Pixel Art WIPs/Small Things Thread

[Holder]

:biggrin: That's really made me chuffed thanks. I'm gonna faff and take down the middle left branch a bit to sort of even it out with the right side.

 

[Perihelion]

Looking good, Holder! My only complaint is that there's some banding that makes it look less sharp, but it's not too visible at 1x.

 

[Holder]

Makin' like a tree.

I tend to get carried away if I start dithering everything, so I've been trying to keep it minimal. Glad it's not a massive banding issue, I can live with that :smile:

 

[zchin]

I really like the tree, and especially the definition of the leaves, cause whenever I draw, or pixel a tree, it looks like a cloud or cotton candy...


Well heres my attempt at a Slime on a machine, wearing a cloak and a hat... I'm neither good at the cloth and especially not good at mechanics... And I need a lot of help with this... The main things I can see are that I need more contrast, but I can't decide on how to do it...

Tyahand

 

[Echo Magnum]

I suck at animation

at least I'm not alone -_-

 

[Echo Magnum]

I really like the tree, and especially the definition of the leaves, cause whenever I draw, or pixel a tree, it looks like a cloud or cotton candy...


Well heres my attempt at a Slime on a machine, wearing a cloak and a hat... I'm neither good at the cloth and especially not good at mechanics... And I need a lot of help with this... The main things I can see are that I need more contrast, but I can't decide on how to do it...

Tyahand

Try adding colors that are more closer to hot colors ( reds and yellows ) and cold colors ( blues and grey ) into your pallet, like instead of using one color and then making adjustments to its brightness add in a little more blue for the darker shades and a little yellow or red for the brighter shades. You also have a lot have way too many shades their for a small sprite, if it was a large sprite you could use your pallet well but on small sprites you don't really get to notice all those shades and tones.

This wont make it look de-saturated and dull-ish . but apart from that its creative.

Look at how reds are brighter naturally ( :thumb: ) and blues a lot more dark/shady ( :shades: ) looking
Hot
Warm
Luke-Warm
Cold

:mawk:

 

[MarioSuperStar]

Made out of boredom.
C&C appreciated.

 

[Echo Magnum]

I need some help with this, its a 9 frame animation of a side view walking cycle. This is my first time working with more than 4 frames of animation.

I thought this would be the best place to get some quick feed back.


Is the motion life like and smooth?

Is the anatomy fairly realistic or not?

What can I do to improve this?

 

[ellenor]

Well one problem I got with it is that the head dosen't move at all. It should go down 1 pix or 2 when the legs are as most seperated.
Also the shoulder seem a little stiff to me. But that is maybe only me.

 

[Echo Magnum]

Like this?



I will work on the shoulders later when I have more time, I think the movement in general is O.K now.

 

[Echo Magnum]

So i've been staring at my work and I think its the boobs, their supposed to bounce right? I'm I just being a perv?

 

[Perihelion]

Lift the feet more.

 

[Echo Magnum]

I cut out the "still" frame for a smoother look

O.K. I'll try edit this later, thanks, It looks like the legs are shuffling on the floor not being lifted.

I suspect its the frame where the foreleg crosses the back-leg right before its off the ground, from that instance their is a slight inconsistency with how it moves up which might have resulted in the appearance of a shuffle or unusual "jerk".

Here are the frames. I'm talking about frame 2 and 6.

 

[Perihelion]

I mean the feet need to lift a little more in the walk cycle. It looks like she's shuffling. Speeding it up a little might help too.

 

[Echo Magnum]

O.K I edit my post. frames 2 and 6 are not really in the walk cycle. I'll experiment a little, might mean re-making a few frames from scratch but that's o.k since I'll be gaining valuable experience.

 

[Echo Magnum]

Not sure if you guys can see any difference but I changed frame 2 lifting the leg a little to mach more of a cycle motion than a shuffle, also corrected the little offset that made the walk look a little "jerky".

This might be getting boring but does it look better now ?

 

[Jason]

It started off as some random pixels... and then it turned out looking like Ezio, but a little messier lol, so I decided to add some of his features, sort of... I'm not really going to carry it on, but personally I think it looks pretty... cool?

 

[MarioSuperStar]

Yes it is. And I'd love to see the complete result.

 

[Echo Magnum]

It's perfect now! :biggrin:

 

[Echo Magnum]

I have a new manga sprite style!

this is just the line art though, I like how its coming along.