dogmeat: Actually, Tingle wants to become a faery... which could be intended as a pun or not. *shrug*

hawken: lol, I doubt they'd want it.

Thanks for the last c&c guys, but I'm tired of this piece now and won't do anymore edits. Here's a link to it in the PJ gallery: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/15279.htm

[hawken]

you'd be surprised what they want, send it to (email in PM)!