Grand Tyke.. Brought to you by Wa santa!

[WalkingAbomination]

hiropyro
Looks better man, the hair on his forehead (middle) just needs a taaad more work because the shape is a bit messy.
Like you could not decide which way to go , here are some options i conjured up for this part.

For the hair, the light hits somewhere from the top left, so just use the shading on that side to round out the head mainly, always try to avoid pillow shading, you can see what i mean by looking at the example heads.

For gloves and such a straight line across (like you made) is good because the wrist of the template is so thin there's no way to draw a curve line, what you do here -sometimes- is stick a lighter shade (or two or three depending on the length) in the center area of the line to soften it, this also creates the illusion of curving a bit.
Think of this a lot when working on smaller sprites, try to create some magic using light and dark shading tricks :D


Twirly
Thanks , and yep 32 is the magic number, just check out Atemu's Yugioh game using the old Tyke 2 ^^
I removed all the others a while back, i will create a zip file containing them all soon though.

Panda
Cool :thumb:

 

[Ellie]

This is one of my favourite templates out there, I like that everything seems in proportion. It looks somewhat monkey-ish when naked, but that's a moot point since these will be clothed and the whole point of being monkey-ish is to emphasise the joints I guess.

Also something that strikes me straight away is the lack of anime eyes (which is a good thing)

 

[hiropyro]

@WalkingAbomination
:biggrin: Yeah I see what you mean and I will work on it and I have to say the third bang idea you made is what I kind of was going for. XD But failed at doing it, and I hoped the glove was good :/ Because every other time I did a glove they looked like crap. But what you said about how you can see the wrist points on the template. somehow helped me. And how is my shading on the clothing. I tried to make the collar sort of pop up if you get what I mean.

Thanks again for the advice and template(s) ((although this is definitely my favorite by far. Even more so than that one post of betaman or w/e it was called.)) I look forward to using these in a game :D.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Commodore Whynot
Thanks ^^, the Tyke 2 was one of my top three favorite templates, and now this one takes its place.

hiropyro
The shading is much better, keep it up bud :grin:
I see what you mean about the collar too, you should be able to show it off more on the side frames.

E-
Alright! Temps added, let me know if you see something i can improve on.
Yes i know no hind arms, i chose not to draw them in
E-
The hind leg for the second frame might look strange to some (because of hand in front) but it's fine for the placing of the hind foot, here's an earlier picture of the male without arms to show that.
Could also help when creating clothing.

E-A small edit coming for the male.
The edit is for the side frame hands, for male and female, have to raise wrist mark on standing frame by one pixel and i still have to test the rest, will upload edit later.
That's what happens when you work on something for so long hah

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Side frame for thief added :wink:
E- oops that was supposed to be an edit..
E-Wrist edit for that example made for that frame already fyi.

 

[RATED-RKOFRANKLIN]

These look good. They are nicely colored and detailed. :thumb:

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Thanks, expect some awesome characters from this one Brodah :biggrin:

Rejoice! The side frame problem for the hands was just with the wrist maker, edits are almost complete on that crap mistake :haha:
**
Edited temps uploaded.. what a fuss Haha.

 

[hiropyro]

I return lol :/ had to re install windows. :D The template is released yay! I will have to start working on my character asap. (right now I think I am going to sleep its fairly late.)

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Made a mistake and added two males, fixed.
I'm going to try working on some other body type as well, besides obese.

Cool man, if you have trouble let me know.

E-
New body type coming soon.
Toddler! Diaper add on coming later on :thumb:

 

[Twirly]

Sweet!
Although the hilight on his/her head needs a bit more contrast :]

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Agreed, i don't want to re edit the post for this since you guys can recolor it though, here's the shade i used for that lighting.
Zoom in and save, kind of hard to see it on this background


E-
A little something to wet your whistle with XD, let me know if you see a problem.
E-Zoom added.


-Added the two pixels i took off the bottom of the hands for the back frame of the templates, save these temps over older please

E-What do you folks think of this pose?
That arm drawn lower is for holding a gun or sword, not supposed to be on hip.
Check the top!

 

[Heinze]

First, i think it is very good, kay?
The template and the pose, and i would like to tell you that a admire you because you have time to teach us stuff, you are very different than others spriters...

EDIT: I made something

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Thanks ^^
Good job man :thumb: , you only had about three pixels you did not need, then all you needed to do was define the hair a bit more as i think you used to much light shading on the outer outline, keep it up man.
For the green pixel mark spot all i did was use one of the lighter shades because it made that bang at the bottom look/run smoother.. if that makes any sense lol
But it was fine the way you had it though, just a little quirk of mine.

 

[Heinze]

Thanks man, i'll try to do something better ^^

 

[006]

Fix the body up a bit, and you are on your way to 8 directional. Don't get any ideas though people. This is a good template WA, of course templates are your specialty, keep it up.

 

[Twirly]

I really like this
The only weird thing is his left wrist, why is it so fat? :0
Also, I think it looks very weird how his right arm is darker, it worked for the normal template but in here it looks akward.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Thanks for the tips and comments guys :grin:

I was thinking of poses only and it never occurred to me to try diagonal :cheers:, i will definitely give it a shot very soon now but i want to improve my pose making a bit first, have not tried creating poses since the original Tyke (and those where just okay) so i'm still pretty new to it.
Templates.. the only thing i always completed in here :D, let's see if i can take this one to the next level though.

Here's an improved look to this :thumb:, i also added another look for the arm, if no more probs i'll add to top soon.
*Check first post.

 

[Heinze]

I think it's ready to place on top

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Right! Hahahaha.. erm yes added to top ^^
Just moved the left arm (the one for holding shit) up by a pixel.

E-
I will now delete these others so there is no confusion.

 

[Twirly]

Also, one more tip: If you make pixel art and you want to add imgzoom to it, make the colours indexed.