Cartoony, Story Book Plains ^_^
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Tyrant-Rave
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becoolioman":2qc1py48 said:
You can't accept constructive criticism? Eh?
Anyways, those tilesets could work for some games, but its a very messy style. I'm not a fan of your tiles, but thats just me.
bojjenclon
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It has the potential to work, although I hate the trees. Try to give it a little more depth, like making the grass one color is not a good idea. Other than that... Well:
Has me limited.Tyrant-Rave":123myqvf said:
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You need waaay more contrast on those trees, the colour is too similar to the grass and they don't stick out.
I mean, this is an extremly simple tileset. I mean, the dark grass is just one colour. Where's the effort? Anyone can use the fill bucket and pencil tool. The trees look far too flat, more like cardboard cutouts. There's not even any roots, the bottom is one straight line. It doesn't matter if it's cartoony or not, it should still have some more detail.
Have you read any pixelling tutorials? You don't seem to know much about shading. I always find light hard to grasp with pixels, I dunno why. Instead of having just three shades in the trees, use some more. Get some gradual changes from the normal green to the dark and light. Look at the trees in a game like Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap. The game has a very cartoony look, but you can stil see leaves and detail on the trees, not just a few squiggly lines. And they have more depth as well.
Look at a tutorial like this. You definitely don't need to be that detailed, but it'll tell you at least some of the basic steps to making a tree and maybe you can learn a few things from it.
I mean, this is an extremly simple tileset. I mean, the dark grass is just one colour. Where's the effort? Anyone can use the fill bucket and pencil tool. The trees look far too flat, more like cardboard cutouts. There's not even any roots, the bottom is one straight line. It doesn't matter if it's cartoony or not, it should still have some more detail.
Have you read any pixelling tutorials? You don't seem to know much about shading. I always find light hard to grasp with pixels, I dunno why. Instead of having just three shades in the trees, use some more. Get some gradual changes from the normal green to the dark and light. Look at the trees in a game like Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap. The game has a very cartoony look, but you can stil see leaves and detail on the trees, not just a few squiggly lines. And they have more depth as well.
Look at a tutorial like this. You definitely don't need to be that detailed, but it'll tell you at least some of the basic steps to making a tree and maybe you can learn a few things from it.
I think you're confusing "cartoony" with "lazy." it doesn't look stylized, so much as it looks as if you didn't want to put the requisite work into making a tileset and so threw the s-word into the equation.
a style with a very modest palette can work, but you need to pick up that slack by making sure that your shapes are well-done and you make good use of the few colours you have. right now it just looks like you put about an hour's work in, came up with a rough sketch, and decided not to refine it at all.
a style with a very modest palette can work, but you need to pick up that slack by making sure that your shapes are well-done and you make good use of the few colours you have. right now it just looks like you put about an hour's work in, came up with a rough sketch, and decided not to refine it at all.
I think a Cartoony Story Book look would be a great idea. I think you're kind of using that as an excuse for your work rather than really playing it up, personally. That being said, especially if you're starting, I can't blame you.
My main recommendation is to take a story book that you like the art from, and use that as a reference. I'm looking up a few of them online, and some of them have some nice art.
If you're going to make them flat color, then I'd give them solid outlines. One thing I might suggest is maybe making it look like stage props, it kind of gives off that look at the moment, and maybe I'd lean towards that.
I did something like that to test. I could have put more detail and stuff, but it's not for my game so...
Well, in any case, I'd take a look at some childrens books and see if you can not only make them cartoony, but make them very imaginative and fantasy like too.
Off topic, but I was watching the 'Old man and the Sea' on youtube, beautiful stuff. I'd like to have a look like that for my game.
My main recommendation is to take a story book that you like the art from, and use that as a reference. I'm looking up a few of them online, and some of them have some nice art.
If you're going to make them flat color, then I'd give them solid outlines. One thing I might suggest is maybe making it look like stage props, it kind of gives off that look at the moment, and maybe I'd lean towards that.
I did something like that to test. I could have put more detail and stuff, but it's not for my game so...
Well, in any case, I'd take a look at some childrens books and see if you can not only make them cartoony, but make them very imaginative and fantasy like too.
Off topic, but I was watching the 'Old man and the Sea' on youtube, beautiful stuff. I'd like to have a look like that for my game.
bojjenclon
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I thunk the tree looks a lot better. Good job.
second_crimson
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Try to avoid pillow-shading, or shading from the center. Instead think of where you want the light source to be (usually top, top-left, or top-right) and shade everything as if light was shining from that place.
Ryanide":j2yvbfv7 said:
That's not such a good idea, I don't think at the moment it'd work.
Really, your main problems are pretty much everything, not trying to be blunt. It looks like some basic MS paint drawings, like the ones when you first start using computers.
Read this tutorial:
http://rjanes.co.uk/tutorials/introduct ... el_art.php