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Re: Acrobot [WIP]

Reply #10 on: December 14, 2007, 03:39:25 am

there you go!

I'll have to work on a new pose later, while I'm gone, does anyone mind making some pictures of recommended poses?

I'll be gone for like, 24 hours >_>

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Re: Acrobot [WIP]

Reply #11 on: December 14, 2007, 04:43:02 pm
INCOMING HARSHNESS

I mean, your aim seems to be drawing an acrobatic pose out of VERY simple volumes, as in that thinkgeek photo, and what we get is a sort of randomly shaded cartoony army guy with a golf ball head in the most boring pose ever.  This tells me you are very uncomfortable with a lot of art fundamentals.  So, my advice to you is this!

Stop doing color, AA and dithering right now, and start working on fundamentals of lighting, value, and anatomy!  You are definitely spending time on the wrong stuff.  Once you learn more about value and lighting and structure these other pixel techniques will fall into place without much practice at all, I promise.

Good luck!

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Re: Acrobot [WIP]

Reply #12 on: December 15, 2007, 01:15:36 am
So i need to practice the fundamentals?
okay! finally some more C&C!

I'll try on that, so practice volume and anatomy...

try to work on ways to make things look more 3D?
and work on the shape of body parts...

okay!
if i interpreted the post wrong, please tell me


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Re: Acrobot [WIP]

Reply #13 on: December 15, 2007, 03:07:52 am
do you have one of these? Its the only reason I think of for why you're pixelin it. why not use it as a reference, its movable so you could put it into a more interesting pose. If not im sure there are more reference pictures of this on the net.

edit.?

« Last Edit: December 15, 2007, 03:09:55 am by Terley »
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Re: Acrobot [WIP]

Reply #14 on: December 15, 2007, 05:44:25 am
i Actually have that piccy :D

i dont have one, sadly, i put one on my wish list for help with poses. also they look cool.

i'm going to mess with it and try to experiment a bit more, so it'll be a bit till the next update.

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Re: Acrobot [WIP]

Reply #15 on: December 15, 2007, 11:56:24 am
i Actually have that piccy :D

i dont have one, sadly, i put one on my wish list for help with poses. also they look cool.

i'm going to mess with it and try to experiment a bit more, so it'll be a bit till the next update.

If you want help with poses you really need one of these:
http://www.corniekel.nl/images/navigatie/ledepoppen/pop_leeg.gif

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Re: Acrobot [WIP]

Reply #16 on: December 15, 2007, 11:39:16 pm
i Actually have that piccy :D

i dont have one, sadly, i put one on my wish list for help with poses. also they look cool.

i'm going to mess with it and try to experiment a bit more, so it'll be a bit till the next update.

If you want help with poses you really need one of these:
http://www.corniekel.nl/images/navigatie/ledepoppen/pop_leeg.gif
good point. I've seen those, those are probably alot better for setting up poses :/

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Re: Acrobot [WIP]

Reply #17 on: December 19, 2007, 08:49:17 am
So i messed around a bit and came up with this.


It has 8 colors, with lots of dithering.

Probably isn't the last version

Sorry for the slight bump