WA- DIEZ character template

[WalkingAbomination]

Welcome to the DIEZ template thread, a new template and a new start for yours truly.

This WILL be the last template folks (W child, female and such), because i'm pretty sick making them by now :tongue:
I'm also not going to plan anything big at the moment, don't want to give you guys some false hope that a full RTP will ever be completed, it's a lot of work and i don't have a lot of time.

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Character Grid-
If you need it just edit this in MS paint (or whatever you use), import the character, make background transparent for character sheet and place over grid, now you can see the Boundaries.

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[Perihelion]

Hey, very nice! This is very clean, and I like that the limbs are more defined than I remember some of your other stuff being. Only complaints are that the eyes look a little big with the hair and that the hair you drew there reminds me more of leaves than hair. The tail (?) is also confusing. Other than that, great work.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Thank you! (love all your work btw)
I have done something to the eyes already which i will upload later, i don't want to kill the look of the hair but i will cut back on some detail though.

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Forgot about the other comment, it's the butt not a tail (on the temp right?) ^^, i made sure to position the arm in a way that it would look good and i could see it.
That's something that's always bothered me about some of my other temps heheh, also wanted to add the thumb to the side angle of the arm, i'm pretty happy with that too.

 

[Perihelion]

Oh, I meant the tail on the hair, the ponytail or whatever. Also, thanks! I like your work too. Post more of it.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Okay, i've softened the hair and got rid of some things, still need to work a bit more on those boots and colors though.
Next up, frontal walking animation! Then i want to create a full character before i even release the complete template.

 

[Perihelion]

Looks better!

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Frontal walking frames are up.
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working on sides, i will update again soon.
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One more for the side frame, then the hardest/more time consuming part is over
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in the newest upload (for side frame) i have added a few pixels to the back bottom side of the head.
fixed up top page.
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Male template is complete, later i will do testing and start on that character, maybe the sample on top or different one.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Guess which character i tried to create here ^^
The boots are pissing me off because i can't get the color/shading right, so that's more of a work in progress than the rest.
*Now on top, Zoom in.

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Just got the boots to look better ^^, i wont upload that for a while though, gotta work on that visor thing as well.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

I have uploaded the template ^^, i'm going to make the 2k3 poster hero for the first and i believe it will take me some time before i fully complete the character.
I doubt i'll find something huge wrong with the template but as always i will let you know what i change, and if you see something odd let me have it :thumb:

 

[Jason]

The template looks really nice, I'll see if I can sprite anything good on it, lol, not just yet though since it's almost 3am, haha...

Just a thought, but on the sideviews, on the pose on the right where his front (Closest to us) foot goes forward, and his arm swings back, wouldn't it make sense to put his back arm (The one we can't see... or in this case, isn't there, lol) swinging forward? The sideview frames look as if he only has one arm since in those poses the other arm would be visible...

 

[WalkingAbomination]

You're totally correct, i did try to add it at the beginning but it just looked so awkward that i let it slide then.
Let me try something again, thanks ^^
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Done and done! If you guys don't see that hind arm just refresh
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one last edit made to the hind arm, brought it back a few pixels.
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Wait a minute!! Hind arm added to side frame second frame too :D, finally got it to look right.
refresh page for updated picture folks.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Have a look at the female, very sexy :D

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I've made some small changes to the male that should not hurt if you have decided to create a character already, but i'd like you folks to replace the other with this one anyway.

Here are the biggest changes, the others are one or two color replacements for some pixels, nothing you will really notice.
.I have taken one pixel off of the arm pits for the front idle frames (same for back frame)
.I have removed unneeded crotch pixels from front idle frames (same for back frame)
.I have removed one pixel from the arm on the side idle frames, and darkened that arm a tad too.

 

[Jason]

So like I said yesterday (Well, technically earlier today for me, but meh), I'd see if I could sprite anything on this... and the answer: Yes.

I haven't done anything like this for a while now, so I decided, since it's a new template, I'd make a new character (As opposed to doing fantasy characters etc.)

Spoiler: I present to you...

Vanilla Sundae
(With chocolate and caramel sauce)

 

[WalkingAbomination]

I really like the design of the character (I'm thinking Ice cream man now ^^), and i like that you used the skin colors as clothing colors too ^^, has a strange look, but a good one.

If you plan to finish it, or improve the frame some more i'd like to see darker shades in some areas to make some things more noticeable, like creases for example.

Sleeves are good as is, the part at the end (on the hand) would look a bit better rounded off imo, but it can also work the way you have it.
I think the pants for this outfit should flow a bit more, not a lot but don't follow the outline of the legs too much when it comes certain types of pants.
Though if you make tight pants you can use dark and light shades to soften the look and make it seem as though it's not just a straight line, i will add some tips for this sort of thing to the top page at some point.

Also, remember to shade under the hair a bit more, and soften some of the darker pixels on the character, the dark lines at the bottom of the shirt which meet the pants stand out too much, so use a lighter color.

Ah and mustache would look better one pixel lower too

My explanations are not very good.., i can use your character as an example later on if you like.

 

[Jason]

Yeah sure you can use him as an example, lol, I'll make some edits to it and show you the results, see what you think, although I'm not too sure how to do the pants, I'm not too great with different types of them, lol.

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Well I've made some edits, and I'm actually pretty happy with it at the moment, although you can do as much nitpicking as you'd like since it's all going to help me, lol

Spoiler: The old is on the left, the new is on the right

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Much better! Only thing i did was to try to make those folds on the shirt stand out more, used the second lightest skin color to soften that hair shine (though i should have broken that up a bit).
And i used the darkest color to make some slight detail to the bottom of the hair, took off some dark outline on the hair too, to make the top look a little less flat/dark.

I was a little confused with the shirt, he's wearing a tie and the bottom pixels are buttons right? Anyway i hope i helped a little.
Your mustache is better than mine, i should not have added the pixels to the bottom haha

 

[Jason]

Oh now you've just put mine to shame! D:

Although I do love the improvements you've made upon it, especially the hair (I have so much trouble with hair), I should really get back into pixelling properly, I'm still oh so rusty after not doing it for so long, lol...

When I look between mine and yours, I realise I should've brought in an extra shade or two in, especially to the hair, it's made such a big difference!

I'll have to do some more spriting on the template, see what else I can come up with, lol.

 

[WalkingAbomination]

Except for a few differences they are pretty even i think, mine is just a bit more detailed is all, maybe too much :D


New W.i.p frame added on top folks.
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still here ^^
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Sorry guys, i will be taking off for a while again, ..i've pretty much lost interest in spriting and rpg maker, if i do return it will be to this template only.
If i don't return in a few weeks consider this goodbye

 

[LaDestitute]

Most of the images are down. :/

 

[Echo Magnum]

It must be your pc or internet because I see everything fine :