It looks like it has the right idea, I'll try that later.

And;

I was going to test my new water animation, then I accidentally turned on alpha blending onto the old water animation;



I like it.

Triple post? Ouch.

The transparency was stupid:


I'll look into the sign/bridge.

Yeah, that's why I made it transparent there, but I got an idea just now, I'll turn the water transparent when the player is behind it. Might break the immersion a little, but on the other hand, it might be neat effect. And alpha-blending is no issue on my engine, so that's worked out too.



Made the post wider and taller and tried to shade the bridge a bit better, dunno if it worked.

Edit:

I upgraded everything else, the player sprite clashed a bit with them so...








Edited by Relix - 13 May 2011 at 6:20am

Shortened the arm, and the single pixel was just her mouth, so I changed it's color to red - not very visible tho.


Edited by Relix - 13 May 2011 at 8:57am

Doesn't really work with any of the colors that are in the palette. I'm gonna keep it as is and start redoing all of the animations...at least I can base them on the old ones.

Looks alright, motion wise. Though in one frame i think the colors on the front legs switch for a moment, which really messes with me @_@

I dont know much about horses though, the leg movement looks right but im not sure how much bounce they have in their steps. maybe look up some horse stuff on youtube to watch them in motion.

+1 to you my friend if you can make some bad ass looking horse hair. That should be challenging.

Edit: After staring at it. It looks like it wants to be running not jogging. Maybe it should be moving at a faster pace? and if it IS jogging, then it should have more wobble

Edited by vlad61 - 20 May 2011 at 4:57pm

Hi, I maeded yoo an edit :D



I wanted to represent a more realistic anatomy (by maintaining proper joint locations and bone proportions) as well as smooth out the motion of the body (it moves down one-pixel-a-frame while the legs are off the ground, then back up one-pixel-a-frame as the legs push off). The legs basically follow the shots from the second and fourth column of your B&W reference image (i.e. every other one, for eight in total).

Cool horse BTW, and I dig the colours.

I'm still alive.

Trying to "perfect" the player sprite:

Suggesstions for the palette?

I don't see it as metallic, but if you say so; how do I fix it?

And I'm really glad it's readable as a bag, I wanted to include many times, but couldn't never get it look right. Only tried again because I shortened the jacket >>

Made the blue slightly darker, that work?
At least I think it works now.

Also signs and stuff because the ones in the waterfall mock up were too small compared to the player.

Yeah I should prolly redo the wooden logs. Trying to make update on the horse next though.

There we go. You now have a nicely looking general mock up. when can we start alpha testing your game

im a programming student as well and i would just be interested in seeing how you are doing this is why i am asking. Unless you are planning to sell this then i can see why you might want to be secretive on that front.

Just took a close look at your UI, - so you are not planing to make a WASD movement and mouse shooting with this? it will be arrow key movement?

EDIT #2 - also maybe the sign posts could have some illegible writing that pops up when you come close to it?

Edited by vlad61 - 14 June 2011 at 9:54pm

Not sure if I'm happy how this turned out...
(and the grey thing is just placeholder & still no ideas what to put on the HUD)

Edit: Ignore the portrait, not gonna use it. Tips on the font / textblock colors tho.


Edited by Relix - 26 June 2011 at 12:51am

Alright, drawin people is more up my alley than horses and scenery ;D. Lets see if I can be of any help.

And yeah, the "psycho" look comes from the downward tilted head looking upward.

Other critiques being that she has an inward slanting chin (this happens a lot in many peoples art ive noticed)... also gosh darnit, why did I do my edits on the mockup and not on the COMPLETELY BETTER TO DO EDITS ON blank background one? Ugh...

Okay, so anyway, chin is recessed, and the hair and hat are very poofy off of the head (and much more than on the sprite). The shoulders are also a bit smaller than they should be.

Other things I changed, the ponytail is all flipped out like the wind is blowing. I think it looks more normal hanging down. I also changed some lighting around, added a collar bone, and added highlights on the skin and hair using existing colors. Oh yeah, and the neck is thicker (on your more realistic version, the neck slope is very close to the chin and on the cartoony one is very far back)




Im not entirely happy with my edit, but I didnt want to spend too long on it and end up with something completely different from the source

anyway, hope it helps

Appreantly the last one was hideous.

The one i was editing, and that you have now, is definitely better. Its mostly the eye I think.. its kinda like My Little Pony. The pixel version also has a bit of an underbite (dont think the sketch version looks like it). You also lost some details when pixeling it, like the folds on the front end of the hat.

why dont u stick with THIS portrait u made in the begining of this project.. just tweak the colors more



also i prefer the first try on the trees much over the later one...

     VS      

also
why u changed the mountain from this    
to this   ....




at last...
the animations are really nice
and overall, i must say i see a huge improvement in this thread... :D
keep it up !

It's really imperssive to see how this devolped. I honestly didn't think it was going to end up this nice. Really good job.

i think you should try to keep the background either dark or just faded colors and the foreground nice and bright. This makes a nice effect and is less straining to see what is going on.
This may not be the case for other people, but if i were to play the game, less saturated backgrounds work better for me.

Quick (and dirty) animation test;

Dunno, I think I got them to look right (you just can't see, the sword's blocking...). But, I'll widen the shoulders, they're certainly on the smaller side.

That would be cool - but that will be a a lot of animation to make a 3d like pixel art. relative to a side scroller i think. still would be cool. The mock up certainly looks fun.