The 5-Year Contest Visuals Improvement Thread

[Eriol Clowphengire]

Well, that calls for less color usage on other armor parts on those characters then?

 

[mawk]

it calls for more contrast in the flat pieces. highlights and shadow. you know the drill.

 

[Velocir_X]

as Twirly would say:
MORE CONTRAST

 

[action]

Hmm, the first looks like he's laying down.. or has a bulging stomache. The second one just looks flat.
And on both, it's rather hard to see their eyes, as they get mixed in with the yellow.

Here's mine:

-Lonelyelf

EDIT: GAAH, PHOTOBUCKET.... Please right click the picture and select "view image" for a better view

 

[Twirly]

as Twirly would say:
MORE CONTRAST

Yep.
You definitely need more contrast.
Also the shading on that guy's clothes looks weird, try to make folds and stuff to give it a shape :]

 

[Eriol Clowphengire]

as Twirly would say:
MORE CONTRAST

Yep.
You definitely need more contrast.
Also the shading on that guy's clothes looks weird, try to make folds and stuff to give it a shape :]

On the helmet dude or the first character?

 

[DeM0nFiRe]

Hey guys,

So I am going to see if I can finish my game in time for this contest, and of course the art is going to be my achilles heel. I have below here a mock up of a map (not an actual map) using some tiles I am working on.

Keep in mind a few things:
-I'm not really concerned with perspective. I don't have the talent in the art department to make this game look too special inside the time frame, so the tiles are more meant to let you know where everything in the map is rather than convince you you are there.
-I am color blind 0_0 If you can tell me if my palette is off that would be great.

Spoiler: Tiles!

If you can't tell what it's supposed to be, it's a stone building in a cavern underground.

C&C would be great!

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the stones are dirty, on account of the fact that they are underground. That's why they have a brown tinge (At least I hope that is brown)

 

[DeM0nFiRe]

Ok, after some help in the IRC channels, I came up with this:

Spoiler: Tiles!

 

[action]

I;m still rather confused.
I cannot tell what is what, aside from the doors.
The map lacks depth, therefore alot more tiles are necessary.
As for the ground, I can see a pattern rising.
Other than that, I can see the effort put into the bricks.

-abreaction

 

[JD_Slasha]

So here's something I did pretty quickly, so the shading on the sprites are off, but how does the perspective on Louie (the dog) look? Also, does the is it obvious that the ghost smilie is on Travis' vest on his sprite?

Some spritework:


Rough sketch of my main character:

I'm going with the giant world theme, with all the graphics matching these sprites

 

[DeM0nFiRe]

I;m still rather confused.
I cannot tell what is what, aside from the doors.
The map lacks depth, therefore alot more tiles are necessary.
As for the ground, I can see a pattern rising.
Other than that, I can see the effort put into the bricks.

-abreaction

Well, as I said in the first post, the perspective thing is taken from the game that my game is inspired by. Here is a screenshot of Blades of Exile:

Spoiler: Blades of Exile

Again, the tiles are only meant to be a representation of where things are in the world, it is not like a picture of the world like you find in most RPGs.

@J.D.Slasha: The sprites look cool, I think the perspective on the dog is fine. However, the ghost on his vest just looks like a backpack.

 

[Eriol Clowphengire]

Another sprite attempt for DESU! project.

 

[Twirly]

as Twirly would say:
MORE CONTRAST

Yep.
You definitely need more contrast.
Also the shading on that guy's clothes looks weird, try to make folds and stuff to give it a shape :]

On the helmet dude or the first character?

On everything you sprite, I've seen your stuff.

 

[Eriol Clowphengire]

Show me the contrast you guys been suggesting for ages by applying it on my works, so that in the future, I know what the hell I'll do next.

As of this moment , I must learn that by example.