Hello again, comrades! I want to progress with this piece further, but want to refine what I'm doing currently before moving further into doing a background so as to avoid a bunch of re-working. Here it is thus far:
Color count to this point is 15. My personal goal is to keep it at 16 or below, as palettes are something I am still very inept at planning efficiently, so lat leaves me with one hue to work with and an entire background to develop (my other weakness - backgrounds have always been the part that kills the final product of my images when I decide to add them.)
Do I have enough of a palette diversity to support a good scene composition in space with my bright and dark hues? Are my ramps too similar?
So that is where I stand as of now! I would love any opinions, critiques on any rendering or perspective issues etc, palette tweak suggestions, or even ideas anyone might have. I would love to have a nice space scene to place this in so I will be doing some reference research later probably about how I'll go about that. I'm thinking a distant planet or moon off in the distant reaches, maybe some meteors, stars spattered about, and considering whether anything will be chasing the character.
This is mostly a personal project with no intention other than broadening my understanding of the medium. It is based on a haphazard home movie we shot of our 1 year-old daughter dressed up in goofy clothing and tin-foil covered baby toys traveling through space that I'm still editing in my free time to become a mock movie trailer for fun. This will probably end up being the accompanying mock video game title screen screenshot this will be spoofed into.
That being in mind, there is no planned direction for this in terms of the story the rest of the pictures elements will tell so the possibilities are endless. Any feedback is openly embraced. I really respect the skill of this community.
I'm on my lunch break and don't have access to my pixel software of choice, so I'll post up a WIP animation of this later from home.
