RPG Sprites
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Topic: RPG Sprites
Posted By: Pumpkinbot
Subject: RPG Sprites
Date Posted: 27 March 2010 at 8:38pm
Decided to start pixeling again. I'm making characters for an RPG, and I think this one turned out nice, but the character looks too young. How can I make him look older, short of shrinking his head? EDIT: 'Nuther frame, small tweaks. Now the second frame (left) looks like he shrinks. :/ |
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Posted By: onek
Date Posted: 28 March 2010 at 10:45am
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it quite ok, but could easily be improve by aplying simpel pixel art techniques like selout and stuff ( see below...) ...
.... another thing id like to point out are colors.... your color ramps are very linear and therefore boring... if u look at real objects they most likely wont have one clean hue all over , for example the colors of the sourrounding reflect in the shadows and mix up with them... also a lot of ur colors arent needed, since theyre barely distinguishable. like the 3 lightest skin tones for instance.... try picking your colors thoughtful and efficient Originally posted by Pumpkinbot
How can I make him look older..... ... with sprites, u often have to exaggerate features to make them recognizable at once , especially on this small scale.... kinda play with cliches... like if ur going for an old guy, give him gray hair or balled head, a beard, different clothes etc etc.... urs look young now beccause of the hair-do, the shirt and the proportions of head and body..... heres to illustrate original- cleaned version - old guy..... 
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Posted By: Pumpkinbot
Date Posted: 28 March 2010 at 1:42pm
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Originally posted by onek The last one's too old. xD The middle guy looks right. *goes to study it*it quite ok, but could easily be improve by aplying simpel pixel art techniques like selout and stuff ( see below...) ... .... another thing id like to point out are colors.... your color ramps are very linear and therefore boring... if u look at real objects they most likely wont have one clean hue all over , for example the colors of the sourrounding reflect in the shadows and mix up with them... also a lot of ur colors arent needed, since theyre barely distinguishable. like the 3 lightest skin tones for instance.... try picking your colors thoughtful and efficient Originally posted by Pumpkinbot
How can I make him look older..... ... with sprites, u often have to exaggerate features to make them recognizable at once , especially on this small scale.... kinda play with cliches... like if ur going for an old guy, give him gray hair or balled head, a beard, different clothes etc etc.... urs look young now beccause of the hair-do, the shirt and the proportions of head and body..... heres to illustrate original- cleaned version - old guy.....
Now what did you mean by "selout"? |
Posted By: onek
Date Posted: 28 March 2010 at 2:05pm
| selout means selective outlining .... its a technique of actually 'sculpting' ur outlines... its kinda hard to explain... take a look at http://pixel-zone.rpgdx.net/shtml/tut-selout4.shtml - this tutorial for instance (there are others aswell...) to get an idea of it |
Posted By: Pumpkinbot
Date Posted: 28 March 2010 at 2:39pm
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I tried my hand at selout. Not quite sure of it, but at least I made him look older. Also, is it just me, or does he kinda look like a girl? Also, -1 color ftw.  List of changes: head shrunk horizontally, tweaked colors, changed shirt pattern, changed shoulders, added selout, took away 1 color (white). |