Think these lightsabers are good?

[Keegzilla]

So does anyone think these are flat? If you do or you think it can be improved. Just comment. I dont care if you post a really offendin thing cuz im gettin that latly this year.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/420/lightsabersnr8.png[/img]
By K33g2i114

just comment.

 

[Berserker]

fix the link.
They look quite flat and could use less saturation and more contrast.

 

[Helomaa]

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/420/ ... ersnr8.png[/img]

fixed link ( Sorry if bothers )

 

[Keegzilla]

thx to yous, i notice the tops to sharp

 

[Grathea]

OK... first thing you have to remember about lightsabers is that they don't have a solid glow.
It's a white blade with a colored glow coming off of it.
Second, the handles are FAR too gradient-shaded. The light should also be coming from a lightsource and not just the blade.
Third, NEVER use pure black.
Fourth, like you said, they're far too sharp. Just move the top pixel down one and you should be fine.
Fifth, please don't use pure colors... they really get annoying and overpower anything else, which icons should definitely not be doing. (pure colors, i.e. (0,0,255) or (0,255,0) or (255,0,0))

 

[Xaixis]

Give them more of a slant. It looks weird when straight up. Everything else i found has already been stated.

 

[Brismail]

this i what i would think of, but i really aint a spriter, so don't use this, its dump, just for slight reference.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t231 ... l/LSSS.png[/img]

 

[Devon Jacobs]

The look like lava lamps, you have to make the blade longer or it would be more of a beam dagger.

 

[Brismail]

lol yea now that you mention it, there are tiny, so i made it 5 pixels taller, still not totally in proportion though.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t231 ... /11111.png[/img]

 

[The Data Mage]

Hey saw this and figured I'd give an edit a try, I desaturated the colors, reshaped them a little etc... BUT this was done on paint and my word or advice is by no means, law.

I also simplified the pallet down a little.

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh19 ... ting-4.png[/img]

 

[Devon Jacobs]

Colors are still completeley inverted, the lighter colors are supposed to be on the inside and the darker on the outside, not to mention scince its a "Beam of Light" the colors can't be dark.

Edit: and its a beam so the shape of the beam has to be the same shape as the slit in the handle the energy is coming from.

 

[The Data Mage]

Though true, the "stronger" or "more concentrated energy" is in the center, where as the ousides would be transparent, that is what everyone here is designing it as if it were.

Edit: and its a beam so the shape of the beam has to be the same shape as the slit in the handle the energy is coming from.

I've also done this lol. brought it in a pixel making it so that the handle actually has substance rather than being paper thin lol.

 

[Devon Jacobs]

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm18 ... tled-3.png[/img]

Just like a lightsaber the concentrated energy emits light and there for makes the base brighter. But beams sabers are designed so that the energy is concentrated into a single form instead or bursting out.

 

[The Data Mage]

If they are icons, would a better idea not be to just have the handle, with either the crystal (which is what causes the color) or an orb / something to represent the color next to it?

 

[Devon Jacobs]

There Icons???? oh well then the darker colors are better, I thought they were supposed to be battle weapons.

 

[The Data Mage]

Look at the topic icon? which unless it's wrong... They're icons?

 

[rmxpdude54]

fix the link.
They look quite flat and could use less saturation and more contrast.

there is always a critic. lol i think they look good man.

 

[Zethus]

The light in the lightsaber looks like this (made fast in photoshop)

http://i48.servimg.com/u/f48/11/28/71/73/light10.png[/img]

 

[$t3v0]

I did a Darth Maul sprite ages ago for some spriting competition and I thought I got the lightsaber pretty much spot on. It was a double headed version, but the colours and thickness seem quite right:

http://bb.xieke.com/files/lightsaber.png[/img]