Sam's Pixel Workshop - Out of Order - FOR NOW!

[samamanjaro]

Welcome to my Workshop:

Spoiler: All in One Hud Milestone 2: Oaken

In action:

The Scaled Image:

Full Resolution:
When I receive some replies, and also finish some bars and crap and redo some stuff, I'll release it along with a PSD

PSD:
You didn't read above did ya? :p

AND REMEMBER THAT THIS IN NOT COMPLETE, I STILL NEED TO ADD SOME MORE FLOURISH THINGS AND BALANCE IT A BIT!

Doing concept requests;

Tell me about a character, weapon, object or creature and I will try my best to put it onto paper.

Construct:


Name of your 'Vision':

Thing: [Tell me about it, what is it?]

Apperance: [Tell me quickly what it looks like.]

Skills/Traits: [What does it/he/she do, whats its weakness, skills or something.]

Backround: [Did it come from Hell, a Swamp, a poor family?]

Other: [Anything else you must add?]


Request Here, only one submission, I'm not going to make your creature if your submission doesn't follow the construct.

Spoiler: All in One HuD

Mahogany:

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HUD:

Window Skin:

In action:

My title screen window.

Conversation with Ccoa's UMS:

Frost:

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HUD:

Window Skin:

In action: Will add soon.

Old:

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HUD:

Window Skin:

Sprites - I may not finish these ones, when I get my Wacom tablet, I shall make new ones.

NOT TO BE FINISHED:

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Troll:

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Hello people, I am making my very first sprite, a Troll! I quite like him though I want some feed back on him/her, I don't like the way I have done the hair.

But he looks good bald:

Also I would like some tips on how to make each body part stand out more and look defined (The hands look weird right now. I will update as soon as I get some tips). Well for now, enjoy!

-Update-

Refined hair and done more shading.

-Update- Done walk animation. I might just stick to the simple stuff for now. Making my own creatures is to hard right now.

Lady Helia:

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Lady Helia:

Lava Elemental:

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(Still shading.)
New:

Yours, Sam.

 

[Erk]

Hhmm. That is a pretty good start for sure! I'm not sure how he would look animated though. Can you make a gif? I like the way he moves, it has a lot of character.

He looks much better with hair, but the "mane" needs a lot of work. it is too regular, it looks like he greased his hair and combed it, 50's slicker style. Try to make it a bit more wild. Here is my own example, although it is not the best: http://www.rmxp.org/erk/puppy2.png[/img] you don't have to, and shouldn't try to, draw every individual hair clump. That makes it too orderly.

Also, on his face: the shaded lines under his nose are way too bold, they look like a mustache. Try lightening them a bit, and adding more wrinkles to make them stand out less. Finally, his face shape is better with the hair but it could use a little more defining: right now it is pretty blobbish.

Keep it up! I am eager to see more.

 

[samamanjaro]

Thanks, I have just made a HK WIP: http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/9339 ... liaop5.png[/img]
I tried making a gif with GraphicsGale but it went spastic, I'l try again. http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6717 ... terqq9.gif[/img] Their you go! The transition from each frame is to great. Thanks for the suggestions.

Will do tomorrow. Thanks for the tips.

 

[|3_32]

Yeah, great start, but like erk said, try not to draw each individual hair. And add some variance to the outline, not just a straight line and since Erk did it, something like ther hair on this http://www.rmxp.org/3_32/WorkInProgress ... otDone.png[/img] should help it out.

 

[samamanjaro]

Wow, thanks, that will help HEAPS!

 

[~Atlaswing~]

Hmmm... I've seen the troll from a book about fantasy creatures.. I was planning to use the detail myself... But meh..

The animation is choopy. And it doesnt look like its walking, more like a DJ..
Havent you tried putting arms in the 1st and 3rd frames?

I like the Lava elemental's design...
But contrast... its too bright...

 

[samamanjaro]

Before: http://img308.imageshack.us/img308/6327/trollts8.png[/img] After: http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/548/trolloj73ko7.png[/img] Whatcha think?

Hmmm... I've seen the troll from a book about fantasy creatures.. I was planning to use the detail myself... But meh..

Yeah, I based it off Kevin Walkers. From Drawing and Painting Fantasy Creatures.

The animation is choopy. And it doesnt look like its walking, more like a DJ..
Havent you tried putting arms in the 1st and 3rd frames?

Yeah, I need to look more into smoother animation.

I like the Lava elemental's design...
But contrast... its too bright...

Still shading and colouring.@_@

 

[Balore]

Oh wow, that's looking wicked. Definately much better.

You certainly learn fast.

 

[~Atlaswing~]

Okay, the new one is better.. But make the legs farther apart to follow the rules of gravity.. The troll looks like he's gonna fall off... Move the right leg more to the right.

Shade the nose to enhance the depth please.. :D

(okay, are the things on the bottom legs or arms? From the book is saw shorter arms than legs... If so, bend them(arms) a bit..)

 

[samamanjaro]

Yeah thanks, looks a bit flat now, will do tomorrow.

 

[Erk]

As I thought, your walk animation is pretty wacky. For one thing, since his fur is asymmetrical, you can't just mirror him to get the last frame, you have to mostly redraw it (or if you are clever you can cut out his arms and just mirror them). Otherwise you get that weird fur thing he has going on. Also in 4 frames you have to keep the animation a bit subtle or he gets that chunky look where everything jumps too far to tell what is going on. You could try adding more frames to make him a high-animation character, or you could tone down the movement on his arms. The actual movement you have is good, it is just too extreme.

Very nice job on the improvements though! Thanks for listening, it is a nice change

 

[samamanjaro]

Update: http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/9783/troll1mk4.png[/img] Still don't know how he could walk.

 

[RavenTDA]

the brightness is way too much on the last two. Not sure what's going on with the shading since it's too hard to see with the saturation. But the girl's hair is too straight in front of her face. It should curve along with the contours of her face since the head is round. Her little bracelette thingies are done well and I like how you shaded the gold.

 

[Tiganca]

i like the concept of the fiery dude.

 

[Euphony]

Just so you aren't confused, I merged your two threads that you had going there. They were starting to mirror each other in updates and responses. In the future, try to keep as much of your work organized into one thread, to make things simpler.

I cleaned the thread up a bit, merging posts and whatnot. You may want to reorganize your first post, though, because it got a little messy in the process. Again, stick to one thread and we can avoid any confusion. Thanks.

 

[samamanjaro]

Thank you lots, I was going to ask for that, well I updated the Lava Elemental.

 

[brainstorm]

You could make him walk like a monkey. Swinging feet and arms....

 

[samamanjaro]

I was thinking to make him walk Gorilla Style, uses hands to push off ground.

 

[freedude]

Gorilla style sounds like a good idea to me

 

[samamanjaro]

Update! Done; Mahogany Gold Window Skin!

Mahogany Gold:

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Well heres my very first window skin, 'I hope you's like!'
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/2897 ... dv1yl5.png[/img]

In action:

My title screen window.
http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 916wz8.png[/img]

Conversation with Ccoa's UMS: http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 081zs2.png[/img]