I haven't made anything in the past month or so, so I figured I'd whip up something random... Anyway, this is what happens when I actually have the time to create something. It's better than Neon Nightfall by several orders of magnitude, I think. :) I at least hope I'll get more replies for this than I did with my other piece...

And currently:

It's nowhere near done yet, I still have to shade the rest of the background and put some texture onto the big red planet (not sure if I'll make it cloudy like Venus or barren like Mars though, or do some weird two-tiered colour thing)

I experimented with two styles of shading on the upper left corner and right sides of the background too. They both look good to me, but then again, I've been staring at it for several hours, so the effect's kinda lost on me. I also wasn't sure whether dithering or having more colours would be better for something so subtle, so I just stuck with dithering. Let me know which one you like better.

Oh, and does the background have enough contrast to even show up on your monitor? I looked at it on another computer today, and it ended up as just pure black.

And, actually, it needs a space station in there. I'm gonna go add that in right now.

Be sure to let me know what you think!


Edited by PureAwesomeness - 02 October 2011 at 7:38pm

yay youre back!!!  I have no crits

@Mr Special Yeah, the only other pixel art I've uploaded ended up looking really bad because of the time limit... I'm glad you like this one! Mind telling me what you wanted to comment on?
@Frost Butt Thanks!
And luizfelipespr, what exactly do you mean? That you like the dithering, or I should add more?

By the way, I did a bit more of the sky and part of the big planet. I'd appreciate any feedback, especially about its texture and whether I've made any glaring mistakes while shading it.

the shape of the planets is a bit wonky, maybe overlay perfect circles to see where they're off.

check the right end of the largest planet.  I'm not sure if it is intended, but this is one of the areas cure was probably referring to

BTW, the bottom right corner is so Metroid Fusion.  Be proud :)


Edited by Frost Butt - 05 October 2011 at 2:44pm

if it's a planet, then it's going to be pretty massive, and such tiny surface irregularities won't affect the silhouette. google pictures of Mars- small, rocky planet, but looks perfectly spherical unless you're standing on the surface. the AA could be a contributing factor but the planets generally are just a bit wonky (ie some sides are flat, there are some 'pointed' areas of the circumference)


Edited by cure - 09 October 2011 at 10:28am

Well... what about artistic license? A planet is by definition something round (by its own gravitational force), so call it a moon and keep it this way. It won't really have any impact on the scale of the image, because the scale and proportion is very unrealistic at the moment anyway. It's just a good 1980's space scene, throwing a few laws of physics out the window.

Edit: Horrendous typos...


Edited by CELS - 10 October 2011 at 5:58am