New! WW2 American soldier

[Fate]

Recently i posted an rtp sized ww2 soldier but i change it to HK it will be more realistic, i might keep him like that and not shade him what do you think?

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4443/americanuw4.png[/IMG]

 

[G-man]

I think with a bit more shading it could be promising

 

[Showkaizer]

I think its a good start, but if you're not going to shade him, you should make the outline darker in oder to accentuate his form . Right now it looks like a blob of color.

 

[Fate]

You see im not all that good at shading So if i do shading on characters i couldnt to tilesets for them, thats why i was going to make it without shading, could you show me what it could be like if it was shaded?

i just put on weapons:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1967/americansc9.png[/IMG]

 

[Showkaizer]

Well I understand it's not going to be shaded. But what I'm talking about is the outline. Look at the outline on the GRTP template. See how its dark enough to show the contours? The lines on the outfit of the character should be the same darkness...

 

[Fate]

Update i shaded, its kind of bad i dont normally do HK

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/3343/americanye2.png[/IMG]

 

[G-man]

Hmm it almost seems he has two outfits on, I would read some spriting tuts, or just listen to SK, as a buttload of HK sprites are in his sig ^_^

 

[Showkaizer]

Actually thats not too bad so far. Do that to the rest of the frame and I'll check it out.

 

[Samboy]

Fate, I love you.

BTW, that's my German soldier in the bottom right hand corner, but is way outdated now. Are you interested in the entire character set? I must say, it doesn't look half bad.

Showkaizer gave me some hints as well, and the best one he has given me is to try to keep the contrast. As you can see from my example there, there is not enough difference in color.

I can give you a hand, if you'd like. I'm planning on making a game with all these elements within it. Are you planning on making a game with these characters, or just spriting?

Glad to see someone else in this wide world is interested in spriting soldiers from WW2. I thought I'd never see this day...