[WIP] My first pixel art: Clown Fish

[tiger01]

Hi!

Here's what I did:




To be honest, I am really impressed! I didn't thought I can make something that looks this good. Seems that all the tutorials on the net helped a lot.

But, what can I do to improve it? And how can I animate it? Do you know any good tutorials for animating pixel art?

[aregon810]

The dark part (onder his eye) is to dark i think mabey a bit lighter, also the dark at the end (last fin) i dont like that.
The mouth can be a bit smaller i think also

mabey you should try use an oth background as white like use grey as background it helps.

i can't help you get it animated i like it (was it your first or?)

[tiger01]

Thanks, aregon.

I have made the eye a bit lighter, I have removed the black line (forgot it in step 4, selective outlining).

I have also made the background grey.




Yes, it's my first pixel art (well, there were other tries in the past, but they were so bad that I forgot them and never showed them to anyone )

Any other tips? How about animating?

[Emtch]

The shadow thing under his eye is still too dark, I don't think you changed it, and I think that part would also be better without dither.
You should also delete the outlines between the body and the fins on top of and under the body.

[tiger01]

I have deleted the outlines. But I still don't understand what you mean with the eye. Can you show me?

[aregon810]

you changed the eye we ment the darked orange colour under the eye :p
ill show you on a picture :p

[tiger01]

And how about these black outlines (near the white vertical lines of the fish)?

[tiger01]

What?? I like those darkened areas!! What's wrong with them??

[tiger01]

After hours of work, I've managed to finish an animation for a side fin. Here it is:




Also, you can see here all 5 frames (well, there are actually 9, but they are repeating: 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1):




What do you guys think? How can I improve it?

[AlexHW]

the fin looks nice.. i think if you want to challenge yourself even more, you could try to add more motion to the fish's body and other fins.. make it wiggle like a fish, fins maybe flowing a bit .. maybe the mouth opening/closing..
pretty good so far i think.