The perspective is off on the side view, I know. I'll have to work on that. Anything else I should fix while I'm at it?

Also, GraphicsGale doesn't seem to want to export transparency for me. I've got it set in my layers options, and "disable transparency of bottom layer" is unchecked, but it just exports the background color. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Edit (latest):

Edited by Morgan - 18 July 2006 at 6:24pm

Geh. You're right.

Hm. I think it's mostly the legs, actually... how's this?

Thanks for the feedback, and the how-to for transparency. Never would've guessed. :P

Edited by Morgan

Well, that's the female version of the protagonist (player gets to choose their gender). I would have said so, but I wanted to see how people would read her. Glad you thought she was too girly to be a guy.

Fixed hair, and the male version:

I think the faces look better at 2x, which is probably closer to my target display resolution -- 640x480 fullscreen. I may end up adding another color to the palette and refining them a bit more, though.

Thanks for the feedback!

Edited by Morgan

Personally i think Morgan's got enough skill to do each frame with the same quality. The dithering will be tough to cope with, but i don't think animating will be an impossible feat, it'll just take longer. Much longer.

And i see now, good job i thought it looked girly. I think her face needs to be thinner though, or the anatomy of the face looks fairly odd IMO.

Snader: Yes, they're game sprites. You can see some unshaded cycles here: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2472& ;PN=2

Illogical placement of what now? And I think it needs the dithering... or more colors, which would probably take just as much time to place... right? Is there something particularly bad about dithering + animation that I'm missing?

I realize it's a little bit crazy. You'll notice I'm at least keeping the number of frames to a minimum. I just really want the armor to look good -- it's actually kind of important to the emotional impact of the game, that the player like this set of armor.

Larwick: "That looks funny to me" is something you can't really argue with, but since it doesn't look funny to me, I'm not sure how to fix it. Do you think it's in the shading, or the actual proportions? The character design isn't supposed to be that realistic -- the eyes are big and really wide-set.

Monkey: That's a valid point, but it was her father's armor (or his father's, as the case may be) so that wouldn't quite work. Also, it's much less trouble to only have to do one set of walk cycles. ;)

Speaking of which:

No animation on the head/hair, since I may still change 'em. And I have a feeling the body isn't done either, but I've been staring at it too long to see it anymore.

He looks sort of bolegged. His feet are facing outward more than straight ahead and his knees aren't bending.

However, the shading on the armor is very well done. It looks photorealistic!

Morgan, that's looking superb!

The metalic backlighting is REALLY pretty and your walking animation is brilliant. Overall very convincing, although it's such a shame you went with an anime style face- give the character a nose please! ;) 

That is some great armor you've got going there. D: The style reminds me of Golden Sun a bit, too... totally awesome. Can't wait to see more.

What I mean, is that they follow the same straigh line. Like this for example ---------------, when I think it should be a litte more like this ------------__------
Note, those lines I showed an example with has nothing to do with the legs, just to show you what I mean.

I think that the "leg armor" should be thinner the longer down you go. Especially when it comes into contact with the foot. Because now, she seems a litte clumsy down there...

Hope you get my point now.

Example:
http://www.senocular.com/pub/kirupa/armor.jpg


Edited by Swiifty - 20 July 2006 at 3:33am