Current Events > First time pixel artist. Comments and critique welcome. >_>

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Working on a game. The budget is zero dollars, so I've got to learn how to do the art myself. I've been fucking around with Gale and so far this is what I've got for the protag. (It's an RPG, so I'd like to come up with a male counterpart the player can choose, but we'll see how my ambition holds up)

The retro 8-bit look isn't my preferred aesthetic, but I don't have the talent to risk anything better than this <_<



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Nice! I used to do pixel work a few years ago myself

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nice Cloud portrait


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why are the hands and legs slightly different colors? shading effect? it works on the legs but with the hand on the right it is hard to distinguish from the color of the jacket.

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monkmith posted...

why are the hands and legs slightly different colors?

it was an attempt at shading. The leg/hand further away are darker. Idk if it works. <_<
edit: saw your edit. yeah i see what you mean.

but thanks peeps for the encouragement >_>

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monkmith posted...

why are the hands and legs slightly different colors?

for foreground and back, but the angle of her body kind of clashes with that.

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It really depends on the style you're going for.
What unit dimensions are you working with? 32x32? Cuz that's awfully small for a single character.

I've been working on an indie game for a couple years now and had to learn to make sprites from scratch. My best advice is to look up a bunch of sprites from games you like the artstyle of. Study them and it'll help you realize what you wanna do with your own.

Also download Aseprite. It's the BEST program out there for pixel art.


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Is it really that small? I was looking at NES games for reference since that's going to be my limit.

I put together a shitty animation.

https://imgur.com/OCSBQgo

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If you're going for old-timey NES map sprite look, then I guess it's not too small. Like I said, it depends on what kind of style you're trying to do.

Like with the game I've been working on, I do 2:1 tall sprites, and each unit is 48x48, just to give myself plenty of room to work with:



If you're looking to do more of a realistically proportioned art style, then that's pretty good. But a lot of oldschool games like Zelda and Pokemon using 16x16 or 32x32 still had cartoony proportions where the head took up most of the square and gave it more of a classic "gamey" look.


Like I said, it all really depends on what kind of look the game has.

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Neat

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AlisLandale posted...

Is it really that small? I was looking at NES games for reference since that's going to be my limit.

I put together a shitty animation.

https://imgur.com/OCSBQgo

actually a lot better in motion

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id hit it

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Ooh that walking animation looks great. The thing I'd worry about is if the sprite would be hard to read on certain backgrounds. It's so colorful and thin that it might look messy when you walk around lighter environments.

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It's cute! If you'd like a bunch of curated pixel art tutorials please feel free to DM me.

Keep up the good work!

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nice

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Oh, you guys are too kind. >_>

I finished walk cycles in 4 directions, but Ive been fucking tired this past week and havent gotten much progress beyond that. Next time Im at my pc I might upload the rest. <_<

Hambo the Hog posted...

Ooh that walking animation looks great. The thing I'd worry about is if the sprite would be hard to read on certain backgrounds. It's so colorful and thin that it might look messy when you walk around lighter environments.

This is a good point. Its all a work in progress and subject to change, but Ill definitely experiment with different colors for characters and environments to see what works.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


So the current plan is for it to be a player insert for an action-RPG. The basic premise is that the player is works for an organization that investigates and combats threats like kaiju, supernatural events, etc. (nerds will notice the current uniform shamelessly rips off the SSSP from Ultraman. Im going to change it up to be more original, but for now this is what I got >_>)

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