Something I am working on. I have not quite figured out how to deal with such a huge unrealistic balanced staff...

Thought I'd post this here since it seems this is the home of the project

Ok, first 3 are people well known in the web. I'm pretty sure only the 2 guys are recognizable :p you tell me!

the other two are ideas for heros. I read somewhere that people were talking of the tribal guys as heroes, I thought idea of a eastern island-ish guy was intresting but I dont think a tribesman as a hero is very smart when the white guy is an aviator...just saying :p

it's supposed to be Regina Spektor, Reggie Watts, and Keith Apicary btw


I added some radiosity to the donkey and made his face cuter

also modified the puma to have a cleaner outline and less busy design, removed claws because only cheetahs have them drawn out all the time


Edited by Conzeit - 21 August 2013 at 4:18pm

I can totally see that, I tried to not veer too far with the animals I edited, I think they still work, dont they? My plan with the donkeywas to integrate that complex shading he had with the shading of the others, but I think I got sidetracked....sorry :p

With the humans I thought the style could cover black dot eyes and eyes with whites, in 40's cartoons different characters have different eyes. Still, I can see how they are not very reproducible. Fix them, dont use em, do whatever you have to =)


Edited by Conzeit - 22 August 2013 at 3:25pm

Looks good. I'll just pop this in the game. :)

I've gone ahead and redone some of my old designs.

I've got an entire day of travelling ahead of me today, so I won't get to that today, but I've also got the week off work, so I'll attempt animations hopefully tomorrow.

Edit:
Another redesign, this one more drastic than the others. It looked odd in the first place though. Changed the hair colour, if only because I couldn't get the damn yellow to work for me! Not entirely happy with this one YET, so I'll come back to this another day. Any edit is very welcome.

I'll add that its taken me to long to get where it is now, I'm not to great with drawing women, in particular feminine faces.

Edit:
Another iteration.


Edited by Damian - 30 October 2013 at 4:07am

Got a bunch of stray white pixels on the outside of the outline of the old man. In regards to the animations speeding up outside of Photoshop, make sure you are working with and exporting the frames at a 8/100. Also, I love the animation of his left hand so I hate to bring it up, but it looks quite large compared to his other hand and it seems to be a bit too far out and strained for an idle animation. One last tip, in an idle position for characters of this size, the entire pixel jump on the shoulders can be a bit too much. You can smooth out the animation by adding frames that alter it at a sub pixel level. If you shift the shading, it can create the illusion of the shoulder rising. You can see an example of this in my characters left shoulder. The pixels never move, they just change color to create the illusion of the shoulder rising.

On a side note, the first version of the old man with the accidental wiggle of his mustache is killing me.

So, hello, guys! First time posting here, Hapiel invited me over, and I'm very interested.

Here will be my first formal submission, albeit it's a bit small, but just trying out if I got the style down, crits would be nice.

A Spanish explorer to parallel the natives.

I haven't an ounce in my body with the ability to animate well. I'll try to do an idle animation though. I may have stayed a bit too closely to the character template though.

that looks much better cutswood! Now it doesn't look as floppy and stuff.

Thanks for the crits, Hapiel! Will get back to rerendering it soon.

But first! A slime... Thingy.

Really nice versions of the mascots! I did a female villager that's in the style of the player-character. Any suggestions on what to change? Otherwise, I'll try to animate her.

Here's something I've been working on. The resting arm is giving me trouble.

I repurposed some arms and it does indeed look much better!

PJ Nerd redone: Arms and hands are my bane!

Not sure why random images like the previous PJ nerd are gone from my imageshack account when I pay for the damn service :

EDIT:Here's the old one for comparison.

Join the dark side, we have pixels.


Promo stuff. IDK where these fall under, so I'm dumping them right here

A head.

I suppose. :)

Not a bad start Jao, I like the designs for these character. However, there is a lot of fixing to do still! If you're serious about fixing these up, perhaps take them to the WIP forums to get some better feedback, as I sadly don't have the time (or the skill) at the moment the moment to give you the right help!

Hey Jao, I made a quick edit on one of your characters. Don't be afraid to use more contrasting colors!



A tip for you if you don't already do it. If you're trying to copy the style of existing character sprites, go ahead and stick one on your canvas so that you can easily study it up closely.

Villagers or something



@Jão, study the proportions we're using. Really obvious asymmetry will be tough, sprites will be flipped so you're going to have to draw them twice basically, unless you figure no one notices. You can use straight black as the darkest sprite color, in fact I'd encourage it.
EDIT:

Robros from a factory set

Remember this playable hero plant girl? Re-did her to fit the new style...Hopefully.
Will post more stuff later.. 030