The first picture uses the old colors (look for the violett-y bright-red in the hat). Could be a good idea not to keep wrong palette pictures around, as ppl may just grab a random image to work from.

Hi I'm not sure if this is where to post as no one hase posted characters here but I made a cowboy character if it interests anyone.

That hat looked really good so I tried to make mine resemble it a bit more, I also made a female native.


Edited by anodomani - 04 July 2013 at 11:15am

Sorry Dawnbringer, I mess up with descriptions all the time ;).

@Anodomani

Nice stuff! I would like to see cowboys and female natives indeed!
I think they could both use some work though.

For the female native:
Use way more of the brighter gray! Not every surface needs to be surrounded by shading, check out the other natives to see what I mean! Only some subtle shading where it is absolutely obvious is neccesary! Also in the face you hardly need any of the darker shade.

As for the pose, why not replace the legs with simpler ones? All the other sprites got away with those, if you make matching legs it will fit better in the set :)

For the cowboy:
Same tips go about shading and legs. Watch out that you don't over detail! The inside objects such as the scarf do not need such a dark outline, and the hair can be one solid color.

Some times removing detail and contrast can make sprites look worse on their own, however it is more important that they match the set!

Good luck :)

An idle animation. Feel free to improve. Any suggestions on what we should do with the scarf?




Edited by Hapiel - 06 July 2013 at 1:42am

Awesome! The floppy hand style is really great!

Those look really great man. I'm loving the stomach scratching!

Some other additions to the native/tribal group, though in serious need of attention, WIP.


Edited by Jim16 - 06 July 2013 at 2:53pm

Here I go pumping out the animation! I think I'm going to move onto another character for now. I feel kind of bad spamming the forums with all of these updates so I may just edit my posts in the future.

@Noburo
Awesome! I don't mind that you post them here ;), but suit yourself!

@Guima1901
I agree some of the heads could be larger indeed, thanks for pointing that out!

@Andomani
Cool, already much better than the previous one!
Why are all your characters frowning?

I made a tiny edit. If you look closely you will notice that I only simlified some stuff (shading, thinner lines that do not connect with others) and I corrected the shading on her bra.


Secondly I think she might look more funny if her body shape is more exaggerated, but that is up to you to decide :)


Feel free to post this in the wiki on the natives page!

Describe her however you feel like! Though I think that if you use the chubby version and you call her 'generic' that might be a bit of an insult ;)

EDIT:
Yay, updated the traveler idle image!



Edited by Hapiel - 08 July 2013 at 10:11pm

finished the character

Edited by guima1901 - 09 July 2013 at 7:19am

i cant decide which one is better

the one on the right was the first i made
and the one in the middle is the one that i made last picking some parts that i felt were good in the first one

Edited by guima1901 - 09 July 2013 at 11:50am

I could start on that next week..

What would we need?
Run, jump attack are basically a requirement for 1 character only...

For all the NPC's what is important? Only a idle and a talking animation?...

I agree. I was still having the chance of making a game ourselves in mind ..

Yes, animations should indeed be relatively simple. I think I already went too far in editing the head the travelers idle animation..

Also I hope to invent an easy way of death for monsters, such as a little poof that can be used over and over.
Hurt can of course be just flickering.

Attacks might be hard to keep flexible as they are very much dependable on the kind of weapon! Are you thinking a sword, knife, bow and arrow, pistol, machine gun, fist, axe or club? ;)

How do you make a walking animation that works great at slopes too? Any examples?

Hi Noburo,

You have a good point.

We would need some kind of check-in, check-out mechanism with an administrator who can reset this state if it takes too long for changes to occur on a checked-out file.
Also if it is checked out by someone that you can email him/her asking for the status.
And/or a request for check-out that you can send so that someone knows that somebody else wants to work on a sprite.

It would become a bit difficult on tilesheets so we have to think about this a little more...

Best regards from
M.E.

Native jump


Also, image dump with all of the different components I've been working with to make all of the animations, both native and traveler.



Traveler animations aren't finished, and I will continue tweaking them, so this is more of a progress report. Also, I've stripped him down a bit to use him as a template for others to build new characters off of.


So my canvas is a bit messy and repetitive..... Deal with it.


Edit: Dumping some more stuff I've been working on. Again, I'll be cleaning this up and posting finished items to the wiki.



Edited by Noburo - 01 August 2013 at 9:26pm

I'm attempting to correct the legs in this walk animation.
Old - New


Just looking at it now I think the left leg still travels to far back and not enough forward. Anything else look odd?

edit:
And here's a very WIP Run cycle (which seems to be moving quicker than it does in photoshop :/ )


Edited by Jim16 - 06 August 2013 at 9:28am

RUN, FORREST, RUN! … haha, I love that animation.

Wow, nice work on the animations so far! Give me a shout when you're done, and I'll get them into the game quick-like.

So, I'm actually having some difficulty downloading the image. I had a look, and although it saves as 'male native run.gif' the file is actually a html page containing http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=52nmsg&s=5.
Could we try http://cubeupload.com/ instead?

Format-wise, if you just happened to have a spritesheet with the running frames laid out side-by-side, that would save me the work of having to reorganize the .gif. I mean, no worries if they're all stacked together of course, I'd just hate for you to be putting effort into compiling the .gif and then for me to just uncompile it anyway.

And, agreed, animation is hard. Having failed at it myself... :P


Edited by DDR - 07 August 2013 at 10:48am

Old -> New
->
I've looked at this to much, but I think I've fixed the hands. I'll post the spritesheet later when I get back from going out to the city.

Oh god, have a look at this:
http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=15462.msg143030;boardseen#new
Now I'm eager to get back into photoshop :D

@DDR, we're all relaxed here ;)(I think) Hope the moving process is simple and easy on you.

Edited by Jim16 - 12 August 2013 at 11:59am

Too much, no, I don't think so. We're still at early stages, so a change won't dramatically set us back. I actually think those sprites could be what we need to really push the pixel art community into helping out. As well as push pixel artists in the community to improve, almost like a really long PixelJoint challenge.

I, like you, am definitely up for the challenge!

If pistachio can tell us the tricks, what we need to think of in order to improve the sprites... It might be doable :)

Noburo, I made a slight edit of your previous version. Maybe it can help. I think she needs slightly more his and arse.

I had an idea but I need some tips for it to look cool


Edited by guima1901 - 15 August 2013 at 2:50pm